{"id":3980,"date":"2019-10-08T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analystprep.com\/cfa-level-1-exam\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:25:34","slug":"warning-signs-methods-detecting-manipulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analystprep.com\/cfa-level-1-exam\/financial-reporting-and-analysis\/warning-signs-methods-detecting-manipulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning Signs and Methods for Detecting Manipulations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"VideoObject\",\n  \"name\": \"Financial Reporting Quality (2025 Level I CFA\u00ae Exam \u2013 FRA \u2013 Module 11)\",\n  \"description\": \"CFA Level I Financial Statement Analysis lesson on Financial Reporting Quality covering reporting quality vs quality of reported results, conservative vs aggressive accounting, motivations and conditions for low-quality reporting, mechanisms that discipline reporting quality, non-GAAP presentation choices, earnings management methods, and accounting warning signs for detecting manipulation.\",\n  \"thumbnailUrl\": \"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/QL97P5Pgz_s\/maxresdefault.jpg\",\n  \"uploadDate\": \"2022-04-29\",\n  \"duration\": \"PT30M52S\",\n  \"contentUrl\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QL97P5Pgz_s\",\n  \"embedUrl\": \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QL97P5Pgz_s\"\n}\n<\/script>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"QAPage\",\n  \"mainEntity\": {\n    \"@type\": \"Question\",\n    \"name\": \"If a company\u2019s revenue increases at a faster rate than the industry growth rate despite declining product quality and rising prices, what should an analyst most likely examine?\",\n    \"text\": \"If a company\u2019s revenue increases at a faster rate than the industry growth rate, even though the company\u2019s product quality has been decreasing and the product price has been increasing relative to competitors, which of the following should an analyst most likely examine?\\n\\nA. 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An example of time-related manipulations is expenses capitalization, which would decrease the expenses of the current period and distribute the cost over several upcoming periods. Location-related manipulations could be made through misallocation of losses i.e. by deducting them from other comprehensive income or even by deducting them directly from equity rather than net income.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 18px 0;\"><a style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 10px 18px; border: 2px solid #1e5bd8; color: #1e5bd8; background: #f5f7fb; border-radius: 9999px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 600; white-space: nowrap;\" href=\"https:\/\/analystprep.com\/free-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Detect earnings manipulation patterns with CFA practice questions <\/a><\/div>\n<h3><strong>Pay Attention to Revenue<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Revenue is the most frequently manipulated financial report item. Here are ways to examine revenue quality.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examine the accounting policies note for a company\u2019s revenue recognition policies<\/strong>: search for \u201cbill and hold\u201d transactions and early recognition of sales. Discern contracts with multiple deliverables to make sure that the recognition of revenue of each deliverable is matched with the recognition of the costs incurred to make that deliverable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Look at revenue relationships<\/strong>: compare a company\u2019s revenue growth with its primary competitors or its industry peer group. If the growth of the company\u2019s revenues is faster than the industry\/peer group, then, the superior performance must be justified. Possible justifications could either be better management or\/and better products\/service quality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Compare accounts receivable with revenues over several years<\/strong>: a rising ratio could indicate insufficient allowance for questionable accounts or even fictitious sales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examine asset turnover<\/strong>: it becomes especially important in the case of a new acquisition. If a company\u2018s asset turnover is continually declining or lagging behind the asset turnover of the industry, then, this could signal possible future asset write-downs, particularly in the area of goodwill balances for acquiring companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Pay Attention to Signals from Inventories<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Compare growth in inventories with competitors and industry benchmarks<\/strong>: if a company breaks the trend, it could simply be a matter of bad inventory management or an indication of inventory obsolescence. The latter could mean that both of the company\u2019s assets and profits are over-estimated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Calculate the inventory turnover ratio<\/strong>: a slowdown in the inventory turnover ratio could suggest inventory obsolescence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Pay Attention to Capitalization Policies and Deferred Costs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Suppression of expenses is the second most frequent method of financial report manipulation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examine a company\u2019s accounting policy note for its capitalization policy for long-term assets, including interest costs, and its processing of other deferred costs<\/strong>: if a company capitalize costs that are expensed in most of its industry peer group, the difference should be adjusted to reflect a lower asset value and lower earnings for that company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Pay Attention to the Relationship Between Cash Flow and Net Income<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A cash flow to earnings that is consistently below 1 might be a signal of heavy use of accrual accounting.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Other Potential Warnings Signs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Depreciation methods and useful lives<\/strong>: a big difference between the depreciation method and the estimated useful life of a company and its industry peers could be a sign of a manipulation attempt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fourth-quarter surprises<\/strong>: as managers try to avoid cooking the books unless it is inevitable (from their point of view), most of the manipulation happens in the results of the fourth quarter. For that reason, an analyst should closely check companies that repeatedly achieve out of expectations\u2019 consensus results in the fourth quarter, assuming that the company\u2019s business doesn\u2019t have any seasonality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Non-operating income or one-time sales included in revenue<\/strong>: a company can add the sale of an asset to revenue to hide a decline in the revenue generated from its core activities. A similar scheme could be made to decrease the company\u2019s losses by classifying some of the company\u2019s expenses as \u201cnon-recurring.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Question 1<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If a company\u2019s revenue increases at a faster rate than the industry growth rate, even though the company\u2019s product quality has been decreasing and the product price has been increasing relative to the competitors\u2019 product prices, which of the following should an analyst <em>most likely<\/em> examine?<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: upper-alpha;\">\n<li data-tadv-p=\"keep\">The trend of change in accounts receivable.<\/li>\n<li data-tadv-p=\"keep\">The company\u2019s revenue recognition policies.<\/li>\n<li data-tadv-p=\"keep\">Both the trend of change in accounts receivable and company\u2019s revenue recognition policies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>C<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>An increasing trend of accounts receivable could indicate that a company might be lowering its credit issuance restrictions to generate more sales. This, unfortunately, could affect the ratio of uncollectible debt and result in low earnings quality. 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