The Determination of Pressures toward Fraudulent Behavior on Financial Statements of Vietnamese Listed Companies

Abstract

The study focuses on understanding the pressures leading to fraudulent behavior on the financial statements of companies listed on the Vietnamese stock markets. First, the study identifies the pressures affecting fraudulent financial reporting behavior one by one, then turn to the interactive effects of the pressures on the behavior of corporate. The regression results of 2831 samples from 2014 to 2020 show that the pressure of maintaining the position of a large enterprise, the pressure of strictly complying with debt covenants, a profit pressure or reward incentive make managers commit financial statement fraud, and, if an enterprise is under a plethora of pressures at the same time, it will increase the fraudulent financial reporting behavior.