Bahrain Collage of Business Administration A Paper Highlighting: How accounting fraud has changed merger valuation Prepared For: Professor Omar Al-‐Jahmani Course: Advanced Financial Accounting (ACC 610) Term: Second Semester‚ 2012-‐2013 Prepared By: Mohamed S Sultan‚ MBA
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Topic One: Accounting Information Systems: Theoretical foundation and overview Drivers for business & I.S change Globalisation o Force behind globalisation is technology. o Changed the way we communicate‚ transport goods and services‚ and travel. o Enabled organisations to interact with partners‚ suppliers and customers in virtual environment. Deregulation o Removal of constraints on competitive market forces through free trade agreements. E.g. Australia-China‚ Australia-New Zealand
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Components of Accounting Systems Accounting information systems consist of records‚ methods‚ and equipment. These are designed to capture information about a company’s transactions and to provide output including financial‚ managerial‚ and tax reports. All accounting information systems have these same goals‚ and thus share some basic components. These components apply whether or not a system is heavily computerized‚ yet the components of computerized systems usually provide more accuracy‚ speed
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Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Improving Process through Technology Introduction: Doctors are famous for sloppy scribbling -- and handwritten prescriptions lead to thousands of medication errors each year. Electronics to the rescue: most hospitals that switched to computerized physician order entry systems saw a 66 percent drop in prescription errors. Illegible handwriting and transcription errors are responsible for as much as 61 percent of medication errors in hospitals. A simple mistake such as putting
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Coding Fraud Michael Anastasio Ultimate Medical Academy Before answering the questions “what are my responsibilities for billing on a procedure that was not performed but asked to do so anyway”‚ Let me explain a little on Medical Billing Fraud? It is an attempt to fraudulently obtain payments from insurance carriers. Fraud in medical billing cost tax payers and medical providers millions of dollars annually (all-things-medical-billing.com). In 1996‚ HIPPA established the Health Care Fraud and
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Chapter 5 The Expenditure Cycle Part 1: Purchases and Cash Disbursements Procedures Accounting Information Systems‚ 5th edition James A. Hall COPYRIGHT © 2007 Thomson South-Western‚ a part of The Thomson Corporation. Thomson‚ the Star logo‚ and South-Western are trademarks used herein under license Objectives for Chapter 5 • Tasks performed during purchases and cash disbursement processes • Departments involved in purchases and cash disbursement activities and the flow of these transactions
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“Protecting the firm ’s assets through a good internal control system. The objective is to guard against loss of assets because of theft‚ accidental destruction‚ and errors. Assurance must exist that transactions related to assets have been properly processed and that appropriate physical handling and control over assets exist.” MYOB is a computerised accounting system in which it provides users with an exclusive modern integrated accounting package for relevant tasks of an accountant such as bookkeeping
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interact to achieve a goal is: a) A system b) An accounting information system c) Data d) Mandatory information This results when a subsystem achieves its goals while contributing to the organization’s overall goal. e) Goal conflict f) Goal congruence g) Value of information h) Systems congruence Goal conflict may result when i) A decision or action of a subsystem is inconsistent with the system as a whole. j) A subsystem achieves
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Running head: CASE ANALYSIS OF THE ACCOUNTING FRAUD AT WORLDCOM Case Analysis of the Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Angela Crossley Troy University October 27‚ 2008 History The origin of WorldCom can be traced back to 1983. The CEO‚ Bernard J. Ebbers‚ of WorldCom had very interesting beginnings. He invested in Long Distance Discount Services (LLDS) with eight other investors‚ and believed that the telecommunications industry was a very good business venture. In the beginning
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still a young and constantly evolving nation. Originally being a penal colony‚ part of the British Empire‚ Australia has grown into an essentially independent country and has proven to be a solid force in both the world economy and in the field of accounting. • History and Federal structure The isle of Australia was discovered in 1522 by British explorers and was originally called New Holland. It was designated by the British government to be a penal colony. The name was changed to Australia
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