Analysis of Vousinas Fraud Hexagon Theory on the Detection of Financial Statement Fraud in Service Companies Listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) 2018-2022

Abstract

The aims of this research was to identify and determine the influence of financial targets, external auditor quality, total accruals to total assets, CEO educational background, managerial ownership, political relations, and cooperation with government projects on financial statement fraud in Infrastructure, Utilities and Transportation Sector Service Companies Listed on the IDX 2018-2022, both partial and simultaneous influence, also moderated influence by internal control system. This research is explanatory research design with the sampling technique used purposive sampling. The population in this research is companies in infrastructure, utility and transportation sector listed on IDX with total 79companies. The research sample was obtained with total 44 companies. The type of data used is secondary data with data analysis techniques used panel data regression models and moderated regression analysis (MRA) through Eviews 10 software. This research found that Financial Target, External Auditor Quality, CEO Educational Background, Political Connection have a significant effect on Financial Statement Fraud in Infrastructure, Utilities and Transportation Sector Companies listed on the IDX. While Total Accrual to Total Asset, Managerial Ownership, and Cooperation with Government Project have no influence on Financial Statement Fraud. This study also found that Internal Control is able to moderates the relationship between Return on Asset, External Auditor Quality, Total Accrual to Total Asset, CEO Educational Background, Managerial Ownership, Cooperation with Government Project and Financial Statement Fraud in Infrastructure, Utilities and Transportation Sector Service Companies listed on the IDX.