Fraud Fraud is listed by the 2003 UK Threat Assessment issued by the National Criminal Intelligence Service as one of the seven most significant threats facing the world1. What is a Fraud? A fraud is when one party deceives or takes unfair advantage of another. A fraud includes any act‚ omission‚ or concealment‚ involving a breach of legal or equitable duty or trust‚ which results in disadvantage or injury to another. In fact‚ in a broad strokes definition‚ fraud is a deliberate misrepresentation which
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Can corporate fraud ever be eliminated from the workplace? Abstract Corporate fraud has been a growing issue since Enron bankruptcy. The factors that contribute to the occurrence of corporate fraud are hard to control and methods used to prevent and detect fraud both by internal control and outside auditing have unavoidable weaknesses. Despite all the effort being made‚ it is highly unlikely that corporate fraud can be eliminated from the workplace. Introduction After Enron scandal got
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Accounting 202 Homework Chapter 1-Managerial Accounting ‚ the Business Organization‚ and Professional Ethics 1-40 Use of Accounting Information in Hospitals Most U.S. hospitals do not derive their revenue directly from patients. Instead‚ revenues come through third parties‚ such as insurance companies and government agencies. Until the 1980s‚ these payments generally reimbursed the hospital’s costs of serving patients. Such payments ‚ however ‚ are now generally flat fees for specified services
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examples of Accounting Frauds. The founder of ZZZZ best was Barry Minkow. He was a very smart young entrepreneur when he started the company. He was involved in credit card forgeries prior to starting his own carpet cleaning business “ZZZZ Best Company”. Minkow began his business with small carpet cleaning jobs and he became a multimillionaire in a very short period of time. Minkow met a person named Tom Padgett at Los Angeles Health club. This was the beginning of Minkow’s big fraud scheme. Padgett
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Enron and WorldCom Case Study This report is based on the demise of Enron Corporation and WorldCom. Both the firms are demised due to the ethical lapses. These ethical lapses come into existence when managements of the firm‚ uses unethical practices to accomplish the goals of the firm. Maintaining financial and accounting standards in the business practices are necessary. The profession of accounting has become a mockery due to the accounting scandals that took place all over the world in the
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Handbook‚ IFRS or in companies’ annual reports. The SEDAR web site is an excellent source of annual reports and the notes on accounting practices in these reports provide valuable background material on industry practices. In some instances‚ students will be expected to do some additional research to determine specific accounting practices not yet covered in the course or by accounting standards. There is no objection to students using the library and/or faculty members as resources particularly where knowledge
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Solutions Guide: Please reword the answers to essay type parts so as to guarantee that your answer is an original. Do not submit as is EXERCISE 2-2 Acquisition Method The balance sheets of Petrello Company and Sanchez Company as of January 1‚ 2011‚ are presented below. On that date‚ after an extended period of negotiation‚ the two companies agreed to merge. To effect the merger‚ Petrello Company is to exchange its unissued common stock for all the outstanding shares of Sanchez Company in the
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reporting purposes in the period of sale. The installment period is 3 years; one-third of the sale price is collected in 2012 and the rest in 2013. The tax rate was 35% in 2012‚ and 30% in 2013 and 30% in 2014. The accounting and tax data is shown below. Financial Accounting Tax Return 2012 (40% tax rate) Income before temporary difference $ 175‚000 $ 175‚000 Temporary difference $ 75‚000 $
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Worldcom was the second largest long distance phone company in the United States. The former CEO Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to twenty five years in prison due to increasing revenue the wrong way to increase earnings. This company had the largest bankruptcy filing in the United States. Today‚ the Worldcom accounting scandal is known as one of the worst corporate white collar crimes in history. What were some psychological factors that led to this crime? Financial Pressures from competitors
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E. Boos – Week 2 – Assignment February 17‚ 2013 The Enron and WoldCom Scandals ENRON 1. The segment of Enron’s operations that got them into difficulties had several parts. They published misleading financial reports. They could not meet their bridge financing commitment with Barclay Bank because outside investors were not found. Because of this‚ they restated activities of JEDI and Chewco SPEs so they could be retroactively consolidated into Enron’s accounts. The SPEs
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