Critically evaluate the factors that motivate executives to engage in financial statement fraud and the impact this financial statement fraud has on the financial statement.

Coursework Task
You are required to submit an academic report using financial and non-financial information.

You are expected to identify a financial statement fraud that took place in a company and analysing the following areas in respect of your chosen company:
• Critically evaluate the factors that motivate executives to engage in financial statement fraud and the impact this financial statement fraud has on the financial statement.
• Critically review measures that ought to have being taken to eliminate or prevent the financial statement fraud from occurring.
• Discuss the procedures that will enable you, as a forensic accountant, to investigate and identify the financial statement fraud and quantify the loss to the company.
• Explain how the fundamental principles of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) Code of Ethics will apply to your Forensic Financial Analysis assignment

Critically evaluate the factors that motivate executives to engage in financial statement fraud and the impact this financial statement fraud has on the financial statement.
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