In 1982‚ Phar-Mor chain of discount drug stores founded by Michael “mickey” Monus and David shapira in the United States. Phar-Mor business was to sell large quantity of merchandise with a very small profits margin. Instead‚ they had it set up were the products can get send direct delivery or shipped though Tamco Warehouse. Sam Walton was feared of Monus because he didn’t know how the Phar-Mor grew in short time. In 1992‚ the company expanded‚ it was 300 stores and they hire 25‚000 employees. Monus
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Case 2-9 Phar-Mor I feel that one major flaw in the Phar-Mor company is the fact that Mickey Monus has full control of the company and could pull off such a giant fraud scam. This is a flawed system in management. There were no checks and balances to keep this fraud from happening. Mickey Monus had so much control of those under him that he convinced them to go along with the fraud. That everything would get better soon and they would not have to worry. The ones that did know about the fraud
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Sean Russi The Case of Phar-Mor Inc ACCT-525 October 31‚ 2012 Case Summary The case of Phar-Mor Inc was one of the biggest pre-Enron frauds that have been uncovered. Phar-Mor Inc established in 1982 Phar-Mor was a small little known discount drugstore. Phar-Mor became well known for offering medications at a 25-40% discount rate compared to your normal pharmacy store prices. Phar-Mor’s first six years of existence seemingly were
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providing certain services to clients: book keeping or other things related to the accounting records or financial statements of the audit client‚ they are not allowed to design and implement financial information‚ appraisal or evaluation services‚ internal audit outsourcing services‚ investment banking services‚ legal services and expert services unrelated to the audit. 3. A) If I were put in this situation as an equity investor‚ I would absolutely pursue legal actions against the auditors. If there
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Phar-Mor‚ Inc. 1. 2 cases which companies have committed fraud by misstating inventory: • Rocky Mount Undergarment Company‚ Inc. • Leslie Fay Company 2. Intentional misstatements of inventory is difficult to detect‚ as was in the case of Phar-Mor‚ Inc.‚ because of the collusion by employees and/or management to commit fraud. 3. Coopers & Lybrand won the Phar-Mor‚ Inc. account with a very low bid‚ so they wanted to limit their costs by testing only 4 out of the 129 stores
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The Phar-Mor Code of Ethics Phar-Mor strives to be the leading retailer in providing the lowest priced and highest quality goods for our communities‚ while delivering exemplary levels of customer service. Phar-Mor believes in providing a positive and ethical working environment to help guide all employees in word and action‚ which promotes an unshakable framework of integrity and trust between all stakeholders. Phar-Mor endeavors to proactively contribute to its communities through local philanthropies
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the auditors did not exercise due professional care in performing the audit. I don’t feel they obtained sufficient competent evidential matter and they did not use professional judgment when they informed Phar-Mor in advance which stores
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after the company had filed for bankruptcy in 1991. Silverman quickly took Hospitality Franchise Systems public in a 1992 IPO. HFS was among the fastest growing companies of its size in the 1990s and the company’s stock had risen from its IPO price of $4 per share to $77 per share by 1998. The company made a brief foray into the casino industry‚ but then spun off that business in November 1994 as National Gaming.[1] In 1996‚ Cendant purchased Sierra On-Line and Davidson & Associates for $2.2 billion
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Phar-Mor Case Study Phar-Mor Case 4.6 Questions 1. a) By hiring a member of its external audit team a company could gain insight into the auditor’s process and better devise methods of hiding fraud. b) Hiring a former auditor would greatly compromise and possibly impair the existing external auditor’s ability to remain independent. On top of having knowledge about the auditor’s practice‚ preexisting relationships could cause bias in the audit outcome. c) Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 limits the ability
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Fields Maria Gomozova Sviatlana Lizun Patricia Vaz Megan Wark Very good! 100% +2 cb 6C-1 Summary of Audit Sections Section Purpose Content 1 Objectives of the Engagement To describe the services that are to be rendered to the client (KCN). The objectives include: an audit of KCN’s financial statements for the year ended 12/31/20X5 and to issue a letter of compliance with covenants of the client’s letter of credit agreement
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