Bahrain Collage of Business Administration A Paper Highlighting: How accounting fraud has changed merger valuation Prepared For: Professor Omar Al-‐Jahmani Course: Advanced Financial Accounting (ACC 610) Term: Second Semester‚ 2012-‐2013 Prepared By: Mohamed S Sultan‚ MBA
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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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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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Railroad was authorized to construct a transcontinental railroad with substantial financial support from the federal government‚ officers and directors of the company devised a plan to make an immediate profit from its construction by fraud. The vehicle for this fraud was a company called Credit Mobilier of America. The method was to have Credit Mobilier‚ which was entirely controlled by the same people‚ bill the Union Pacific for the costs of constructing the railroad. There was no "market value"
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Puyricard Fine Chocolate. Puyricard is a premium chocolate-maker. It produces and sells fine handmade chocolates‚ calissons and confectionary through its own retail network (14 stores in France: 12 in Provence‚ 2 in Paris)‚ wholesales and website. It is the French leader for craft chocolate‚ with an annual production of 120 tons of chocolate and a turnover of 6‚9 million euros. The company is family-owned and run by the sons of the founders. It was created 40 years ago and the CEO‚ Tanguy Roelandts
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financial fraud case Crazy Eddie was an American retail store chain run by the Antar family‚ which was established as a private company in 1969 in Brooklyn‚ New York by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar. The fraud at Crazy Eddie was one of the longest running in modern times‚ lasting from 1969 to 1987. Crazy Eddie became a known symbol for corporate fraud in its time‚ but has since been eclipsed by the Enron‚ Worldcom and Bernie Madoff accounting scandals. Commencement of fraud The fraud began almost
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1990s. To make his major customer happy Pomerantz had to approve significant markdowns in Leslie Fay’s wholesale prices and grant those customers large rebate. In 1993‚ Donald Kenia‚ the company’s controller‚ took full responsibility for a large accounting fraud revealed to the press by John Pomerantz. Leslie Fay’s earnings had been overstated by approximately $80 million from 1990-1992 and about $130 million entries were fake. Upon the investigation of the Audit committee it was found out some audit
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Bernie Madoff Fraud Case Bernie Madoff Fraud Case Introduction One of the largest fraud cases of all times is that of the “Bernard Madoff Case.” According to Armstrong (2008)‚ “for a number of years Madoff managed to lure billions of dollars away from huge charities‚ as well as wealthy individuals in both the United States and Europe by getting them to invest in his hedge fund. This he did by offering extraordinary returns to investors‚ until his scheme eventually reached a staggering $50
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Cassie Angelucci 9/21/14 Crazy Eddie Fraud Case Eddie Antar came from a low rent neighborhood in Brooklyn from a family of merchants. Growing up poor he had dreams and aspirations of becoming a household name. At the age of 20 years old‚ Antar opened up his very first store‚ Crazy Eddie. Crazy Eddie was an electronics store that specialized in low prices and a party atmosphere. The business did very well in its startup years and began to grow. Not long after Antar opened up his first store‚ he
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http://jobview.monster.com/Senior-Accountant-Manager-Job-San-Juan-PR-US-130837373.aspx Questions and answers 1. Under what conditions is direct labor a valid basis for allocating overhead? Direct labor is a valid basis for allocating overhead when: (a) direct labor constitutes a significant part of total product cost‚ and (b) there is a high correlation between direct labor and changes in the amount of overhead costs. 2. What has happened in recent industrial history to reduce the usefulness
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