The government is going to take you inside the doors of what was once the one of largest telecommunication companies in the world‚ WorldCom and tell the story of how an 11$ billion dollar accounting fraud led to one of the largest bankruptcy filings in history. In the two years before WorldCom declared bankruptcy‚ one man at the helm of the company told lie after lie about the true financial condition of WorldCom‚ lies that artificially inflated his own stock holdings and lies that deprived the
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existence of related parties • Fraud team included several former auditors from C & L who knew what the auditors were looking for and were thus able to hide the fraud • Fraud was discovered when a travel agent received a Phar-Mor check for World Basketball League expenses and signed by Monus (Monus was the founder of the World Basketball League) • Travel agent showed check to her landlord who was a Phar-Mor investor. Landlord called Phar-Mor CEO • Fraud resulted in the closing of 200
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CASE 4: ACCOUNTING FRAUD AT WORLDCOM Betty Vinson: victim or villain? Should criminal fraud charges have been brought to her? How should employees react when ordered by their employer to do something they do not believe in or feel uncomfortable doing? In discussing whether Vinson should been charged with criminal fraud‚ it can be analyzed from ethical perspective which can truly judge whether she was morally responsible for the wrong or not. In order to determine whether Vinson was morally responsible
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Accounting Conservatism in Fraud Firms: An Empirical Investigation* Keith Jones Assistant Professor George Mason University kjonesm@gmu.edu Gopal Krishnan Professor Lehigh University gkrishn1@gmu.edu Mikhail Pevzner** Assistant Professor George Mason University mpevzner@gmu.edu Partha Sengupta Associate Professor George Mason University psengupt@gmu.edu We examine whether Ball and Shivakumar (2006) and Basu (1997) models of conservatism identify fraud firms as anti-conservative. We
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behavior in business accounting. Dr‚Xaxx’s approach to the is topic is one used by many‚ understand a complex subject by simplifying it down to its base elements. How do we identify situations that might lead to fraud and how do we prevent it? First an understanding of why someone might commit fraud is need. The best way to identify when a situation might cultivate unethical behavior in accounting is to determine the reasons why people would choose to be unethical in their accounting practices. Once you
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ENRON Principles of Accounting Enron Key Players KENNETH LAY Former Enron chairman JEFFREY SKILLING Former Enron CEO DAVID DUNCAN Former Andersen partner NANCY TEMPLE Andersen lawyer THOMAS WHITE Secretary of the Army SHERRON WATKINS Enron vice president Enron started about 29 years ago in July 1985 in Houston‚ Texas.. A energy economist named Kenneth Lay became the CEO of Enron. Mr. Lay was a very optimistic
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White collar crime was defined by Edwin Sutherland as a crime committed by a respectable person of high social status during the course of their career and can include fraud‚ embezzlement‚ and insider trading (170). Madoff was charged with securities fraud‚ investment advisor fraud‚ mail fraud‚ and wire fraud after confessing to stealing more than $50 million dollars from people over the course of decades. After the stock market collapse of 2008 it became apparent to Madoff that he would not be
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Profit...................................................... .......................10 3.4 Hiding the Fraud: To Restructure........................................ ...........10 4 DETECTION OF ACCOUNTING FRAUD........................ ..................12 4.1 Red Flags .................................................................................................. .......12 5 PENALTIES FOR FRAUD............................. ................................13 5.1 Richard Scrushy.............
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improper conduct? Defend your answer. I don’t think David Myers’ responsibility for improper conduct diminishes even he is asked by his superior‚ Scott Sullivan. Scott Sullivan has his own fraud because he agreed and goes along with false accounting entries that eventually become part of an 11 billion fraud. Scott will get his punishment by what he did. But on David Myers’ side‚ he knew it was wrong to do this and he did not refuse to do it. There was an option he could choose‚ either to refuse
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FORENSIC ACCOUNTING & FRAUD INVESTIGATION ASSESSMENT TASKS 1 THE ROLE OF FORENSIC ACCOUNTANTS IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Corporate governance is defined as the formal mechanism of direction‚ supervision and control put in place within a company in order to monitor the decisions and actions of its senior managers and ensure these are compatible and consistent with the specific interest of shareholders and the various other interests of shareholders who contribute to the operations of
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