Internet Banking and Commerce An open access Internet journal (http://www.arraydev.com/commerce/jibc/) Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce‚ December 2009‚ vol. 14‚ no.3 (http://www.arraydev.com/commerce/jibc/) The Role of IT/IS in Combating Fraud in the Payment Card Industry Jan Devos Lecturer at the Ghent University Association‚ Howest Kortrijk‚ Belgium Graaf Karel de Goedelaan 5‚ 8500 Kortrijk‚ Belgium Author ’s Personal/Organizational Website: www.pih.be/opleiding/elektronica/~jdv/index
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Healthcare Fraud and Abuse As we head into the next four years under the Obama administration‚ many Americans are hearing more and more about healthcare reform and what needs to be done to fix the ailing healthcare system. Part of the dramatic increase in healthcare costs is due to Medicare fraud abuse. Healthcare fraud is defined as making false statements or representations of material facts in order to obtain benefits or payment. Healthcare abuse is defined as practices involving the overuse
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must remain ethically cautious to circumvent falling into such a trap. Accountants need to be educated on what forms of financial statements frauds can be committed and ways to prevent financial statement fraud. A strong system of internal controls helps companies deter employees from committing fraud. Financial Statement Fraud Categories Financial statement fraud is deliberate misrepresentation‚ misstatement or omission of financial statement data for the purpose of misleading the reader and creating
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Fraud in the Business World Sean P. Dixon Business 670: Legal Environment Instructor: Jennifer Stephens April 4‚ 2011 Abstract Americans lose hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fraud. Billions more are lost world-wide to con artists touting the next great investment idea‚ guaranteed loans and diets that can ’t fail. These con artists do not discriminate between the rich and poor‚ the young and old‚ nationality or race. They target the well-educated‚ so-called smart individuals
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Abstract A fraud is an act of deceiving others for personal gain but is not usually followed by a crime. The symptoms of fraud or the red flags help understand the slight difference between a corporate fraud and a corporate crime. The continual financial frauds leading to corporate collapse and the failure of the statutory audit to detect and prevent fraudulent activities of the perpetrators lead investors and the firms and individuals to suffer. This contributed to the increased need for investigating
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Credit Cards Fraud Nowadays‚ computer technology is growing bigger and bigger. This tremendous and powerful improvement has its good and bad connotations. Credit cards are one popular invention of the computer era. According to www.1stamericancardservice.com‚ a credit card is a plastic card bearing an account number assigned to a cardholder with a credit limit that can be used to purchase goods and services and to obtain cash disbursements on credit‚ for
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newspapers are filled with stories of fraud and financial shenanigans. It has become daily occurrence that frauds of high profile cases break out and become headlines. Case after case has become routine. The shocking publicized financial scandals have shaken the underpinnings of our economic system. In the recent years there is enormous increase in occupational fraud. We have witnessed that our national enterprises have disclosed millions of rupees in financial fraud. Millions of rupees of public money
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Freddie Mac Fraud Thanaphan Darnsomboon PME604 Project Financial Management National University December 18‚ 2012 Freddie Mac Fraud The definition of fraud is “an intentional deception or deceit‚ perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage” (dictionary.com). Fraud is a breach of law and can be punishable by law. Mortgage fraud is one of the financial crimes where a company materially misrepresents or omits information on its mortgage loan documentation in order to
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Financial Statements Fraud Table of Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................ 1 Definition ............................................................................................................. 1 Purpose of Financial Statements Fraud ..................................................... 1 Financial Statement Fraud Schemes .....
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Case Study – Magic Carpet Airlines Week 4 September 22‚ 2013 1. What did the union do to prepare for negotiations? What additional sources of information might it have used? What were the union’s primary objectives? The union began preparing by doing research to find out what other similar airline carriers were supplying for their flight attendants (i.e. average working conditions‚ benefits‚ and wage rates). They used government sources to compare wage‚ unemployment
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