The Fraud of the Century The Case of Bernard Madoff Summary of the case In December 2008‚ the highly respected American businessman Bernard Madoff made the headlines when the US authorities accused him of orchestrating a $65 billions Ponzi scheme which is the biggest financial frauds of all time and made of him “ The Conman of the Century”. Bernard Madoff also called "Bernie" is a former American businessman‚ stockbroker‚ investment advisor‚ financier and the former non-executive
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1. Identify the fraud risk factors at Peregrine‚ especially control environment factors and the tone at the top‚ using the fraud triangle. The fraud risk factors could be identified as incentives/pressures‚ opportunities‚ and attitudes/rationalization in fraud triangle. According to the case‚ Peregrine’ control environment had an essential issue on separation of duties. In PFG‚ only Russell Wasendorf could open the real bank balance‚ which gave the opportunity to Wasendorf. Peregrine was suffer from
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MLA Research Paper (Orlov) MLA Research Paper (Orlov) Orlov 1 Anna Orlov Professor Willis English 101 17 March XXXX Title is centered. Online Monitoring: A Threat to Employee Privacy in the Wired Workplace As the Internet has become an integral tool of businesses‚ company policies on Internet usage have become as common as policies regarding vacation days or sexual harassment. A 2005 study by the American Management Association and ePolicy Institute found that 76% of companies monitor employees’
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had the opportunity to perpetrate the fraud. Basically‚ she initiated‚ signed vouchers and disburse vendors’ payments. She also let the accounting department about the opening and closure of accounts. Furthermore‚ she had the bank account from the company and used for personal expenses. If the necessary internal controls would have been in place this fraud would have been avoid. She had the opportunity to commit fraud. There are many ways that his fraud can be detected. The audit team can ask
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Vanessa Gail Woods Strayer University Connor-Green/ACC 576 March 21‚ 2010 Accounting Fraud at WorldCom The break up of AT&T opened the long distance service market to small companies during the mid- to late-1980s and 1990s. Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS) opened in 1983 with moderate growth until its stock went public in 1989. CEO Bernie Ebbers decided to grow the organization through acquisitions (70 companies over the course of its lifetime)
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Adley – Week1 DQ1 Follow up Reply Financial reporting fraud cases typically involve “fictitious revenues‚ overstatement if assets‚ capitalized expenditures‚ misappropriation of assets‚ premature revenues‚ and understatement of expenses and liabilities‚ “according to Lawyers Connect (n.d). As a result‚ such intentional misstatements are fraudulent and illegal‚ and most likely material. Manipulation of accounting equation‚ Assets = Liabilities + Stockholder’s Equity (Rich‚ et al.‚ 2012‚ p. 9)‚ characteristically
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Fraud Risk Memorandum This memo is to determine potential fraud risks that may exist within our client‚ Apollo shoes. There are reasons to believe that potential fraud risks do exist‚ however these risks are only hypothetical‚ but will be tested to assure users that Apollo’s financial statements are fairly stated. First‚ the client’s prohibition of contacting the predecessor auditor is considered a red-flag. The importance of the predecessor’s working papers and comparative work would make completing
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Name Tutor Institution Course Date Introduction The numerous scandals that involved corporate and investors in the year 2002 such as Enron‚ WorldCom and Tyco came as shock to many investors in the United States. Many investors lost their money to fraudulent activities by accountability corporate making them loose confidence in financial statements provided. Such loses created concern within the government prompting them to overhaul all the
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1. Consider how a hacker might trick people into giving him or her user IDs and passwords to their Amazon.com accounts. What are some of the ways that a hacker might accomplish this? What crimes can be performed with such information? How? * Social engineering (For example‚ instead of trying to find a software vulnerability‚ a social engineer might call an employee and pose as an IT support person‚ trying to trick the employee into divulging his password. The goal is always to gain the trust
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Car insurance fraud is of late becoming a very big problem not just in US but also in countries like Britain and those in the European Union. The sad thing is that most of these insurance fraudsters are becoming more and more cunning and creative with each passing day which makes it very difficult to nail them. It is now not surprising for insurance buyers to stage car accidents and then make claims for either personal injury or car compensation. Someone may also be cunning enough to craft out a
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