FRAUD PREVENTION AND DETECTION
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• To postpone insolvency proceedings
• To increase bonus entitlements for management
• To stave off situational pressures created by unrealistic budgets or
sudden changes in the market
Understatements generally occur in the following business scenarios:
• To reduce an organization’s tax burden
• In buyouts of minority shareholders
• As clean- up strategies upon change of senior management, in
what is often called “big bath accounting”
• To make it easier to get nancial assistance in government con-
tracts since they typically make funds more easily available to
entities with lower nancial capabilities
In some instances, fraudsters will use a combination of overstatement
and understatement, depending on the ci ...