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 services‚ investment banking services‚ legal services and expert
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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 fraud free and saw
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Phar-Mor‚ Inc. Key Facts • Started in 1982 with 1 store. Up to 310 stores in 1992 with sales of $3 billion • Retail drug store- highly competitive‚ deep discounts • Mickey Monus‚ president and COO‚ found guilty of embezzling $10 million in 1995 • Monus had an extravagant life style • Sentenced to 20 years in prison • Monus and Patrick Finn his CFO • Manipulated I.S. accounts (understate cost of goods sold and overstated inventory) for 6 years • Inventory
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In 1982‚ Phar-Mor chain of discount drug stores founded by Michael “mickey” Monus and David shapira in the United States. Phar-Mor business was to sell large quantity of merchandise with a very small profits margin. Instead‚ they had it set up were the products can get send direct delivery or shipped though Tamco Warehouse. Sam Walton was feared of Monus because he didn’t know how the Phar-Mor grew in short time. In 1992‚ the company expanded‚ it was 300 stores and they hire 25‚000 employees. Monus
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Summary Phar-Mor‚ Inc. was a deep-discount store that had substantial growth in a short period of time. It started with 15 stores and grew to over 310 stores in thirty two states between 1985 and 1992. At first Phar-Mor was seen as a major prospect in the retail market. With sales of over $3 billion and growing‚ Phar-Mor’s success even worried some of the biggest retail giant‚ including Wal-mart. The president‚ founder‚ and COO of Phar-Mor was Mickey Monus‚ who became quite extravagant with
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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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OF BUSINESS‚ DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING COURSE: FORENSIC ACCOUNTING COURSE CODE: ACC 416 WEEK: 10 TOPIC: FORENSIC ACCOUNTING AND FRAUD AUDITING OBJECTIVE: To acquire the knowledge and skills about forensic audit‚ its reporting and documentation. THE CONTEXT OF FORENSIC AUDITING Forensic audit encompasses the examination of evidence regarding an assertion to determine its correspondence to establish criteria carried out in a manner suitable to the court. Auditing has been defined as the systematic
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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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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 were
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Proactive Fraud Auditing End of Chapter 4 in Albrecht FRAUD DETECTION Recognizing the Symptoms of Fraud Identify Risk Exposures Proactively Look for Symptoms & Exposures 1 2 Actg 537 Identify Fraud Symptoms for Each Exposure 3 4 Investigate Identified Symptoms Symptoms of Fraud What are some irregularities in source documents to look for? Missing Documents Payee Names & Addresses = Employee “Stale Items” on Bank Items” Reconciliation Excessive Voids or Credits
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