DETECTION OF FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS USING THE BENEISH RATIO INDEX FOR MANUFACTURING COMPANIES LISTED ON THE INDONESIAN STOCK EXCHANGE IN 2016 AND 2017 PERIOD

Authors

  • Rezky Febriendy Darise

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32400/ja.24757.8.2.2019.66-74

Keywords:

fraud, financial report, Beneish ratio index

Abstract

Fraud is an action taken intentionally and it is done for personal or other people's purposes, where the action has caused harm to certain parties or certain institutions. Misstatements contained in fraudulent financial statements are intentional misstatements to deceive users of financial statements. The source of this misstatement includes manipulation or falsification of accounting records, intentional misstatements or omissions from financial statements, and / or incorrect application of accounting principles. In Indonesia, accounting fraud also occurs at the company level, both private and government companies. On December 6, 2012, the announcement of Indonesia's score in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) was 32 and ranked 118th out of 176 countries which measured the level of corruption (Transparency International, 2012). In 2001, a fraud scandal occurred by PT Kimia Farma Tbk. PT Kimia Farma is a state-owned company whose shares have been traded on the exchange to become public company. Based on indications by the Ministry of BUMN and Bapepam's examination, it was found that there were misstatements in the financial statements which resulted in overstatement of net income for the year ended 31 December 2001 of Rp. 32.7 billion, which represented 2.3% of sales and 24.7% from net income. The author's purpose of this study is to discuss about detecting fraud in financial statements by using 5 (five) of the 8 (eight) Beneish ratio indices, because Beneish's research states that the Days Sales in Receivables Index (DSRI) ratio index, the Gross Margin Index ( GMI), Asset Quality Index (AQI), Sales Growth Index (SGI), and Total Accrual to Total Asst Index (TATA) have significant results to detect financial report manipulation.

Author Biography

Rezky Febriendy Darise

Alumni of Accounting Profession Program, Economics and Business Faculty, Sam Ratulangi University

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Published

2019-07-31

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2019): Accountability

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