stock option award and $700‚000 in other compensations. By the year 2002 Scrushy owned 5.1% of HealthSouth shares‚ which equaled to $20.9 million of the company’s shares. HealthSouth is known for the massive accounting fraud that was discovered in 2003 and this accounting fraud almost led the company to bankrupt. Although HealthSouth emerged from this experience and has so far had a successful recovery‚ but the memory of the scandal is still and will always be fresh. HealthSouth problems started
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(2003). The strategy process: Concepts‚ Contexts‚ Cases (4th ed.) Moberg‚ D.‚ Romar‚ E. WorldCom. Retrieved February 5‚ 2014 from: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/worldcom.html Scharff‚ M.M. (2005). Understanding WorldCom’s accounting fraud: did groupthink play a role? February 5‚ 2014 from: http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/132353947.html Romar‚ E.‚ Calkins‚ M. (2006). WorldCom Case Study Update. University of Massachusetts- Boston Mountain of Debt. The Wall Street
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CYBER CRIME Introduction: cybercrime‚ also called computer crime‚ the use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends‚ such as committing fraud‚ trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property‚ stealing identities‚ or violating privacy. Cybercrime‚ especially through the Internet‚ has grown in importance as the computer has become central to commerce‚ entertainment‚ and Because of the early and widespread adoption of computers and the Internet in the United States‚ most
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3D Fraud Risk Assessment Model Dinev’s SMARTGuide INSTITUTE OF EXPERT FRAUD EXAMINERS First Edition - 2012 Foreword .......................................................................................6 Part I: Navigating Fraud Risk Assessment Terminology ..............8 1.1. What The Dinev’s SMARTGuide Isn’t and Is? .............................................8 1.1.1. The Dinev’s SMARTGuide Isn’t ... ..........................................................................8
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scholarship will motivate me‚ it will help me work hard in order to deserve it. a. Fraud is an intentional misrepresentation of facts‚ like Misappropriation of assets. In order to commit fraud a person has to have motivation‚ opportunity‚ and rationalization for committing the fraud. PCAOB AU 316 describes fraud as follows‚ “Fraud is a broad legal concept and auditors do not make legal determinations of whether fraud has occurred. Rather‚ the auditor’s interest specifically relates to acts that result
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earnings expectations. This memorandum will describe who was involved‚ how the operation was carried out‚ as well as a timeline documenting the resulting damages of the scandal. On March 19th 2003‚ the Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges against HealthSouth and CEO and Chairman Richard Scrushy of “allegedly duping investors into believing the company had met earnings targets” (washintonpost.com staff‚ 2004). The SEC’s complaint “alleges that since 1999‚ at the insistence of
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22 Jan. 2011. 19. National White Collar Crime Center. "IC3 2008 Internet Fraud Report." Retrieved 01 29‚ 2011‚ from Scribd: http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2008_IC3Report.pdf 20 21. National White Collar Crime Center. "IC3 2006 Internet Fraud Report." Retrieved 01 29‚ 2011‚ from Scribd: http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2006_IC3Report.pdf 22 23. National White Collar Crime Center. "IC3 2004 Internet Fraud Report." Retrieved 01 29‚ 2011‚ from Scribd: http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2004_IC3Report
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FRAUD‚ CORRUPTION AND CYBER CRIME IN A GLOBAL DIGITAL NETWORK Economics‚ Management and Financial Markets‚ June 2011 Journal Article Authors: Blajan‚ Adrian; Ionescu‚ Luminita; Mirea‚ Viorica ISSN: 1842-3191 Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Start Page: 373 ABSTRACT. Fraud cannot be eradicated‚ but fraud and corruption risks can be managed like any other risks. The economic crunch created the premises for a substantial increase of the computer crime and fraud. Computer crime or cyber crime refers
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Conflict in Ethical Decision Making at WorldCom Kerry Seeley Business Ethics MT4200 National American University September 25‚ 2007 Craig Chaplin Abstract This paper explains how WorldCom began and where it’s at now. It didn’t take long for WorldCom to become the second largest long distance phone company. WorldCom provided a legal framework for people working in communication projects on an individual basis‚ mainly in Central America‚ but they also developed projects together with partners
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According to the study based on Livent‚ Inc.- An Instructional Case‚ The former senior management of Livent engaged in a multi-faceted and fraud accounting since eight years. As a further result of the scheme‚ Drabinsky and Gottlieb’s elaborated their Fraudulent Kickbacks‚ Fraudulent Manipulation of Livent’s Books and Records to accomplish in quarterly periods and meet the earnings which they provided to Wall Street analysts. Further more three Accounting Manipulations were found by transferring
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