M1. Case Study Assignment: Fraud at WorldCom 1. Who were the major characters in WorldCom? There are a couple of major characters that played their roles in the downfall of WorldCom. Mr. Bernard J. (Bernie) Ebbers‚ one of the founders of the original small long-distance carrier‚ was asked to take charge of the company during its early struggles. It was under his tenure that WorldCom began its expanding pursuits and aggressive acquisitions. Although Mr. Ebbers was he head of the company‚ their CFO
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talking about a fraud hotline program to help detect fraud and also preventing fraud. Fraud Prevention Management is aware of the increased requirements for a public company to maintain a system of internal control to help prevent and detect fraud. The CEO‚ Mary Moore‚ is also interested in using a proactive posture toward building an antifraud prevention program‚ including exploring using a proactive auditing approach to fraud discovery. The internal auditor and the external fraud investigator
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*********************** Definitions as per Section 2 of the Motor Vehicle Act‚ 1988: (40) "Stage carriage” means a motor vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than six passengers for hire or reward at separate fares paid by or for individual passengers for whole journey or for stages of journey . (7) “Contract carriage” means a motor vehicle which carries a passenger or passengers for hire or reward and is engaged under a contract‚ whether express or implied for the use of such vehicle
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11/28/10 Business 210 Investment Fraud Charles Ponzi will forever infamously known as the con man of the 1920’s. Ponzi dealt with numerous amounts of investors who all trusted him to make them a profit on their investments. Unfortunately‚ Charles Ponzi was a crook from the start. He bought a total of $30 dollars in IPRC’s and stole about $30 million of his investor’s money. His brilliant idea that landed him in jail was to not buy IRPC’s at all‚ but to give people
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remaining deadlocked on most of the counts against him. Because the Adelphia scandal emerged after the one at Enron‚ and the company was smaller in size than WorldCom or Tyco‚ it has garnered less public attention. But for the sheer audacity of the fraud‚ it ranks high up on the list. Adelphia executives testified that they routinely made up numbers that they gave to investors and lenders‚ even while the Rigases regularly withdrew money from the company without making reimbursements. Testimony at the
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itself afloat. Orinda-Moraga Disposal Services wanted to raise rates on its customers and needed the Contra Costa Sanitation District’s approval. However‚ the company had recently stated its desire to lower rates. The wary city manager hired forensic accountant Dan Ray to uncover the truth. After examining Orinda-Moraga’s records‚ Ray discovered that the company sent checks to non-existent people at several companies that had fake addresses. The disposal company’s owner deposited the checks into an
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Phase 2 Planning Due: 18 May 2013 Required: Given the details established in phase 1 (Instigation) and further details below you are required to prepare a 1-2 page document stating your investigative hypothesis and then deduce your strategy for proving/denying your hypothesis. Your deduction should include a table with three columns stating the information you propose to review‚ where the data would be found and what you are specifically looking for in analysing the data. Information – what
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Business Law Notes © 2012 Certified Management Accountants of Ontario. All rights reserved. Business Law Notes Page| i PART 1: LEGAL FUNDAMENTALS .............................................................................................1 SECTION 1-1: INTRODUCTION TO LAW ......................................................................................... 1 Definition and Purpose of Law............................................................................................
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY “Rising frauds lead to greater operational threat.” Insurance is one of the tools for risk management that aims at reducing the risk on the day-to-day life of individuals‚ organisation and society. At the same time‚ it should also be appreciated that insurance cannot be utilised as a risk free tool for all types of situations. Insurance provides risk management solutions to many situations that fall within the competence of human judgement and managerial skills. Insurance is
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The book B for Buster has a lot of theme that the reader can find such as how scared Kak is by all the flak and the land guns firing at him. As well as how the main character develops over time in the book. Something that people realize in the book is that Kak the main character is scared of being shot at and thinks that he is the only one even though that’s not true this is shown in many places such as on page 144 when he is talking to the pigeon that his team was assigned and said that he doesn’t
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