...Discussion "Fraud " Please respond to the following: * From the e-Activity, evaluate the cause(s) of the fraud. Recommend a strategy that could have prevented the fraud. Support your recommendation with examples. ACC 578 Week 2 Discussion 1 "Data Analysis and Fraud Investigation" Please respond to the following: * Imagine that you have been hired as a fraud examiner to review the risk of fraud at a major retailer. Analyze the data analysis tools available to you and propose a plan for which tools you will use. Provide a rationale for your plan. ACC 578 Week 2 Discussion 2 "Audit Objectives and Computer Analysis" Please respond to the following: * You have been tasked by your audit manager to develop an audit plan of a major bank. Propose the key elements of your audit plan and the end result you expect from implementing the audit. Justify the key elements you chose for the plan. * From the e-Activity, analyze the systems the company used and propose a computer analysis plan that would have detected the fraud. Support your analysis with examples. ACC 578 Week 2 Assignment 1 Fraud Prevention and Detection Policy Due Week 2 and worth 160 points You are a senior accountant at a new start-up information technology company known as Dingwow Inc. You have just recently been hired and the company has charged you with recommending a fraud policy. Use the Internet, Strayer databases, or your text, to research the elements of an effective fraud policy. Write...
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...RESTORING TRUST AFTER FRAUD: DOES CORPORATE GOVERNANCE MATTER? David B. Farber The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management Michigan State University N232 Business College Complex East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 e-mail: farberd@msu.edu (517) 432-0615 First Draft: January 2003 Current Draft: January 7, 2004 This paper is adapted from my dissertation completed at Cornell University. I would like to thank my committee chairperson, Julia D’Souza, for her unwavering support and guidance in the development of this paper. I also thank my other committee members - Charles Lee, Tim Mount, and Bhaskaran Swaminathanas well as Daniel Beneish, Walt Blacconiere, Tom Dyckman, John Elliott, Sue Haka, Marilyn Johnson, Tom Linsmeier, Kathy Petroni, Mike Shields, and workshop participants at The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, Georgia State University, Indiana University, Michigan State University, The University of Nebraska, New York University, and Syracuse University for their suggestions and comments. I appreciate the valuable comments I received at the 2002 AAA meeting. I thank Mark Beasley for sharing his sample of fraud firms. I am also grateful to the librarians at Cornell and the University of Rochester for their invaluable assistance, with special thanks to Don Schnedeker. I thank I/B/E/S for analyst data. I thank the editor and two anonymous reviewers for helpful suggestions that have greatly improved this paper. Finally, I acknowledge the financial support...
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...Anatomy of computer accounting frauds A. Seetharaman, M. Senthilvelmurugan and Rajan Periyanayagam Faculty of Management, Multimedia University, Malaysia Keywords Fraud, Corruption, Financial reporting, Whistleblowing, Internal control, Corporate governance Abstract This paper introduces fraud as asset misappropriations (85 per cent of cases), corruption and fraudulent statements. Symptoms include accounting anomalies, lack of internal control environment, lifestyle and behaviour. The most effective tools for fraud detection are internal audit review, specific investigation by management, and whistle-blowing. The paper details the fraud investigation process and the role of auditors as fraud examiners. The correlation of fraud perpetrators’ personality with the size of losses is examined. Personality is analysed into age, gender, position, educational background and collusion. A strong system of internal control is most effective in fraud prevention. Fraud prevention procedures, targeted goals and improvements to system weaknesses feature in the paper. Fraud impacts on accounting transactions in accounts receivable, receipts and disbursements, accounts payable, inventories and fixed assets, and financial reporting. The monetary impact resulting from fraud is analysed by the type of victim and the amount of loss. Internal control and good employment practices prevent fraud and mitigate loss. Computer accounting frauds 1055 Introduction Accounting fraud involves an intentional action...
