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Topics
1. Fraudulent Financial Reporting
2. Exploring Fraudulent Financial Reporting
– Case Example
3. Exploring Fraudulent Financial Reporting:
– Why auditors fail to detect fradulent financial reporting
– Practical approaches to prevention, detection and response
4. Legal Dimension of Fraud:
– Financial fraud
– Fradulent financial reporting techniques
5. Legal Dimension of Fraud:
– Investigating financial fraud
– Key characteristics
– Investigative steps
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Section - 1:
Fraudulent Financial Reporting
Background
• Broad definition of fund markets: all forums in which
consumers of fund contract with suppliers of fund to fulfill
their requirement.
• There’re many types of fund markets: debt & equity market
(incl Gov’t Bonds), credit market, money & exchange market.
They are called as financial industry
• All of these markets rely on financial info, incl. Gov’t as
supervisor & regulator them.
• According to ACFE survey: financial industry has significant
fraud exposures.
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Section - 2:
Exploring Fraudulent Financial Reporting
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Section - 3:
Legal Dimension of Fraud
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Earnings management
• William J. Burns, Jr., dan Kenneth A. Merchant pada tahun 1990
melakukan penelitian dan ternyata praktisi akuntansi,
khususnya praktisi yang semakin berpengalaman, mentolerir
pengaturan operasional misalnya menunda pembelian aset
tetap atau menunda kontrak dan eksekusi penjualan ke tahun
beikutnya, dalam rangka manajemen laba, khususnya income
smoothing. Namun praktisi tersebut cenderung tidak setuju
manajemen laba dengan rekayasa akuntansi.
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Earnings management
• Riset Burns dan Merchant menunjukkan bahwa apabila suatu
praktik akuntansi tidak secara eksplisit dilarang atau hanya
deviasi kecil dari aturan, maka deviasi adalah perbuatan etis
terlepas dari siapa yang terkena dampak. Maka pengguna
laporan keuangan yang memakai informasi laba jangka pendek
rawan untuk salah interpretasi, dimanipulasi, atau dikelabui.
Tidak ada keraguan bahwa laba jangka pendek (short-term
earnings) dimainkan oleh banyak perusahaan. Beberapa praktik
manajemen laba dapat dianggap sebagai tidak bermoral dan
tidak etis.
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Earnings management
• Mengingat kecenderungan praktik manajemen laba adalah
untuk short-term earnings maka Michael D. Akers, Don E.
Giacomino, dan Jodi L. Bellovary mendefinisikan earnings
management sebagai “attempts by management to influence
or manipulate reported earnings by using specific accounting
methods (or changing methods), recognizing one-time non-
recurring items, deferring or accelerating expense or revenue
transactions, or using other methods designed to influence
short-term earnings
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Earnings management
• Mengingat kecenderungan praktik manajemen laba adalah
untuk short-term earnings maka Michael D. Akers, Don E.
Giacomino, dan Jodi L. Bellovary mendefinisikan earnings
management sebagai “attempts by management to influence
or manipulate reported earnings by using specific accounting
methods (or changing methods), recognizing one-time non-
recurring items, deferring or accelerating expense or revenue
transactions, or using other methods designed to influence
short-term earnings
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Earnings management
• Schipper (1989) mendefinisikan earnings management sebagai
“purposeful intervention in the external financial reporting
process, with the intent of obtaining some private gain”
• Healy dan Wahlen (1999) mendefinisikan earnings
management sebagai “managers use judgment in financial
reporting and in structuring transactions to alter financial
reports to either mislead some stakeholders about the
underlying economic performance of the company or to
influence contractual outcomes that depend on reported
accounting numbers
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Income smoothing
• Perataan laba (income smoothing) merupakan salah satu aspek
dalam manajemen laba. Pengertian awal mengenai income
smoothing ialah moderates year-to-year fluctuations in income
by shifting earnings from peak years to less successful periods
(Riahi-Belkaoui, 2004).
• Sedangkan pengertian yang lebih modern adalah the process of
manipulating the time profile of earnings or earning reports to
make the reported income less variable, while not increasing
reported earnings over the long run (Riahi-Belkaoui, 2004),
income smoothing is a form of earnings management in which
revenues and expenses are shifted between periods to reduce
fluctuations in earnings (Arens, et. al, 2005: 310)
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Income smoothing
• Definisi lainnya tentang perataan laba menurut Beidleman
(Riahi-Belkaoui, 2004): “The intentional dampening or
fluctuations about some level of earnings that is currently
considered to be normal for a firm., atau an attempt on the
part of the firm’s management to reduce abnormal variations
in earnings to extent allowed under sound accounting and
management principles.” Atau income smoothing is a form of
earnings management and is generally defined as the
dampening of fluctuations in reported earnings over time. In
other words, management is inclined to take actions to
increase earnings when earnings are relatively low and to
decrease earnings when earnings are relatively high
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Creative Accounting /
Financial numbers game
• Creative accounting diterapkan perusahaan karena beberapa
kondisi seperti bervariasinya prinsip akuntansi, dalam rangka
penerapan prinsip akuntansi yang agresif, dalam rangka
earnings management, pelaporan keuangan yang benar-benar
menyimpang (outright fraudulent financial reporting).
