Hammond Cards‚ Inc: The Creative Acquisition AUTHORS Paul Mulligan Fidelity Faculty Term Chair Assoc. Professor; Technology & Operations Management Babson College Olin Hall Babson Park‚ MA 02457-0310 (781) 239-4595 mulligan@babson.edu Alfred J. Nanni‚ Jr. Professor of Management Accounting Vander Wolk Chair in Management Accounting and Operational Performance Babson College Luksic Hall Babson Park‚ MA 02457-0310 781-239-5137 nanni@babson.edu Shahid Ansari Zwerling Term Chair
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(Wells‚ 2011‚ 255). Along with corruption schemes‚ fraud can lead to negative effects on a company. Fraud can occur through creative accounting. Creative accounting practices are through big bath charges‚ creative acquisition accounting‚ cookie jar reserves‚ materiality‚ errors‚ and revenue
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review before proceeding with the bid. The information covered will include: * The effect of occupational fraud and abuse on the company * U.S. governmental oversight of accounting fraud and abuse and its effect on the company Potential corruption schemes to be aware of in the company Recommendation of types of accounting evidence and methods of gathering such evidence to support the financial status review. Fraud deterrence occurs in several stages‚ and the key is to know that prevention is
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His or her job was to streamline accounting practices and create rules to assist organizations in the proper preparation on financial statements. The SEC’s chairman created a nine-point action plan to assist in the detection of fraud. This action plan is outlined as follows: 1. Improved disclosure regarding the impact of changes in accounting assumptions. 2. Clarified accounting rules regarding purchased in-process restructuring charges‚ large acquisition write offs‚ and research and development
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largest telecommunications companies‚ filed for bankruptcy on 2012 after numerous accounting irregularities were disclosed. It is essential for us to analyze the several underlying issues from WorldCom case to avoid its repetition. The origin of WorldCom can be traced to a LDDS provider in 1983 and it became officially known as WorldCom in 1995. The company maintained a rapid growth through a series of acquisitions using highly valued stock‚ which provided substantial international presence and competitive
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Q 1 Explain the nature of accounting fraud? A1. Background: The origin of WorldCom can be traced to the breakup of AT&T in 1983. The company began as Long Distance Discount Services Inc during 1983. LDD name was changed to WorldCom in 1995. To build the economies of scale that were critical success factor in long distance market it was imperative for WorldCom to grow its available volume off bandwidth as it lowered the per unit costs. Also the Telecommunication act of 1996 permitted long
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Enron and its Associates Used Questionable Accounting Practices Clearly‚ there have been cases where management knowingly deceived the auditors. Then there seem to be other instances where the accounting treatment envelope was pushed just a bit too far. In the case of Enron‚ David B. Duncan‚ the former Andersen partner in charge of the Enron audit who was the government’s chief witness in the trial against Arthur Andersen‚ stood behind the decisions that resulted in the widespread use of off-balance
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Page 1 of 7 Forensic Accounting School of Business ACC/556 Version 3 Forensic Accounting Copyright © 2009‚ 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 352.567.1821 (EST) Course Description Facilitator: Jessica Wilder wilder11@email.phoenix.edu (UOPX) jessica_wilder@hotmail.com (Personal) In this course‚ students are introduced to the conduct of fraud examinations‚ including a discussion of specific procedures used in forensic accounting examinations and the reasoning behind
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__ COURSE CODE : BKAF3083 COURSE : ACCOUNTING THEORY AND PRACTICE PRE-REQUISITE : BKAF3073 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING IV 1.0 SYNOPSIS This course is an advanced level course focusing on financial accounting theory; and as such‚ it differs from other accounting courses learnt previously. It is designed to further enhance students’ understanding of the concepts and issues in accounting theory and practices. This course involves
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New Fraud Crackdown Looms | Emily Chasan Senior Editor With accounting-fraud cases at nearly a 10-year low‚ complacency might be the biggest fraud risk facing chief financial officers. Large fraud-related restatements of corporate earnings reports have fallen sharply since the financial crisis‚ but that doesn’t mean that companies aren’t still vulnerable to them. “There still is financial-reporting fraud going on out there‚” said Andrew Ceresney‚ the new co-director of the Securities and
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