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...ROLE OF AUDITORS IN FRAUD DETECTION, PREVENTION AND REPORTING IN NIGERIA Ayobami Oluwagbemiga Oyinlola Mr Tai Solarin University of education,Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, oluwagbemiga@in.com Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Oyinlola, Ayobami Oluwagbemiga Mr, "THE ROLE OF AUDITORS IN FRAUD DETECTION, PREVENTION AND REPORTING IN NIGERIA" (2010). Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). Paper 517. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/517 THE ROLE OF AUDITORS IN FRAUD DETECTION, PREVENTION AND REPORTING IN NIGERIA OYINLOLA OLUWAGBEMIGA oluwagbemiga@in.com Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun , Ijebu-ode Ogun State. Abstract This study investigates the role of auditors in the detection, prevention and reporting of fraud. Data were obtained from 184 respondents in Nigeria. The findings revealed that the respondents are very concerned about the problem of fraud. In addition, the respondents placed very high expectation on auditors’ duties on fraud prevention and detection. This perception is in contrast with the stated primary objective of an audit, as stipulated in ISA 200, which merely required auditors to form an opinion on the financial statements, but not of fraud detection. Keywords: Auditors, fraud, detection, prevention Introduction That an auditor has the responsibility for the prevention, detection and reporting of fraud, other illegal acts...
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...Dixon, Woodhead, Frank, Lowe, and Smith, have continued to investigate the existence of the expectation gap and its complications. The audit expectation gap exists when the public user and auditors have different beliefs about what an auditor’s responsibility should be. In the past few years, auditors have been unwillingly placed in the spotlight. The expectation gap has affected and deteriorated accountants’ credibility. The reason to this is that public users have expectations from auditors, for example, Salehi says, “the primary responsibility of an auditor is to verify whether the financial statements exhibit a true and fair view of state of affair of the business and their secondary responsibility is the prevention and detection of errors and frauds” (Salehi 2008, p. 65). These expectations by the public users increase the legal liability and credibility facing the audit profession (Ojo, 2006), and lastly, it lowers their earning potrantion and reputation associated with the work of auditors (Lee, Ali & Kandasamy 2008). Yet, the profession have been trying to decrease the disparity (Epstein and Geiger 1994). However, the expectation gap is not something that can be placed on the profession’s shoulders alone (Pierce and Kilcommins 1996), since the nature and roles of the auditors are differently perceived by users. It is obvious that previous research that have been done on the expectations problem is significant. It is not surprising that it has become significant since...
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...NEED TO ADD THE TITTLE • Research Paper Topic: • What are Auditors’ Responsibility Today to Detect Fraud; include how do these responsibilities fit into the professional practices of: external auditors, Certified Public Accountants in public practice and Internal Auditors and what has changed in these areas in recent years? For standards or articles use the following items as they relate to your paper to help organize your paper. Statements on Auditing Standards (SAS), especially all those statements relating to fraud, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Sarbanes-Oxley Act , etc. (SOX, Sarbox); International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards), European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA), Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) , Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)and its standards, and professional articles or books as primary sources. • • • • PLEASE HELP ME OUT EDITING THIS PAPER, SENTENCE STRUCTURE, ADD SENTENCES IF NEEDED I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO AN A PAPER AFTER THIS PROOF READING Thank you in advance please help • Auditors’ Responsibility to detect Fraud today Public companies are required by the SEC to prepare and issue financial statements that made a fair presentation of the companies’ performance. The SEC also stipulates that the companies whose shares...
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...Data Mining for Fraud Detection: Toward an Improvement on Internal Control Systems? Mieke Jans, Nadine Lybaert, Koen Vanhoof Abstract Fraud is a million dollar business and it’s increasing every year. The numbers are shocking, all the more because over one third of all frauds are detected by ’chance’ means. The second best detection method is internal control. As a result, it would be advisable to search for improvement of internal control systems. Taking into consideration the promising success stories of companies selling data mining software, along with the positive results of research in this area, we evaluate the use of data mining techniques for the purpose of fraud detection. Are we talking about real success stories, or salesmanship? For answering this, first a theoretical background is given about fraud, internal control, data mining and supervised versus unsupervised learning. Starting from this background, it is interesting to investigate the use of data mining techniques for detection of asset misappropriation, starting from unsupervised data. In this study, procurement fraud stands as an example of asset misappropriation. Data are provided by an international service-sector company. After mapping out the purchasing process, ’hot spots’ are identified, resulting in a series of known frauds and unknown frauds as object of the study. 1 Introduction Fraud is a million dollar business and it is increasing every year. ”45% of companies worldwide have fallen victim...
