ACC 461 Auditing Financial Statement Fraud: Lessons from the ZZZZ Best Case The video “Cooking the Books” discussed the ZZZZ Best case of fraud‚ it tells how and why fraud was perpetrated by Barry Minkow and why it was undetected for so long. According to the video‚ ZZZZ Best was founded by Barry Minkow in 1982; when he was sixteen years old‚ it started as a carpet cleaning company. But‚ due to high competition in the industry‚ low entry barriers‚ and bad internal control‚ this young entrepreneur
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or fraud in the medical field? Cite examples. There are many way to spot a scam or fraud in the medical field. Medical frauds range from people posing as doctors and practicing without a license‚ to useless supplements‚ worthless or dangerous diet aides‚ fake medicines and cures for cancer. Making good health decisions is hard and sadly some immoral people make it even more difficult by attempting to deceive and cheat the sick. Not everyone knows enough about medicine to spot a medical fraud or
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Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Ann Fulmer March 2010 DRAFT Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Mortgage fraud is bank robbery without a gun. 1 It is a high-yield‚ 2 low risk enterprise that has been reported in all 50 states‚ Puerto Rico‚ Guam‚ American Samoa‚ 3 Canada‚ 4 New Zealand‚ 5 Australia‚ 6 and England. 7 In the United States‚ it is committed by organized international and domestic
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Case Study1: And the Fraud Continues A business can not work out without an account system‚ which includes internal. Internal controls are used by companies to make sure financial information is accurate and valid. Strong internal controls are signs of a financially healthy company and protect the company’s integrity. Strong internal controls can also increase a company’s profitability. There are several types of internal controls
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Bernie Madoff Fraud Case Bernie Madoff Fraud Case Introduction One of the largest fraud cases of all times is that of the “Bernard Madoff Case.” According to Armstrong (2008)‚ “for a number of years Madoff managed to lure billions of dollars away from huge charities‚ as well as wealthy individuals in both the United States and Europe by getting them to invest in his hedge fund. This he did by offering extraordinary returns to investors‚ until his scheme eventually reached a staggering $50
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ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING EDUCATION Vol. 28‚ No. 4 2013 pp. 901–912 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/iace-50542 Lessons of the HealthSouth Fraud: An Insider’s View Weston L. Smith INTRODUCTION T he night was December 6‚ 2005. I could not go to sleep. As I tossed and turned‚ my entire life replayed in my mind. How did I get to where I was? I went all the way back to my childhood. I was raised in a middle-income home with an older brother and sister and two loving parents. We were far from
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“Criminal phenomenon” is known as white collar crime. White collar crime was firstly talked by Edwin H. Sutherland who was a criminologist. He defined white collar crime in a presidential meeting of the American Sociological Society. This meeting was held at the state of Philadelphia in December 1939 to 1940s. He defined white collar crime as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”. (“Sutherland‚ 1949:9”). White collar crime includes
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ORGANIZATIONAL INTENTION TO USE FORENSIC ACCOUNTING SERVICES FOR FRAUD DETECTION AND PREVENTION BY LARGE MALAYSIAN COMPANIES By Gunasegaran Muthusamy Graduate School of Business Curtin University of Technology Western Australia Tel: +618-92661149 Professor Mohammed Quaddus Graduate School of Business Curtin University of Technology Western Australia Tel: +618-92662862 Professor Robert Evans Graduate School of Business Curtin University of Technology Western Australia
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high social status in the course of his occupation" Since technology has come into play many issues have come to surface and the crime rates have increased causing one particular branch of white collar crime known as computer fraud White collar crime: Computer Fraud White Collar crime has been Identified by Edwin Sutherland as “A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" (Sutherland‚ 1939) White Collar crimes are serious‚ but
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develop in a hospitalized patient.” “Pressure to Change” Medicare like all health insurers is constantly looking for ways to avoid paying for unnecessary medical care. The latest attempt sounds perfectly reasonable until you consider who will bear the burden. Problem: Last year federal centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that they would no longer reimburse hospitals for treatment of new pressure sores in Medicare patients. The ruling‚ known as the Inpatient Prospective Payment
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