attention to their clients’ accounts‚ ethical behavior is on the rise although it will take a long time to recover from the scandals that rocked the world beginning with Waste Management in 1998 and following with Enron‚ WorldCom‚ Tyco‚ HealthSouth‚ Freddie Mac‚ AIG‚ Lehman Brothers‚ Bernie Madoff and Saytam in 2009. For 10 years unethical behavior and choices almost brought our country to its knees and even now many people are losing their homes and their jobs because the economy has still not fully recovered
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history‚ as orchestrated by Bernie Madoff. Harry Markopolos caught up with Madoff’s Ponzi scheme earlier on in his career and saw all the red flags. There was no explanation of the continuous one percent yield in over forty five stocks that Madoff dealt with. Madoff took advantage of the laxity by the SEC officials in failing to follow up complains with an investigation‚ and the trust bestowed upon him by the high and mighty. As long as the public saw paper trail provided by Madoff that the stocks were
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matters worse‚ it seems as if Friehling did not have a clear understanding of relevant controls. For example‚ the first component of relevant controls is auditability. At this phase it is the auditors duty‚ in this case it was Friehlings duty to practice due diligence to assess the integrity of management and whether or not there is sufficient evidence to support the financial records. Had he done this he would have discovered management’s true intentions and could have put in place internal controls
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com/content/forensic-accountant/ Washington‚ Ruby. December 20‚ 2012. Bernard L. Madoff. The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/bernard_l_madoff/index.html Refrati‚ Amir. Frank‚ Rober. March 11‚ 2009. Madoff Set to Plead Guilty to 11 Felonies. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123669568988683829.html WEBCPA Staff. May 15‚ 2009. Forensic Accountants Reconstruct Madoff books. Accounting Today. Retrieved from: http://www.accountingtoday
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Wall Street is evil and corrupt… or at least that’s all I hear from news headlines and organizations like Occupy Wall Street. After consistently hearing about corrupt brokers and managers like Bernie Madoff and Jordan Belfort‚ I began to buy into this facade. I enjoyed following the stock market‚ but I didn’t want to pursue it as a career out of fear of social repercussions. Last summer‚ this all changed. A few of my friends and I were awarded a free trip to Washington D.C. for placing fifth in a
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(2008): 69-72. Academic Search Premier. Web. 6 Apr. 2012. Handley‚ J. "Prevention of Plastic and Cheque Fraud Revisited ." National Criminal Justice Reference Service (1998): n. pag. NCJRS Abstract. Web. 18 Apr. 2012. Lewis‚ Lionel. "How Madoff Did It: Victims ’ Accounts." Society 48.1 (2011): 70-76. Academic Search Premier. Web. 17 Apr. 2012. Powell‚ Bill. "Olympus Scandal: A Confession‚ but Still No Answers." Time. Time‚ 09 Nov. 2011. Web. 17 Apr. 2012. <http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0
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The Proposed Soda Tax: The Poor and Middle Class Pay the Price Why must the poor and middle class suffer whenever money is needed to fund some programs or fix the deficit? People are stripped to the bone already‚ what with the Enron scandal and Bernie Madoff making off with millions of citizens savings. Now the poor and middle class people of this great nation are being called upon once again‚ to give more of the nothing that they already don’t have for a Soda Tax. A tax that health officials
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CASE#1 ENRON CORPORATION 1. Different parties were responsible for the occurrence of Enron crisis. Listed below are some of the parties who were responsible for the Enron fraud. a. The Enron Management: There is no doubt that the Enron management staged the fraud. The management was responsible for the misrepresentation of financial statement/ documents and wrong accounting practice. In Early 2002‚ their abusive accounting and financial reporting practices surfaced. Moreover‚ the management influenced
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Suppose that a large investment firm had approximately 10 percent of its total assets invested in funds managed by Madoff Securities. What audit procedures should the investment firm’s independent auditors have applied to those assets? 3. Describe the nature and purpose of a “peer review.” Would peer reviews of Friehling & Horowitz have likely resulted in the discovery of the Madoff fraud? Why or why not? 4. Professional auditing standards discuss the three key “conditions” that are typically
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Market in Kidneys: Efficient and Equitable. The Independent Review. 5(3). pp.373-385. BENNER‚ K. (2008). Did Madoff act alone? [Online] Available at: http://money. cnn.com/2008/12/18/news/newsmakers/madoff_didnt_act_alone.fortune/ [Accessed 7 December 2013]. BERNSTEIN‚ J. (2010). The Madoff Circle: Who Knew What? [Online] Available at: http://business-ethics.com/2010/06/03/1614-the-madoff-circle-who-knew-what/ [Accessed 7 December 2013]. BRICKNELL‚ S. (2011). Misuse of the non-profit sector for money
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