Crazy Eddie‚ Inc. financial fraud case Crazy Eddie was an American retail store chain run by the Antar family‚ which was established as a private company in 1969 in Brooklyn‚ New York by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar. The fraud at Crazy Eddie was one of the longest running in modern times‚ lasting from 1969 to 1987. Crazy Eddie became a known symbol for corporate fraud in its time‚ but has since been eclipsed by the Enron‚ Worldcom and Bernie Madoff accounting scandals. Commencement of fraud
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Eddie Antar‚ the CEO of the Crazy Eddie Discount Electronics Chain. In 1993 Eddie was convicted for an $80 million stock fraud and after that his business collapse. Before the company went public in 1984 Eddie and two brothers were accused of putting together a scheme and inflated the value of the company. In 1990 Mr. Antar was on the run because the government charged‚ off millions and they found him in June 1992 in Israel then they extradited back to the United States. When Antar was 45 years old
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Case 1.8 Crazy Eddie‚ Inc. Case Summary: At age of 16‚ in 1978‚ Eddie Antar opened Crazy Eddie Inc in New York City. This was an electronics store where leadership positions were assumed by family and relatives. Their excellent advertising techniques through radio and their cut rate prices allowed the company to become “transhipper”‚ selling goods to other electronic retailers in NYC area. Crazy Eddie Inc went public in 1986 in order to finance expansion program and in that year‚ it was
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clauses in engagement letters. Crazy Eddie 1. Compute key ratios and other financial measures for Crazy Eddie during the period 1984-1987. Identify and briefly explain the red flags in Crazy Eddie ’s financial statements that suggested the firm posted a higher-than-normal level of audit risk. Current Ratio (1987-84): 2.41‚ 1.40‚ 1.56‚ 0.93 Quick Ratio (1987-84): 1.40 ‚ 0.60‚ 0.77‚ 0.15 Inventory Turnover (1987-84): 3.23‚ 4.38‚ 5.13‚ 5.88 Inventory Turnover ratio shows how often goods are
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1) The following table provides key financial ratios for Crazy Eddie during the period 1984-1987: | |1987 |1986 |1985 |1984 | |Current Ratio |2.41 |1.4 |1.56 |0.93 | |Quick Ratio |1.4 |0.6 |0.77 |0.15 | |Debt Ratio |0.68 |0.66 |0.64 |0.83 | |Debt-to-Equity |2.16
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SUMMARY Eddie Antar (Crazy Eddie) dominated the retail consumer electronics market in the New York City metropolitan area. By 1987‚Antar’s firm‚ Crazy Eddie ‚ Inc.‚ had 43 retail outlets‚ sales exceeding $350 million‚ and outstanding stock with a collective market value of $600 million. During his term as the company’s chief executive. Antar had personal gain of more than $70 million. The first step Crazy Eddie done in order to gain success was to expand his little store into many big consumer
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Defining Key Ratios: http://www.equitymaster.com/detail.asp?date=01/05/2010&story=3&title=Investing-Back-to-basics-XXI * Net interest margin (NIM) * Operating profit margin (OPM) * Cost to income ratio * Other income to total income ratio Net interest margin (NIM): Just as we calculate and measure performances of non-financial companies on the basis of their operating performance (EBITDA margins)‚ the performance of banks is largely dependent on the NIM for the year. The difference
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Eddie Blinkov Lean On Me In the movie called Lean On Me‚ Joe Clark the principal uses methods to establish authority in the school and these are the ways he did that. Firstly‚ he comes off as a very strict and disrespectful man to establish dominance in the school with the teachers and students. An example of this is when he first came into the school and yelled at all the teachers for doing a bad job to educate the students. This shows that Joe really cares for these children and wants the teachers
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Core problems There are several issues for Eddie Bauer‚ Inc. to tackle‚ low profit margin ratio‚ high sales return and high inventory level‚ and brand positioning. Analysis of the problems Eddie Bauer yielded the lowest net income among its competitors like The Gap‚ A & F and Land’s End. It achieved similar gross profit margin but got a poor performance on overall net income at 1% because it suffered from high expenditure on SG&A in both retail and catalog operations which accounted for 37%
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Eddie Adams was born on June 12‚ 1933‚ in New Kingston‚ Pennsylvania to Edward and Adelaide Adams. As a teenager Adams became interested in photography and joined his high school’s newspaper staff as a photographer. After graduating high school‚ he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and spent three years as a combat photographer during the Korean War. In 1958‚ Adams left the Marines and joined the staff of The Evening Bulletin in Philadelphia and eventually became a photographer for the
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