Can corporate fraud ever be eliminated from the workplace? Abstract Corporate fraud has been a growing issue since Enron bankruptcy. The factors that contribute to the occurrence of corporate fraud are hard to control and methods used to prevent and detect fraud both by internal control and outside auditing have unavoidable weaknesses. Despite all the effort being made‚ it is highly unlikely that corporate fraud can be eliminated from the workplace. Introduction After Enron scandal got
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Financial Research – The Xerox 1 Financial Research Xerox Financial Fraud Case Analysis This paper was prepared for Auditing Procedures Financial Research – The Xerox Abstract On April 8th‚ 2002‚ the Xerox Corporation ("Xerox") announced its willingness to accept the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reach a settlement with the conditions. Thereafter‚ its financial fraud became surfaced. On June 28th‚ Xerox Corporation in accordance with the requirements of the settlement
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Fraud Fraud is listed by the 2003 UK Threat Assessment issued by the National Criminal Intelligence Service as one of the seven most significant threats facing the world1. What is a Fraud? A fraud is when one party deceives or takes unfair advantage of another. A fraud includes any act‚ omission‚ or concealment‚ involving a breach of legal or equitable duty or trust‚ which results in disadvantage or injury to another. In fact‚ in a broad strokes definition‚ fraud is a deliberate misrepresentation which
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The Little Steel Company is a small steel fabricator that makes steel parts for various metal machine shops. When Little receives an order from a client‚ it must locate and purchase 10 tons of a certain grade of steel to complete the order. Little sends an e-mail message to West Coast Steel Company inquiring into the availability of 10 tons of the described grade of steel. West Coast replies by e-mail that it has available the required 10 tons of steel and quotes $450 per ton. Little replies
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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 The fraud began almost
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Question 1: Name two cases in which companies have committed frauds by misstating inventory. Crazy Eddie and Goodner Brothers case are the good example for the inventory fraud cases. Question 2: What makes the intentional misstatement of inventory difficult to detect? When you have the most senior management of the company‚ particularly its financial management‚ consciously setting out to fool the auditors‚ to hide information from them‚ as they testified in the Monus trial‚ it’s very hard to
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Fraud Examination & Forensic Accounting Professor: David L. Cotton Meriann El Haddad Student Travel Agent Fraud Analysis Christopher Ryan Thomas‚ who ran a travel business‚ was sentenced for stealing students’ spring break funds. In September 2006‚ Thomas was selected as a travel agent by the senior class at Hampton University who were planning a spring break trip to the Sunset Beach Resort and Spa in Jamaica. From November 2006 through April 2007‚ Thomas collected approximately
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Tanner can get his funds back Fraud. When Tanner was getting information over the hotel‚ Grano‚ the owner‚ stated that the motel netted $30‚000 during the previous year and that it will net at least $45‚000 for the next year. When Grano turns over the motel books‚ which had all the information of the motel‚ and is where Grano could have gotten the information of the numbers that he told Grano during negotiation. But‚ he committed an element of fraud which is silence because in the motel books it
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Executive Summary: A group of investors (Arundel group) is looking into the idea of purchasing the sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major movie studios. Movie rights are to be purchased prior to films being made. Arundel wants to come up with a decision to either purchase all the sequel rights for a studio’s entire production during a specified period of time or purchase a specified number of major films. Arundel’s profitability is dependent upon the price it pays for
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The Leslie Fay Companies‚ which is a manufacturer of women’s apparel‚ was founded by Fred Pomerantz. It was named after Fred’s daughter‚ Leslie Fay. The company is based out of New York‚ and Fred Pomerantz made the company public in 1952. Paul Polishan‚ who became CFO and senior vice president of finance‚ was hired personally by Fred Pomerantz. However‚ Fred Pomerantz ended up taking the company back to a private entity for a few years in the 1980’s due to a buy out from his son John Pomerantz.
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