A Corporate Fraud is defined as a set of Activities undertaken by a company or set of individuals that are done in a dishonest or illegal manner‚ and are designed to give an advantage to the perpetrating company or the individual. Corporate fraud schemes go beyond the scope of an employee’s stated position‚ and are marked by their complexity and economic impact on the business‚ other employees and outside parties. Corporate Frauds are becoming very inherent in the present era. A selected range of
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ABSTRACT The accounting fraud is frequent‚ widespread and familiar in many countries and organization. It brings a loss to firms and investors. But there is no research trying to explain factors comprehensively influencing it. The obyectives of the research are to test and explain the effect of the internal control effectiveness‚ suitability of reward‚ compliance to accounting rules‚ information asymmetry‚ management morality toward unethical behavior and intention to accounting fraud. More particularly
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9-104-071 REV: SEPTEMBER 14‚ 2007 ROBERT S. KAPLAN DAVID KIRON Accounting Fraud at WorldCom WorldCom could not have failed as a result of the actions of a limited number of individuals. Rather‚ there was a broad breakdown of the system of internal controls‚ corporate governance and individual responsibility‚ all of which worked together to create a culture in which few persons took responsibility until it was too late. — Richard Thornburgh‚ former U.S. attorney general1 On July 21‚ 2002
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3.2. Conflict with the Role‚ Duties of the Auditor and Litigation Concerns The CCMC believes that the Proposed Standard undermines the role and responsibilities of auditor. It says that “businesses must have a strong system of internal controls and recognizes the vital role external audits play in capital formation and supports efforts to improve audit effectiveness”. The ultimate goal of audit and role of auditors need to be figured out to further understand the Chamber’s argument. The development
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Accounting fraud can be defined as knowingly falsifying accounting records in order to increase sales revenue and net income. Accounting fraud is committed in corporations by means of showing false information‚ using funds for illegal purposes or inflate expenses‚ overstating revenues‚ understating expenses or overstating the value of corporate assets. All these activities are entirely unethical. Behaving ethically depends on the capability to recongnize the ethical issues and to believe on their
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Multiple choice Ch13 Liabilities TRUE-FALSE—Conceptual 1. A zero-interest-bearing note payable that is issued at a discount will not result in any interest expense being recognized. 2. Dividends in arrears on cumulative preferred stock should be recorded as a current liability. 3. Magazine subscriptions and airline ticket sales both result in unearned revenues. 4. Discount on Notes Payable is a contra account to Notes Payable on the balance sheet. 5. All long-term
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Phar-Mor Case Study Phar-Mor Case 4.6 Questions 1. a) By hiring a member of its external audit team a company could gain insight into the auditor’s process and better devise methods of hiding fraud. b) Hiring a former auditor would greatly compromise and possibly impair the existing external auditor’s ability to remain independent. On top of having knowledge about the auditor’s practice‚ preexisting relationships could cause bias in the audit outcome. c) Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 limits the ability
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SUBJECT: Accounting fraud at WorldCom Problem Statement WorldCom penetrated the largest accounting fraud in U.S history by overstating its tax income between 1999 and 2002. The main players in WorldCom’s accounting fraud included CFO Scott Sullivan‚ the General Accounting and Internal Audit departments‚ external auditor Arthur Andersen‚ and the board of directors. While individuals did have their own sins‚ employees cowardice and self-interested‚ the board passive and ineffective‚ external auditors
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Waste Management Inc. Fraud I. BRIEF HISTORY Waste Management Inc is a company in North America that provides waste and environmental services. This company was founded by Larry Beck in 1894. The company ’s operations also involved managing air and gas‚ environmental and groundwater protection as well as environmental engineering. By 1971‚ the company became more public after the 133 acquisitions and the $82M in revenue that were made and soon became the largest waste hauler in the
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom LDDS began operations in 1984 offering services to local retail and commercial customers in the southern states. It was initially a loss making enterprise‚ and thus hired Bernie J. (Bernie) Ebbers to run things. It took him less than a year to make the company profitable. By the end of 1993‚ LDDS was the fourth largest long distance carrier in the United States. After a shareholder vote in May 1995‚ the company officially came to be known as WorldCom. WorldCom culture
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