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in accounting, auditing and law. The results of the forensic condition of its assets. In accounting theory it has been
audit can be used in litigation or other legal forms. A forensic explained that assets as economic benefits that may occur in
auditor must have academic and empirical competencies the future are obtained or controlled by a particular entity as a
related to the litigation process [6]. result of transactions or past events [13]. Many forms of
Forensic Audit consists of two words, namely audit and manipulation of this type, and involve various types of
forensic. Audit is an action to compare the suitability between accounts [14]. Stable means fixed, there is growth that is
conditions and criteria. While forensics is anything that can be stable. Ideals condition for top of company management. This
debates before the law or court [7]. stability is often associated with changes in the company's
The nature of the forensic audit itself is investigative and is total assets. Usually people will say when our assets increase,
divided into proactive and reactive. Where the proactive we are said to be getting richer or wealthier.
nature can provide a warning of the risk of fraud, while the In accordance of our discussion, we formulate our
reactive nature becomes the beginning when indications of hypothesis development as follow:
fraud begin to be seen from the available evidence or can be H2: Financial stability has a positive effect on the detection
called the emergence of irregularities / red flags [8]. of fraud in financial reporting.
B. Fraudulent Financial Reporting E. Financial Target
Management or company leaders are often under pressure, Every organization, especially private companies, must be
making reports that are not true. It aims to cover up poor given a target by the owner or investor. This is reasonable,
company performance results or not in line with investor / because the company must continue to live and finance its
creditor expectations [9]. This is contrary to the basic employees. But in practice many targets are set too high,
principles of accounting, which requires companies to record outside the management's range as the manager of the
transactions as they are, in accordance with the original events company to achieve them [15]. Also, in many corporate
that occur [10]. systems, the owner also provides incentives if certain targets
In detecting fraud, it is necessary to check fraud (fraud are achieved. This target is usually associated with achieving
auditing). Fraud checking is a proactive audit approach that is sales or profits. Return on asset often used as indicator for
designed to respond to fraud risk [11]. The audit process must financial target. Therefore, the return on asset fraud financial
be based on cheating theory. Especially during the audit statement allegedly tends to increase this. This analysis is then
planning stage, the auditor must determine the type and size of projected into the future to see the company's ability to
fraud risk. This can be done by carrying out a fraud risk generate profits in the future [16].
assessment. The methodology for disclosing fraud is very In accordance of our discussion, we formulate our
much dependent on the scope of the audit and the fraud risk hypothesis development as follow:
assessment design. The assessment process includes H3: Financial target has a positive effect on the detection of
evaluating the likelihood of fraud and its impact on the fraud in financial reporting
organization if the fraud occurs.
F. Net Worth
C. Financial Distress Theoretically, net worth is defined as the amount or total
Dominant factor in influenced of financial statement fraud assets minus total liabilities (or more commonly called debt).
and financial distress can also be predicted by the presence of Examined further, the assets referred to here are not limited to
financial ratios (leverage ratios, liquidity ratios, activity the amount of cash that is in the hand, but also assets in other
ratios, profitability ratios) recorded in a company's financial forms such as houses, land, other investments that can be
statements will predict financial distress in a company. The liquidated into nominal forms of money.
leverage ratio shows how much debt the company has (short Net worth which is known as the result of asset and debt
term and long term), as well as the relationship between high reduction shows that there is a difference that can be both
leverage and the lack of ability to obtain additional funding positive and negative [17]. A positive value is obtained when
through loans. In addition, management tends to manipulate an asset is greater than debt and vice versa. A person's ability
financial statements to overcome the various conditions of to maintain positive values is also known as net worth. Why?
various agreements. In indicators to measure the level of When someone cannot maintain this positive value, it means
leverage proxies by total debt divided by total capital, or he has a debt that is greater than the assets they have. So, what
commonly referred to as DER (Debt to Equity Ratio) [12]. does he have to survive? There is no. This is the underlying
In accordance of our discussion, we formulate our illustration that net worth is a measurement for personal
hypothesis development as follow: finance development [18].
H1: Financial distress has a positive effect on the detection Net worth in this research becomes control variables that
of fraud in financial reporting. control the influence of financial distress, financial stability
and financial target to fraud in financial reporting.
D. Financial Stability
In the case of financial reporting, managers can conduct III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
misuse/misappropriation to confuse owner or shareholders
about corporate actual condition, by looking at the company's A. Research Object and Sample Method
financial statements, where the owner or shareholders will
The object of this study was the detection of fraudulent
find it difficult to know what is really happening inside the
financial statements which were proxy by Beneish M-score
company through data or figures. Figures presented in the
[19]. The Beneish M-score was
financial statements. An assessment of the stability of a
chosen because of its predictive
company's financial condition can be seen from how the
ability that is proven empirically
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ISSN: 2278-3075, Volume-9 Issue-1, November 2019
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