Lincoln Savings and Loan 2. The high audit fee is a direct financial interest that can cause bias. The larger the amount of audit fees paid by the audit client company to the audit firm‚ the more likelihood that it will impair. The auditor may have to compromise their independence in many ways to ensure that they maintain that particular client‚ since that client provides them with relatively larger revenue. To address this‚ the regulators should impose a new requirement that the total fee from
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DATE: SUBJECT: Lincoln Savings and Loan The purpose of this memorandum is to analyze and examine the business‚ financial‚ and accounting strategies and policies of Lincoln Savings and Loan. This analysis will include LSL’s current business strategies and processes‚ its business risks and a detailed breakdown of LSL’s financial statements. Business Analysis Lincoln Savings and Loan (LSL) originally competed as a savings and loan office than was in the business of offering mortgage loans and accepting
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peddling and other abuses at Lincoln Savings and Loan Charles Keating employed accounting schemes to divert the savings and loan’s federally insured deposits into ACC’s treasury. Keating would be permitted to withdraw funds from Lincoln and invest them in ACC or use them for only to the extent that Lincoln reported after-tax profits. He and his associates wove together complex real estate transactions involving Lincoln‚ ACC‚ and related third parties to make profits for Lincoln. Kenneth Leventhal & Company
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assumes that someone is attempting to deliberately hide a transaction as one that meets GAAP standards although in reality the transaction would affect the financial statements differently than reported. This form of deceit was used over and over by Lincoln S&L. The biggest example provided was on page 87 concerning the “Hidden Valley” transaction. The responsibility of the auditor is to first notify their client of this discovery. The auditor should also inform their supervisor and ensure that
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The Savings and Loan Crisis Savings and loans were created after the great depression as a government regulated way for people to have home mortgage loans. The creation of these savings and loans resulted from thousands of homes being foreclosed after the great depression. The idea of savings and loans were simple; first the government allowed savings and loans to pay slightly higher interest rates on deposits to attract investors. The government also offered insurance for these investments
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Pioneer Savings and Loan Late in the third quarter of 1994‚ the board of directors of Pioneer Savings and Loan of Orlando‚ Florida requested that their president‚ Herbert Jones‚ submit a recommendation on whether or not to grant branch managers a cash bonus that year. According to the company’s Management by Objectives (MBO) system‚ the granting of yearly bonuses was contingent upon the attainment of specific corporate profit objectives‚ in addition to the individual manager’s performance
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Strategic Practice Exercise From an ethical standpoint‚ I would suggest Zombie Savings and Loans stay in business. Keeping the doors open would allow them to accrue new customers to help with the issue of high interest rates putting them at a loss. Not only could they seek new customers‚ but they could also seek more stakeholder shares. Doing so would bring more capital to the bank to help make up for the loss it is currently seeing. They could also consider selling stocks and bonds to
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The Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine‚ California was the financial institution at the heart of the Keating Five scandal during the 1980s Savings and Loan crisis. Up through the early 1980s‚ Lincoln was a conservatively-run enterprise‚ with almost half its assets in home loans and only a quarter of its assets considered at risk.[1] It had slow growth at best‚ and had shown a loss for several years until it made a profit of a few million dollars in 1983.[1] Lincoln then became headed
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Accounting Research Center‚ Booth School of Business‚ University of Chicago Why Do Audits Fail? Evidence from Lincoln Savings and Loan Author(s): Merle Erickson‚ Brian W. Mayhew‚ William L. Felix‚ Jr. Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of Accounting Research‚ Vol. 38‚ No. 1 (Spring‚ 2000)‚ pp. 165-194 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of Accounting Research Center‚ Booth School of Business‚ University of Chicago Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2672927 . Accessed: 30/01/2012
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MOTIVATION I. Case: BONIFACIO SAVINGS AND LOANS ASSOCIATION The Bonifacio Savings and Loans Association (BSLA) in its last monthly consultative meeting for the year decided to embark on a one-year deposit campaign program. Dubbed as BSLA’s “Employee Motivation Program (EMP)”‚ the deposit campaign aimed to increase deposit levels which was BSLA’a traditional source of funds. Mr. Danillo Lagman‚ VP for operations‚ was chosen as overall program coordinator. After a month of preparation‚ Mr.
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