財務報表重編雖不若財務報表詐欺舞弊，但對於財務報表使用者而言，仍代表財務報表資訊品質不佳。因此公司應建立有效的監督治理機制，以防止財務報表重編情形發生，提高財務報表資訊品質。 本研究針對35家財務報表重編公司及35家財務報表未重編公司之董事會、監察人之獨立性、專業性進行研究，獲得以下結論： 一、發生財務報表重編的公司董事會中外部董事比率低於未發生財務報表 重編公司董事會外部董事比率 二、發生財務報表重編的公司董事會中獨立董事比率低於未發生財務報表 重編公司董事會獨立董事比率。 三、發生財務報表重編的公司董事會中法人董事席次比率高於未發生財務 報表重編公司法人董事席次比率。 四、發生財務報表重編的公司法人監察人席次比率高於未發生財務報表重 編公司法人監察人席次比率。 五、發生財務報表重編的公司董事會中關聯性法人董事比率高於未發生財 務報表重編公司關聯性法人董事比率。 / The restatement of financial statements does not equal to a financial statement fraud. However, it can reflect inferior quality of information disclosed in financial statements. Consequently, companies should establish an effective mechanism for supervision and governance in order to prevent the occurrence of financial statements restatements and to improve the quality of information disclosed in financial statement. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development（OECD） proposed five principles of corporate governance including strengthening the responsibility of the board of directors. It also required that the board of directors should function effectively. Independent and professional outside directors should be engaged to protect the interest of all shareholders. The study was conducted to investigate the independence and professionalism of the board of directors and supervisors. The sample included 35 companies which restated their financial statements at the time. Another 35 companies of comparative sizes were selected as the comparison group. The following results were conducted. 1.Firms that restated financial statements had significantly lower percentages of outside directors on the board than those which did not restate their financial statements. 2.Firms that restated financial statements had significantly lower percentages of independent directors on the board than those which did not restate their financial statements. 3.Firms that restated financial statements had significantly higher percentages of institutional directors on the board than those which did not restate their financial statements. 4.Firms that restated financial statements had significantly higher percentages of institutional supervisors than those which did not restate their financial statements. 5.Firms that restated financial statements had significantly higher percentages of affiliated institutional directors on the board than those which did not restate their financial statements.

國內博達科技無預警聲請重整，對會計師業及資本市場均造成嚴重之衝擊，有些投資人甚至質疑財務報表審計存在的必要性及其價值。財務報表審計有無價值主宰會計師業是否有存在之必要，其影響不容小覷。本研究乃依據Wallace(1980，1987)提出之代理、資訊及保險等三假說，藉會計師審計失敗之事件，觀察其他簽證客戶股價之反應，以衡量財務報表審計是否有價值。 本研究以企業及審計均失敗的公司為實驗組，企業及審計均未失敗的公司作為控制組，期衡量財務報表審計是否有價值。依據研究個案篩選標準，本研究針對87至92年間，各選取五家公司作為實驗及控制組之研究個案。 實證結果顯示，在五個研究個案中，中友的簽證會計師事務其他簽證客戶之股價在事件期間，有顯著為負的異常報酬，亦即，中友之簽證會計師提供之財務報表審計確有價值；然國揚、和旺、桂宏及茂矽等四家公司的簽證會計師事務所審計失敗時，因市場出現其他影響股價變動之事件，故無法衡量此四家公司之審計是否有價值。 若僅自中友之案例，類推所有事務所之財務報表審計均有價值，恐不足以採信，故本研究推論，會計師事務所提供的財務報表審計服務可能有價值，惟其是否確有價值，則無法自實證結果提出佐證。 / PROCOMP INFORMATICS LTD affects accountant industry and the capital market seriously. Some investors even question both the necessity of existence and the value of financial statement audit. Whether financial statement audit has value decides the necessity of accountant industry’s existence and its influence is significant . This research is based on agency, information and insurance hypothesis proposed by Wallace (1980, 1987). In this paper, we choose the event of audit failure and observe the stock price of CPA firm other audit clients to measure the value of financial statement audit. This research designs both the experimental group and the control group to measure the value of financial statement audit. We choose companies which occurred business failure and audit failure as the experimental group. In stead, we choose companies which didn’t occur business failure and audit failure as the control group. Based on the research screening standard, we are aimed at five companies respectively taken for the experimental and the control group. Results show that the stock price of other audit clients of Chungyo’s CPA firm will have significant negative abcdrmal return when CPA firm occurs audit failure. Namely, financial statement audit provided by Chungyo’s CPA firm has value. However, when the other company’s CPA firm occur audit failure, some other event that affect stock price to vibrate happen simultaneously, we can’t measure the value of financial statement audit provided by the four company’s CPA firms. On the whole, if we use the finding to analogize that financial statement audit provided by all CPA firms has value , it maybe not to be persuasive. Consequently, this research infers that the financial statement audit services provided by CPA firms may has value. Whereas, we can’t conclude that financial statement audit has value truly.

