Healthcare Fraud and Abuse As we head into the next four years under the Obama administration‚ many Americans are hearing more and more about healthcare reform and what needs to be done to fix the ailing healthcare system. Part of the dramatic increase in healthcare costs is due to Medicare fraud abuse. Healthcare fraud is defined as making false statements or representations of material facts in order to obtain benefits or payment. Healthcare abuse is defined as practices involving the overuse
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INTRODUCTION Service tax is a tax on Services. Service tax is not a tax on profession / trade but it is a tax on the service provided in exercise of the profession / trade. It is leviable only if there is provision of service. SALE V/S SERVICE Service is different from sale. The fact that some goods have been used in the course of providing service’ doesn’t make that transaction a sale. The nature of the transaction depends on the intention of the parties. If the parties intended to enter into
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9-104-071 REV: SEPTEMBER 14‚ 2007 ROBERT S. KAPLAN DAVID KIRON Accounting Fraud at WorldCom WorldCom could not have failed as a result of the actions of a limited number of individuals. Rather‚ there was a broad breakdown of the system of internal controls‚ corporate governance and individual responsibility‚ all of which worked together to create a culture in which few persons took responsibility until it was too late. — Richard Thornburgh‚ former U.S. attorney general1 On July 21‚ 2002
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PROCESS OUTPUT Figure 1: Research Paradigm (IPO of the proposed System) Phase 1 of the research paradigm is the input where the information from books‚ internet is kept‚ and the used of the MS Access as data base together with visual basic 6.0 as the engine. The process will be the creation of the proposed employee’s payroll system or the creation of the program and the output shall be the automated payroll system for the mployees of ASIATECH college
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Accounting Fraud Case Review the SEC’s case against Waste Management in order to answer the following questions: What were the incentives for committing the fraud? What was the relationship between management and the auditors? Why didn’t the auditors prevent the fraud? What (specifically) accounting methods were used to fraudulently inflate Waste Management’s profits? What accounting methods did they use to try to conceal part of the fraud? What were the financial and social costs of the fraud and
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MODULE 3: CIT CASE QUESTIONS 1. The three aspects of fraud - Perceived pressure‚ Rationalization‚ and Opportunity were present in the CIT case as follows: Pressure- Niakan was placed under much pressure to meet monthly targets. The senior VP Ms. Thompson had earlier criticized his performance when it fell below expectations. Niakan had also been warned in his 2002 annual review that his team needed to improve end of lease sales and inventory returns. Apart from this work angle Niakan had personal
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applying the SWOT analyzing technique to the Athlete Warehouse Case Study found here: https://my.uopeople.edu/pluginfile.php/265948/mod_workshop/instructauthors/Unit%205%20Case%20Study%20-%20Athlete%20Warehouse.pdf The case study describes two brother entrepreneurs-Ed and Colin Power- who want to re-open a sports clothing and shoe store after their first store‚ Athlete’s Warehouse‚ failed to thrive. Ed and Colin wish to re-open their Athlete’s Warehouse store in the town of Grand Falls. These entrepreneurs
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The latest Report to the Nations On Occupational Fraud and Abuse‚ the biennial study of global fraud by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners‚ finds that organizations lose an average of 5 percent of revenues to fraud each year‚ with a median loss of $140‚000. However‚ just over one-fifth of fraud schemes results in losses topping $1 million. Perhaps even more disturbing was the median length of time before the frauds were detected: 18 months. And‚ that’s not all; the study found that almost
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taxation in Bangladesh Tapan K Sarker1 ABSTRACT: This article reviews the incidence of income taxation in Bangladesh tax system. The main purpose of the study is to determine how the burden of personal and corporation income taxes is allocated among taxpayers of different income groups. In case of personal income taxes it shows that only 13 percent taxpayers paying around 73 percent of tax revenue collected through personal income taxes and interestingly about 53 percent taxpayers pay only 0.08 percent
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