ENRON Principles of Accounting Enron Key Players KENNETH LAY Former Enron chairman JEFFREY SKILLING Former Enron CEO DAVID DUNCAN Former Andersen partner NANCY TEMPLE Andersen lawyer THOMAS WHITE Secretary of the Army SHERRON WATKINS Enron vice president Enron started about 29 years ago in July 1985 in Houston‚ Texas.. A energy economist named Kenneth Lay became the CEO of Enron. Mr. Lay was a very optimistic
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White collar crime was defined by Edwin Sutherland as a crime committed by a respectable person of high social status during the course of their career and can include fraud‚ embezzlement‚ and insider trading (170). Madoff was charged with securities fraud‚ investment advisor fraud‚ mail fraud‚ and wire fraud after confessing to stealing more than $50 million dollars from people over the course of decades. After the stock market collapse of 2008 it became apparent to Madoff that he would not be
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Profit...................................................... .......................10 3.4 Hiding the Fraud: To Restructure........................................ ...........10 4 DETECTION OF ACCOUNTING FRAUD........................ ..................12 4.1 Red Flags .................................................................................................. .......12 5 PENALTIES FOR FRAUD............................. ................................13 5.1 Richard Scrushy.............
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RESUME CHAPTER II WHY PEOPLE COMMIT FRAUD (Untuk memenuhi Tugas mata kuliah Forensic Acc & Fraud Examination) Oleh: Silvia Dwi Erfianti (105020305111003) Universitas Brawijaya Fakultas Ekonomi & Bisnis Akuntansi 2013 CHAPTER II WHY PEOPLE COMMIT FRAUD WHO COMMITS FRAUD College student and Fraud Pro Other Property Offenders WHY COMMITS FRAUD Although there are thousands of ways to perpetrate fraud‚ Dennis Greer’s fraud in the chapter opening vignette illustrates
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improper conduct? Defend your answer. I don’t think David Myers’ responsibility for improper conduct diminishes even he is asked by his superior‚ Scott Sullivan. Scott Sullivan has his own fraud because he agreed and goes along with false accounting entries that eventually become part of an 11 billion fraud. Scott will get his punishment by what he did. But on David Myers’ side‚ he knew it was wrong to do this and he did not refuse to do it. There was an option he could choose‚ either to refuse
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FORENSIC ACCOUNTING & FRAUD INVESTIGATION ASSESSMENT TASKS 1 THE ROLE OF FORENSIC ACCOUNTANTS IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Corporate governance is defined as the formal mechanism of direction‚ supervision and control put in place within a company in order to monitor the decisions and actions of its senior managers and ensure these are compatible and consistent with the specific interest of shareholders and the various other interests of shareholders who contribute to the operations of
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Retrieved September 25‚ 2013‚ from Securities and Exchange Commission Web site: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr17627.htm The Adelphia Story Van Peursem‚ K.‚ Zhou‚ M.‚ Flood‚ T.‚ & Buttimore‚ J. (2007‚ June). Three cases of corporate fraud: An audit perspective. Working Paper Series(94)‚ 6-7. Retrieved from http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/1671/?sequence=1
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February 2‚ 2010 4:10 P.M. Page 1 SECTION I INTRODUCTION TO FRAUD EXAMINATION AND FINANCIAL FORENSICS 1 Kranacher c01.tex V1 - February 10‚ 2010 3:19 P.M. Page 2 CHAPTER 1 CORE FOUNDATION RELATED TO FRAUD EXAMINATION AND FINANCIAL FORENSICS LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter‚ you should be able to do the following: 1-1 Define fraud and identify a potentially fraudulent situation. 1-2 Differentiate between fraud and abuse. 1-3 Define financial forensics and identify an appropriate
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Internal Control The detection of fraud is depending on what type of fraud and the internal controls that are in place. Rancher‚ Riley and Wells (2011) reported “Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No.99 “Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit” defines two types of misstatements relevant to an audit of financial statement and subject to auditor’s consideration of fraud” (p.420) the two types are asset misappropriation fraud and financial statement fraud. Barrett (2011) reported “asset
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help of senior management was “cooking the books” for years to cover up his loses. The reason why senior management agreed to do this fraud is the belief in unique ability of their leader to fix everything later on. This case is known as one of the biggest accounting frauds in the corporate history of the U.S. This paper will analyze who was affected by this fraud‚ the motives behind it and what systems of control failed to prevent it. The major groups that were directly affected are investors
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