When issuing his department’s performance report, a sales director in an insurance company knowingly fails...

Information misrepresentation involves the intentional misstatement or omission of important information in the financial reports to deceive users of those reports. In this scenario, the sales director ' s failure to correct the reserves for unearned income in the department’s performance report, despite knowing it should be adjusted for cancellations, is a clear example of information misrepresentation. This act could lead to misleading stakeholders about the company ' s financial status, which fits the definition of information misrepresentation fraud.

IIA guidance on types of fraud and their characteristics