Introduction: The past decade has been witness to some of the worst accounts of corporate fraud ever recorded‚ with multi-billion dollar companies such as Enron‚ Tyco‚ and World-com involved in serious financial scandals. CEOs and senior executives are often the driving force behind such unscrupulous activities by adopting shady accounting practices and other forms of short-termist actions for the purpose of increasing their firm’s stock price and their own personal wealth. The following paper will
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Comment on the 10 major steps in the fraud risk model 1. Understand the nature of fraud by identifying the factors associated with fraud that are outlined in the fraud triangle. The factors include rationalization‚ opportunity‚ and incentive (ROI). Incentive/pressure to commit fraud Fraudulent financial reporting Management compensation schemes Financial pressures to improve company’s earnings and balance sheet Personal wealth tied to either financial results or survival of company Defalcation
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Director Seminar 7.1: Ethics‚ Fraud Risk and Communication Libby Jones – Chief Accountant Group 6 Marsee Weston – Fixed Asset Manager Overview Scott Smyth – Cash/Debt & Investment Manager Scenario 1 Cathy Elgin – Accounting Assistant (A/R) Scenario 2 Bob Thomas – Accounting Assistant (A/P) Scenario 3 Nora Stewart – Accounting Assistant (A/P) Scenario 4 Scenario 5 Chuck Sanchez – Accounting Assistant (Payroll) Past Fraud Cases 3 4 Combining
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Chapter 3 FIGHTING FRAUD: AN OVERVIEW Discussion Questions 1. Fraud prevention is important because it is the most cost-effective way to reduce losses from fraud. Once fraud occurs‚ there are no winners. 2. Creating a culture of honesty and high ethics helps to reduce fraud in various ways. Management through its own actions can show that dishonest‚ questionable‚ or unethical behavior will not be tolerated. By hiring the right kind of employees‚ management can select people who are
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The development of fraud examiner/forensic accounting profession since the 2001 Enron Fraud After the Enron and WorldCom business climate‚ there came a new US federal law called Sarbanes – Oxley Act. The SOX contains 11 titles that describe specific mandates and requirements for financial reporting. It makes corporate executives more accountable for their actions. Companies invested a tremendous amount of resources‚ time‚ and effort in order to comply with the requirements. It clearly improved the
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Question 1: Name two cases in which companies have committed frauds by misstating inventory. Crazy Eddie and Goodner Brothers case are the good example for the inventory fraud cases. Question 2: What makes the intentional misstatement of inventory difficult to detect? When you have the most senior management of the company‚ particularly its financial management‚ consciously setting out to fool the auditors‚ to hide information from them‚ as they testified in the Monus trial‚ it’s very hard to
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom 1) What are the pressures that lead executives and managers to “cook the books?” After the rapid evolution of the telecommunication industry in the 1990s‚ WorldCom shifted its strategy to focus on building revenues and acquiring capacity sufficient to handle expected growth. Their biggest goal was to be the No. 1 stock on Wall Street rather than capturing the market share. As a result‚ their Expense-to-Revenue (E/R) Ratio was their measurement for their main objective
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Kathleen Sibelius announced “nationwide takedown” by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations‚ in eight cities that resulted in charges against 89 individuals‚ which included doctors‚ nurses and other licensed medical professionals‚ for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $223 million in false billings. In Chicago‚ seven individuals were charged‚ including two doctors‚ with a variety of health care fraud schemes. This (sixth) nationwide takedown targeted eight cities:
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Enrollment Agreement and Detail Ledger Listing should agree. Enrollment Agreement Detail Ledger Med Association Fee (not mentioned) 50.00 Tech Fees (not mentioned) 855.42 Lab Fee 200.00 (not mentioned) * The costs and financial aid on Detail Ledger Listing should agree with those on Withdrawal Record. (507) Amount the student owes (657.12) was handwritten. (511) * Step One: Unpaid Charges (511) Total Aid Paid to Institution’s Costs is $11485 not 9085. Total
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Andersen did not allow the LJM financial statement to stay unconsolidated. 2. Analyze the situation - again‚ take a "lessons learned" approach. You might use the following questions as guides: A. What important internal controls were ignored when LJM1 was created? LJM1 ignored some of Enron’s entries in the books that were missing. Outsiders owned less than 3% of the Special Purpose Entities equities. There was an error made by Arthur Andersen to let LJM’s financial statement to remain unconsolidated
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