116 Stat. 745, enacted July 30, 2002), also known as the 'Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act' (in the Senate) and 'Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act' (in the House) and commonly called Sarbanes–Oxley, Sarbox or SOX, is a United States federal law enacted on July 30, 2002, which set new or enhanced standards for all U.S. public company boards, management and public accounting firms. It is named after sponsors U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) and
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Preamble When we think of corporations today we consider them to be responsible, thanks to CEO's and business advocates portraying it to be so. This concept of believing in corporate goodness is naïve. The cases involving Enron and WorldCom prove just that. This leads us to the taboos in corporate social responsibility discourse. These taboos are rarely discussed, yet it is a very important topic. According to Berger and Luckmann, "from the social constructionist's perspective, social reality
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[pic] WorldCom Case Study FINC 621, Summer 2015 by Hailun Cao Mohammed Altuwaijri Papamagatte Diagne Qian Dou David Ballantine Yanchao Wu Strategic Analysis – Hailun Cao Bernie Ebbers, the chief executive officer, focused on acquisition business strategy. Major Acquisitions includes Advanced Telecommunications Corporation, IDB Communications group, Metromedia Communications Corporation and Resurgens, and Williams Telecommunications group (WilTel)
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Introduction “In market-driven societies, ambitious people are expected to pursue their interests vigorously, and the line between self-interest and greed often blurs” (Sandel, 2009, p. 15). For businesses such as WorldCom, Adelphia and Sunbeam, this greed resulted in fraudulent accounting activities that left shareholders vulnerable and left the public untrusting of company financial reporting. High-profile company scandals such as these beg the question of whether ethical practices were properly
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Intro to HealthSouth Fraud Case Review In 2003, HealthSouth was accused of one the largest accounting fraud cases in healthcare history and those involved are still being tried today, nine years later. HealthSouth was founded in Birmingham, Alabama in the year 1984 by a respiratory therapist name Richard Scrushy. By the year 1999, HealthSouth had grown to house 230 surgical centers, 120 inpatient hospitals, 5 medical centers, 129 diagnostic centers and 1379 outpatient rehab centers and was worth
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1990's, instead of just picking up the garbage, Waste Management provided garbage to their investors in the form of an accounting scandal. This scandal would eventually cost investors around 6 billion dollars (Bloomberg News). This event was described by the associate director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, Thomas C. Newkirk, as "possibly one of the most egregious accounting frauds we have ever seen" (SEC). What Thomas Newkirk was describing was a long-standing policy by those at the top of the
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slide of accounting scams that ultimately cost him not only his career but also his freedom, family, reputation and self-respect. According to Weinberg’s research, white-collar criminals are not just ordinary people; they are smart, well-educated and ambitious. They often start as wide-eye fresh graduates at large corporations of which profit-driven culture infiltrates all levels within. Some of them were even chosen as CFOs of the year: Andrew Fastow (Enron) and Scott D. Sullivan (Worldcom). So why
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article “Cooking the Books” is to cover the business ethics of an accounting manager ordering one of his accountants to falsifying a company’s accounting ledger. The Generally Accepted Accounting Principle of expense recognition was not followed. The accounting manager was attempting to commit fraud for personal gain, he does this by manipulating the books to show higher revenue in order to meet the volume for management bonus. The accounting manager also created a hostile working environment by threating
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May 17, 2007 Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act Not only were billions of dollars lost in corporate accounting scandals involving Enron and Worldcom, thousands of jobs on top of an immeasurable amount of credibility was also lost in the process. As most everyone knows by now, or should know, 2002 became a turning point in the world of business. Publicly traded companies such as Enron and Worldcom were caught by the SEC misrepresenting financial statements, quickly leading to steep downward spiral
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AN OVERVIEW OF FORENSIC ACCOUNTING IN MALAYSIA Mohd Sarif Ibrahim and Mazni Abdullah Department of Financial Accounting & Auditing Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia sarif51@um.edu.my, mazni@um.edu.my ABSTRACT Forensic accounting may not be a new field in accounting. However it becomes so important recently and has been an interest to various stakeholders, from the government, investors, and practitioners to regulatory bodies. Corporate
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