The findings show that almost all of the 20 fraud risk factors included in the questionnaire were only slightly important (if not unimportant), a finding that is arguably alarming. The perceived importance of modifying the audit programme in the presence of each fraud risk factor was related to the perceived importance of the fraud risk factor itself. However,
changes in the nature and extent of audit procedures were more important than changes in the timing of the procedures or the members of the audit team.