Earnings management (EM) and white-collar crime (WCC) have been associated with corporate scandals. Companies involved in fraudulent financial reporting have used deceitful practices to manipulate earnings and hide investors from the true natures of their financial conditions. T…
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This study examines the causes and nature of fraud and control measures to combat fraud in the Nigerian banking system. The study is intended to assist banks and companies to safeguard against occupational fraud and abuse, thus helping to identify exposures to loss and to enable…
This study addresses the impact of countermeasures in the control and prevention of online fraud in Saudi Arabia and the influence of the environmental context. Combatting online fraud is facilitated when the public is fully educated and is aware of its types and of the preventi…
The main objective of this thesis is to examine the causes of the bankruptcy of Esbank, Turkey. This case study shows the links between bankruptcy and corruption. The study demonstrates that bankruptcy for profit, namely looting and outright fraud in the form of lending resource…
For researchers working in the field, "economics of religion" traces back all the way to Adam Smith but for others this new sub-discipline only emerged in the 70's to really breakthrough in 1998 with lannaccone's preliminary review in the Journal of Economic Literature. Being mo…
One of the key elements of the Law on Obligations is the contract, which represents an obligational relationship between the contracting parties with a focus on promoting obligations. A contract “contractus” is defined as the consent of will of two or more parties for the purpos…
Nigerian banks and financial institutions have reflected a chronic inability to prevent financial fraud. This descriptive study helped to explore management's and government's roles in preventing fraud and other criminal behaviors within Nigerian banks, which have resulted in lo…
Given the magnitude of e-auction transactions, it becomes challenging to safeguard consumers from dishonest sellers, such as shill bidders. Shill Bidding (SB) is a predominant auction fraud that is driven by modern-day technologies and clever scammers. The difficulty of identify…
After a physical crime occurs, an important action typically takes place: the reporting of the crime to the police. However, this action becomes more complex for a victim to properly execute when a cybercrime is experienced, which can be partly explained by a lack of knowledge a…