The Phar-Mor Code of Ethics Phar-Mor strives to be the leading retailer in providing the lowest priced and highest quality goods for our communities‚ while delivering exemplary levels of customer service. Phar-Mor believes in providing a positive and ethical working environment to help guide all employees in word and action‚ which promotes an unshakable framework of integrity and trust between all stakeholders. Phar-Mor endeavors to proactively contribute to its communities through local philanthropies
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Phar-Mor was known as one of the major discount chain retailers in the late 1980’s - early 1990’s. It was founded by Mickey Monus‚ a gambler in nature‚ who with the help of senior management was “cooking the books” for years to cover up his loses. The reason why senior management agreed to do this fraud is the belief in unique ability of their leader to fix everything later on. This case is known as one of the biggest accounting frauds in the corporate history of the U.S. This paper will analyze
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Wil-Mor Technologies: Is There a Crisis? As of February 1997‚ there are significant problems in the relationship between Wilson and Morota‚ the respective American and Japanese auto-manufacturing suppliers that have created the Joint Venture Wil-Mor. There is a major concern that this JV is still unprofitable (since its launch in 1994)‚ despite its relative successes in gaining market share and sharing knowledge and expertise across the two companies. The two parent companies are at odds over
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Phar-Mor‚ Inc. 1. 2 cases which companies have committed fraud by misstating inventory: • Rocky Mount Undergarment Company‚ Inc. • Leslie Fay Company 2. Intentional misstatements of inventory is difficult to detect‚ as was in the case of Phar-Mor‚ Inc.‚ because of the collusion by employees and/or management to commit fraud. 3. Coopers & Lybrand won the Phar-Mor‚ Inc. account with a very low bid‚ so they wanted to limit their costs by testing only 4 out of the 129 stores
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Case 2-9 Phar-Mor I feel that one major flaw in the Phar-Mor company is the fact that Mickey Monus has full control of the company and could pull off such a giant fraud scam. This is a flawed system in management. There were no checks and balances to keep this fraud from happening. Mickey Monus had so much control of those under him that he convinced them to go along with the fraud. That everything would get better soon and they would not have to worry. The ones that did know about the fraud
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Sean Russi The Case of Phar-Mor Inc ACCT-525 October 31‚ 2012 Case Summary The case of Phar-Mor Inc was one of the biggest pre-Enron frauds that have been uncovered. Phar-Mor Inc established in 1982 Phar-Mor was a small little known discount drugstore. Phar-Mor became well known for offering medications at a 25-40% discount rate compared to your normal pharmacy store prices. Phar-Mor’s first six years of existence seemingly were
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2. A) A client can be put in a more powerful position than the auditor in an auditor-client relationship if the auditor is trying to sell the client additional services. B) According to SOX external auditors are prohibited from providing certain services to clients: book keeping or other things related to the accounting records or financial statements of the audit client‚ they are not allowed to design and implement financial information‚ appraisal or evaluation services‚ internal audit outsourcing
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“Second Mile” service‚ which takes “going the extra mile” to a whole new level. They have developed a unique business model and currently host one of the longest running advertising campaigns in the United States (Cannon‚ et. al.‚ p. 631). The “Eat Mor Chikin” campaign appeals to children of all ages‚ adding a healthy dose of humor to their anti-hamburger fast food menu. With an official corporate statement of‚ “to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A
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History Founding Henry Silverman‚ a business executive and private equity investor created Hospitality Franchise Systems (HFS) as a vehicle to acquire a number of hotel franchises in the early 1990s. Among Silverman’s purchases were such brands as Ramada and Howard Johnson’s as well as Days Inn‚ which he was able to buy for $290 million (less than half what he had sold it for) after the company had filed for bankruptcy in 1991. Silverman quickly took Hospitality Franchise Systems public in a
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