Case 1.9 ZZZZ Best Company‚ Inc‚ 1. Ernst & Whinney audit firm suffered tremendously from the backlash of ZZZZ Best’s case. One of the issues stemming from ZZZZ Best’s case is the difference between a review and an audit as evidence by civil suit filed by a California bank against the firm. The bank claimed that its decision to grant ZZZZ Best’s loan was based on the opinion of Ernst & Whinney review of ZZZZ Best’s financial statements period ending July 31‚ 1986. The case was ruled in favor
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best was Barry Minkow. He was a very smart young entrepreneur when he started the company. He was involved in credit card forgeries prior to starting his own carpet cleaning business “ZZZZ Best Company”. Minkow began his business with small carpet cleaning jobs and he became a multimillionaire in a very short period of time. Minkow met a person named Tom Padgett at Los Angeles Health club. This was the beginning of Minkow’s big fraud scheme. Padgett was the insurance claims adjuster and Minkow became
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ZZZZ Best Company Fraud Case Study 1) At an early age‚ Barry Minkow was introduced to the carpet cleaning industry by his mother who worked part time as a telephone solicitor for a small carpet cleaning company. This insight of the industry allowed Minkow to understand that the carpet cleaning industry was one which had very few barriers to entry‚ no licensing requirements‚ and required only a small amount of capital to enter. Also‚ because of these few barriers to entry‚ the industry has historically
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retrospect there could not have been any payment as the job did not exist. He should have determined that Tom Padgett was a co-conspirator in this fraud‚ as he was a friend at the health club making him a related party‚ the company that Padgett and Minkow created did not exist and probably could have been found out with some effort. He also admitted he did not inspect any of the restoration sites‚ he should have spoken to
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the third-party can only give information on what they know. Using physical evidence has a limitation because things may not always look as how they appear. Ernst & Whinney believed they were at one of ZZZZ Best’s restoration sites‚ but in fact Minkow had spent $4 million on a building. He did this to make it look like the building was one of his restoration sites‚ but in reality it was just a building he had bought for the sole purpose of duping the auditors. As for analytical procedures performed
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Case 1.9 ZZZZ Best Company‚ Inc. Delta. Describe the elements of the Fraud Triangle that apply to this case. Assume you are the perpetrator. Is there a better way to perpetrate this fraud? If there is‚ describe your method. Specify practical recommendations for the client to prevent this fraud from occurring in the future. The first element of the Fraud Triangle in the case of ZZZZ Best‚ case 1.9 is Incentives/Pressure. Incentives/Pressure- As a result of the pressure placed on a person who
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Hall of Roids? Barry Bonds is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players in the history of the game. However‚ after a court trial against his trainer‚ it was proven that Barry Bonds had used steroids during training throughout his baseball career. Now his record of 73 home runs in a season has a big asterisk next to it (Bunning). Yet‚ Barry Bonds and many other athletes are still inducted into their sports’ Hall of Fame even though they used steroids. Athletes who used steroids should
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Marion Barry‚ good mayor but bad man. Marion Barry former Mayor of the United States capital. Most known in America for his "Bitch set me up"‚ video taped‚ Ramada Inn arrest. Charged with possession of a controlled substance‚ he was still reelected in 1994. This proving Mayor Barry was respected by many Washington citizens and a good Mayor. Marion Barry was possibly a great man with great intentions but weaknesses to sex‚ drugs‚ racism and pressures of the position of taking care of a city
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word in my household: Barry Bonds. To use those to words was worse than any other expletive in the English language. As I grew older‚ I was astonished to learn that other people did not treat that name with the same infamy that I was taught to use. Some people‚ I learned‚ even considered Bonds to be the greatest player of all time. I was astounded. How could this man‚ whom I had been conditioned to avoid even saying the name of‚ be treated with so much reverence? Barry Bonds‚ for the non-sports
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The Conscience of a Conservative: Chapter 1 The first chapter of The Conscience of a Conservative articulately describes the conservative ideology. Barry Goldwater delves into Conservatism‚ and explains that although economics play a role in their ideals‚ it is surely not the main focus—supporting the idea‚ and stressing the fact‚ that they are not money cravers. In a sense‚ the well-being of the average man and their needs‚ such as freedom‚ over rule their “economic wants‚” as depicted in paragraph
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