The situation at Tyco was an example of greed and excess‚ with little to no oversight and shady accounting practices‚ followed with a dose of incompetence and gross stupidity amongst the board members. The changes that had to been performed came out of necessity for the survival of the company’s reputation and not it’s financial status. The fact that
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information and made improper financial transactions. Accounting firms helped conceal the illegal nature of these actions‚ which undermined investor confidence in the stock market and corporate governance in general. The corporate scandals that emerged in 2001 involved Enron‚ WorldCom‚ and the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen and were of national importance. Congress responded to these elaborate white-collar crimes by enacting the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act‚ also known
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002Introduction2001-2002 was marked by the Arthur Andersen accounting scandal and the collapse of Enron and WorldCom. Corporate reforms were demanded by the government‚ the investors and the American public to prevent similar future occurrences. Viewed to be largely a result of failed or poor governance‚ insufficient disclosure practices‚ and a lack of satisfactory internal controls‚ in 2002 George W. Bush signed into law the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that became effective on
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References: Ferrell‚ O. C.‚ Fraedrich‚ J.‚ & Ferrell‚ L. (2007). Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases (7th ed). Boston: Houghton-Mifflin. Hein‚ K.‚ & Cassidy‚ H. (2002). As Big Scandals Mount‚ Experts Say Be Truthful--and Careful--in Ads. Brandweek. Article. Retrieved from EBSCO HOST: Business Source Complete.
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Guidelines for Memos A list of resources for good business writing appears at the end of this document. It is strongly recommended that any serious business person consider owning writing resources. Written communication is often the distinguishing factor in determining career success in any business or government environment. The following are general guidelines intended to assist the student attempting to write a business memo for the first time. A memo (short for memorandum which is latin
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CASE 3 : Accounting Fraud at WolrdCom Table of Contents Introduction....................................................................................................................... 1 Question 1 .......................................................................................................................... 2 Question 2 .......................................................................................................................... 4 Question 3 ..........................
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recording $5‚500 that were received from a customer and planned to steal the money to buy a new cell phone for himself. This action is an example of error. a. True b. False 2. What key piece of legislation was passed in response to corporate accounting scandals by Enron‚ WorldCom‚ and others? a. Sarbanes-Oxley Act. b. 1933 Securities Act. c. 1934 Securities Exchange Act. d. Regulation Fair Disclosure. 3. Internal controls represent plans to: a. Safeguard the assets b. Continually improve the efficiency
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New Fraud Crackdown Looms | Emily Chasan Senior Editor With accounting-fraud cases at nearly a 10-year low‚ complacency might be the biggest fraud risk facing chief financial officers. Large fraud-related restatements of corporate earnings reports have fallen sharply since the financial crisis‚ but that doesn’t mean that companies aren’t still vulnerable to them. “There still is financial-reporting fraud going on out there‚” said Andrew Ceresney‚ the new co-director of the Securities and
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FINANCIAL ANALYST: THE EXPERT OF ECONOMIC AND ACCOUNTING Quyen Chu San Highline Community College English 205 Feb 4‚ 2012 CASE STUDY : THE BOOK OPENS THE DOOR Walking around the Phu Tho bookstore in Ho Chi Minh city‚ I decided to look for an interested book to bring along with me to America. Numerous questions came in my mind “What do I need? What is that book about?” Accidently‚ I went to the case containing full of financial and investment books. A purple small book with the phrase
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Peregrine Financial Group- Case study Last July 2012‚ a new financial fraud came out and hit the news headline‚ déjà vu‚ perhaps of other famous scandals‚ but not. This time a medium size financial institutions‚ name “ Peregrine Financial Group Inc” accused of shortfall of funds for around $200 million‚ where its CEO‚ Russell Wasendorf managed to misstated financial record for over 20 years‚ and finally in July 2012 filed for Bankruptcy. CEO‚ Russell Wasendorf‚ was no different than others high
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