政府隨時更新建設以因應各式公共建設及政策，但並非所有建設都能如預期 使用，審計機關適時扮演著監督者之角色，因此，行政機關與審計機關在決算時 的互動，成為可以適時督促政府的管道。在過去文獻中，鮮少有人討論審計機關 與行政機關在決算互動之情況，本研究先探討良好的決算為理論基礎，共分三層 次：決算目標、決算使用審計方式及審計人員能力為架構，以探討行政與審計兩 者間互動時之反應，並以我國頂尖大學計畫為例，運用訪談法及二手資料分析， 以解釋決算的過程、成果之重要性，及雙方互動後的結果。 本文藉由訪談頂尖大學及審計機關，針對研究問題提出下列實務上之政策建 議： 一、放寬法規上之規定：頂大計畫之經費之流用應加寬彈性，畢竟頂大計畫僅是 達成計畫的手段。 二、決算進行時，審計機關與行政機關開拓新溝通管道：利用電子化溝通平台減 少審計與行政機關溝通之時間。 三、審計機關與行政機關嘗試以和平互惠角度共存：本研究認為在往後之行政審 計互動關係應嘗試以和平互惠之關係進行，而此使兩者之間能夠以互惠面合 作的前提 四、重視頂大計畫工作圈意見：在未來工作圈會議時，將以頂大辦公室及會計人 員共同進行討論，有利於雙方之瞭解。 / The administrative organizations renew infrastructures based on public and policy, but now all infrastructures can be anticipated to use. The audit plays the supervisor to the administrative organizations. Therefore, the reaction of financial statement will be a good way to surprise the administrative organizations. The documents seldom discuss this issue in the past. This research discusses how to attain the theory of good financial statement with three levels: the goal of financial statement, the way audit organizations to use and the ability of the auditors. This research takes “The Aim for the Top University Project” for example to discuss the reactions of two organizations, and use In-depth interviews and researching secondary materials to explain the process, the importance and the outcome after reactions. First, broaden the rules: the expenditure should be more flexible. The project is just a method approach to the goal. Second, the two organizations should explore new communication channel: use E-communication medium to decrease time. Third, the two organizations should try to stay in peace for collaborating. Fourth, respect the opinion form the teams of top universities. Let staffs of both sides discuss, which will make them understand each other.