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...Forensic accounting does not equal fraud Define Fraud * Fraud is the result of misleading, intentional actions or inaction to gain an advantage Areas forensic accounting investigates * Public and private companies. Which part of SOX is the part that CEO relies on forensic accountants? * CEO and CFO to certify financial statements * Sarbanes-Oxley requires both the CEO and CFO of a company to sign off on their financial statements (section 302) and to attest to the effectiveness of internal controls to prevent fraud (section 404). Types of organizations that hire Forensic accountants? * Public, private, federal, state and not for profits Parts of the fraud triangle? * Opportunity-in the position to commit the crime * Pressure-under financial duress such as credit problems, substance or gambling addiction * Rationalization-mentally justifies the crime (Co. deserved it) What does it mean to rationalize in the fraud triangle? * Suspect will say anything to justify the crime so they’re not held liable Describe the fraud detection process? * Identifying indicators of fraud that suggests a need for further investigation * Limited, cannot detect all frauds due to collusion or nature of fraud * Cheaper compared to prevention costs * Have to be careful of false positives and false negatives Objectives of the fraud detection process? * To detect and prevent fraud, identify indicators of fraud that suggest further investigation...
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...Financial Statement Fraud ACCT 710: Assignment 6-2 Shannon Baxley David Welch September 24, 2011 Table of Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………..3 Literature Reviews……………………………………………………………………………5 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………..16 References…………………………………………………………………………………...18 Abstract This paper describes financial statement fraud (FSF) and how it may occur within companies. The reason of this study was to research FSF detection and prevention. Research was also done to determine any influences that SAS (Statement on Auditing Standards) No. 82 and SAS No. 99 had on audit programs and the analysis from external auditors. Thirteen scholarly journals were reviewed in order to analyze SAS No. 82 and No. 99 and to show ways to detect and prevent fraud. Results found that managers and/or auditors can create fraud intentionally and unintentionally. There are ways to prevent fraud and educating managers and/or auditors is a good way to make sure fraud does not occur. Introduction Financial statement fraud (FSF) involves the premeditated issuing of phony information on a financial statement (financial statement fraud, 2011). FSF occurs when a company exaggerates assets or revenue, or when it devalues liabilities and expenses (financial statement fraud, 2011). The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or AICPA defines fraudulent financial reporting as “intentional misstatements or omissions...
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...s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / d s s Detection of financial statement fraud and feature selection using data mining techniques P. Ravisankar a, V. Ravi a,⁎, G. Raghava Rao a, I. Bose b a b Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Castle Hills Road #1, Masab Tank, Hyderabad 500 057, AP, India School of Business, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Recently, high profile cases of financial statement fraud have been dominating the news. This paper uses data mining techniques such as Multilayer Feed Forward Neural Network (MLFF), Support Vector Machines (SVM), Genetic Programming (GP), Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH), Logistic Regression (LR), and Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) to identify companies that resort to financial statement fraud. Each of these techniques is tested on a dataset involving 202 Chinese companies and compared with and without feature selection. PNN outperformed all the techniques without feature selection, and GP and PNN outperformed others with feature selection and with marginally equal accuracies. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 20 November 2009 Received in revised form 14 June 2010 Accepted 3 November 2010 Available online 12 November 2010 Keywords: Data mining Financial fraud detection Feature selection t-statistic Neural networks SVM GP 1. Introduction Financial fraud is a serious problem worldwide and more so...
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...Abstract. Heath care fraud is a type of white-collar crime that involves the filing of dishonest health care claims in order to turn a profit. Health care schemes come in many different forms like: billing by practitioners for care that they never rendered, filing duplicate claims for the same service rendered, altering the dates, description of services, or identities of members or providers, modifying medical records, intentional incorrect reporting of diagnoses or procedures to maximize payment, prescribing additional or unnecessary treatment. In this paper, I will examine the Multi-Million-Dollar Health Care fraud that was committed by one surgeon, who worked in NY hospital. I will also apply the fraud triangle and go over detection and prevention steps. Introduction. Spyros Panos was a board certified orthopedic surgeon licensed to practice medicine in the State of New York. Between 2006 to 2011, Panos performed a huge amount of orthopedic procedures that helped him to make lots of money from his fraud schemes. He had back-to-back surgeries and had 12-hour surgery days. Most of the time Panos had two patients under anesthesia at the same time. He performed short operations and some of them were seven minutes long. (Nina Schutzman, 2014). The records showed the times of surgeries and administering of anesthesia but did not contain a description of the procedures or names of patients. Panos high volume of surgeries a day raised a red flag and his...
