...History Satyam Computer services Limited an Information Technology Company was founded in 1987 by Ramalinga Raju. The company is based in Hyderabad, India and was the fourth largest software exporter in India until January 2009. As one of the largest software company, Satyam traded in the Bombay Stock Exchange, the national Stock Exchange and New York Exchange. Satyam grew rapidly with customers stretching over 66 countries and was ranked at 185th on the Fortune 500 companies list. In 2008, Satyam received the the Global Peacock Award for global excellence in corporate accountability. Satyam continued to grow even when stock markets around the world were collapsing. In December 2008, Mr. Raju wanted to merge Matyas a real-estate company with Satyam. Matyas a company owned by his family was a complete diversity from the software company. Raju and his family owned a lot more shares in Matyas than they did in Satyam. The merge caused investors to question Mr. Raju’s intentions. The stockholders objected to the merge and the idea was aborted. However, the damage had already been done. The investors had lost faith and Satyam’s stocks plunged to an unbelievable low. Ironically, the word Satyam means Truth in Sanskrit and as the world watched the truth about Raju started to unravel. Fraud is Uncovered In October of 2008, World Bank fired Satyam and restrictions were put in place against the company from bidding for eight years. World Bank alleged that that Satyam had placed spy...
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...Satyam is a company that specializes in information technology, business services, computer software, and is a leading outsourcing company in India. The company grew quickly during the 1990s and 2000s as more and more companies around the world looked to India for outsourcing solutions. It eventually became the fourth largest outsourcing company in India. Satyam provides solutions to approximately 185 Fortune 500 companies throughout the world. The business community recognized Satyam as a global leader in information technology outsourcing. Satyam was as an example of India's growing success. It won numerous awards for innovation, governance, and corporate accountability. Unfortunately, less than five months after winning the Global Peacock Award which is a World Council for Corporate Governance, Satyam became the centerpiece of a massive accounting fraud. As stock markets around the world collapsed during 2008, the Indian Stock Exchange fell enormously. The enormous losses caused investors to withdraw large amounts of cash from their investments. These cash withdrawals in turn triggered the discovery of several cases of financial fraud as perpetrators could no longer hide the results. Mr. Raju, the founder of Satyam, and the company's global head of internal audit used a number of different techniques to perpetrate the fraud. He created numerous bank statements to advance the fraud and falsified the bank accounts to inflate the balance sheet with cash balances...
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...The Satyam Scandal Jessica English February 9, 2015 Professor Nauri Ahmed ACC 556 The Satyam Computer Service started in 1987 by Byrraju RamalingaRaju in India. The Satyam became the fourth largest Indian IT firm in 2009, but January 7 2009, RamalingaRaju confessed to the very large revenue that was misstated of the company (Pallimanideep, 2015). Raju wrote a letter to the Satyam board confessing to the fraud and to reinsure no board members had no knowledge of the fraud. The letter written by RamalingaRaju states: “It is with deep regret and tremendous burden that I am carrying on my conscience, that I would like to ring the following facts to your notice: “The balance Sheet carries as of September 30,2008 (a) Inflated (non-existent) cash and bank balances of Rs 5,040 crore (as against Rs 5,361 crore reflected in the books); (b) An accured inters of Rs 376, which is non-existent (c) An understand liability of Rs 1,230 crore on account of funds arranged by me; (d) An overstated debtors’ position of Rs 490 crore (as against Rs 2,651 reflected in the books); For the September quarter we reported a revenue of Rs 2,700 crore and an operating margin of Rs 649 crore (24 cent of revenue) as against the actual revenues of Rs 2,112 crore and an actual operating margin of Rs 61 crore (3 per cent of revenues). This has resulted in artificial cash and bank balances going up by Rs 588 crore in quarter 2 alone ("Satyam fraud: Full text of Raju's letter to board"...
