Crazy Eddie‚ Inc. financial fraud case Crazy Eddie was an American retail store chain run by the Antar family‚ which was established as a private company in 1969 in Brooklyn‚ New York by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar. The fraud at Crazy Eddie was one of the longest running in modern times‚ lasting from 1969 to 1987. Crazy Eddie became a known symbol for corporate fraud in its time‚ but has since been eclipsed by the Enron‚ Worldcom and Bernie Madoff accounting scandals. Commencement of fraud
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Eddie Antar‚ the CEO of the Crazy Eddie Discount Electronics Chain. In 1993 Eddie was convicted for an $80 million stock fraud and after that his business collapse. Before the company went public in 1984 Eddie and two brothers were accused of putting together a scheme and inflated the value of the company. In 1990 Mr. Antar was on the run because the government charged‚ off millions and they found him in June 1992 in Israel then they extradited back to the United States. When Antar was 45 years old
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Case 1.8 Crazy Eddie‚ Inc. Case Summary: At age of 16‚ in 1978‚ Eddie Antar opened Crazy Eddie Inc in New York City. This was an electronics store where leadership positions were assumed by family and relatives. Their excellent advertising techniques through radio and their cut rate prices allowed the company to become “transhipper”‚ selling goods to other electronic retailers in NYC area. Crazy Eddie Inc went public in 1986 in order to finance expansion program and in that year‚ it was
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SUMMARY Eddie Antar (Crazy Eddie) dominated the retail consumer electronics market in the New York City metropolitan area. By 1987‚Antar’s firm‚ Crazy Eddie ‚ Inc.‚ had 43 retail outlets‚ sales exceeding $350 million‚ and outstanding stock with a collective market value of $600 million. During his term as the company’s chief executive. Antar had personal gain of more than $70 million. The first step Crazy Eddie done in order to gain success was to expand his little store into many big consumer
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1) The following table provides key financial ratios for Crazy Eddie during the period 1984-1987: | |1987 |1986 |1985 |1984 | |Current Ratio |2.41 |1.4 |1.56 |0.93 | |Quick Ratio |1.4 |0.6 |0.77 |0.15 | |Debt Ratio |0.68 |0.66 |0.64 |0.83 | |Debt-to-Equity |2.16
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Question 1 0.5 out of 0.5 points ________ refers to the point at which an employee becomes fully entitled to a benefit. Selected Answer: vesting Response Feedback: correct Question 2 0.5 out of 0.5 points The process of having the NLRB certify a union based on 50% of the authorization cards indicating the employees want a union without an election is called _______. Selected Answer: card check Response Feedback: correct Question 3 0.5 out of 0.5 points
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E23-1 (a) 1. | The first step in management’s decision-making process is‚ "Determine and evaluate possible courses of action." | False | 2. | The final step in management’s decision-making process is to actually make the decision. | False | 3. | Accounting’s contribution to management’s decision-making process occurs primarily in evaluating possible courses of action and in reviewing the results. | True | 4. | In making business decisions‚ management ordinarily considers only financial information
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Multiple Choices 1. The Global Organizational Hierarchy (GOH) can include all of the following except: a. Divisions b. Risks c. Business Units d. Activities 2. An entity’s contributors may include: a. Auditors but not contacts b. Contacts but not auditors c. Neither auditor nor contacts‚ only TeamRisk administrators d. Both auditors and contacts 3. Which of the following risk assessment elements are not stored in TeamStore? a. Risks b. Objectives c. Entities d. Controls 4. Which of the following
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questions. It is important that you use full sentences and present the questions and answers when you submit your work. Submit the work as a file attachment. This means you complete all work in a word processing document (e.g.‚ Microsoft Word) and attach the file using the dropbox tool. Use the Unit 8: Text Questions dropbox basket. The answers to the Review & Critical Thinking questions are worth 10 points. Review Questions 1. How are brain waves measured? Brain waves are measured by placing electrodes
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1. Exhibit 3 shows a “super segment analysis” of the apparel market. Eddie Bauer positions itself mostly to the “Durable Quality Classics” segment. (What apparel brands target the other segments in the table?) Based on the buying behavior and sales data described in the case‚ how would you distinguish between Eddie Bauer customers who buy in the store by catalog in both the store and by catalog? The “super segment analysis” table has four quadrants that are: “Quality-Timeless‚” “Quality-Newest
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