Title of article :
The effect of environmental structures on fraudulent financial reporting
Author/Authors :
Fereydouni, Mohammad Islamic Azad University - Bonab, Iran , Pakmaram, Asgar Department of Accounting - Bonab Branch - Islamic Azad University - Bonab, Iran , Rezaei, Nader Department of Accounting - Bonab Branch - Islamic Azad University - Bonab, Iran , Abdi, Rasoul Department of Accounting - Bonab Branch - Islamic Azad University - Bonab, Iran
Abstract :
Earnings management is fidened 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.
Keywords :
Environmental structures , Earnings management behavior , Fraudulent reporting
Journal title :
International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications