scholarly journals Fraud Pentagon and Fraudulent Financial Reporting: Evidence from Manufacturing Companies in Indonesia and Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 625-646
Author(s):  
Erni Suryandari Fathmaningrum ◽  
Gupita Anggarani

Research aims: This study aims to examine the influence of fraud pentagon concept on fraudulent financial reporting.Design/Methodology/Approach: This study’s population was manufacturingcompanies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange and Malaysia Stock Exchange. 120 manufacturing companies in Indonesia and 118 manufacturing companies in Malaysia were involved as samples. The data analysis method used in this study is multiple linear regression.Research findings: The results showed that financial target, financial stability, quality of external auditor, external pressure, and nature of industry variables influenced fraudulent financial reporting. In contrast, personal financial need, ineffective monitoring, change in auditor, change in director, and frequent number of CEO’s pictures variables had no effect on fraudulent financial reporting. For Indonesia, it was found that financial target, financial stability, and the quality of external auditor influenced fraudulent financial reporting. While, in Malaysia, the results showed that financial stability, external pressure, and nature of industry variables influenced fraudulent financial reporting in Malaysia.Theoretical contribution/Originality: These results support the financial target and quality of external auditor hypothesis in Indonesia, financial stability hypothesis in Indonesia and Malaysia, external pressure and nature of industry hypotheses in Malaysia, stating that fraud pentagon factors affect fraudulent financial reporting. It is also proved that there are different levels of fraudulent financial reporting in Indonesia and Malaysia. Indonesia has fraudulent financial reporting cases higher than Malaysia.

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Erma Setiawati ◽  
Ratih Mar Baningrum

This study aimed to analyze and obtain empirical evidence about the effect of pentagon fraud elements (pressure, opportunity, rationalization, competence, and arrogance) on detected fraudulent financial reporting. This research analyzes the influence of variable pressure proxied by financial stability, financial target, external pressure and personal financial needs, variable opportunity proxied by nature of industry, ineffective monitoring, and, quality of external auditor, variable rationalization proxied by change in auditor, variable arrogance proxied by frequent number of CEO’s pictures.Population of this study manufactured company in Indonesia Stock Exchange during year period 2014-2016 with a total sample 252 manufacture company by using purposive sampling method. Data analysis technique used was logistic regression analysis processed by using program SPSS 23  for Windows. The results of this study show that only the variable financial target have an effect to detected fraudulent financial reporting. This study hasn’t shown that financial stability, external pressure , personal financial needs, nature of industry, ineffective monitoring, quality of external auditor, change in auditor, change of directors, frequent number of CEO’s pictures have an effect to detected fraudulent financial reporting.Keywords: Fraud Pentagon, Fraud Diamond, Fraud Triangle, Fraudulent Financial Reporting, Manufactured Sector Fraud.


KEBERLANJUTAN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 950
Author(s):  
Khusnatul Zulfa ◽  
Amira Bayagub

AbstractThis study aims to examine the influence of externalxpressure, institutionalownership, xfinancial stability, xquality of external auditor, xchange inxauditor, change in director and frequentxnumber of CEO’s picture on the fraudulent financial reporting among the property and real estate firms listed in Indonesia stock exchange during 2014-2016. The data used in this study is secondary data obtained from the firms’ annual report which was accessed through www.idx.co.id. The data analysis method used in this study is multiple linear regression analysis. SPSS ver 2.0 was used to analyze the data. The samples were selected using a non-probability sampling technique with a purposive sampling method and obtained a sample of 41 property and real estate companies during 2014-2016. The results of variable test indicates that external pressure and change in director partially influences fraudulent financial reporting, while institutional ownership, financial stability, quality of external auditor, change in auditor, and frequent number of CEO’s picture partially does not influence fraudulent financial reporting. The Simultaneous test shows that external pressure, institutional ownership, financial stability, quality of external auditor, change in auditor, change in director and frequent number of CEO’s picture Keywords: External Pressure, Institutional Ownership, Financial Stability, Quality of External Auditor, Change in Auditor, Change in Director, Frequent Number of CEO’s Picture, Fraudulent Financial Reporting.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shabrina Prasmaulida

