The Influence of Fraud Risk Management on Fraud Occurrence in Kenyan listed Companies

Mwangi Severinah Wanjiru and James Ndegwa
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Mwangi Severinah Wanjiru: Strathmore Business School,Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya
James Ndegwa: Strathmore Business School, Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya

International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies, 2020, vol. 9, issue 4, 147-160

Abstract: This study sought to establish the influence of fraud risk management practices in regard to preventive, detective and corrective controls on the level of fraud occurrence on listed firms in Kenya. This is because limited research had been conducted in the context of listed firms in Kenya and limited attention paid on how corrective controls influences fraud occurrence. A causal research design was applied. Data was obtained from a sample of 275 senior managers by using structured questionnaires. The findings revealed that onlypreventive and corrective controls had a profound negative effect on the degree of fraud occurrence on listed companies in Kenya. Conversely, detective controls did not considerably reduce fraud occurrence on listed companies in Kenya. The key implicationof the findings noted by this study is that the proper implication of the most effectual anti-fraud measures can only be realized when the management are committed to do so. Additionally, corrective controls must be seriously looked into as an effective strategy of curbing fraud since they indeed are instrumental in curbing fraud. Future studies should be extended to the public sector in regard to the government ministries and the distinctive partitions of the private sector such as the insurance, real estate, manufacturing, automobile sectors among others respectively. Moreover, future studies can explore how firm size in terms of asset size or employee size moderates the relationship between fraud risk management practices and the level of fraud occurrence.

Keywords: Preventive; Detective; Corrective; Fraud (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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