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...Therefore, forensic accounting is generally defined as relating and applying financial facts to legal problems (Singleton and Singleton 12). Forensic accounting consists of a combination of the techniques that are used in accounting, auditing, and investigative work. The focus of this paper is on the concept of forensic auditing; however, forensic auditing cannot be fully understood without incorporating all of the facts about forensic accounting. Most situations that involve forensic auditing will deal with proposed fraudulent activities, but there are some cases that may deal with non-fraudulent activities, such as settlements of monetary disputes (“Student Accountant”). Throughout this paper, we will discuss, in detail, the profession of forensic auditing and forensic accounting in relation to fraudulent activities. What is Forensic Auditing? Forensic auditing and financial auditing are not related in any way; rather, they have their own distinct objectives that are set to achieve different goals. Forensic auditing can be defined as “the process of detecting, preventing, and correcting fraudulent activities” and focuses on establishing an environment that will help to encourage the detection and prevention of these fraudulent activities (Singleton and Singleton 14-15). Thus, forensic auditing focuses on the strength and effectiveness of a company’s internal...
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...globalisation and the challenges they should be willing to accept in order to maintain trust and integrity. Design/methodology/approach – A wide range of articles and journals published in international journals as well as local journals has been reviewed. The areas covered include audit fraud, true and fair view interpretation, auditor independence and role of internal auditors. Further, ideas have also been obtained from critical write-ups in the business magazines on the fall of multinationals. Findings – A wide range of interpretation has been given by various groups of people on their understanding of the phrase “true and fair”. This has created great confusion as to the interpretation of the audit reports. This has been proven by the fall of many multinationals and the audit pioneers, Andersens. This is one of the causes of audit fraud and it is also seen that as the auditors face an enormous challenge as they enter the twenty-first century, they should be willing to change their attitudes towards their clients. Professionalism should be in the forefront, and an overhaul in the concept of “true and fair” could probably be the solution to harmonisation of the economy. Research limitations/implications – This paper lacks statistical data on the views of the authors. It is based purely on secondary data. Practical implications – Provides awareness to the auditors, corporations and general public on the necessity...
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...DINGWOW INC. FRAUD PLAN BY: Angela Y Hatter INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Anthony J Matias, DBA, MBA, CPA COURSE: Fraud Prevention and Detection DATE: July 10, 2014 Dingwow, Inc. is committed to the highest possible standards of opennes, probity, and accountability in all its affairs. It is determined to maintain a culture of honesty and opposition to fraud and corruption. Dingwow’s fraud plan is established to facilitate the development of controls that will aid in the detection and prevention of fraud. It is our intent to promote consistent organizational behavior by providing guidelines and assigning responsibility for the development of controls and conduct of investigation. Definition Fraud and Corruption Fraud and corruption fall into four main categories: * Theft; the misappropriation or concealment of assets for personal gain * Corruption/bribery: giving, offering, soliciting or accepting of an inducement or reward, which may influence the action of any person * Falsifying documents, whether accounting or otherwise, for personal gain or the gain for others. * Externally perpetrated fraud against an organization Principles Dingwow is committed to preventing fraud and corruption from occurring and to developing an anti-fraud culture. To achieve this, Dingwow will comply with the requirements of AICPA’s SAS 99, Consideration of Fraud in Financial Statement Audit. SAS 99 defines risk factors for fraudulent financial reporting and theft and can be used...
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...Nonfinancial, and Red Flags | For Dr. Pacini ACG 6686: Accounting Fraud Examination Concepts -Spring 2013 – Mavis Curley Florida Atlantic University April 25, 2013 | I. INTRODUCTION The use of analytical procedures on financial data to asses risk and detect fraud is standard practice for auditors; however, using only financial data has been shown to be ineffective in uncovering many frauds. (3-Brazel) Auditors and forensic accountants find that when nonfinancial performance measures and financial data are compared inconsistencies can be exposed, and fraud risk revealed, that otherwise would have gone undetected. (3-Brazel) There are a number of nonfinancial performance measures which can raise questions about financial reporting and the corporations environment; although they are not directly related to the accounting of the business they function as possible indicators or symptoms of fraud; this can help detect wrong doing sooner than analytical procedures alone. This paper will describe common nonfinancial performance measures and through the use of a fictional corporation, show how nonfinancial performance measures and can expose fraud and fraud risk and discuss the use of red-flags and the future of nonfinancial measures in auditing, investing and investigations. II. NON FINANCIAL MEASURES AND CORPORATION X The American Association of Accountants (AAA) published a commentary paper on the NFM research done by Brazel et al, below is financial statement...
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