Wong Professor Coyle Auditing-Case Write Up 30 September 2014 The Leslie Fay Companies Case Summary The Leslie Fay Companies is a women’s apparel manufacturer headquartered in New York‚ but with its accounting offices located in Pennsylvania. The company performed business in a way that did not utilize modern computerized systems to track sales and growth‚ but in an old-fashioned way that yet‚ still let them perform well in their revenues and earnings. The major names in this case include the CEO of
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analysis - Cash flows were negative while profit was reported. Early 1999‚ liqutity problem arised‚ sold $200M of high-yield or Junk bonds in mid 1999. - Justice Department: Adam Gilburne: guilty to conspriracy to commit wire and securities fraud to inflate earning 96-99. He was alleged of drawing up a list of good and bad items to adjust income to meet analyst ’s expectations. Imporperly recogmnzing unearned and fictitious recievales from its vendors - SEC: 3 Financial Fraudent Schemes 1 Imporperly
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Case study 1 clearly was a case in which fraudulent activity had clearly taken place. If it was not for the internal audit conducted by the ABC company‚ Hank Duckworth would probably still be getting away embezzlement. The clues that led up to Hanks demise was that Jane discovered that some of the accounts payable checks lacked complete endorsement by the payees. When Jane dug a little deeper she found five more checks made out to different people but all of the endorsement’s had the same handwriting
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1.Describe the orchestra’s pay structure in terms of levels‚differentials and job or person base approach. There is a lot of information is lacking in the orchestra case which make it difficult to draw the persuasive conclusions about the Orchestra compensation strategy. Let’s assume that internal and external factors are normal and the orchestra is operating their business under favorable circumstances. Under these circumstances‚ the orchestra pay structure is hierarchical‚ narrowly graded‚ vertical
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CASE STUDY 1 Exploring Innovation in Action: The Changing Nature of the Music Industry Question 3. Can you map the different kinds of innovation in the case study? Which were incremental and which radical/discontinuous? Why? Give examples to support your answer. The first innovation that was mentioned in this case was that of an Incremental Innovation. An incremental innovation is a series of small improvements to an existing product or product line that usually helps maintain or improve
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lawrencelkh1989@gmail.com | * Unit name | * Strategic Marketing 310 | * Unit code | * 3900 | * Assignment title | * Case Study One | * Date submitted | * 8th of April 2013 | * | * | * | * | * Marker’s comments | * | * Recorded mark | * | * Marker | * | * Comments | * | Question 1. What competences has IBM had to invest in arising from its transformation from a ‘product-centric’ to a ‘service-centric’ organization
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Chapter 4: Mini Case 1: Smith‚ Smith‚ Smith‚ and Smith is a regional accounting firm that is putting up a new headquarters building. The building will have a backbone network that connects eight LANs (two on each floor). The company is very concerned with network errors. What advice would you give regarding the design of the building and network cable planning that would help reduce network errors? I have to make some assumptions regarding the network design for this new building. Since they
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Running Head: TANGLEWOOD Tanglewood’s Strategic Decisions Cody Hobson Upper Iowa University Table of Contents 1. Introduction…..P. 3 2. Staffing Levels….P. 3 a. Acquire or Develop Talent….P. 3 - 4 b. Hire Yourself or Outsource….P. 4 - 5 c. External or Internal Hiring….P. 5 d. Core or Flexible Workforce….P. 5 - 6 e. Hire or Retain….P. 6 f. National or Global…P. 6 - 7 g. Attract or Relocate….P. 7 h. Overstaff or Understaff….P
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PART A 35 Multiple Choice Questions worth 1 mark each (all questions to be answers) 1. ABC firm are the auditors of XYZ Company. The partner responsible for the audit has recently spent a week working with XYZ as a paid consultant on their internal control systems. The ethical principle that has been breached is: a. auditor independence. b. auditor appointment. c. auditor rotation. d. auditor competence. 2. The term audit expectation gap refers
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1-5 Common Law. If the court applies the doctrine of stare decisis in the case where the members of AOL that got their information mistakenly made public are filing a suit again AOL then the court would not dismiss the suit. AOL is arguing that its forum-selection member agreement states that Virginia courts are the place where member’s disputes will be tried. However‚ according to the Supreme Court a forum-selection is basically irrelevant if it contravenes with a strong public policy. Stare decisis
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