BS2003-01b Collegiate Case Study Adelphia founder‚ 2 sons‚ 2 others arrested in fraud By David Lieberman and Greg Farrell www.usatodaycollege.com Accounting fraud Part II: The results “Creative accounting” is not a new technique‚ but it can certainly be a costly one. Businesses feel the pressure to appear profitable in order to attract investors and resources‚ but deceptive or fraudulent accounting practices often lead to drastic consequences. Are these so-called creative practices
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Phase 2 Planning Due: 18 May 2013 Required: Given the details established in phase 1 (Instigation) and further details below you are required to prepare a 1-2 page document stating your investigative hypothesis and then deduce your strategy for proving/denying your hypothesis. Your deduction should include a table with three columns stating the information you propose to review‚ where the data would be found and what you are specifically looking for in analysing the data. Information – what
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Discussion Topic #1 The fraud Triangle is a very important tool in seeking to understand why people commit fraud. In the examination of any fraud case according to the Fraud triangle there are three major elements‚ pressure‚ opportunity and rationalization. To illustrate the relevance of these three factors we can examine a recent fraud case i.e. the South Carolina Hospitality Association. In this case Rachel Duncan was the accountant for South Carolina Hospitality association‚ she is charged with
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Mortgage Fraud Table of Contents Abstract 3 Mortgage Fraud 4 Mortgage Fraud Statistics 4 Reports of Fraud 5 Key players in a real estate & mortgage transaction 5-6 Factors for Mortgage Fraud 7 The Fraud Triangle 7 Common Mortgage Fraud Schemes 8 Who are victims of mortgage fraud? 9 How to avoid becoming a victim of Mortgage Fraud 10 How to report fraud 11 Mortgage Fraud Indictment 11-12
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Parmalat‚ Europe’s Enron of fraud‚ undermined European accounting and reporting standards. The fraud‚ totaling nearly 18 billion euros‚ brought down the Italian dairy giant and ruined investors across the globe. Such a enormous fraud‚ some would assume‚ would need to be highly complex and fully developed in plan as well as execution. However‚ as Parmalat executives began to cooperate in the investigation‚ it was uncovered how rudimentary their fraud was despite the enormity in which it occurred.
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HealthSouth Fraud Case Review Michelle F. White June 6‚ 2012 HPA 726 Intro to HealthSouth Fraud Case Review In 2003‚ HealthSouth was accused of one the largest accounting fraud cases in healthcare history and those involved are still being tried today‚ nine years later. HealthSouth was founded in Birmingham‚ Alabama in the year 1984 by a respiratory therapist name Richard
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Chapter 1 Discussion Questions 1. Fraud always involves deception‚ confidence‚ and trickery. The following is one of the most common definitions of fraud: “Fraud is a generic term‚ and embraces all the multifarious means which human ingenuity can devise‚ which are resorted to by one individual‚ to get an advantage over another by false representations. No definite and invariable rule can be laid down as a general proposition in defining fraud‚ as it includes surprise‚ trickery‚ cunning and unfair
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more basic concepts in fraud deterrence and detection is the fraud triangle. The fraud triangle is also known as Cressey’s Triangle‚ or Cressey’s Fraud Triangle. Cressey’s Fraud Triangle gets its name from Donald Cressey. Cressey was one of the “nations leading experts on the sociology of crime”. He authored a few books including Other People’s Money‚ Theft of the Nation‚ and co-authored Principles of Criminology with Edwin H. Sutherland. Cressey is honored by many anti-fraud organizations‚ including
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY “Rising frauds lead to greater operational threat.” Insurance is one of the tools for risk management that aims at reducing the risk on the day-to-day life of individuals‚ organisation and society. At the same time‚ it should also be appreciated that insurance cannot be utilised as a risk free tool for all types of situations. Insurance provides risk management solutions to many situations that fall within the competence of human judgement and managerial skills. Insurance is
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The Xerox Corporation Fraud case (1997 – 2000) Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers‚ multifunction systems‚ photo copiers‚ digital production printing presses‚ and related consulting services and supplies. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk‚ Connecticut‚ though its largest population of employees is based in and around Rochester‚ New York‚ the area in which the company was founded. The history of
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