Communications Corp. was an American telecommunications company that was instrumental in legal and regulatory changes that led to the breakup of the AT&T monopoly of American telephony and ushered in the competitive long-distance telephone industry. It was headquartered in Washington‚ D.C.[1] Founded in 1963‚ it grew to be the second-largest long-distance provider in the U.S. It was purchased by WorldCom in 1998 and became MCI WorldCom‚ with the name afterwards being shortened to WorldCom in 2000. WorldCom’s
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WorldCom: Organizational Culture and Unethical Safeguards Organizational culture is one of four influences whether an ethical or unethical behavior will be made. WorldCom’s demise‚ deliberately overstating their income by $7 billion between 1999 and 2002; and their once valued stock of $180 million becoming nearly worthless‚ can attribute a significant amount of their failure on their “dis”organizational culture. Corporations worldwide who do not think this type of fraud can happen at the hands
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Conflict in Ethical Decision Making at WorldCom Kerry Seeley Business Ethics MT4200 National American University September 25‚ 2007 Craig Chaplin Abstract This paper explains how WorldCom began and where it’s at now. It didn’t take long for WorldCom to become the second largest long distance phone company. WorldCom provided a legal framework for people working in communication projects on an individual basis‚ mainly in Central America‚ but they also developed projects together with partners
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Accounting Horizons Vol. 21‚ No. 2 June 2007 pp. 165–187 Auditor Communications with the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors: Policy Recommendations and Opportunities for Future Research Jeffrey Cohen‚ Lisa Milici Gaynor‚ Ganesh Krishnamoorthy‚ and Arnold M. Wright SYNOPSIS: To contribute to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) project on auditor communications with audit committees and boards of directors‚ we present in this paper a review of relevant academic literature
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Auditor’s Independence: A Study on ACNABIN‚ Chartered Accountants Auditor’s Independence A Study on ACNABIN-Chartered Accountants Firm Table of Content CHAPTERS PARTICULARS PAGES Chapter -1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Background 1.3 Scope of the Study 1.4 Objectives of the Study 1.5 Methodology of the Study 1.6 Limitation of the Study Chapter-2 Literature Review 2.1 DEFINITION OF AUDIT 2.2 Understanding Independence 2.3 Auditor’s
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to all aspects of the accounting profession‚ the auditing focus in the business world has evolved considerably over its history. The main drive behind the changes has been new legislation and a strict enforcement standard which more times then not was influenced by the fraudulent activity delivered by corporate management. By the creation of oversight policies and standard setting entities‚ these countless scandals have shaped the accounting and auditing profession into what we know today. In 1986
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reporting process. Auditors need to remember that they are serving the public interest and not the interests of client management. 1-2. The audit opinion formulation process is a systematic approach by which the auditor evaluates the risk of being associated with a client‚ through the process of gathering and evaluating audit evidence‚ to determining the type of audit opinion that should be rendered. The stages and outcome of each stage are as follows: • Assessing Client Acceptance and Retention:
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the employees. Woody Robinson know very well that the company have these weaknesses that give him the chances to enter the hole to start the fraud activities. Firstly‚ there is no proper segregation of duties in the sales outlet. In a company‚ it was important that the duties of the employees are clearly separate to make sure that employees will not have the chance to carry out the fraud activities. However‚ Goodner Brothers sales outlet let a sales manager supervise other employees while he or
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marks) THE INTERNAL AUDIT DEPARTMENT Purpose To conduct independent‚ objective assurance and consulting activities created to add value and improve the operation of Newlands Networks Corporation via systematic‚ disciplined approach to assess and improve the capability of risk management‚ control‚ and governance practices. Slide #1 Speaker’s notes The role and significance on internal auditing has grown extremely and the____ expectations continue to enlarge. Internal audit tasks have an extensive
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Identifying relevant Malaysian Financial Reporting Standard with Inventory Cycle Referring to have been stated above‚ the selected company was a small sized entity and therefore‚ the processes under its inventory cycle was not complex like those in retailers as well as manufacturers. Figure 1.1 Inventory cycle with shaded area for activities related to MFRS Principally‚ the fundamental issue in accounting for inventories is to define the amount to be recognized as asset as well as amount
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