1 THE TROLLEY DODGERS In 1890‚ the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers professional baseball team joined the National League. Over the following years‚ the Dodgers would have considerable difficulty competing with the other baseball teams in the New York City area. Those teams‚ principal among them the New York Yankees‚ were much better financed and generally stocked with players of higher caliber. In 1958‚ after nearly seven decades of mostly frustration on and off the baseball field‚ the Dodgers shocked
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In this brief case‚ a long-time and trusted employee of the Los Angeles Dodgers engaged in a large scale payroll fraud to embezzle funds from the organization. Over a period of several years‚ this fraudulent scheme cost the owners of the Dodgers several hundred thousand dollars. Contributing to the success of the fraud was the laxity of the Dodgers’ internal controls. Eventually‚ the fraud was exposed when the individual who masterminded the scheme was hospitalized on an emergency basis and
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The Trolley Dodgers In 1890‚ the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers professionals’ baseball team joined the National League. Over the following years‚ the Dodgers would have considerable difficulty competing with the other baseball themes in the New York City area. Those teams‚ principal among them the New York Yankees‚ were much better financed and generally stocked with players of higher caliber. In 1958‚ after nearly seven decades of mostly frustration on and off the baseball field‚ the Dodgers shocked
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Executive Summary The Trolley Dodgers was exposed that it had internal control problems existed. The other hand‚ found that employees embezzlement. The first part of this report identify and explain the characteristics of employee fraud indicated in Dodgers case. such as perpetrator must gains the trust or confidence of the person or company being defrauded. etc And then‚ the second part is explain the internal control weaknesses and understanding internal control objectives . The third part based
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STUDY: THE TROLLEY DODGERS 1. Identify the key audit objectives for a client’s payroll function. Comment on both objectives related to tests of control and those related to tests of control s and those related to substantive audit procedure. The key audit objectives for client’s payroll function in this Trolley Dodgers Case are: i. Occurrence ii. Completeness iii. Accuracy iv. Posting & Summarization v. Classification vi. Timing i. Key Audit Objective : Occurrence Dodgers must recorded
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In this essay will be discussing the trolley problem devised by Philippa Foot‚ and exploring different aspects of utilitarianism in relation the situation. The trolley problem is as follows ‘A train is hurtling down a track and you see that it is going to hit a group of 5 people and will certainly kill them all. However you are standing on a bridge over the line next to a fat man and you are sure that if you pushed him onto the line his bulk would be sufficient to stop the train before it hit the
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statements to an appropriately low level. Question 2 There are obvious internal control weaknesses this case‚ “Campos controlled the system so completely that he personally filled out the weekly payroll cards for each of the 400 employees of the dodgers.” Human resources is often responsible for setting up new employees in the payroll system‚ processing payroll data and distributing paychecks. Entering payroll data and processing paychecks should be split between human resources and accounting
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lot of dilemmas we go over in class there are a couple that stand out to me. The trolley dilemma is a situation I personally hope I never encounter and the dilemma where if you had a ring that made you invisible. The dilemma with the trolley is a terrifying situation to be in if you are the one operating the tracks. Either way someone is going to die and that’s going to be on you. If I were the one operating the trolley tracks and I had to choose between killing one person and four people‚ I’m going
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Driving the trolley car down the street and looking ahead there are workers on the track‚ seeing this trying to brake. They brakes on the trolley went out. It is heading to kill the five workers on the track. The driver has the option on switching the track on a different way‚ but it is still headed to kill one worker on the track. What is the right thing to do? What is the moral thing to do‚ based from thesis statement? After that‚ the same situation is happening now you have the option‚ that a
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Reflection #9 The first article was about the Trolley Dodgers. In 1890‚ they joined the National League. Unfortunately‚ for them they did not have the finances to compete with teams like the New York Yankees. The Dodgers’ losing went on for about 70 years. As a result‚ they moved to Los Angeles in 1958; what we know today as the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 1997‚ the team was sold for 350 million dollars to Rupert Murdoch. In the closeout interview by Peter O’Malley (the former owner)‚ he was grateful
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