Ranking of internal and external factors affecting fraudulent financial reporting using a hierarchical analysis process

The purpose of this study is to determine the importance and ranking of internal and external factors affecting fraudulent financial reporting. The statistical population in this study includes members of the Iranian Society of Certified Public Accountants who have characteristics such as teaching experience at the university, having a doctorate, history of professional activity in the profession of auditing and financial management, which according to the restrictions 30 people were considered as a sample. In this research, AHP technique and Expert Choice software have been used to analyze the data. The results of the analysis showed that extra-organizational factors were the first priority in creating fraudulent reporting with a score of 0.243 and intra-organizational factors were the next priority with a score of 0.214. Also, according to the research results, from external factors, respectively, factors related to the characteristics of independent auditing, cultural factors, legal and regulatory factors outside the organization, and from internal factors, respectively, professional characteristics and management structure. Behavioral characteristics of management, behavioral and moral characteristics, characteristics related to systemic and human errors have been the most important.