Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Ann Fulmer March 2010 DRAFT Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Mortgage fraud is bank robbery without a gun. 1 It is a high-yield‚ 2 low risk enterprise that has been reported in all 50 states‚ Puerto Rico‚ Guam‚ American Samoa‚ 3 Canada‚ 4 New Zealand‚ 5 Australia‚ 6 and England. 7 In the United States‚ it is committed by organized international and domestic
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Apollo Shoes‚ Inc. Potential for Fraud Memo September 24‚ 2014 There are a few “red flags” that have come to my attention while reviewing the minutes provided to me from Apollo Shoes‚ Inc. For starters‚ in our first meeting we requested to meet with the predecessor‚ and was told by Mr. Unum who is the Vice President of finance‚ they would rather we not speak to them. When a company refuses to have the current auditor speak with the previous auditor this always throws up a red flag. Another red
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Report on Financial Statement Fraud Scheme Case Study: The Importance of Timing ACC/556 Professor University of Phoenix December 19‚ 2011 Memo To: The Management From: Forensic Auditor Date: 12/19/2011 Subject: Case Study on the Importance of Timing and Financial Statement Fraud Scheme As our company is in process of conducting investigation to detect any financial statement fraud or abuse‚ I have come across the case where expenses were recorded in the financial
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Case Study1: And the Fraud Continues A business can not work out without an account system‚ which includes internal. Internal controls are used by companies to make sure financial information is accurate and valid. Strong internal controls are signs of a financially healthy company and protect the company’s integrity. Strong internal controls can also increase a company’s profitability. There are several types of internal controls
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B1 – Ethics‚ fraud and internal control at Bern Fly Company The main purpose that a good internal control must fulfil is to protect the firm’s assets from fraud and theft. As we can see from the description of Bern Fly Company’s case‚ the internal control within the company leaves much to be desired. As it can be read in the case the salespersons get commission promptly after each order taken by their customers without any control to check if that order is real or only a fictitious one. This
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“Criminal phenomenon” is known as white collar crime. White collar crime was firstly talked by Edwin H. Sutherland who was a criminologist. He defined white collar crime in a presidential meeting of the American Sociological Society. This meeting was held at the state of Philadelphia in December 1939 to 1940s. He defined white collar crime as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”. (“Sutherland‚ 1949:9”). White collar crime includes
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ORGANIZATIONAL INTENTION TO USE FORENSIC ACCOUNTING SERVICES FOR FRAUD DETECTION AND PREVENTION BY LARGE MALAYSIAN COMPANIES By Gunasegaran Muthusamy Graduate School of Business Curtin University of Technology Western Australia Tel: +618-92661149 Professor Mohammed Quaddus Graduate School of Business Curtin University of Technology Western Australia Tel: +618-92662862 Professor Robert Evans Graduate School of Business Curtin University of Technology Western Australia
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high social status in the course of his occupation" Since technology has come into play many issues have come to surface and the crime rates have increased causing one particular branch of white collar crime known as computer fraud White collar crime: Computer Fraud White Collar crime has been Identified by Edwin Sutherland as “A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" (Sutherland‚ 1939) White Collar crimes are serious‚ but
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Michael Wine’s article‚ “Anger Follows an Accusation of Voter Fraud” was published less than a week ago in the New York Times. In this article‚ Wine summarizes the Trump Voter Fraud Panel and the recent controversies since it was created in May. Wines does a great job of specifically focusing in on the main point of the article right when he begins writing. The main idea is that the fraud panel is causing controversies when prying into vote fraud situations. For instance‚ the commission’s leader suggested
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August 2008 10 Ways to Improve Internal Controls and Prevent Fraud in your Small to Medium Sized Business There aren’t too many “universal truths” in this world – but - I’ll go out on a limb and say this - everyone hates getting ripped off or taken advantage of. As the CEO‚ President or owner of a small to medium-sized business you are more vulnerable to being taken advantage of by unscrupulous employees and vendors. There are several reasons for this‚ including; It is harder for smaller
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