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...Fraud –Sathyam computers SUBMITTED BY: Abhijith Rajan AUD 2351 MBA (GENERAL) ABSTRACT From Satyam, we can see that corporate book keeping misrepresentation is a noteworthy issue that is raising both in its recurrence and seriousness. Exploration confirmation has demonstrated that these developing number of fakes have made undermined the trustworthiness of monetary reports, added to generous financial misfortunes, and disintegrated speculators' certainty with respect to the handiness and dependability of money related articulations. The expanding rate of these sort of law violations need to get hardened punishments, excellent disciplines, and powerful requirement of law with the right soul. An endeavor is made to inspect and investigate inside and out the Satyam Computer's "inventive bookkeeping" embarrassment, which conveyed to spotlight the significance of "morals and corporate administration" (CG). The extortion submitted by the authors of Satyam in 2009, is a demonstration of the way that "the art of behavior is influenced in huge by human eagerness, aspiration, and crave influence, cash, acclaim and wonderfulness". Dissimilar to Enron, which sank because of "organization" issue, Satyam was conveyed to its knee because of "burrowing" impact. The Satyam embarrassment highlights the significance of securities laws and CG in "developing" markets. Without a doubt, Satyam misrepresentation "prodded the administration of India to fix the CG standards to anticipate repeat...
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...The below are the requirements for term paper. 1)Title 2)Object 3)Review(2 articles) 4)Analysis 5)conclusion 6)Source(References) http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/globespotting/archives/2009/01/satyam_scandal.html The terror attacks on Mumbai were just a tremor for the country’s tech industry compared to the shocks coming from the Satyam scandal. Earlier today, Ramalinga Raju, Satyam’s founder and longtime chairman, admitted in a letter to the board that he had been cooking the books for years to make up for revenue and profit shortfalls. Read the details in this report by my BW colleague, Manjeet Kripalani. In his letter, Raju wrote that the cover-up finally got the best of him: “It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten.” This admission will have a crippling impact on Satyam. Its chances of getting new business are nil. Don’t expect its current customers to abandon the company overnight. That’s not easy in a tech services business where the operations of the client and service provider are so interwoven. On the other hand, it’s possible that the company may collapse financially, in which case clients will have no choice but to flee. Which brings us to a bigger shock: This betrayal of trust could have a major impact on the entire Indian tech services industry. The industry has spent 20 years building up credibility with Western clients, but this disaster will make many US and European clients rethink their reliance on Indian outsourcing...
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...paper is to do a case analysis of Satyam computer Services present the key facts of the paper, identify the main issue that management had and theorize a solution to the main issue. Key Facts Satyam Computer Services Limited was an indispensable part of Indian IT Industry. The company was the fourth biggest software company in India, which was founded by Mr. B. Ramalinga Raju. Raju started his career as an entrepreneur after obtain degrees in commerce and a Master of Business Administration in Ohio University America and he later became the Founder-Chairman of Satyam Computer Services. Listed on both the Indian stock exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. The company had major global US and Australia companies as clients. Over 20 years, Satyam was stating employing 53,000 people with operations in 66 locations world wide. Satyam Computers lost its brand image on January 8, 2009 when Mr Raju who had resigned earlier as CEO announced to the Indian stock exchange that financial fraud had been committed to the tune of over US$1 billion dollars over a number of years. He said that he was trying to cover up losses that the company had. In latter court proceedings prosecutors alleged that Satyam had 13,000 fictionist employees and these salaries were being siphoned off to front companies and two family owned companies to fund land purchases. Mr Raju brother was a managing director. Management Problem. Corporate geed was at the heart of Satyams’ problem led by Mr Raju whose unethical...
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...background Satyam Computers Services Limited (SCSL) was incorporated in the year 1987 as a private limited company at Andra Pradesh. Later at 1991 Satyam recognized as a public limited company. SCSL is fourth largest provider of Information Technology services in India. In the year 1995 company awarded ISO 9001 certification. Twenty years ago, Satyam has consistently innovated across various aspects of the enterprise-processes, technology, business and engagement models, and service offerings. Satyam offers a range of expertise that includes: Software Development Services, Embedded Systems, Engineering Services (CAD/CAM/CAE), Systems Integration, Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions, Enterprise Application Integration, Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Product Development, Electronic Commerce, and Consulting. As IT services became more and more technology-centric and generic, hence now Satyam offers services to enhance the customers business needs. Satyam starting with deeper focus on customized IT solution on insurance, financial services, telecom, manufacturing, transportation, health care, Bioinformatics and Retail sectors. 2 Satyam Computer Services – a company based in India (now known as Mahindra Satyam). This is the most recent scandal (declared only in 2009) among those on this list. The accounting fraud in this case involves overstating cash ($1.5 billion) and receivables by $100 million and understating liabilities by $250 million. Taken...
