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    Concepts a. (i.) According to FASB Statement of Concepts No. 6‚ paragraph 25‚ assets are probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by a particular entity as a result of past transactions or events. They represent probable future economic benefits controlled by the enterprise. According to FASB Statement of Concepts No 6‚ paragraph 80‚ expenses are outflows or other using up of assets or incurrences of liabilities (or a combination of both) during a period from delivering or producing

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    Q 1 Explain the nature of accounting fraud? A1. Background: The origin of WorldCom can be traced to the breakup of AT&T in 1983. The company began as Long Distance Discount Services Inc during 1983. LDD name was changed to WorldCom in 1995. To build the economies of scale that were critical success factor in long distance market it was imperative for WorldCom to grow its available volume off bandwidth as it lowered the per unit costs. Also the Telecommunication act of 1996 permitted long

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    CASE NAME: WorldCom: Keeping Planes In the Air 1. Briefly describe the important aspects of the situation. WorldCom had asked its accountant to make accounting entries dipping into reserves to help the company to meet its earnings target. WorldCom had been done these financial reserves for three quarters and intended to do so thereafter. The telecommunications industry was in a severe slump. WorldCom had a slow growth and rising cost. Vinson‚ who had done WorldCom’s accounting

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    Worldcom appeared to be a great success story. However‚ the success began to unravel with the accumulation of debt and expenses‚ the fall of the stock market‚ and long distance rates and revenue. It would take 2 years for the extent of these problems to become public‚ and accounting scandals like that of Worldcom would make history in the finance and telecommunication areas. While the intent is to make money to benefit a person or a group of people through illegal acts while disguising their illegal

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    WorldCom Ethical Scandal In the late 1990’s‚ WorldCom was a successful company and leader in the telecommunications world. They had merged with MCI and the company was regarded for being innovative and growth hungry. However‚ in the midst of all the mergers WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebberly began to mismanage the company. WorldCom was no longer meeting their numbers and it looked like stock prices would fall. Rather than letting this happen‚ executives at WorldCom doctored the books. CFO Scott

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    7/22/13 WorldCom Search » Ethics Home Page About the Center Focus Areas Bioethics Business Ethics Campus Ethics Character Education Government Ethics Internet Ethics More... Publications Ethics Articles Ethics Cases Ethical Decision Making Videos Ethics Blogs Podcasts E-letter/Subscribe Contact Us Site Index WorldCom1 By Dennis Moberg (Santa Clara University) and Edward Romar (University of MassachusettsBoston) An update for this case is available. 2002 saw an unprecedented number of

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    Accounting Fraud at WolrdCom Introduction WorldCom‚ US second largest telecommunication company shocked the world by filing bankruptcy at 21 July 2002. The WorldCom filing surpassed Enron and became the largest bankruptcy filing in United States history. Due to its rapid growth‚ WorldCom is also heavily in debt as they finance the company growth with debt. The collapse of WorldCom did not just affect their employees‚ retailers‚ the government but also bankers. WorldCom was a multi-billion dollar telecommunications

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    Corporate Governance WorldCom Scam Introduction MCI WorldCom was one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. Bernie Ebbers founded WorldCom in 1983‚ after that WorldCom began as a re-seller of long-distance telephone services. WorldCom is located at Mississippi. After Ebbers bought around 50 other small long-distance firms‚ he set his sight on MCI. Thus MCI WorldCom would have become the second biggest telecom service provider in 1997. MCI WorldCom was formed on September-15-1998

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    3) Roots of the scandal The roots of the fraud and the role of internal auditors As explained above‚ the fraud was implemented by the former CEO Bernard Ebbers and commited by his financial director Scott D. Sullivan. The technique used by Worldcom was pretty simple; indeed‚ he cooked the books by saving pure operating expenses such as maintenance network in capital expenditure instead of expenses in order to hide its decreasing earnings and to maintain the price of Worldcom’s stock. In summary

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    Examining a Business Failure: WorldCom WorldCom was one of several large companies that failed because of inadequate organizational leadership‚ fraud‚ conspiracy‚ falsifying documents‚ and embezzlement. WorldCom has been classified as being “one of the biggest corporate scandals in Unites States history” (Zekany‚ 2004‚ p. 101). In 2001‚ the company’s financial condition began to decline due to the slowing telecommunications industry‚ which eventually put pressure on the company’s executive

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