L'objectiu de la meva tesi és tractar i entendre millor els múltiples aspectes de la corrupció i el frau internacionals des de la perspectiva del management. Amb aquesta finalitat, hi proporciono un compendi d'articles, tots els quals han estat publicats en journals amb revisors, o bé estan en procés de ser-ho. El primer article que presento en la meva tesi fou publicat al European Business Forum, una revista especialitzada patrocinada per la CEMS, que és llegida per més de 40.000 professionals dels negocis d'arreu d'Europa. Alguns dels diaris internacionals més importants, com ara el Times of London Newspaper, també citen aquest article a bastament. S'hi exposa per què i com es cometen els fraus. El segon article que comento a la tesi es troba actualment en fase de "revisió i reenviament" al Journal of Business Ethics. Es tracta d'un journal sobre factors d'impacte, inclòs a la llista dels 40 millors journals de management que publica el Financial Times. Aquest article tracta de com les persones fan servir el poder per reclutar altres persones per tal que participin en el frau d'estats financers. Aquest segon article també es va sotmetre a la revisió d'àrbitres a l'edició 2007 de la European Academy of Management Conference que tingué lloc a París, França. El tercer article que es presenta en la meva tesi fou publicat a The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law. També s'havia presentat prèviament a la XII Conferència Anual d'AMCIS amb revisors, que tingué lloc a Acapulco, Mèxic. La Conferència d'AMCIS és un dels principals congressos acadèmics que tracten dels camps relacionats amb els sistemes d'informació. Aquest tercer article analitza com els responsables de perpetrar el frau se serveixen dels principis i les estratègies de poder i negociació per enredar les persones per Internet perquè participin en projectes de frau. El quart article que comento fou publicat a l'Information Systems Security Journal. Aquest journal fa 17 anys que el publica Taylor and Francis Publishing -una de les principals editorials de journals acadèmics-, i és la publicació oficial de CISSP i SSCP. L'article analitza les tendències actuals en matèria de frau i la seva detecció. El cinquè article que es presenta fou publicat a la Corporate Finance Review. Aquest article tracta específicament del frau d'estats financers als Estats Units. També explica què pot fer Europa per aprendre dels errors comesos als Estats Units. La Corporate Finance Review és patrocinada per Thomson Education -una editorial líder en l'àmbit educatiu. Actualment, la revista es troba al 12è any de publicació. Finalment, el darrer article que presento a la tesi és un comentari que es va fer sobre el tema del frau entre dos professors americans i jo mateix. Aquest diàleg es va publicar al Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion. El comentari tractava el tema de la relació entre organitzacions imbuïdes en la religió i el frau. / El objetivo de mi tesis es tratar de entender mejor los múltiples aspectos de la corrupción y el fraude internacionales desde la perspectiva del management. Para ello, proporciono un compendio de artículos, todos ellos publicados en journals con revisores, o bien que se hallan en proceso de publicación. El primer artículo que presento en mi tesis fue publicado en el European Business Forum, una revista especializada patrocinada por la CEMS, que es leída por más de 40.000 profesionales de los negocios de toda Europa. Algunos de los diarios internacionales más importantes, como el Times of London Newspaper, también citan este artículo ampliamente. En él se expone por qué y cómo se cometen los fraudes. El segundo artículo que comento en mi tesis se halla actualmente en fase de "revisión y reenvío" al Journal of Business Ethics. Se trata de un journal sobre factores de impacto, incluido en la lista de los 40 mejores journals de management que publica el Financial Times. Dicho artículo trata de cómo las personas se sirven del poder para reclutar a otras personas para que participen en el fraude de estados financieros. Este segundo artículo también fue sometido a la revisión de árbitros en la edición 2007 de la European Academy of Management Conference celebrada en París, Francia. El tercer artículo que presento en mi tesis fue publicado en The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law. Asimismo, previamente se había presentado en la XII Conferencia Anual de AMCIS con revisores, celebrada