Abstract
Objectives of this paper are to identify and describe the problems in detecting the financial statement fraud in auditing financial statements by external auditors. Although detection of fraud is important to enhance the value of auditing, there are many problems that impede the appropriate implementation of detection. Based on review of related research that have bee done, there are four factors that identified in this paper. First, the characteristic of fraud occurence made it difficult for detection process. Second, auditing standards is not sufficiently supporst the proper detection. Third, work environment of audit may reduce the quality and the last, audit methods and procedures are not enough for efective detection. Based on this identified problems, the improvement of implementation was suggested.

Keywords : auditing, fraud, financial statement fraud

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