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The objective of this study is to explore the background of the companies involved in fraudulent financial reporting and the impacts to the offenders as well as the companies after the fraud was revealed by the regulator. In Malaysia, the main regulator empowered to investigate fraudulent financial reporting case is Securities Commission of Malaysia. The offenders involved in furnishing false information to the Securities Commission or Bursa Malaysia were charged under Capital Market and Services Act 2007. Prior to 2007, the offenders were charged under Securities Industry Act 1983. In this study, the fact of the case of 22 fraudulent companies listed in the criminal prosecution under enforcement action of Securities Commission of Malaysia’s website were extracted and analyzed. The results reveal that most fraudulent financial reporting cases occurred a few years before the introduction Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance (MCCG) 2000 and a few years before the MCCG was revised in 2007. Industrial product sector was the sector most frequently involved in fraudulent financial reporting. The financial reports were manipulated in three aspects namely audited accounts, quarterly reports and corporate proposals. In most cases, the offenders involved in such fraud scheme were the top management mostly directors.
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