Open Journal of Accounting‚ 2013‚ 2‚ 26-38 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojacct.2013.22006 Published Online April 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojacct) Corporate Accounting Fraud: A Case Study of Satyam Computers Limited Madan Lal Bhasin Bang College of Business‚ KIMEP University‚ Almaty‚ Republic of Kazakhstan Email: madan.bhasin@rediffmail.com Received January 15‚ 2013; revised March 12‚ 2013; accepted March 28‚ 2013 Copyright © 2013 Madan Lal Bhasin. This is an open access article distributed
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Madoff Securities Case Choukri Alaoui Liberty University Madoff Case Summary On December 11‚ 2008‚ Madoff was under arrest by federal agents and charged in a twenty years securities scheme that was the largest fraud in the history of Wall Street. On March 12‚ 2009‚ he pleaded guilty to all the federal charges filed against him counting securities fraud‚ money laundering and perjury. He had been one of the most valued financiers in Wall Street up to this scheme. He was nothing but another individual
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BOC CASE Yimin Tu 1. Using Kimmel et al.’s (2011) principles of control activities (described in Figure 6)‚ identify the internal control weaknesses that contributed to the BOC fraud incident. BOC has no independent internal verification. Bank managers had insider authority to make loans and transfer funds without controls. The former general manager at BOC Kaiping branch made loans and transferred fund to Ever Joint to pull in profits for himself. There is no second person to verify and supervise
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CASE 4: ACCOUNTING FRAUD AT WORLDCOM Betty Vinson: victim or villain? Should criminal fraud charges have been brought to her? How should employees react when ordered by their employer to do something they do not believe in or feel uncomfortable doing? In discussing whether Vinson should been charged with criminal fraud‚ it can be analyzed from ethical perspective which can truly judge whether she was morally responsible for the wrong or not. In order to determine whether Vinson was morally responsible
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3) Roots of the scandal The roots of the fraud and the role of internal auditors As explained above‚ the fraud was implemented by the former CEO Bernard Ebbers and commited by his financial director Scott D. Sullivan. The technique used by Worldcom was pretty simple; indeed‚ he cooked the books by saving pure operating expenses such as maintenance network in capital expenditure instead of expenses in order to hide its decreasing earnings and to maintain the price of Worldcom’s stock. In summary
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 A Day in the Life of Brent Dorsey Staff Auditor Professional Pressures 59 63 65 71 79 3.2 Nathan Johnson’s Rental Car Reimbursement Solving Ethical Dilemmas–Should He Pocket the Cash? Recognizing It’s a Fraud and Evaluating What to Do . . . . . . 3.3 The Anonymous Caller 3.4 WorldCom The Story of a Whistleblower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 Hollinger
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was declared bankrupt in December 200 1 after its investment partnership proved to be masking a colossal mountain of debt (around $1.2 billion). Similarly‚ Madoffs company‚ Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities‚ was associated with a $65 billion fraud ’ that affected around 4‚800 clients worldwide‚ includíng investment banks (e.g.‚ Banco Santander‚ UniCredit‚ HSBC)‚ hedge funds (e.g.‚ Ascot Partners and Man Group PLC)‚ charities (e.g.‚ Mortimer B. Zuckerman Charitable Remainder Trust‚ JEHT Foundation)
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Case Study: How a CFO plowed himself under The three critical elements of the fraud triangle: 1) motive‚ 2) opportunity‚ and 3) Rationalization‚ clearly exist within the case of the $150‚000 embezzlement involving McKinley‚ his tractor company‚ and CFO position with the bank. McKinley’s motive‚ the driving force behind this act of embezzlement was his own self pride: his inability to deal with the fact that he had made a bad choice of investment‚ a poor investment strategy and an inability
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Case 3.1 Enron: Understanding the Client’s Business and Industry Price‚ Ria; Walters‚ Jessica 1. Inherent risk‚ a component of the audit risk model‚ refers to the susceptibility of the accounts to material misstatement‚ without regard to the systems internal controls. Inherent risk is a function of the nature of the client’s business‚ the major types of transactions‚ and the effectiveness and integrity of its managers and accountants. A clear understanding of the audit client’s business model is essential in assessing
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Employment-At-Will Case Case Example A: Elaine has sued Jerry because Jerry fired her. Elaine was on the job for two months.The job offer letter that Jerry had sent her mentioned the great career opportunities at the company and stated that her annual salary would be $30‚000. The company is an employment‐at‐will employer. Elaine was given no reason for the termination. After the termination‚ Jerry hired a man named Kramer‚ who had less job experience and education than Elaine‚ for the position
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