DISCUSSIONS
The offence made by MMHB was charged under section
122B (a)(bb) of the Securities Industry Act 1983 which
carries a maximum RM3 million fine or 10 years jail, or both,
on conviction. Mr KK pleaded guilty to one of four charges
he was facing and was fined RM350,000 in default of a year’s
imprisonment. MMHB could not sort out its financial woes,
which were not surprising considering that a large chunk of
its past revenues had been falsified. It failed to submit its
regularisation plan to the authorities according to the PN17
timeframe and was delisted in April 2008. The call for an
effective method to identifying earnings manipulation has
increased with each exposed accounting scandal. In our
investigation, the limitation of the tools used (Beneish model
and financial ratio) is that the limited information provided in
the financial statements and the footnotes to the accounts.
However, the Bursa Malaysia and Securities Commission
announcements and newspaper reports had provided
additional information that implicates MMHB involvement
in financial fraud. The material misstatement in their
financial reporting had brought to the collapse of MMHB [4,
5, 6]. The Beneish model and financial ratio can be used as a
tool for detecting financial fraud. These tools had result in
significant differences and proved that the company commits
an earnings manipulation.