Abstract :
This study was conducted to examine the effect of the components of the fraud
triangle, including financial stability, effective monitoring, and rationalization on
financial statement fraud, and to examine the effect of audit quality in moderating
the effect of financial stability, effective monitoring, and rationalization on
financial statement fraud using quantitative methods. The population in this study
are manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2017-2019
with a total sample of 92 manufacturing companies using purposive sampling
method. The data analysis technique used in this study is a quantitative method with
panel data regression methods, descriptive statistical tests, classical assumption
tests, and hypothesis testing and the data processing program used is STATA
version 16. The results of this study indicate that partially financial stability and
rationalization have an influence positive for fraudulent financial statements.
However, effective monitoring has no effect on fraudulent financial statements. As
for the moderating variable, audit quality can be moderated by weakening the
influence of financial stability on financial statement fraud and strengthening the
effect of rationalization on financial statement fraud. However, audit quality cannot
moderate the effect of effective monitoring on financial statement fraud.