In this case, Cynthia Cooper, VP of Internal Audit blew the whistle on fraud she and her team found. Cynthia brought up concern over the accounting treatment of a $400M entry to re-class a reserve to income. She was dismissed by the CFO and by the external auditors, Arthur Andersen. Luckily she was not deterred and had her team continue to review the accounts. That’s how the largest part of the fraud was found. The CFO and CEO were involved in capitalizing network lease expenses as assets in WorldCom’s
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Fraud is a serious problem for most businesses today and often technology compounds the problem. In addition, the role of the independent auditor in the detection of fraud is often questioned. (http://www.swlearning.com/accounting/hall/ais_4e/study_notes/ch03.pdf) Fraud is dishonest activity causing actual or potential financial loss to any person or entity including theft of money or other property by employees or persons and where deception is used at the time, immediately before or immediately
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 Aracheal Ventress Accounting 561 February 3, 2014 Professor Myrtle Clark Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 Corporation scandals, such as Enron, initiated the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 also known as SOX. Prior to its existence, the public became aware of Enron’s weak internal control, misleading earnings reports, and conflict of interests between executives and their chief auditor.Misleading information provided in false earnings reports allowed Shareholders
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Accounting Ethics 2 1. Given the corporate ethical breaches in recent times, assess whether or not you believe that the current business and regulatory environment is more conducive to ethical behavior. The ethical breaches in recent times, Weygandt, Kimel, Kieso( 2012) researched that “financial press open full articles and documents facts about financial scandals at Enron, WorldCom
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flourishing economy. The stock market rate rose at increasing rates. This motivated accounting firms to desire to expand their business. In the 2000s there was a bubble burst, stock prices plummeted as investors fled the market. IPOs also disappeared and this event led to the revelation other flaws in the market. It became apparent that the boom years had been accompanied by fraud. Corporations such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and Adelphia had a lot of misconduct in business principles. There was lack
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Why Accounting Fraud? & Possible Solutions Brian Faanes Rasmussen College Author Note This research is being submitted on 9-12-2011 for Wendell Ellis A140 Financial Accounting 1 course at Rasmussen College by Brian Faanes Most accountants and auditors want to be accurate and honest when it comes to the recording of financial records and statements of the company or firm they work for. However, because of tight relationships between accounting firms and their clients, auditors may unintentionally
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Sarbanes Oxley Act, Dodd Frank Act and JOBS Act exists for a reason. Although politic is a very complicated topic and has some sort of influence in establishing a new federal law, SOX, Dodd Frank Act and JOBS Act are reasonably justifiable. After WorldCom and Enron incidents, Sarbanes Oxley Act was established to regulate auditors and public company. After Late 2000’s mortgage crisis and others, Dodd-Frank and JOBS Act was established to regulate financial industry under federal government. Federal
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Internal Control XACC/280 08/14/2011 In this world, companies and businesses need a way of monitoring themselves, particularly in the accounting department. This is an act of preventative maintenance, ensuring that the financial reporting is reliable. Any successful business has a strong internal control model, without it, operations won’t run efficiently. A type of feedback, internal controls look at the quality and functionality of different aspects of a business ( eHow Money, n.d.). Its
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Alia Rahman Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is an act was created as a safe guard mechanism for the investor. The massive accounting fraud created by Enron and WorldCom in 2000, caused many individuals’ savings and retirement. The company falsified their earnings; disclose false report in their accounting statement, they used the investors’ money to generate personal wealth. This unlawful, unethical and negligent behavior of the company management shocks the financial world. The investor lost
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com/electronic_data_interchange.htm http://www.inc.com/encyclopedia/electronic-data-interchange.html Debate: Sarbanes-Oxley law passed in response to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals involving ENRON, WORLDCOM in the United States. These scandals resulted in a loss of public trust in accounting and financial reporting. Section 404 is a subset of Sox law which addresses financial statement reporting controls. SOX404 requires that managers report their findings in a special management’s
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