en Acapulco, México. La Conferencia de AMCIS es uno de los principales congresos académicos que tratan de los campos relacionados con los sistemas de información. Este tercer artículo analiza cómo los responsables de perpetrar el fraude se sirven de los principios y estrategias de poder y negociación para enredar a persones por Internet para que participen en proyectos de fraude. El cuarto artículo que comento fue publicado en el Information Systems Security Journal. Este journal es publicado desde hace 17 años por Taylor and Francis Publishing -una de las principales editoriales de journals académicos-, y es la publicación oficial de CISSP y SSCP. En dicho artículo se analizan las tendencias actuales en materia de fraude y su detección. El quinto artículo que se presenta fue publicado en la Corporate Finance Review. Este artículo trata específicamente del fraude de estados financieros en Estados Unidos. També explica qué puede hacer Europa para aprender de los errores cometidos en Estados Unidos. La Corporate Finance Review cuenta con el patrocinio de Thomson Education -una editorial líder en el ámbito educativo. En la actualidad, la revista se halla en el 12.º año de publicación. Finalmente, el último artículo que presento en mi tesis es un comentario sobre el tema del fraude, realizado entre dos profesores americanos y yo mismo. Dicho diálogo fue publicado en el Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion. El comentario trataba del tema de la relación entre organizaciones imbuidas en la religión y el fraude. / The purpose of my dissertation is to address and better understand the many aspects of International Fraud and Corruption from a Management Perspective. In my dissertation, I provide a compendium of publications. Each publication was published, or is in the process of being published, in a peer-review journal. The first article that is presented in my dissertation was published in the European Business Forum, a CEMS sponsored journal that is read by more than 40,000 business professionals throughout Europe. Several major international newspapers, including the prestigious Times of London Newspaper, also quoted this article extensively. The article addresses why and how fraud are committed. The second article that is presented in my dissertation is currently under "revise and resubmit" status at the Journal of Business Ethics. This journal is an impact factor journal and is included on the Financial Times list of top 40 management journals. The article addresses how individuals use power to recruit other people to participate in financial statement fraud. This second article was also presented at the peer review 2007 European Academy of Management Conference in Paris, France. The third article that is presented in my dissertation was published in The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security, and Law. This article was also previously presented at the 12th annual peer-review AMCIS conference in Acapulco, Mexico. The AMCIS conference is one of the leading academic conferences within the information systems fields. This third article addresses how perpetrators use the principles and strategies of power and negotiation to con individuals via the Internet to participate in fraud schemes. The fourth article presented in my dissertation was published in Information Systems Security Journal. This journal is currently in its 17th year of publication and is published by Taylor and Francis Publishing - one of the leading publishers in academic journals. This journal is also the official publication of the CISSP and SSCP. The article deals with current trends in fraud and its detection. The fifth article that is presented in my dissertation was published in the journal Corporate Finance Review. This article specifically deals with financial statement fraud in the United States. The article further explains what Europe can do to learn from the mistakes of the United States. Thomson Education - a leader in educational publishing, is the sponsor of Corporate Finance Review. The journal is currently in its 12th year of publication. Finally, the last article presented in my dissertation is a commentary that took place on the subject of fraud between two American professors and myself. The dialogue was published in the Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion. The topic of the commentary was on the relationship between organizations embedded in religion and fraud.

