The effect of environmental structures on fraudulent financial reporting

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Department of Accounting, Bonab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bonab, Iran.

Abstract

Earnings management is defined as earnings manipulation by management to achieve a part of prejudiced expected earnings. This research evaluated the effect of environmental structures on fraudulent reporting of companies by anticipating causal relationships between the structures of business environment change, long-term executive perspective, accounting experience, Organizational culture and corporate affairs, accepting prominent stakeholders, and fraudulent reporting. The population was top and middle managers and financial managers of the companies, and a standard questionnaire was used to collect data. Analyzes were based on a structural modeling approach after performing the reliability and validity tests of the sample data. The results showed that business environment changes, accounting experience, and the acceptance of prominent stakeholders negatively affected fraudulent reporting.

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Volume 12, Special Issue
December 2021
Pages 473-482
  • Receive Date: 03 March 2021
  • Revise Date: 28 June 2021
  • Accept Date: 20 July 2021