• Penerapan Prinsip Akuntansi yang Agresif: Terkadang bukannya
menggunakan PSAK yang fleksibel untuk menyajikan laporan
keuangan yang wajar, tetapi perusahaan menerapkan PSAK
secara agresif yang cenderung melanggar prinsip agar kinerja
laporan keuangannya terlihat lebih menarik dan bagus. Berikut
ini beberapa contoh triknya:
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Creative Accounting /
Financial numbers game
• Over-estimasi dalam biaya restrukturisasi perusahaan: Caranya
dengan menghapus sebagian persediaan dan aktiva tetap dan
biaya penghapusan tersebut dimasukkan sebagai biaya
restrukturisasi. Selain itu, cadangan biaya litigasi dan
lingkungan dimasukkan juga sebagai biaya restrukturisasi..
Akibatnya, biaya restrukturisasi pada tahun berjalan sangat
besar dan kinerja laporan keuangan pada tahun dilakukannya
restrukturisasi menjadi underestimate. Di samping itu, kinerja
laporan keuangan di tahun-tahun mendatang menjadi lebih
cantik karena tidak ada lagi biaya penyusutan, biaya persediaan
yang rusak, biaya litigasi atau biaya lingkungan.
• Memainkan tingkat prosentase penyelesaian pekerjaan.
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Creative Accounting /
Financial numbers game
• Menangguhkan biaya proyek dan menghapus utang usaha
• mempercepat atau memperlambat pengakuan pendapatan
(Recognizing Premature or Deferred Revenue) dan biaya
• Mencatat pendapatan fiktif (Fictitious Revenue)
• Kapitalisasi beban yang agresif dan kebijakan amortisasi yang
diperluas (Aggressive Capitalization & Extended Amortization
Policies).
• Penyajian yang salah pada aset dan liabilitas (Misreported
Assets & Liabilities).
• Kreatif pada masalah laporan laba rugi dengan laporan arus kas
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Financial Shenanigans
• Mencatat penghasilan terlalu segera (recording revenue too
soon).
• Mencatat penghasilan palsu (recording bogus or fictitious
revenue).
• Memperbesar pendapatan dengan laba sesaat (boosting
income with one time gains).
• Menggeser beban tahun berjalan ke periode sesudah atau
sebelumnya (shifting current expenses to a later or earlier
period).
• Tidak mengungkapkan liabilitas secara cukup (failing to disclose
liabilities).
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Financial Shenanigans
• Menggeser pendapatan tahun berjalan ke periode sesudahnya
(shifting current income to a later period).
• Menggeser beban yang akan datang (beban yang
ditangguhkan) ke periode tahun berjalan (shifting future
expenses into the current period).
• penilaian aset yang tidak tepat (improper asset valuation)
including reserves (net realizable value concept)
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Exercises
BALANCE SHEET
2011 2012 Change
Assets
Current assets
Cash 45.000 13,64% 15.000 3,53% (30.000) -66,67%
Account Receivables 150.000 45,45% 200.000 47,06% 50.000 33,33%
Inventory 75.000 22,73% 150.000 35,29% 75.000 100,00%
Fixed Assets (net) 60.000 18,18% 60.000 14,12% - 0,00%
Total 330.000 100,00% 425.000 100,00% 95.000 28,79%
Liabilities & Equities
Account Payables 95.000 28,79% 215.000 50,59% 120.000 126,32%
Long term debt 60.000 18,18% 60.000 14,12% - 0,00%
Stockholder's equity
Common stock 25.000 7,58% 25.000 5,88% - 0,00%
Paid in capital 75.000 22,73% 75.000 17,65% - 0,00%
Retained earnings 75.000 22,73% 50.000 11,76% (25.000) -33,33%
Total 330.000 100,00% 425.000 100,00% 95.000 28,79%
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2011 2012 Change
INCOME STATEMENT
Net sales 250.000 100,00% 450000 100,00% 200.000 80,00%
COGS 125.000 50,00% 300000 66,67% 175.000 140,00%
Gross Margin 125.000 50,00% 150.000 33,33% 25.000 20,00%
Operating expenses
Selling expenses 50.000 20,00% 75.000 16,67% 25.000 50,00%
Administrative exp. 60.000 24,00% 100.000 22,22% 40.000 66,67%
Net income 15.000 6,00% (25.000) -5,56% (40.000) -266,67%
additional information
average net receivables 155.000 210.000
average invesntory 65.000 130.000
average assets 330.000 425.000
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