財務危機模型的研究一般納入財務正常公司與財務危機公司兩者當樣本，探討區分危機與正常公司的因素，本研究則進一步以財務危機公司為樣本，探討在財務危機公司中區分舞弊公司與正常經營公司的基本因素。 本研究從財務危機公司中，分出財務舞弊公司與正常經營公司，因此研究樣本包含發生舞弊的財務危機公司與正常經營而發生財務危機的公司。研究變數則從文獻篩選23個財務解釋變數，以及13個公司治理解釋變數，運用羅吉斯迴歸法進行實證，結果顯示3個財務變數和1個公司治理變數在區分財務危機公司中的財務舞弊公司與正常經營公司有顯著的區別能力，公司治理變數的董監事持股比率尤其顯著。 / Financial distress prediction is usually based on both financial distressed firms and non-distressed firms. Based on financial distressed firms, this study further investigates the factors distinguishing financial fraud firms from non-fraud firms. The sample includes fraud and no-fraud firms while both are financial distressed. Twenty-three financial and thirteen corporate governance variables are surveyed from literature. The empirical result of logit regression shows that three financial variables and one corporate governance variable are significant factors in distinguishing fraud from no-fraud firms in distressed companies. Especially, the percentage of holding stocks of board of directors is the most significant variable.

This dissertation documents the quality of financial accounting information in a transition economy, the Czech Republic. High quality accounting information decreases the risks for investors, promotes investment activities and increases the ability of companies to raise funds at a reasonable cost of capital. Countries with high quality accounting information have a comparative advantage in attracting financial capital. Transition economies - i.e. countries switching from centrally planned to market economies - are typically in need of capital. Therefore a new accounting regulation had to be developed that would satisfy the needs of new private investors. The quality of financial accounting information depends on accounting quality (an outcome of applied accounting principles) and disclosure quality (an outcome of the amount and characteristics of information provided in the financial statements). Accounting quality is measured as the value relevance of accounting numbers and certain attributes of earnings which promote the value relevance. Disclosure quality is measured in terms of mandatory disclosure requirements, actual disclosures of companies (i.e. the level of compliance with legislation) and additional information provided voluntarily by the companies. Sweden is used as a benchmark for well-developed market economy and the quality of financial accounting information in the Czech Republic is systematically compared to the quality of Swedish financial accounting information throughout the dissertation. The results show that both accounting and disclosure quality in the Czech Republic were inferior in the beginning of the transition period. Over time, the value relevance of accounting numbers has however improved. The change in the value relevance may be attributed in particular to improvements in disclosure quality. The key factors behind the development were improved accounting legislation and control mechanisms, accompanied by changes in the business climate including higher sophistication of both the producers and users of the financial information. / Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2009

Financial fraud rampages onwards seemingly uncontained. The annual cost of fraud in the UK is estimated to be as high as £193bn a year [1] . From a data science perspective and hitherto less explored this thesis demonstrates how the use of linguistic features to drive data mining algorithms can aid in unravelling fraud. To this end, the spotlight is turned on Financial Statement Fraud (FSF), known to be the costliest type of fraud [2]. A new corpus of 6.3 million words is composed of102 annual reports/10-K (narrative sections) from firms formally indicted for FSF juxtaposed with 306 non-fraud firms of similar size and industrial grouping. Differently from other similar studies, this thesis uniquely takes a wide angled view and extracts a range of features of different categories from the corpus. These linguistic correlates of deception are uncovered using a variety of techniques and tools. Corpus linguistics methodology is applied to extract keywords and to examine linguistic structure. N-grams are extracted to draw out collocations. Readability measurement in financial text is advanced through the extraction of new indices that probe the text at a deeper level. Cognitive and perceptual processes are also picked out. Tone, intention and liquidity are gauged using customised word lists. Linguistic ratios are derived from grammatical constructs and word categories. An attempt is also made to determine ‘what’ was said as opposed to ‘how’. Further a new module is developed to condense synonyms into concepts. Lastly frequency counts from keywords unearthed from a previous content analysis study on financial narrative are also used. These features are then used to drive machine learning based classification and clustering algorithms to determine if they aid in discriminating a fraud from a non-fraud firm. The results derived from the battery of models built typically exceed classification accuracy of 70%. The above process is amalgamated into a framework. The process outlined, driven by empirical data demonstrates in a practical way how linguistic analysis could aid in fraud detection and also constitutes a unique contribution made to deception detection studies.

This thesis deals with International Financial Reporting Standards for Small and Medium-sized Entities (IFRS for SMEs). The objective of this thesis is analyzing the status of IFRS for SMEs within the legislative context in the Czech republic. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part contains basic information on international accounting harmonization and its development, theoretical bases of IFRS for SME, defines the conditions for recognition, measurement and reporting of assets, liabilities, income and expenses. The next chapter of the theoretical part contains composition of financial statements. The practical part is divided into three chapters. The first chapter contains a comparison of items with the Czech accounting legislation. In the next chapter, the balance sheet of a particular enterprise is converted to the statement of financial position. The last chapter of the practical part of the thesis is devoted to the questionnaire survey. The objective of this survey was to determine, whether companies are informed of the reporting within the IFRS for SME.

This thesis is focused on role of the external auditor and risks and ethical behavior during his working. During individual phases of audit auditor must pay attention to many parts to determine no misrepresentation information in financial statements. Too he checks up into questions of ethical behavioral, for example by the evaluation of contract´s risk.

At the beginning the dissertation is focused on the harmonization of accounting in the EU, the mechanics of implementing standards in the EU and regulations in accounting in general. Thereafter the dissertation devotes to accounting in legislative adaptation of the Czech Republic and Germany. More specifically, it covers history, regulations, accounting principles and requirements, reporting and measurement of assets and obligations of both countries. In the next part, the measurement bases used in czech and german accounting are being analyzed, furthermore measurement of single assets components in the Czech republic and Germany. The practical part of the dissertation is devoted to the comparison of final accounts of selected companies in the czech and german practice in the year 2015, being followed by looking into differences between these two countries.