world ’s third largest automaker. It was established in Japan on 28 August 1937. Apart from its 12 plants in Japan‚ Toyota has 54 manufacturing companies in 27 countries‚ employs 246700 people and markets vehicles in more than 160 countries. Its capital as at March 2002 was 397 billion yen. Toyota is exposed to the fluctuation in foreign currency exchange as it operates mainly in America‚ Continental Europe and Britain. It is therefore affected by the fluctuation in the value of the US dollar‚ the
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The Fraud of the Century: The Case of Bernard Madoff December 2008 Case Study 11 Maria E. Delgado Madoff Ponzi Scheme Bernard Madoff took his investors for $65 billion over the course of nearly two decades. His list of victims includes billionaires‚ celebrities‚ individual investors‚ banks‚ and charities. His scheme was revealed when he confessed in March 2009‚ when he pleading guilty to the charges against him‚ and was then sentenced to 150 years in prison. Madoff was successful for so
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Accounting Fraud: A White Collar Crime Accounting Fraud: A White Collar Crime The CEO and CFO of a Swiss security systems company named Tyco‚ stole 150 million dollars from their company before being caught in 2002. At the height of the scandal‚ the CEO threw a 2 million dollar birthday party for his wife on a private island with guest performer Jimmy Buffet. After being caught‚ the CEO and CFO were sentenced to 8-25 years in prison and Tyco had to repay its investors 2.92 billion dollars (The
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Timothy Rigas‚ former top executives at cable company Adelphia Communications Corp. However‚ they failed to persuade a jury that the looting involved Adelphia’s former assistant treasurer. The jury left unresolved the case against another member of the Rigas family -- Michael Rigas‚ former head of Adelphia operations -- remaining deadlocked on most of the counts against him. Because the Adelphia scandal emerged after the one at Enron‚ and the company was smaller in size than WorldCom or Tyco‚ it
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FERA and FEMA THE Foreign Exchange Regulation Act‚ 1973 (FERA) was repealed and a new Act called the Foreign Exchange Management Act‚ 1999 (FEMA) came into force with effect from June 1‚ 2000‚ with a view to facilitating external trade and payments and promoting orderly development and maintenance of foreign exchange market in India. UNDER the FEMA‚ foreign exchange transactions are divided into two broad categories - current account and capital account transactions. Transactions that alter the
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and Tsunematsu (NO&T) Anti-Financial Crime Provisions A) Fraud (the dishonest inducement of conduct for another’s benefit‚ by false representation) Criminal Law Article 246: Fraud Article 246-2: Computer Fraud (see http://www.cas.go.jp/jp/seisaku/hourei/data/PC2.pdf) B) Offences involving fraud‚ but in specific areas of activity such as the financial markets‚ taxation‚ company law or obtaining services (and credit) To evade paying income
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Q) Examine the role of SEBI as a regulatory authority‚ regulation of capital markets leads to increase in investors’ protection. This assignment discusses the role played by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as a regulator of Indian capital markets and discusses in depth the capital market reforms initiated by SEBI. In spite of these reforms and increasing regulatory powers over the years‚ SEBI has been largely unsuccessful in controlling capital market scams. The strengths and
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FY 12 Recoveries2 Total $ 113‚920.04 1 OWCP may apportion recoveries from provider fraud to various agencies. Settlements stemming health care provider fraud typically reflect as a credit on the agency end-of-year Chargeback Report. It is clear that OWCP need to establish National and district level fraud units to pursue collections and process treasury collections. The agencies should not bear the financial burden of restitution payments that OWCP is failing to pursue. Allow USPS to develop
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Price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) is often used for assessing the company’s stock price. P/E is determined by first calculating the earnings per shares (EPS)‚ which is the post-tax profits divides by the number of shares (Figure 1). Trailing P/E is equal to current market share price divided by trailing earnings per share for the past 12 months‚ whereas forward P/E is equal to current share price divided by expected earnings per shares for the next 12 months or next full-year fiscal period (http://www
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Overview of Quality of Earnings - Some Guiding Principles/Framework The issue of earnings quality arises because of the cost/benefit trade off between cash accounting and accrual accounting. For our purposes‚ we want reported earnings to do two things: 1) to accurately represent current operating performance 2) to aid in accurately forecasting future operating performance These requirements for high-quality earnings mean that the reported earnings amounts for a particular period
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