Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Vanessa Gail Woods Strayer University Connor-Green/ACC 576 March 21‚ 2010 Accounting Fraud at WorldCom The break up of AT&T opened the long distance service market to small companies during the mid- to late-1980s and 1990s. Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS) opened in 1983 with moderate growth until its stock went public in 1989. CEO Bernie Ebbers decided to grow the organization through acquisitions (70 companies over the course of its lifetime)
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom 1) What are the pressures that lead executives and managers to “cook the books?” After the rapid evolution of the telecommunication industry in the 1990s‚ WorldCom shifted its strategy to focus on building revenues and acquiring capacity sufficient to handle expected growth. Their biggest goal was to be the No. 1 stock on Wall Street rather than capturing the market share. As a result‚ their Expense-to-Revenue (E/R) Ratio was their measurement for their main objective
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1. Congressional oversight refers to oversight by the United States Congress of the Executive Branch‚ including the numerous U.S. federal agencies. Congressional oversight refers to the review‚ monitoring‚ and supervision of federal agencies‚ programs‚ activities‚ and policy implementation. Congress exercises this power largely through its congressional committee system. However‚ oversight‚ which dates to the earliest days of the Republic‚ also occurs in a wide variety of congressional activities
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Company Accounting Oversight Board; Will it Protect Investors? The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) was created by Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This board was created to oversee the audit of public companies‚ subject to the securities laws‚ in order to protect the interests of investors (15 USC 7201‚ 2002). It was created in wake of the recent financial scandals of Enron‚ WorldCom‚ and Global Crossing to name a few. This "Act" established by Congress is to create an oversight board
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DEVELOPING SKILLS Set B Review Test 1 Grammar & Usage Grammar & Usage Review Test 1 Part A Part B http://www.aristo.com.hk 1 DEVELOPING SKILLS Set B Review Test 1 Grammar & Usage Grammar Practice In this article‚ some of the verbs are incorrect. Decide if the underlined verbs are correct. The first two have been done for you. P.62 http://www.aristo.com.hk 2 DEVELOPING SKILLS Set B Review Test 1 Grammar & Usage The Olympics (1) had changed the lives of (1) has changed _____________
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And the Fraud Continues Tiketa Heard Strayer University Forensic Accounting & Fraud Examination ACC571 Professor Timothy Brown [pic] 1.) Discuss the Internal control weaknesses that existed at MCI that contributed to the commission of this fraud: MCI biggest internal control weaknesses at was Pavlo. Pavlo was able to manipulate MCI account receivable system which he helped to create and develop. When the same employee is able to receive and update payments
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Chapter 1 The Government and Not-For-Profit Environment TRUE/FALSE (CHAPTER 1) 1. The main objective of a typical governmental or not-for-profit entity is to earn a profit. 2. A government’s budget may be backed by the force of law. 3. Governmental entities have no need for an accounting system. 4. A government’s internal managers rely on general purpose financial statements for a considerable amount of information about their government. 5. Governments and not-for-profits
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d 8 a 9 b 10 c P 1-1 a. Wages Interest Add Equip 6‚000‚000 500‚000 900‚000 7‚400‚000 b. Wages Interest 6‚000‚000 500‚000 6‚500‚000 c. Bonds Wages Interest 6‚000‚000 500‚000 10‚000‚000 16‚500‚000 E 1-2 b b d b b c c b a b d. The cash basis of accounting requires the company to expense the entire $10 million of equipment in year ten. The taxpayers of the tenth year incur the entire expense rather than depreciating $1 million per year. P 1-2 1. The fact that the church reported only $0.2 million
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government was not showing the same war footage as these journalist‚ which led to hostile riots such as Kent State Massacre. Towards the end of the American involvement with Vietnam the trust in the government was truly damaged by the censorship‚ 1960’s-1970’s activism‚ and presidential scandals. SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE: The US’ involvement into Vietnam started after North Vietnam was aided by communist countries Russia and China. The North Vietnam (with help from Vietcong) began a massive "recovery"
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Fannie Mae’s Fraud 1. Fannie Mae was established in 1938 as a federal charter under President Franklin Roosevelt as a secondary market to expand the flow of mortgage money under any economic condition because millions of Americans could not become homeowners before Fannie Mae. In 1968 Fannie Mae was rechartered by congress as a shareholder owned company‚ funded solely with private capital raised from investors. The charter is directed to increase the availability and affordability for homeownership
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