Financial statements generally aim to provide information about the company’s financial position, performance, and cash flows to the interested parties. The motivation to gain trust from the users, especially investors, shareholders and creditors, leads someone to commit fraud in the financial reporting. This study aims to detect and predict financial statement fraud based on the perspective of fraud triangle adopted by SAS No. 99. The dependent variable in this study is financial statement fraud which is proxied by earnings management, while the independent variables in this study are financial stability pressure, personal financial need, ineffective monitoring, effective monitoring, external pressure, and financial targets.Population of this research is manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2012 - 2014. Samples are selected using purposive sampling method and obtained 150 companies out of a total population of 162 companies. The results show that financial stability pressure and external pressurehave significant positive effect on financial statement fraud. Meanwhile, personal financial need, ineffective monitoring, effective monitoring, and financial targets do not have significant effect on financial statement fraud.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-68
Author(s):  
Reni Yendrawati ◽  
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Huda Aulia ◽  
Hendi Yogi Prabowo ◽  
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This paper aims to analyze the likelihood of fraudulent financial reporting using the fraud diamond analysis. Fraud diamond is a concept explaining factors that cause someone to commit fraud, namely pressure, opportunity, rationalization, and capability. In this research, pressure factor was proxied by using financial stability, external pressure, and financial target. Opportunity factor was proxied by using the nature of industry and effectiveness of monitoring. Rationalization factor was proxied by rationalization and capability was proxied by capability. This research made use of earnings management to discover the likelihood of financial statement frauds. Earnings management was measured by using F-score indicator. The population in this research were manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) from the year 2014 – 2016. From the population, 31 companies were selected as the research samples by using the purposive sampling method. This quantitative method-using research was analyzed using multiple regression analysis and T-tests for hypotheses testing. The research findings reveal that only the opportunity variable proxied by industrial nature is proven to have an influence in detecting the likelihood of fraudulent financial reporting. In the meantime, other variables have no influence in detecting the likelihood of fraudulent financial reporting. Keywords: fraud diamond, likelihood of fraudulent financial reporting, f-score


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Fidyah Quraini ◽  
Yuni Rimawati

This research aimed at knowing factors of fraudulent financial reporting using pentagon fraud analysis. This research analyzed the influence of financial target, financial stability, external pressure, institutional ownership, ineffective monitoring, quality of external auditors, change of auditors, change of directors, and number of CEO’s picture in fraudulent financial report. Sample in this research were 14 go public government companies from 2013 to 2017. Source of data in this research were secondary data in form of annual report in official website of Indonesia Stock Exchange. The examination of this research used logistic regression. The result of this study showed that the influence of external pressure expected fraudulent financial report, while financial target, financial stability, institutional ownership, ineffective monitoring, quality of external auditors, changing auditors, changing directors, and a number of CEO’s picture often did not influence the fraudulent financial reporting.


Author(s):  
Ananda Putra Nindhita Aulia Haqq ◽  
Gideon Setyo Budiwitjaksono

Financial statements are the results of financial reporting that can describe the results of an entity’s financial performance for a period. In other hand, it can cause managers in an entity to fraudulent financial reporting because they want to describe good financial performance. This proves that fraudu-lent financial reporting cases in Indonesia are a matter of weak internal control in an entity. This study aims to test fraud pentagon theory in de-tecting fraudulent financial reporting. The object of this research is testing on financial target, financial stability, external pressure, ineffective moni-toring, nature of industry, change in auditor, change in director, frequent number of CEO, political connection and company existence against fraud-ulent financial reporting of companies classified in the LQ45 index on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) during the period 2015-2017. This study uses 78 annual report data taken with proportional random sampling based on the number of proportions in each sector of the company. Data analysis using multiple regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that financial stability and frequent number of CEO can be used to detect fraudulent financial reporting. While, financial target, external pressure, ineffective monitoring, nature of industry, change in auditor, change in director, political connection and company existence cannot be used to de-tect fraudulent financial reporting.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 445-458
Author(s):  
Septia Dwijayani ◽  
Nurzi Sebrina ◽  
Halmawati Halmawati

