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SUBJECT: Forensic Accounting Introduction In this memorandum‚ I will explain the reasons as to why managers feel more pressure than in past years. Also‚ I will discuss several ways that managers can commit fraud for personal gain‚ and how these schemes are eventually caught by forensic accountants. Rising Pressure There has been a growing trend to hold managers accountable for their company’s performance. Wall Street analysts have become enemies of CEOs. These analysts set target quarterly
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change their national flag? The current on-going Australian debate is one that I wholeheartedly agree with. Should Australia change their national flag? Yes‚ yes we should. As an Australian citizen I believe we need to acknowledge the ancestors of our land‚ the aborigines who were here long before European settlers. We need to also acknowledge the fact that we are an independent nation‚ the Union Jack in the top corners suggests Australia to be a British colony. The current flag is anachronistic‚
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Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting Vol. 2‚ Issue 2 Bankruptcy and Fraud Analysis: Shorting and Selling Stocks Hugh Grove Tom Cook Eric Streeper Greg Throckmorton* To auditors‚ investors‚ fund managers‚ short sellers‚ and other external users‚ fraud and bankruptcy models may serve as important tools in analyzing the financial information presented by companies. Along with the earnings management ratios‚ quality of earnings and quality of revenue (Schilit 2003)‚ more elaborate
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general and its information technology sector in particular when he confessed fraud running into millions of dollars in a letter he wrote to the company’s board of directors (Ramachandran‚ 2009). This report is going to focus on‚ an overview of the events that happened in Satyam‚ its consequences on Satyam’s stakeholders‚ the auditors involved and their role in the scam and the current situation of those responsible for the fraud. OVERVIEW OF EVENTS IN SATYAM FROM 1987-2009 Raju formed Satyam in 1987
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Accounting Fraud Case Review the SEC’s case against Waste Management in order to answer the following questions: What were the incentives for committing the fraud? What was the relationship between management and the auditors? Why didn’t the auditors prevent the fraud? What (specifically) accounting methods were used to fraudulently inflate Waste Management’s profits? What accounting methods did they use to try to conceal part of the fraud? What were the financial and social costs of the fraud and
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reimbursements‚ wouldn’t have occurred to this magnitude. Donnelly was targeted in an internal investigation because she was one of three employees with the highest amounts of travel and expense reimbursements hers totaling‚ $115‚000. One of the red flags in the case was the fact that Donnelly’s supervisor had only submitted $40‚000 in travel and expense reimbursements that year. It turned out that Donnelly had been using several different schemes to accumulate such an outrageous amount of travel
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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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Characters: In the movie Frauds there are a few characters who play major roles. Jonathan Wheats portrayed by Hugo Weaving‚ plans a scam to claim insurance money for things that were not actual destroyed or stolen. He his married to Beth Wheats and is a very smart person but becomes paranoid very easily. Furthermore‚ Beth Wheats played by Josephine Byrnes‚ married to Jonathan‚ is a teacher and is unaware of Jonathans plans. Beth becomes annoyed and frustrated by the actions of Roland‚ due to her
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in a museum and you see a flag with four red stars with white borders and a union jack. Then you say that’s Australia’s flag. You are not completely wrong. New Zealand’s flag has a similarity with Australia. This is Australia’s flag: union jack and five stars that are white. We could accidentally put the Australian flag in a zeppelin and show it in an special e.g we won the international soccer tournament. Why did Australia’s flag get shown instead of NZ? Because NZ’s flag looks a lot much like Australia
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