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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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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Eddie Blinkov Lean On Me In the movie called Lean On Me‚ Joe Clark the principal uses methods to establish authority in the school and these are the ways he did that. Firstly‚ he comes off as a very strict and disrespectful man to establish dominance in the school with the teachers and students. An example of this is when he first came into the school and yelled at all the teachers for doing a bad job to educate the students. This shows that Joe really cares for these children and wants the teachers
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Jones: Many people from the working class will admit to not enjoying their jobs. In fact‚ 70% of Americans are unhappy with their current job. Oddly enough‚ I’m not going to talk about Americans and their dislike of their jobs‚ but allow me to ask a question. If a nurse wakes up one day and decides to work as an electrical engineer then does that suddenly make her an electrical engineer? The rule used to determine whether one is not guilty by reason of insanity is in most states the Model Penal Code
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Eddie Bauer Analyzes High Value Customer Segments Marketing Plan Executive Summary In 1999 Eddie Bauer was a $2 billion apparel retailer‚ generating 25% of its revenue from its catalog operation and the remainder through its 600 stores. Eddie Bauer operated in the textile clothing industry in the United States‚ Canada‚ Japan‚ UK and Germany. The company sold causal and office wear clothing to men and women‚ which is what we will be focusing on. Moreover‚ they also had eyewear
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2. How should the company recognize revenue based upon the two possible FOB structures mentioned in the case? According to GAAP‚ four conditions must be met in order to recognize revenue: 1. Persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists: although the case does not provide extra information on this aspect‚ it seems clear that there is an ongoing relationship between Biovail and the Distributor and that certainly there was a bill‚ purchase order and/or invoice in order to support this sale.
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