COMPANIES: THE WORLDCOM FRAUD Introduction The purpose of this report is to investigate and discuss the accounting fraud that occurred at WorldCom in order to recommend improved strategies to Berkshire Hathaway’s management for avoiding investments in companies with fraudulent financials. Accounting fraud is a crime committed by high level employees at an organization to manipulate the organization’s financial statements and intentionally disguise company performance. The fraud is committed without
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Welfare fraud refers to various intentional misuses of state welfare systems by withholding information or giving false or inaccurate information. Some common types of welfare fraud are failing to report a household member‚ claiming one or more imaginary dependents‚ failure to report income‚ or providing false information about not being able to work. There have been cases of people feigning illness in conjunction with welfare fraud. Welfare fraud seems to be a big and expensive problem
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Invisible Epidemic: Preventing Financial Fraud among Elderly Yi Yao San Diego State University April 8‚ 2013 America’s Invisible Epidemic: Preventing Financial Fraud among Elderly Senior citizens have long been the target of financial fraud and material abuse. The fraud can be perpetrated by someone does not know the victim which is classified as consumer fraud or perpetrated by someone who knows the victim. According to the 2010 Investor Protection Trust (IPT) Elder Fraud Survey‚ more than seven
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Corporate Fraud: Case Studies in Detection and Prevention Fraudulent financial reporting‚ corruption‚ and misappropriation are often investigated by the internal audit department. Because these types of crimes can be the source of large losses‚ security professionals would do well to familiarize themselves with how they are carried out and how they can be detected. Corporate Fraud provides a clear window into that world. Author John D. O’Gara was the director of internal audit at a Fortune 500
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www.maxpapers.com CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS GCE Advanced Level MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2012 series 9706 ACCOUNTING 9706/41 Paper 4(Problem Solving – Supplement)‚ maximum raw mark 120 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates‚ to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’ meeting before
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Medical Billing Fraud What is Medical Billing Fraud? It is an attempt to fraudulently obtain payments from insurance carriers. Medicare and Medicaid are the most susceptible to fraud because of their payment arrangements. Fraud in medical billing cost tax payers and medical providers millions of dollars annually. In 1996‚ HIPPA established the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) to help combat medical billing and health care fraud. Fraud is an act done with the knowledge that you
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Financial Statements Review Health Care Financial Accounting-HCS/405 May 4‚ 2015 Facilitator Introduction It is essential in any business‚ not just health care to understand how finances directly affect the growth‚ success and longevity of the business and all its parts. To truly understand how finance affects business it is important to gain knowledge and understanding of how the business generate revenue ‚the cash flow of money that comes into the business‚ how bills are paid and money leaves
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Financial Statements Paper Your Name Principles of Accounting – ACC/280 Date Instructor Name Financial Statements Paper The purpose of accounting is to provide a means of reporting‚ recording‚ summarizing‚ and interpreting economic data within an organization. Accounting is used by everyone in one form or another. Everyone should have a basic understanding of accounting as it could be extremely beneficial to everyone. Within every company there should be an accounting department
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There are four basic financial statements that companies use. They begin with income statement‚ statement of owner’s equity‚ balance sheet‚ and the statement of cash flows. Company’s use income statements to report how much money they have made and how much they have spent over a specified period of time. The statement of owner’s equity is used to report any changes in equity from a company’s net income or net loss‚ as well as report changes in the owner’s investments and withdrawals over a specified
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Financial Statement Relationship Accounting and financial statements are the language of business. Financial statements provide information to help users such as managers and investors analyze accounting data to help make decisions‚ manage risk‚ and predict future outcomes. This week’s paper Team B will discuss how the statement interact with one another‚ how changing one affects other statements‚ and the importance to understand the relationship between the statements. Financial statements
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