Expectation Gap and Corporate Fraud: Is Public Opinion Reconcilable with Auditors’ Duties? Jeffrey Cohena‚ Yuan Dingb‚ Cédric Lesagec‚* and Hervé Stolowyc b Carroll School of Management at Boston College‚ USA China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS)‚ Shanghai‚ China c HEC Paris‚ France a This draft – October 28‚ 2010 – Please do not cite or circulate without permission – Comments welcome Acknowledgments. Cédric Lesage and Hervé Stolowy acknowledge the financial support of the
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describes the fraud of the century. As a result of the Ponzi scheme‚ social attitudes toward the investment industry were lukewarm. I will describe the highlights of the case. First‚ Bernard Madoff started a stock trading business in 1960 that was highly successful. This business consisted of buying and selling stocks that were not on the New York Stock Exchange. Conversely‚ once Pete Madoff came into the business‚ Bernard created the investment management business‚ which is where the fraud occurred
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to find ways to set fraud in motion – and a new breed of offenders is finding cunning ways to do so. After more than 60 years‚ the classic fraud triangle of three elements or events that motivate an employee to cross the line has morphed ™ into Crowe’s Fraud Pentagon. Company boards and senior management must take an offensive stance against the five conditions that precipitate fraud with a clear plan that limits the opportunity for fraud and minimizes the impact when fraud does occur.” Jonathan
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom 1) What are the pressures that lead executives and managers to “cook the books?” After the rapid evolution of the telecommunication industry in the 1990s‚ WorldCom shifted its strategy to focus on building revenues and acquiring capacity sufficient to handle expected growth. Their biggest goal was to be the No. 1 stock on Wall Street rather than capturing the market share. As a result‚ their Expense-to-Revenue (E/R) Ratio was their measurement for their main objective
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Chapter 3 FIGHTING FRAUD: AN OVERVIEW Discussion Questions 1. Fraud prevention is important because it is the most cost-effective way to reduce losses from fraud. Once fraud occurs‚ there are no winners. 2. Creating a culture of honesty and high ethics helps to reduce fraud in various ways. Management through its own actions can show that dishonest‚ questionable‚ or unethical behavior will not be tolerated. By hiring the right kind of employees‚ management can select people who are
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The fraud at DHB Industries developed directly from collusion of upper-management‚ poor oversight by the board of directors‚ and equity based compensation. Knapp and Knapp (2012) note the constant involvement of Brooks‚ Hatfield‚ and Schlegel in falsifying accounting records and attempting to conceal the fraud. With the ability to override controls within the company which identify such irregularities‚ the involvement of practically all executives allowed for the concealment of the fraud to occur
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stock market? | 1 | 2. | What is fraud? | 3 | 3. | Definition of fraud | 4 | 4. | Fraud law & legal definition | 5 | 5. | Definition of scam | 7 | 6. | When stock fraud occurs | 8 | 7. | Financial statement fraud | 10 | 8. | Features of security scam | 12 | 9. | How to spot stock scams | 13 | 10. | Avoiding stock market fraud & scams | 14 | 11. | Indicators
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1. Identify the fraud risk factors at Peregrine‚ especially control environment factors and the tone at the top‚ using the fraud triangle. The fraud risk factors could be identified as incentives/pressures‚ opportunities‚ and attitudes/rationalization in fraud triangle. According to the case‚ Peregrine’ control environment had an essential issue on separation of duties. In PFG‚ only Russell Wasendorf could open the real bank balance‚ which gave the opportunity to Wasendorf. Peregrine was suffer from
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Introduction: The past decade has been witness to some of the worst accounts of corporate fraud ever recorded‚ with multi-billion dollar companies such as Enron‚ Tyco‚ and World-com involved in serious financial scandals. CEOs and senior executives are often the driving force behind such unscrupulous activities by adopting shady accounting practices and other forms of short-termist actions for the purpose of increasing their firm’s stock price and their own personal wealth. The following paper will
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evaluate the events that occurred prior (causes) and subsequent (outcome) to the fraud‚ and the accounting schemes employed to get the fraud done. It presents examples of companies who have used inappropriate accounting practices. Enron‚ WorldCom‚ Tyco‚ HealthSouth and Adelphia were selected for analysis because of the availability of information regarding specific events occured before‚ during and after the fraud period as well as the ethical issues involved . There is abundant literature presented
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