As you probably know‚ security breaches at retail companies‚ banks‚ and even government agencies have been making their way to headlines rather frequently within the past few years. At this point‚ if you are not concerned about identity fraud‚ you need to be. Just this past week‚ Americans found out that an attack on the Office of Personnel Management had impacted 14 million more people than initially reported. Given the growing market for personal data‚ consumers need to be on the knowledgeable
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Prior to his fraud discovery‚ Russell Wasendorf‚ Sr. was falsifying and forging manual bank confirmations to verify the company’s “increasing” cash balances. In addition‚ he utilized scanners‚ printers‚ and post office boxes to fool external auditors as well as the National Futures Association. Eventually Wasendorf’s twenty-year fraud scheme unfolded when electronic bank confirmations proved that he had been falsifying records and stealing from Peregrine Financial Group customers. If the electronic
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University Online: ACCT 320-1203A-01 Professor White 6 August 2012 Abstract This paper will provide an overview of Starbucks Coffee Company and identify seven red flags of possible fraudulent behavior within the organization. Steps to design a fraud prevention program will also be discussed based on the identified red flags. Starbucks Coffee Company opened its first store in Seattle‚ Washington in 1971 offering fresh-roasted whole bean coffees. “Howard Schultz (Starbucks chairman
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Chapter 3 FIGHTING FRAUD: AN OVERVIEW Discussion Questions 1. Fraud prevention is important because it is the most cost-effective way to reduce losses from fraud. Once fraud occurs‚ there are no winners. 2. Creating a culture of honesty and high ethics helps to reduce fraud in various ways. Management through its own actions can show that dishonest‚ questionable‚ or unethical behavior will not be tolerated. By hiring the right kind of employees‚ management can select people who are
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misappropriation fraud happens when people who are entrusted to manage the assets of an organization steal from it. Asset misappropriation fraud involves third parties or employees in an organization who abuse their position to steal from it through fraudulent activity. It can also be known as insider fraud. This type of fraud can be committed by company directors‚ or its employees‚ or anyone else entrusted to hold and manage the assets and interests of an organization. Asset misappropriation fraud could include
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three years. When this report was released to the public‚ the resulting damage to the market value for the company was approximately $14 billion‚ with their stock tumbling from a high of $41 down to nearly $12. At the time‚ this fiasco was the largest case of
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Impact and Prevention of Inventory Fraud The root of this problem lies within the organizations’ employees. Honest employees are a valuable asset‚ since the theft of inventory costs US companies a great deal of money every year. Perpetrators of this act may rationalize their behavior as not being criminal‚ so where does it begin or where does it stop? There is no easy solution or one way to combat inventory fraud‚ but companies can take measures to prevent this from occurring. Also‚ Organizations
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Five Governmental Organizations to Report a Scam in the United States The United States takes fraud very seriously and the majority of its government organizations dedicate time and specific teams to investigate and combat fraud from occurring within the government and governmental agencies. If you work within one of these sectors‚ you usually can safely report a scam under the protection of a whistleblower policy. If you witness this as a normal citizen‚ you can feel secure with the same protection
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The fraud at DHB Industries developed directly from collusion of upper-management‚ poor oversight by the board of directors‚ and equity based compensation. Knapp and Knapp (2012) note the constant involvement of Brooks‚ Hatfield‚ and Schlegel in falsifying accounting records and attempting to conceal the fraud. With the ability to override controls within the company which identify such irregularities‚ the involvement of practically all executives allowed for the concealment of the fraud to occur
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Introduction: The past decade has been witness to some of the worst accounts of corporate fraud ever recorded‚ with multi-billion dollar companies such as Enron‚ Tyco‚ and World-com involved in serious financial scandals. CEOs and senior executives are often the driving force behind such unscrupulous activities by adopting shady accounting practices and other forms of short-termist actions for the purpose of increasing their firm’s stock price and their own personal wealth. The following paper will
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