KPMG United States- Oct. 17‚ 2015 1. Issuer O: “The Firm identified a fraud risk related to revenue. The Firm’s testing of controls over revenue and accounts receivable‚ however‚ was insufficient. Specifically: With respect to one of the issuer’s segments‚ which consisted of three business units‚ the Firm failed to identify and test any controls over revenue and accounts receivable for two of the business units‚ which‚ in combination‚ represented a significant portion of the issuer’s total revenue
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Tanner can get his funds back Fraud. When Tanner was getting information over the hotel‚ Grano‚ the owner‚ stated that the motel netted $30‚000 during the previous year and that it will net at least $45‚000 for the next year. When Grano turns over the motel books‚ which had all the information of the motel‚ and is where Grano could have gotten the information of the numbers that he told Grano during negotiation. But‚ he committed an element of fraud which is silence because in the motel books it
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What were the consequences that befell the company upon the discovery of the fraudulent activities? The Satyam case the discovery of the fraudulent activities gives big impact to the stakeholders. First of all‚ the Satyam business will be in difficulties and cannot focus on the core business. Satyam may be collapse like Enron Company. Employees of Satyam spent anxious moments and sleepless nights as they faced non-payment of salaries‚ project cancellations‚ layoffs and equally bleak prospects
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Case analysis: Case: Infosys vs Satyam. Whose wealth is maximized? 1. Synopsis: The case revolves around the accounts manipulation of Satyam Computers. It makes a comparison between two companies of the same competitive IT industry i.e Infosys and Satyam Computers. It shows how the company’s fate/ business scenario depends upon the financial vision of the CFO. The principal objective of the case is to analyze the role of a CFO in maximising shareholders’ wealth. The main objective of every
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Livent. Inc Overview In the year 1979 Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb decided to enter the show business world. These two young entrepreneurs were able to convince a well-known Toronto businessman to invest one million in “cinema complex”. Over the next several years Drabinsky and Gottlieb were successfully able to expand their company‚ while they convinced to gather up large sums for the development of multiscreen theaters complexes throughout Canada and the United states. By 1980 Cineplex Odeon
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Many were the factors that contributed to the fraud‚ but I believe it is possible to analyze the Satyam case under two main different perspectives. The first addresses the conditions that made possible‚ and eventually stimulated‚ the existence of the accounting fraud perpetrated from the company top management. The second one is about the issue of gaps in the company’s control framework‚ which failed miserably in identify and properly address the problems in company financial statements. Analyzing
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Satyam Shivam Sundram Truth Godliness Beauty Talks given from 07/11/87 am to 21/11/87 pm English Discourse series CHAPTER 1 Satyam‚ Shivam‚ Sundram 7 November 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED OSHO‚ WHAT IS THE MYSTIC CONCEPTION OF ULTIMATE REALITY? Maneesha‚ the mystic’s conception of the ultimate reality is the only authentic‚ real experience. It is not a thought or a concept‚ but an existential experience. But the mystic does not deal with the
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Introduction Satyam Computer Services is a global IT service company with clients including Telstra‚ Coca-Cola‚ Qantas‚ NAB and Suncorp. Satyam was once a leader in IT services in India until pressures to keep up with the growing outsourcing industry overwhelmed the company. This convinced company chairman Raju to falsify operation figures‚ embezzle funds and purchase lands resulting in fraud. Raju’s admission to fraud in 2009 caused Satyam share value to drop by 70% and the collapse of the Indian
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Issues December 16‚ 2008: Satyam board approved a 51% stake acquisition of Maytas Infra‚ a listed company in the Bombay Stock Exchange for US$1.3 billion and 100% stake in unlisted firm Maytas Properties for US$300 million. Both of these firms were in the construction and real estate business and Satyam’s chairman‚ Ramalinga Raju family held a 36% stake in Mayta’s Infra and 35% stake in Maytas Properties. Implication: The deal was seen as a way of diverting cash from Satyam’s shareholder to Satyam’s
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Introduction to Satyam Computers Limited Satyam computers limited established as a private limited company by two brothers B. Rama Raju and B. Ramalinga Raju in 1987. It was converted to a public limited company in August 1991. By 2008‚ Satyam was established as a fourth largest Indian IT Company in India and US. It had grown upto 53000 employees‚ 600 plus customers including 185 fortune 500 companies. The company had annual revenues over $2 billion. The company was operated in more than 66 countries
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