(1) summarizes the factual situation The company was started off by Amelia. The company is a family software company that Aunt Amelia started. She started working in a spare room in her house and was able to bring other relatives together to invest together and form a company. The company was a success that is became part of Wall Street just three years ago. The company has being profitable and there haven’t being any issues associated with the accounting records or any financial data associated
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Enron and WorldCom Case Study This report is based on the demise of Enron Corporation and WorldCom. Both the firms are demised due to the ethical lapses. These ethical lapses come into existence when managements of the firm‚ uses unethical practices to accomplish the goals of the firm. Maintaining financial and accounting standards in the business practices are necessary. The profession of accounting has become a mockery due to the accounting scandals that took place all over the world in the
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Worldcom was the second largest long distance phone company in the United States. The former CEO Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to twenty five years in prison due to increasing revenue the wrong way to increase earnings. This company had the largest bankruptcy filing in the United States. Today‚ the Worldcom accounting scandal is known as one of the worst corporate white collar crimes in history. What were some psychological factors that led to this crime? Financial Pressures from competitors
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EXPENSE RECOGNITION The production‚ sales‚ or cash receipts method can be used to assign revenues to periods of time. Expense recognition involves assigning or matching expenses to periods of time. Some expenses are closely related to the revenues assigned to periods of time. For example‚ the costs of goods sold during a period reflect the costs of materials‚ labor‚ and manufacturing overhead incurred to produce units of product that were sold. These costs are called product expenses. Other expenses
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom 1) What are the pressures that lead executives and managers to “cook the books?” After the rapid evolution of the telecommunication industry in the 1990s‚ WorldCom shifted its strategy to focus on building revenues and acquiring capacity sufficient to handle expected growth. Their biggest goal was to be the No. 1 stock on Wall Street rather than capturing the market share. As a result‚ their Expense-to-Revenue (E/R) Ratio was their measurement for their main objective
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Information This report details the rise and collapse of WorldCom Group: this telecommunication giant employed 60‚000 individuals and had over $104 billion in assets. However‚ most numbers were deliberately misstated in order to maximize income and survive in the global stock market. WorldCom dates back to 1983 when in split up from AT&T to create a separate entity in order to take over the Southern states telecommunication markets. WorldCom focused on providing Long Distance Discount Services (LDDS)
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Case Study The Rise and Fall of WorldcomThis case study is about Bernard Ebbers CEO of Worldcom‚ Inc. and Scott Sullivan CFO of Worldcom‚ Inc. once they were boosted the company growth and they got awards. Later on they made frauds by using their influential tactics on employees and company’s board. Those are Assertiveness: it involves applying legitimate and coercive power to influence others by threatening or giving punishment. This tactic was used by sullivans office where they berated and intimidated
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REVIEWS‚ REFINEMENTS AND NEW IDEAS IN FACE RECOGNITION Edited by Peter M. Corcoran Reviews‚ Refinements and New Ideas in Face Recognition Edited by Peter M. Corcoran Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9‚ 51000 Rijeka‚ Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license‚ which permits to copy‚ distribute‚ transmit‚ and adapt the work in any medium‚ so long as the original work is properly
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GUIDELINES EMPLOYEE REWARD & RECOGNITION POLICY Introduction: Benefits of an Employee Recognition Program 1. Increased customer loyalty and retention; lower turnover. Employees who feel appreciated and respected will be more productive and motivated‚ and are likely to remain longer with the company. 2. Higher employee productivity overall. 3. Increased retention of mid to high performers. 4. Overall increased employee morale. Employees often go above and beyond what is expected of them
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has distinction that gains more widespread appreciation of our value. However‚ recognition is like a Janus of Roman mythology. Sometimes it can produce a good effect like my military experience‚ but sometimes it can exert baneful influence upon human history. Because basically the recognition is the competition with other people‚ on occasion it also can be achieved by bloodshed. Of that reason‚ even if the recognition is leading our performance‚ it should be prevented to supply on a large scale as
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