Phar-Mor declared bankruptcy due to fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of assets‚ making it one of the largest frauds in U.S. history. Below‚ we will use auditing standard AU 316.85 Appendix A in conjunction with the video “How to Steal $500 million” to analyze how incentives/pressures‚ opportunities‚ and attitudes/rationalizations allowed for fraud to start and continue at Phar-Mor. Incentives/Pressures Annual reoccurring losses due to small margins put pressure on the
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom LDDS began operations in 1984 offering services to local retail and commercial customers in the southern states. It was initially a loss making enterprise‚ and thus hired Bernie J. (Bernie) Ebbers to run things. It took him less than a year to make the company profitable. By the end of 1993‚ LDDS was the fourth largest long distance carrier in the United States. After a shareholder vote in May 1995‚ the company officially came to be known as WorldCom. WorldCom culture
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environment ripe for criminal activity. Economic unrest is making it easier for employees to find ways to set fraud in motion – and a new breed of offenders is finding cunning ways to do so. After more than 60 years‚ the classic fraud triangle of three elements or events that motivate an employee to cross the line has morphed ™ into Crowe’s Fraud Pentagon. Company boards and senior management must take an offensive stance against the five conditions that precipitate fraud with a clear plan that limits
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fool. With this type of war created a different type of power that could and was used by president Lincoln; Having this be an internal war it created an existence of violence and domestic political differences. All in which lead to the abuse of authority and power by President Lincoln. Lincoln used this authority not to only fix the Union‚ but to also change its nature without suspicion. Bradford then list a few things to help further explain why this is not just an over stretched theory by saying
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Moreover‚ another predominant factor as to why the state should remain to have a role in employment relations‚ and so businesses can’t set their own terms and conditions of work for their employees‚ is because there is a significant exploitation of temporary migrant workers and their entitlements. Migrant workers are mistreated in multiple ways for their efforts as an employee. These can encompass of no workers compensation if they were injured in hazardous working conditions and also unsatisfactory
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amounts of data online has increased the risk of data leakage and theft. The crime of corporate espionage is a serious threat which has increased along with the integration of technology into business processes. This paper has been written with the objective of providing insight into the crime of corporate espionage including discussion of the problem‚ offenders and motive‚ and basic protection measures. Corporate Espionage As global economies have gained influence “society has evolved from an
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School 6-1-2008 Detecting financial statement fraud: Three essays on fraud predictors‚ multi-classifier combination and fraud detection using data mining Johan L. Perols University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons Scholar Commons Citation Perols‚ Johan L.‚ "Detecting financial statement fraud: Three essays on fraud predictors‚ multi-classifier combination and fraud detection using data mining" (2008). Graduate
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In the article “Hope and Exploitation”‚ Adrienne Martin explores how hope can make a patient more vulnerable to exploitation in clinical trials. Martin argues that three components of hope makes a participant more inclined to participate in a research study. In this article‚ Martin highlights some practical steps that can be taken by researchers to combat possible exploitative practices. First‚ I will identify and explain the three main components of hope as Martin emphasized. Next‚ I will explain
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Perhaps‚ no where are frauds more serious and more pronounced than in the banking sector of the economy. They are one of the biggest single causes of bank failure and distress in the Nigerian banking system. This study therefore sets out to find the common types of bank fraud that are frequently carried out in the banking system‚ the underlying causes‚ level of staff involvement‚ consequences and possible means of ameliorating the problem. A sample of 100 respondents taken in Benin City‚ capital
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