Bahrain Collage of Business Administration A Paper Highlighting: How accounting fraud has changed merger valuation Prepared For: Professor Omar Al-‐Jahmani Course: Advanced Financial Accounting (ACC 610) Term: Second Semester‚ 2012-‐2013 Prepared By: Mohamed S Sultan‚ MBA
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Running head: CASE ANALYSIS OF THE ACCOUNTING FRAUD AT WORLDCOM Case Analysis of the Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Angela Crossley Troy University October 27‚ 2008 History The origin of WorldCom can be traced back to 1983. The CEO‚ Bernard J. Ebbers‚ of WorldCom had very interesting beginnings. He invested in Long Distance Discount Services (LLDS) with eight other investors‚ and believed that the telecommunications industry was a very good business venture. In the beginning
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HealthSouth Corporation Case Study By Robert H. Barr‚ Jr. - © 2012 In 2002‚ HealthSouth Corporation was one of North America’s largest outpatient surgery‚ rehabilitation and diagnostic imaging companies. HealthSouth had over 1800 facilities in all 50 states plus the United Kingdom‚ Australia‚ Puerto Rico‚ Canada and Saudi Arabia. In 2002 HealthSouth had over 50‚000 people on staff in sales revenues in excess of $4 billion per year. HealthSouth worked with more than 85‚000 referring physicians
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examples of Accounting Frauds. The founder of ZZZZ best was Barry Minkow. He was a very smart young entrepreneur when he started the company. He was involved in credit card forgeries prior to starting his own carpet cleaning business “ZZZZ Best Company”. Minkow began his business with small carpet cleaning jobs and he became a multimillionaire in a very short period of time. Minkow met a person named Tom Padgett at Los Angeles Health club. This was the beginning of Minkow’s big fraud scheme. Padgett
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How should goodwill‚ properly recorded on the books‚ be written off in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles? Goodwill is recorded in the accounts only under the circumstances that is is acquired through a purchase of another business or combination of businesses. According to Generally Accepted Accounting Principle under these circumstances where goodwill is acquired through a purchase by another business that it is recognized as having indefinite
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Chapter 16 Managerial accounting concepts and principles 1) Direct costs are identified with and can be traced to a cost object. Indirect costs cannot be identified with or traced to a cost object. 2) Costs by function: A) Product costs consist of manufacturing costs: direct materials‚ direct labor and factory overhead. B) Period costs consist of selling and administrative expenses. 3) A) Prime costs which consist of direct materials and direct labor costs. B) Conversion costs which consist
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1990s. To make his major customer happy Pomerantz had to approve significant markdowns in Leslie Fay’s wholesale prices and grant those customers large rebate. In 1993‚ Donald Kenia‚ the company’s controller‚ took full responsibility for a large accounting fraud revealed to the press by John Pomerantz. Leslie Fay’s earnings had been overstated by approximately $80 million from 1990-1992 and about $130 million entries were fake. Upon the investigation of the Audit committee it was found out some audit
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Donna Sanders Financial Statement Fraud Week 12 There are many things that can motivate financial statement fraud. Taking a look at Donald Cressey’s hypotheses which is now known as the fraud triangle depicts the certain criteria for the mind frame of the fraudster. The fraud triangle is a theory that consists of perceived pressures‚ perceived opportunity‚ and rationalization. It gives us the different pressures placed on individuals that would make them consider “cooking the books.” It also
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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ACC 201 Principles of Financial Accounting Week 1 Chapter 1 and 2 Practice Exercises: 1-2‚ 1-4‚ 1-9‚ 1-12‚ 1-18‚ 2-1‚ 2-3‚ 2-19‚ 2-22‚ 2-25. Memo to Blair Complete the writing assignment‚ ATC 1-4 from Chapter 1 and submit to your instructor. Week 2 Discussion 1: Fraud Discuss in general the ethical issues when employees are tempted to defraud their employer or when companies defraud the public. What sort of situations can lead to this behavior? What are the costs of
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1. A major advantage of the partnership form is that the personal assets of the partners are protected from creditors in case of legal action- False 2. A partnership is considered an “entity” for accounting purposes- True 3. “Mutual agency” means that one partner can legally bind all the other partners to a contract if it appears that he or she is acting appropriately- True 4. Partners are taxed on their drawings regardless of their share of the income. False 5. If a partnership agreement
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