Fraud poses a significant threat to Nigeria's burgeoning digital economy, impacting sectors like finance, e-commerce, healthcare, and education. Traditional methods struggle to keep pace with evolving fraud schemes. This paper investigates the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and...

The pandemic has altered accounting education with the widespread adoption of remote evaluation platforms. We apply the lens of the fraud triangle to consider how the adoption of remote evaluation influences accounting students’ ethical values by measuring the incidence of cheating behavior as...

This article examines the dynamics of relation fraud resulting in the murder of a grandparent by her grandson. While such instances are admittedly rare as forms of both murder and fraud more generally, this unique case nonetheless demonstrates that relation fraud resulting in murder is a...

This study examines the influence of fraud disclosure (FR_DISC) in annual reports on the financial stability of Takaful insurance (TKI) in Saudi Arabia over the period of 2014 to 2022. Moreover, the current study aims to explore the mediating impact of Shariah board size in shaping this...

Cyber-enabled fraud has transformed, becoming more complex and making it harder for targets and law enforcement to detect its occurrence. This study aims to recontextualize a major manifestation of this transformation, a crime called hybrid investment fraud, colloquially known as pig butchering....

Across the world each year millions of people are victimised by online crime, many of whom fall victim to online fraud. One of the most enduring and prolific types of online fraud is romance fraud. Romance fraud often leads to financial and psychological devastation of those who are victimised....

Despite authorities and governments' efforts in fraud prevention and investigation, new types of fraud emerge daily. In fact, the rise in global business scandals has heightened the need for forensic accounting, as financial fraud is the world's most severe economic threat. Forensic accounting...

This study investigates the predictive power of CEO characteristics on accounting fraud utilizing a machine learning approach. Grounded in upper echelons theory, we show the predictive value of widely neglected CEO characteristics for machine learning-based accounting fraud detection in...

We provide a lower-bound estimate of the undetected share of corporate fraud. To identify the hidden part of the "iceberg," we exploit Arthur Andersen's demise, which triggered added scrutiny on Arthur Andersen's former clients and thereby increased the detection likelihood of preexisting...

Financial statement fraud generates many negative effects, including reducing people’s willingness to participate in the stock market. If it also stigmatizes accounting, it may similarly adversely affect the quantity and quality of workers willing to become accountants, thereby potentially...

A wide range of parties involved in evaluating economic performance, including investors, auditors, interest groups, bankers, government organizations, academics, and analysts, can benefit greatly from the immediate detection of fraudulent financial reports. This research presents a novel...

We propose a novel discretionary accruals (DA) measure in the unexplored dimension of non-current accruals. We show that our measure (DA-NC) can improve the forecasting performance of fraud prediction models that rely on conventional current accruals-based DA measures. Analysing accounting...

This paper explores accounting fraud motivation, protection procedures, and the impact on firms‘ performance from the perspective of external auditors. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with highly experienced external public auditors. This paper highlights personal and...

This study examines the influence of the fraud hexagon on the likelihood of financial statement fraud in Indonesian public companies with stock values below IDR 100 that were listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) from 2018 to 2020. The study population comprises sixty companies with stock...

This paper explores the emerging trends in forensic accounting related to fraud investigation and prevention. First, the study conducts a comprehensive literature review to identify key emerging trends: data analytics, cyber forensic accounting, and the impact of cryptocurrencies and blockchain...

The class imbalance problem in finance fraud datasets often leads to biased prediction towards the nonfraud class, resulting in poor performance in the fraud class. This study explores the effects of utilizing the Synthetic Minority Oversampling TEchnique (SMOTE), a Generative Adversarial...

This article explores the critical roles of forensic accounting and auditing in modern business, focusing on uncovering financial irregularities and promoting transparency. Through a meticulous literature review and analysis, the study emphasizes the significance of these practices. The purpose...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the application of forensic accounting techniques in relation to fraud risk mitigation. This study employed an explanatory research design and a qualitative approach accompanied with a purposive sampling method. A primary data source was devised with a...

Recently, South Africa has suffered from several large financial statement frauds. To assist stakeholders in identifying fraud, this study investigated the ability of the Beneish M-score and the Dechow et al. F-score to identify fraud in South Africa. The study also explored similarities in...

This study examines the moderating effect of audit fee on the relation-ship between board structure and the likelihood of financial statements fraud (LFSF). The study uses the logistic regression and a sample of 15 manufacturing firms listed within the East African Community partner states from...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the integration of forensic accounting and big data technology frameworks in relation to the mitigation of internal fraud risk in the banking industry. This study employed an explanatory research design involving the use of simulated data to mirror the...

In this study, we examine major cryptocurrencies, present notable fraud cases, describe fraud risks, and analyze cryptocurrency financial performance. People debate whether cryptocurrency is an investment opportunity, the new Dutch Tulip Bubble, or a giant Ponzi scheme. There have been a number...

This case study examines the scandal at Wirecard AG, a German payment processing and financial services company, which filed for insolvency in June 2020. The scandal involved accounting fraud and misreporting of revenue, and was first uncovered by Financial Times journalists in 2019. The case...

Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger system that allows multiple parties to record and verify transactions in a secure and transparent manner. However, blockchain networks are vulnerable to anomalies and frauds that can have serious consequences for the integrity and security of these...

Data analytics has the potential to help auditors effectively respond to audit risk and improve detection of misstatements and fraud. However, harnessing these benefits may require auditors to adopt an innovation mindset. Firms and regulators have urged auditors to adopt an innovation mindset,...