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...VANITA YADAV C.V. BAXI CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FAILURE AT SATYAM “Why do you want to quit Satyam,”1 the panel member asked the 30-year-old employee being interviewed. Satyam Computer Services Ltd (“Satyam”) was India’s fourth-largest computer services company; however, many employees had left and applied for new jobs after news of a US$1.4 billion corporate fraud at Satyam became public in December 2008. 2 Satyam’s governance failure had severely shaken its stakeholders and the global business community, and the business press worldwide referred to Satyam as “India’s Enron”.3 Satyam was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) in 2001 and on Euronext Amsterdam in 2008. 4 It boasted a large number of clients, including many Fortune 500 companies.5 The founder of Satyam Computer Services, B. Ramalinga Raju (“Raju”), was a highly regarded entrepreneur and an eminent fixture at prestigious corporate events in India.6 In 2007, he was honoured with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, yet a mere two years later, on 7 January 2009, Raju made the calamitous confession that he had falsified accounts on a grand scale over a long period of time. His shocking announcement sparked a big debate over whether India possessed adequate guidelines for corporate governance. 7 How did Raju commit a fraud of such magnitude? How could a successful company, twice awarded the Golden Peacock award for corporate governance excellence collapse in such a manner? 8 Where did the internal...
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...Satyam Computers Limited-A case of corporate fraud. Overview: Satyam Computer Services (an IT company) is considered India’s Enron. The company CEO Mr. Raju was the main person involved. In the end, he admitted to faking company profit for numerous years and was arrested for 1.47 billion dollars in fraud. Fraudulent acts: Mr. Raju worked with the internal auditors to come up with ways to create non-existent profits and eliminate debt. For instance, he had fake bank accounts on paper in order to report fake interest income. In addition, internal auditors created fake customer identities to increase company revenue. According to Raju, the fraudulent activities started out only creating a marginal gap between actual and book profit. However, things got out of hand quickly. Cover-ups after cover-ups made the gap wider and wider. External parties involved: Satyam’s external auditors, PwC, were also under high scrutiny and criticism after the fall of Satyam. They were Satyam’s auditors for 9 years and signed off on Satyam’s financial statements annually. Under Indian law, if PwC signed off the financial statements, they are responsible for the numbers. Authorities blamed PwC because they failed to notice obvious red flags such as Satyam having a large no-interest bearing account. Reasonable companies would have invested the money in interest bearing accounts or distributed dividends to shareholders. Red flags raised: Merrill Lynch was appointed by Satyam to...
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...Tech Mahindra was incorporated as a joint venture between Mahindra & Mahindra and British Telecom plc in 1986 under the name of ‘Mahindra British Telecom’. Later, the name was changed to ‘Tech Mahindra’, to reflect the diversification and growth of the client base and the increased breadth of our service offerings. With Satyam acquisition, Tech Mahindra is well positioned to be a leader in the broader IT services space, serving a wide array of industry verticals like banking and financial services, manufacturing, energy and utilities in addition to telecom Tech Mahindra is part of the US $14.4 billion Mahindra Group, in partnership with British Telecommunications plc (BT), one of the world’s leading communications service providers. Focused primarily on the telecommunications industry, Tech Mahindra is a leading global systems integrator and business transformation consulting organization. Tech Mahindra has recently expanded its IT portfolio by acquiring the leading global business and information technology services company, Mahindra Satyam (earlier known as Satyam Computer Services). Tech Mahindra’s capabilities spread across a broad spectrum, including Business Support Systems (BSS), Operations Support Systems (OSS), Network Design & Engineering, Next Generation Networks, Mobility Solutions, Security consulting and Testing. The solutions portfolio includes Consulting, Application Development & Management, Network Services, Solution Integration, Product Engineering...
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...strongly believes that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things and that the key to this is creating highly charged teams. He takes a personal interest in developing teams and leaders and invests significant time as a faculty in Wipro’s leadership development programs. Premji is firmly committed to the belief that business organizations have deep social responsibility, and such responsibility shall be discharged by conducting ethical and fair business, by involvement with community issues and by building an ecologically sustainable business. It’s that kind of integrity that has catapulted Premji and Wipro to unprecedented heights. On the other hand the problems that cropped in another IT services provider in global level is the Satyam Computer Services Ltd. It is stamped as Indian Enron because of the new scam that surfaced in the recent past. The investors shocked at the news that is published in the print media and also broadcasted in the electronic media and it is a big blow on the spirits of the investors...
