Week 6 Lecture on September 24 or 26 (200 points) For the Bernie Madoff DETAILED Outline‚ you will need to identify the five tragic truisms that best explain how or why the Bernie Madoff scandal and fraud occurred. In particular‚ your goals are (a) to use five (5) tragic truisms to explain how or why the scandal occurred and (b) to provide the best-available evidence to prove the five (5) tragic truisms specifically apply to and explain this case. You must use at least one tragic truism about people
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Watergate: The affair began on June 17‚ 1972‚ when the local police arrested five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. The police found on the burglars a slush fund used by the committee for the re-election of the President Richard Nixon and listening devices. They look secrets agents more than burglars. As Washington is a federal district‚ the affair was charged to the F.B.I. Within hours after that‚ the F.B.I discovered a
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FINANCIAL ANALYST: THE EXPERT OF ECONOMIC AND ACCOUNTING Quyen Chu San Highline Community College English 205 Feb 4‚ 2012 CASE STUDY : THE BOOK OPENS THE DOOR Walking around the Phu Tho bookstore in Ho Chi Minh city‚ I decided to look for an interested book to bring along with me to America. Numerous questions came in my mind “What do I need? What is that book about?” Accidently‚ I went to the case containing full of financial and investment books. A purple small book with the phrase
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Journal of Finance and Accountancy Arthur Anderson Auditors and Enron: What happened to their Texas CPA licenses? Daniel Edelman Texas A&M University-Commerce Ashley Nicholson Texas A&M University-Commerce ABSTRACT This article examines Arthur Andersen‚ its role with Enron‚ and what happened to some of its key players. The demise of Arthur Andersen and Enron was significant. Thousands of people lost their jobs and investments. As a result‚ new laws for publicly traded companies and auditing firms
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characterizing income‚ assets‚ or liabilities and the intent to influence readers towards the interpretations desired by the authors. The terms innovative or aggressive are also sometimes used. Creative accounting is at the root of a number of accounting scandals. The term is generally understood to mean a misrepresentation of the true income and assets of corporations or other organizations. One commonly accepted incentive for the systemic over reporting of corporate income which came to light in 2002 was
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delivers them suddenly become more important than anything he’s ever said in his life. Every nuance and inflection can make or break the last shred of character holding the thin fabric of dignity together. In the early 1970’s America was rocked with a scandal the likes of which hadn’t been seen since Andrew Jackson was impeached more than a century previous. A second term president who opened trade to China‚ ended the longest war in American history and was the nation’s frontrunner when the late Neil
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July of 2011‚ it was reported that it was in fact reporters from the Rupert Murdoch owned News of the World paper checking the phone messages and inadvertently deleting them. This was when the public became aware of an ongoing investigation into a scandal that had started years before. Every corporation faces ethical decisions on a daily basis‚ including the news media. While a news outlet may not have to worry about consumer safety or environmental factors as much as a factory or another type of
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-hears/>. 7 "Top Former Nortel Execs Charged with Fraud." Web. 23 Apr. 2012. <http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=c0d441c3-223a-4855-b3ad-09f6144727fa>. 8 Vinluan‚ F. "The Rise and Fall of Nortel: Unwise Acquisitions‚ Scandal Led to Downfall." - Triangle Business Journal. 24 Aug. 2009. Web. 19 Apr. 2012. http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/08/24/story3.html?page=all 9 Sharp‚ Alastair. "Nortel Execs Say Deloitte Approved of Accounting." Reuters. Thomson Reuters
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CASE 3 : Accounting Fraud at WolrdCom Table of Contents Introduction....................................................................................................................... 1 Question 1 .......................................................................................................................... 2 Question 2 .......................................................................................................................... 4 Question 3 ..........................
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back in the year of 2000. Enron employed approximately 22‚000 associates and was named “America’s most innovative company” by Fortune. However‚ under all of the bliss‚ revealed was a substantial amount of corporate fraud and corruption. The Enron scandal involved both illegal and unethical activity. Enron’s executive chose deception of the stakeholders and short-term financial gains for themselves. They were willing to destroy their personal and business reputations‚ as well as their social standings
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