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    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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    Forensic Accountants: Fraud Busters Daniel ****** Dr. Brian Collins Contemporary Business 8/12/2012 Abstract The field of forensic accounting is a profession that is in high demand because of the technological and financial complexity of today’s companies. Because of the Enron scandal forensic account has come to the forefront with some major universities even offering it as a major. There are several skills that are required in forensic accounting and they include an expertise in accounting

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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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    The Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Auditing Practice In business‚ there should have various rules and regulation governing in order to avoid mismanagement and frauds associated. In the United States‚ several bodies have been put in place to oversee‚ create registration‚ reporting and‚ providing transparency. Such bodies include‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) which eventually resulted in the creation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight

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    Introduction: The past decade has been witness to some of the worst accounts of corporate fraud ever recorded‚ with multi-billion dollar companies such as Enron‚ Tyco‚ and World-com involved in serious financial scandals. CEOs and senior executives are often the driving force behind such unscrupulous activities by adopting shady accounting practices and other forms of short-termist actions for the purpose of increasing their firm’s stock price and their own personal wealth. The following paper will

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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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    Grantham University Motivators of Fraud in Health Care: Paul L. Ewing G00019834 White-Collar Crime Mrs. Sandra J. Putnam December 25‚ 2012 What are the motivators of Health Care fraud? At first thought‚ I suspect it was for the love of money but then I felt like it has to be more to it than that. Why would people risk it all to defraud insurance companies and even the government? After a while‚ it’s clearly not about the money because the longer a company goes without being caught

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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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    of theft/fraud. According to last year the loss of money for businesses and financial institutions are in the billions and with consumers out of pocket expenses has been about 5 billion dollars. "Identity theft" refers to crimes in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person’s personal data (i.e.‚ name‚ date of birth‚ social security number‚ driver’s license number‚ and your financial identity— credit card‚ bank account and phone-card numbers) in some way that involves fraud or deception

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    Accounting Fraud at WorldCom 1) What are the pressures that lead executives and managers to “cook the books?” After the rapid evolution of the telecommunication industry in the 1990s‚ WorldCom shifted its strategy to focus on building revenues and acquiring capacity sufficient to handle expected growth. Their biggest goal was to be the No. 1 stock on Wall Street rather than capturing the market share. As a result‚ their Expense-to-Revenue (E/R) Ratio was their measurement for their main objective

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