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...that there were actually more cons than pros. * * As mentioned in the report LIBOR has been the catalyst for fraud and unfair play in the past years. This being said I cannot see this reform in LIBOR go the right way for either party. The FED might have already lost the trust of many people around the world with the scandals of late that have taken place. Many people were hurt when they took out loans and LIBOR was artificially high. However, when LIBOR was artificially low people paid less than they should have. This is a small example on the controversy of whether or not LIBOR should be reformed or completely thrown out the window. * * LIBOR is a very important index, which serves as a benchmark for derivatives. Being the most widely used interested rate in the world, it is not easy to just throw it out the window, as many people who were on the brunt of the scandal would wish. * * I believe that LIBOR is not as risk-free as we think it is. I believe that the scandals that were taken place proved that. Many people lost their savings and not only were the savings lost, but the banks that were the cause of the scandal were stealing it. This, I believe speaks for itself to answer the question if LIBOR is as risk-free as we think it is. I believe we were led to believe that is was a fixed fair rate, however we have seen that it can be manipulated and artificially fixed in ways in which we can lose our money. This is a big reason why I believe...
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...scandalous and creates wide seethe and uproar from the public who are the ultimate victims of these scandals. For many reformers and speakers it may take ages to bring a matter of public concern in front of people, which when scandalized became notoriously famous without any help. For example wiki leaks had generated mass curiosity around the world about the facts and events which were otherwise completely obscure and esoteric to general public. With increased freedom of the forth estate everything is out in the open ,all political scandals ,social scandals and even financial scandals are watched ,scrutinized and are brought to justice. In the 21st centaury where social networking has dissolved all the known physical boundaries, a scandal of one country is a popular talk of another continent, people discuss ,debate and provide solution to the problem which arose because of the so called scandal, which we can never imagine happening half a century ago. The Bernie Madoffs in famous embezzlement scandal has created waves of dissatisfaction among the masses, and demanded higher level of probe and investigation in the matter. The Italian prime minister’s sex scandal has stumped the world and raised questions about the moral conduct about the leader. No reformer or speakers could have generated such wide spread awareness about a issue or a problem within the society .Thus scandals play a major roles in generating general awareness and finding root cause for a problem ,which...
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...Ethics in Management Accounting What are ethics? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, ethics are defined as, “Rules or behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad.” Ethics are rooted in an individual or an entire group’s moral values that govern daily behavior and crucial decisions. From a professional perspective, ethics provide a given quality and ensures a fair practice. In terms of business, it is the moral duties and obligations that apply to various professions and their code of conduct. Ethics encompass a set of understood rules to guide the direction of a business, company, corporation, or organization. Ethics are essential and tremendously depended on in the profession of accounting. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, accounting is defined as, “The skill, system, or job of keeping the financial records of a business or person.” The system of accounting records financial transactions and analyzes, reports, and verifies the results. Accountants perform these tasks by establishing these reports through a system known as bookkeeping. The three common reports that are generated by accountants are balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. Each of these reports serve a crucial purpose to the success of a corporation. The balance sheet summarizes a company’s assets and liabilities. The income statement reports a company’s gross proceeds, profit or loss, and expenses. The cash flow statement analyzes the flow of incoming and...
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...Mr. May APLAC December 16 2012 Jack Abramoff Corruption in governments inspires frantic media coverage and people to lose faith in politics. The United States has a long history of these scandals that has initiated some concern about the way the government is run. Jack Abramoff, a once powerful lobbyist, was recently involved in one of the largest scandals in Washington. Abramoff rose from, generally, nothing to becoming America’s most notorious lobbyist. When scandal ultimately cast him down, Abramoff was sentenced to four years in federal prison for fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy. While serving his term in jail, he had received vile and harsh insults that depicted him as “scum” and “evil.” Now released from the penitentiary, Abramoff is the author of the novel Capitol Punishment. By writing this book, he tries to expose the truth about the broken the U.S. Government system really is but also justify his actions and hope to redeem little pieces of his honor. Using clever diction, syntax, and numerous appeals to pathos, Jack Abramoff attempts to repent for his actions and gain redemption. Abramoff’s diction allows for the audience to view his actions in an alternative more positive direction, rather than maliciously and with anger. The first few chapters of the book describe his childhood and formative years. His conservative principles and his calculating self brought him early spotlight and success in the political realm. Abramoff, for about the first half of his...
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