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Detecting Financial Statement Frauds: Revenue & Inventory Focus

Learn to identify, prevent, and detect revenue and inventory-related financial statement fraud schemes to safeguard your business. Understand the importance of following up on fraud symptoms and key ways to proactively search for fraudulent activities. Explore common fraudulent practices, symptoms, and investigative procedures to protect your company's financial standing. Improve your understanding of revenue recognition, inventory cycles, and the impact of manipulating inventory and cost of goods sold figures. Enhance your ability to analyze financial statements and detect irregularities effectively.

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Detecting Financial Statement Frauds: Revenue & Inventory Focus

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  1. FRAUD EXAMINATIONALBRECHT, ALBRECHT, & ALBRECHT Revenue- and Inventory-Related Financial Statement Frauds Chapter 12

  2. Learning Objectives • Identify revenue-related financial statement fraud schemes. • Understand revenue-related financial statement fraud schemes. • Identify ways to proactively search for revenue-related financial statement fraud schemes.

  3. Learning Objectives • Understand the importance of, and ways to follow up on, revenue-related fraud symptoms. • Identify inventory and cost of goods sold financial statement fraud schemes. • Understand inventory and cost of goods sold financial statement fraud symptoms.

  4. Learning Objectives • Identify ways to search for inventory and cost of goods sold financial statement fraud schemes. Understand the importance of, and ways to follow up on, inventory and cost of goods sold fraud symptoms.

  5. List Common Ways to Commit Revenue Fraud.

  6. Why Are Revenue Frauds so Common? How is it done?

  7. Typical Revenue – Related Transactions Complete the Chart

  8. Discuss What to Look For.

  9. What Kind of Changes Should You Look For?

  10. Discuss Revenue-Related Fraud Symptoms. FRAUD

  11. Complete this Table

  12. What is the Formula for Measuring Period to Period Changes?

  13. What is an Alternative to the Prior Formula? Make the Balance Sheet & Income Statement into Change StatementsHOW? Circle the Preferred

  14. Match Ratio to Name. Gross Profit Margin Sales Returns Total Sales Gross Profit Net Sales Sales Return % Net Sales A/R Sales Discount % A/R Turnover 365 A/R Turnover Number of Days in A/R Sales Discounts Gross Sales

  15. Match Ratio to Explanation. A measure of profitability Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts Estimated uncollectible A/R, a contra-asset, Bad Debt Expense Common Size Financial Statements Financial statements converted to % Expense for revenues or receivable presumed uncollectible Earnings per Share

  16. Do Ratio, Vertical or Horizontal Analysis Tell if Fraud Has Been Committed?

  17. List Other Investigative Procedures You Could Perform.

  18. Comment on Behavior & Lifestyle Flags.

  19. Discuss TIPS.

  20. Explain How Inventory & Cost of Goods Sold Are Manipulated to Commit Fraud.

  21. Review Effect of Overstating Inventory on a Simplified Income Statement. Gross Revenues (Sales) -Sales Returns -Sales Discounts Net Revenues (Sales) -Cost of Goods Sold Gross Margin -Expenses Net Income

  22. Review Effect of Overstating Inventory & Understating Purchases on Cost of Goods Sold. Beginning Inventory +Purchases -Returns to Vendor -Purchase Discounts on Inventory Goods Available for Sale -Ending Inventory Cost of Goods sold

  23. Complete Inventory Cycle.

  24. Identify Some Inventory Fraud Symptoms.

  25. Analysis of Period-to-Period Changes Analysis of Period-to-Period Changes Complete Chart. • Inventory Account Balances • With Industry Competitors • Inventory Relationships • With Real-World Numbers

  26. Discuss Inventory Fraud Symptoms. FRAUD

  27. Match Ratio to Name. Financial statements converted to % Allowance for Doubtful Accounts The expense of goods sold to customers Bad Debt Expense A contra receivable, estimated uncollectible A/R Cost of Goods Sold Common-Size Financial Statements Expensing estimated uncollectible A/R or revenues

  28. Match Ratio to Name. Earnings Per Share Sales returned by customer for refund Determining when revenues are earned & can be reported on the income statement Revenue Recognition Sales Returns A measure of profitability

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