CASE STUDY ATPB 313 – Accounting Theory & Practice SEM 2 2013/2014 (100 MARKS -10%) Instruction: Answer all of the following questions (10 marks for each question). CASE STUDY 1 (50 marks) Title: Motivation for earnings management among auditors in Malaysia Farisha‚ H.‚ Hafiza‚ A. H.‚ and Zalailah‚ S. (2012). Motivation for earnings management among auditors in Malaysia‚ Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences‚ 65(3)‚ 239-246. Required: 1. In your own words‚ summarize the article
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Zack Cearley 11/15/2012 Accounting 1101- Mason The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ often abbreviated as SOX‚ is a legislative act passed by Congress in response to the Enron and WorldCom financial scandals. The primary purpose of SOX is to protect shareholders from errors or fraudulent reporting by the company they have invested in. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is enforced by the Securities and Exchange Commission‚ a department dedicated to ensuring compliance to SOX from
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without careful consideration at senior levels (Luft‚ 1997). Numerous scandals in the late 1990s and early 2000s seemed to add credence to the criticism of business ethics. Corporate executives of WorldCom‚ a giant in the telecommunications field‚ admitted fraud and misrepresentation in financial statements. WorldCom’s former CEO went on trial for alleged crimes related to this accounting ethics scandal (Luft‚ 1997). A similar scandal engulfed Enron in the late 1990s and its former CEO‚ Ken Lay‚ also
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employee for Enron‚ one of the largest energy companies in the world at the time. As an employee you have the option of owning stock in it and you also have a retirement plan with Enron. But what you don’t know is that Enron has been committing accounting fraud for a while now and Enron’s stocks aren’t really worth $90 and that they are soon going to file for bankruptcy. The executives haven’t told you this because if they told you the truth‚ you would take your money out and they would lose all
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and shareholders analyze earnings before deciding whether or not to invest in the company. Because of this‚ companies know that their earnings play a major part of determining if their company stays afloat. Companies will use different methods of accounting to cloud the differences between reality and said company’s projections. The spectrum goes from conservative to overly aggressive to fraud. The conservative accountant will use the most realistic numbers and typically provide the lowest earnings
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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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THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW Vol. 83‚ No. 3 2008 pp. 757–787 Real and Accrual-Based Earnings Management in the Pre- and Post-Sarbanes-Oxley Periods Daniel A. Cohen New York University Aiyesha Dey University of Chicago Thomas Z. Lys Northwestern University ABSTRACT: We document that accrual-based earnings management increased steadily from 1987 until the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002‚ followed by a significant decline after the passage of SOX. Conversely‚ the level of real earnings
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Week Five Reflection Summary ACC/290 Principles of Accounting Date Teacher Week Five Reflection Summary Team B In recent years there have been many highly publicized financial accounting scandals. Enron‚ WorldCom‚ and AIG are a few of the well- known corporate companies that have been involved in financial reporting scandals. United Sates regulators and lawmakers made known their concerns of mistrust in corporate accounting‚ because of unethical financial reporting. In 2002 Congress
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success story. However‚ the success began to unravel with the accumulation of debt and expenses‚ the fall of the stock market‚ and long distance rates and revenue. It would take 2 years for the extent of these problems to become public‚ and accounting scandals like that of Worldcom would make history in the finance and telecommunication areas. While the intent is to make money to benefit a person or a group of people through illegal acts while disguising their illegal origin‚ a whistleblower may
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Introduction Tyco International Ltd is a Switzerland-based holding company of Tyco Group. It is a diversified manufacturing and service company‚ with four main operating groups.Tyco Fire and Security (generating 53 percent of total revenues) is the world leader in the design‚ manufacture‚ installation‚ monitoring‚ and service of fire detection‚ protection‚ and suppression systems‚ as well as being the world leader in electronic security services. Tyco Electronics (23 percent of revenues) is one
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