Accounting fraud can be defined as knowingly falsifying accounting records in order to increase sales revenue and net income. Accounting fraud is committed in corporations by means of showing false information‚ using funds for illegal purposes or inflate expenses‚ overstating revenues‚ understating expenses or overstating the value of corporate assets. All these activities are entirely unethical. Behaving ethically depends on the capability to recongnize the ethical issues and to believe on their
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What specific audit procedures might have uncovered the Parmalat fraud earlier? Parmalat went from recording annual sales of 7.6 billion euros in 2002 to being declared insolvent a year later. The collusion at Europe’s Enron made it possible for Parmalat to defraud its investors of billions. The auditing procedures used by Grant Thornton and Deloitte were inadequate. Many of Parmalat’s assets were overstated and its liabilities understated. The auditors did not adequately test the Special Purpose
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References: Adeoti‚ J. (2011). Automated Teller Machine (ATM) frauds in Nigeria: the way out. Adini (2010). Nigerian banks look to biometric ATM machines to reduce fraud. Bhargav-Spantzel A.‚ Squicciarini A.‚ Bertino E.Kong X & Zhang W.(2010). Biometrics-Based Identifiers for Digital Identity Management. Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research‚ CGIAR (2009). Network user identification and authentication good practice
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Computer fraud is the use of information technology to commit fraud. In the United States‚ computer fraud is specifically proscribed by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act‚ which provides for jail time and fines. 1. Unauthorized access at North Bay Abdulswamad Nino Macapayad‚ a former accounts payable clerk for North Bay Health Care Group‚ admitted to using her computer to access North Bay’s accounting software without authorization‚ and in turn issued various checks payable to herself and others.
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3.How to detect the fraud? There are many ways to detect the fraud .They can simply be divided into two categories One is quantitative analysis‚another is qualitative analysis. In quantitative analysis‚the sample is fifty thousand investment company which issued form ADV ‚ form ADV is required to issue to SEC when the investment company’s client number more than 15 people or the size of asset under management is larger than $ 25 million ‚ if you did not issue the document or it is not correctly
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THE NATION’S NEWSPAPER BS2003-01b Collegiate Case Study Adelphia founder‚ 2 sons‚ 2 others arrested in fraud By David Lieberman and Greg Farrell www.usatodaycollege.com Accounting fraud Part II: The results “Creative accounting” is not a new technique‚ but it can certainly be a costly one. Businesses feel the pressure to appear profitable in order to attract investors and resources‚ but deceptive or fraudulent accounting practices often lead to drastic consequences. Are these so-called
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register tapes. By not being able to make the cash and the tape balance‚ the best thing to do is destroy the register tape to prevent others from discovering the imbalance. Discussion 3-8 Newfund’s management and accounting controls contributed to the detection of Gurado’s fraud scheme by performing surprise audits once or twice a year. This scared Gurado and lead him to confess because he was unable to pay back
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JB Accounting Fraud‚ the Investor and the Sarbanes Oxley Act Throughout the past several years major corporate scandals have rocked the economy and hurt investor confidence. The largest bankruptcies in history have resulted from greedy executives that “cook the books” to gain the numbers they want. These scandals typically involve complex methods for misusing or misdirecting funds‚ overstating revenues‚ understating expenses‚ overstating the value of assets or underreporting of liabilities
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Solid Waste management is India’s dire need today. Comment India‚ the world’s second highest populated country after China with population of 1.21 billion (census 2011) already containing 17.5% of the world’s population‚ is a land of physical‚ climatic‚ geographic‚ ecological‚ social‚ cultural and linguistic diversity. The annual rate of growth of urban population in India is 3.35% (Census of India‚ 2011). The proportion of population living in urban areas has increased from 17.35% in 1951 to
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The Xerox Corporation Fraud case (1997 – 2000) Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers‚ multifunction systems‚ photo copiers‚ digital production printing presses‚ and related consulting services and supplies. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk‚ Connecticut‚ though its largest population of employees is based in and around Rochester‚ New York‚ the area in which the company was founded. The history of
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