This study aims to obtain empirical evidence of fraud triangle in detecting fraudulent financial statements. The variabbles of fraud triangle are pressure, opportunity, and rasionalization then divided into six independent sub-variables. Namely financial stabilty which is proxied by asset change ratio (achange), personal financial need which is proxied by oship, external pressure which is proxied by the ratio of changes in debt (lev), financial targets that are proxied by ROA (ROA), the nature of industry that is proxied by inventory (inventory), effective monitoring that is proxied by the proportion of independent commissioners (ind), and rasionalization proxied by auditor change (auchange). The population of this study are manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2014-2017. the total sample of the study was 32 companies. Data analysis method uses logistic regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that financial stability variables, personal financial need, external pressure, nature of industry, effective monitoring, and rationalization have no effect on fraudulent financial statements. the results of this study can prove that financial targets have an effect on fraudulent financial statements. Further researchers can develop this research by adding sub-variables or using other proxies.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-165
Author(s):  
Siska Apriliana ◽  
Linda Agustina

The purpose of this study was to analyze the prediction of fraudulent financial reporting with the perspective of pentagon fraud. Pentagon fraud theory is the development of the theories of fraud triangle and fraud diamond. The Pentagon fraud theory adds an element of arrogance in addition to the other four existing elements namely pressure, opportunity, rationalization, and competence or capacity. The population in this study were 157 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) period 2013-2015. The samples of 46 companies were obtained by using purposive sampling technique, so the analysis unit was 138. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistical analysis and logistic regression analysis. The test result showed that financial stability, the quality of external auditor, and the number of CEOs photos in the annual reports of the companies had a positive effect on the prediction of fraudulent financial reporting, while financial targets, liquidity, institutional ownership, monitoring effectiveness, replacement of external auditors, and changes of corporate directors had no significant effect on the prediction of fraudulent financial reporting. The conclusion of this study indicates that unstable financial condition, the quality of corporate audit and the level of CEO's arrogance can influence the occurrence of fraudulent financial reporting.


Author(s):  
I Gusti Putu Oka Surya Utama ◽  
I Wayan Ramantha ◽  
I Dewa Nyoman Badera

The reduction of financial reporting information’s quality is caused by management fraud behavior by manipulate the financial reporting in order to looks good. This research aims to obtain empirical evidence the effect of fraud triangle factors are financial stability, external pressure, personal financial need, financial targets, nature of industry, ineffective monitoring, organizational structure, and auditor switching to fraudulent financial reporting in nonfinancial companies which listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2012-2014. The sample determined by utilizing purposive sampling technique, therefore as many as 156 of observation sample was obtained. The data observed by logistic regression analysis method. The results show that pressure element these are financial stability, external pressure, and personal financial need has a positive effect to fraudulent financial reporting. Opportunity element these are organizational structure has a negative effect to fraudulent financial reporting. Rationalization element, auditors switching has a positive effect to fraudulent financial reporting. Meanwhile financial targets, nature of industry, and ineffective monitoring have no effect.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-142
Author(s):  
Carla Carla ◽  
Stevanus Pangestu

Abstract— The purpose of this research is to analyze the effects of variables, which were derived from the Fraud Pentagon framework, on earnings management. Beneish M-Score was used to measure earnings management, which serves as a proxy fraudulent financial reporting. The independent variables consist of financial target, financial stability, external pressure, personal financial need, nature of industry, effective monitoring, change in auditor, change in director, and CEO duality. One hundred and sixteen publicly traded manufacturing companies were examined for the period 2016-2018 (n=348). Our balanced dataset was analyzed using fixed-effects panel regression. Our investigation finds that financial target, external pressure, personal financial need, nature of industry, change in auditor, and CEO duality significantly affect fraudulent financial reporting. Meanwhile, financial stability, ineffective monitoring, and change in director do not significantly affect fraudulent financial reporting.   Keywords: Earnings Management; Fraud, Fraud Pentagon; Fraudulent Financial Reporting


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