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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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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A Case Study of Interstate Business College Three Men and A lady 1. Based on the information you have gathered during your first task‚ what discrepancies/irregularities exist in Shawn Davidson’s file? * Signatures on Enrollment Agreement do not seem to be the same (pg. 507) * 1st Enrollment Agreement Total should equal $9995.00 (508) Total Tuition 8750.00 Textbooks (approx.) 970.00 Application Fee 0.00 Lab Fee 200.00 General Fee 75.00 TOTAL DUE 9‚995
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Question 1: Name two cases in which companies have committed frauds by misstating inventory. Crazy Eddie and Goodner Brothers case are the good example for the inventory fraud cases. Question 2: What makes the intentional misstatement of inventory difficult to detect? When you have the most senior management of the company‚ particularly its financial management‚ consciously setting out to fool the auditors‚ to hide information from them‚ as they testified in the Monus trial‚ it’s very hard to
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Strayer University CIS-515 assignment2: Database Systems and Database Models QUE 1: SELECT Employee.EmpNumber‚ Employee.EmpFistName‚ Employee.EmpLastName‚ EmployeeCommision=Employee.EmployeeCommissionRate*MTPUC AS EmployeesCommision FROM Employee; QUE 2: SELECT Employee.EmpNumber‚ Employee.EmpFistName‚ Employee.EmpLastName‚ EmployeeCompensation=Employee.EmployeeCommissionRate*MTPUC+Employee.yrlySalary+Benefitss AS EmployeesCompensation FROM Employee WHERE (Employee.EmpNumber=Employee
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Occupational Fraud and Abuse Maia Cunningham-Fortson Concordia University Abstract What is abusive conduct? How does abusive conduct apply to occupational fraud and abuse? What if anything can be done to eradicate the behavior? Are there any methods that can be put in place to deter or prevent this conduct? What is meant by fraud deterrence being a “modification of behavior through the perception of negative consequences?” Do internal controls have an impact on deterring or modifying
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Employee Fraud and Purchasing Department There is a phenomenon in middle/small size companies in China that purchasing agents of the companies collaborate with vendors to create fake receipts‚ in order to receive more reimbursement from the company. This also happened in the hospital I used to work for‚ where the purchasing agent had to buy food from different vendors for everyday dinning purpose. The fraud got exposed when one day a vendor called us and revealed the fact that
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The article that I was read is called‚ The wild schemes people will use to commit tax fraud‚ written by Matt Pearce. The article talks about schemes that people use to get out of paying their taxes and crimes commit with tax fraud. The main purpose of this article is to show that tax fraud is a massive problem in the United States and there are consequence to face for committing the crimes.The article starts off by introducing Michael D. Brandner‚ an Alaskan plastic surgeon with a wife‚ who filed
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Salami Fraud (1) by M. E. Kabay‚ PhD‚ CISSP Associate Professor‚ Computer Information Systems Norwich University‚ Northfield VT The recent disclosure that WorldCom concealed almost $4 billion of expenses as if they were asset acquisitions and thus falsified its accounting reminds me of the very opposite kind of fraud – one that involves lots of little thefts instead of one gigantic theft. In the _salami fraud_‚ criminals steal money or resources a tiny bit at a time. Two different etymologies are
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Comment on the 10 major steps in the fraud risk model 1. Understand the nature of fraud by identifying the factors associated with fraud that are outlined in the fraud triangle. The factors include rationalization‚ opportunity‚ and incentive (ROI). Incentive/pressure to commit fraud Fraudulent financial reporting Management compensation schemes Financial pressures to improve company’s earnings and balance sheet Personal wealth tied to either financial results or survival of company Defalcation
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