CHAPTER 9 CASE: The Fall of Barings Bank The story of Barings Bank shows how overconfidence‚ coupled with poor internal control‚ can even bring down an historic financial institution. Below we provide a few teaching points. Nick Leeson seemed to have all the characteristics of an overconfident trader. As described in the chapter‚ excessive trading‚ lack of diversification‚ and too much risk were obviously present. Self-attribution bias seemed to play a major role. One commentator notes
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Lam Tran BBUS 435 – Accounting Information System Rogue Trader COSO Control Violations Short Essay The movie‚ Rogue Trader‚ narrates the true story of a man named Nick Leeson. He brought the Barings Bank down‚ which was one of the most venerable financial institutions in England. Nick Leeson was played by the actor Ewan McGregor‚ who started working in Indonesia for Barings Bank. He then became a trader on the floor of Singapore International Monetary Exchange. Nick’s responsibility was to trade
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Mercedes Oliva HW 2 1. What was Nick Leeson’s strategy to earn trading profits on derivatives? Nick Leeson’s strategy to earn trading profits on derivatives was to trade futures on the Nikkei 225 stock index and the Japanese government bonds. This strategy would have either provided huge gains or huge losses. This went completely against what Barings was expecting him to do. He opened a secret trading account to avoid being caught. 2. What went wrong that caused his strategy to
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3. Internal Audit of operations: If the managers of Baring bank would have instituted internal audit of operations then they would have been able to uncover Leeson teeming and lading acts‚ Fraudulent cover up and grave misjudgment made while undertaking his duties.However this was not in place and their isn’t evidence of any manager who undertook to review Leesons work as they viewed Leeson to be independent. 4. Background Review: Due to the fact that the management of Baring Bank had created a
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Rogue Trader Introduction: A rogue trader is a market professional who is basically involved in different unauthorized trading activities. Most people are highly familiar with the rogue trading activities‚ as there have been several instances of huge losses incurred under the rogue trading. Recently these rogue trading activities causing huge losses attracted the media and many films have been based on such rogue trading activities. The rogue trader movie has been highly famous as it portrayed
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Events leading to Barings Bank’s collapse Barings Bank’s activities in Singapore between 1992 and 1995 enabled Nick Leeson to operate effectively without supervision from Barings Bank in London. Leeson acted both as head of settlement operations (charged with ensuring accurate accounting) and as floor manager for Barings’ trading onSingapore International Monetary Exchange‚ or SIMEX. This placed Leeson in the position of reporting to an office inside Barings Bank which he himself held. Because
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A Short Essay of Rogue Trader In the movie Rogue Trader‚ Nick Leeson‚ a trader on behalf of the Barings Bank of England‚ made a series of financial fraud to cover the loss he incurred in trading—up to £800 million—in the Singapore International Monetary Exchange which ultimately led to the fall of Barings Bank. This tragedy was a mixed result of the personal greed and the lack of control in Barings Bank’s system. Most of the COSO internal control frameworks were violated with the “Control Environment”
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Finn’s willingness to go along with the actions of Monus made an already bad situation worse. Finn as the CFO should not have allowed himself to be involved in financial frauds of any sort just to show a profit. Finn should taken control of the situation right then and told Monus what he was doing was wrong and he wouldn’t take part in any of it. Shapir was just as wrong because he was aware of what Monus and Finn were doing and he just ignored it until it the fraud got out of hand. Coopers &
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Advanced Auditing Case 5.7 SOCIETE GENERALE Questions 1 Using Auditing standards or your Textbook‚ define the following control – related terms:- a. Control environment b. Segregation of duties c. Restricted access d. Preventive and detective controls e. Design and operating effectiveness Answer: a. Control Environment: The control environment is the reflections of overall attitude of top management and owners of entities about control and its importance to the entity
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Management: 1. What was the fraud that occurred? A low to middle level employee known as Jerome Kerviel hedged unauthorized levels of derivative trading that left vulnerable 20 percent of the bank’s equity. In other words‚ he exceeded acceptable level of risks in predicting the markets’ performance and lost while doing that for several years without detection. 2. Reasons for the fraud: Ambition. Jerome Kerviel did not graduate from a school that would be the equivalent of an IV League school here in
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