"Corporate Fraud" when you hear those words the first‚ most recent incident‚ many think of is The Enron Scandal. This same scandal produced the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. This much needed act created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board under the Security Exchange Commission ’s supervision. This board sets accounting standards and investigates Certified Public Accountants and companies to ensure they are following the guidelines set forth. This
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giving legal advice or presenting cases in court. As a paralegal‚ frequently doing the research required for a case‚ investigating all judicial decisions in previous court cases‚ finding appropriate laws and legal articles to ensure all relevant information is gathered. You are typically responsible for organizing and analyzing the information gathered and then preparing reports used by the attorneys‚ for deciding the most effective course of action in a particular case. There is always a plus side
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Running head: CASE ANALYSIS OF THE ACCOUNTING FRAUD AT WORLDCOM Case Analysis of the Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Angela Crossley Troy University October 27‚ 2008 History The origin of WorldCom can be traced back to 1983. The CEO‚ Bernard J. Ebbers‚ of WorldCom had very interesting beginnings. He invested in Long Distance Discount Services (LLDS) with eight other investors‚ and believed that the telecommunications industry was a very good business venture. In the beginning
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City Civil Court Appeal is filed by the defendants in O.S.No.327 of 1994 on the file of the III Senior Civil Judge‚ City Civil Courts‚ Secunderabad‚ are the appellants herein. The suit was filed for recovery of Rs.2‚00‚000/-. 2. According to the case of the plaintiff‚ the first defendant was offered as Programmer Trainee vide letter dated 26-03-1993 on a consolidated stipend of Rs.2‚250/- per month and the first defendant signed the letter of appointment on 05-04-1993 agreeing the terms and he
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Railroad was authorized to construct a transcontinental railroad with substantial financial support from the federal government‚ officers and directors of the company devised a plan to make an immediate profit from its construction by fraud. The vehicle for this fraud was a company called Credit Mobilier of America. The method was to have Credit Mobilier‚ which was entirely controlled by the same people‚ bill the Union Pacific for the costs of constructing the railroad. There was no "market value"
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Nigerian‚ or "419"‚ scams are one of the most common types of fraudulent email currently hitting inboxes. Nigerian scam messages can also arrive via fax or letter. The messages claim that your help is needed to access a large sum of money‚ usually many millions of dollars. The money that the message claims does not exist. Those who initiate a dialogue with the scammers by replying to a Nigerian scam message will eventually be asked for advance fees supposedly required to allow the deal to proceed
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Name: Institution: Professor: Psychology Date Sigmund Freud: The Founding Father of Psychoanalysis. Sigismund Schlomo Freud was an Australian neurologist born on 6th May 1856. He worked at the Vienna General Hospital where he carried out research in Celebral Palsy‚ aphasia and microscopic Neuroanatomy. Due to his researches‚ the university got awarded in neuropathology. He later developed theories concerning the unconscious mind and the mechanism of repression which led to psychoanalysis
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Reynoso‚ Rheyniel Manaog January 6‚ 2014 Forensic Accounting/AIA1010/EB-301/7:30-9:00 Professor Dorega 2010244321 Part 1 Mr. Manuel V. Pangilinan has been a director of PLDT since November 24‚ 1998. He was appointed as Chairman of the Board of PLDT after serving as its President and CEO from November 1998 to February 2004. He is the Chairman of the Governance and Nomination‚ Executive Compensation and Technology Strategy Committees of the Board of Directors of PLDT. He
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newspapers are filled with stories of fraud and financial shenanigans. It has become daily occurrence that frauds of high profile cases break out and become headlines. Case after case has become routine. The shocking publicized financial scandals have shaken the underpinnings of our economic system. In the recent years there is enormous increase in occupational fraud. We have witnessed that our national enterprises have disclosed millions of rupees in financial fraud. Millions of rupees of public money
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Financial Statement Fraud - Recognition of Revenue and the Auditor’s Responsibility for Detecting Financial Statement Fraud - Tiina Intal and Linh Thuy Do Graduate Business School School of Economics and Commercial Law Göteborg University ISSN 1403-851X Printed by Elanders Novum Abstract Financial reporting frauds and earnings manipulation have attracted high profile attention recently. There have been several cases by businesses of what appears to be financial statement fraud‚ which have
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