Accounting Fraud At Worldcom

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    OCCUR HERE! | Sabotage, which is destroying a system, computer fraud, misappropriation of assets, financial statement fraud, corruption. Deliberate destruction to harm a system. (Cookie: data website store on your computer that identify the site & you do not have to log on each time you visit the site) | * The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) 2014 Survey Results Show: * 5% of revenues are lost to fraud (≈ >$3.7 trillion lost globally) * Median loss: $145

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    Macro

    conducted study upon the topic stated that the average pay of a CEO that surpassed taxes was 16.7 million dollars yearly. An interesting point has been brought up in this article, comparing a higher-than-taxes pay to cases of corporate fraud, such as Enron and WorldCom. According to Collins, the congressman who ordered the report to be conducted, outsized CEO pay was often a red flag for bigger problems to come. I would like to get to the very bottom of this issue right away. This story is much

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    Journal

    May 2005 PERCEPTION OF A WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: TAX EVASION 1 By Hughlene Burton University of North Carolina at Charlotte Stewart Karlinsky San Jose State University Visiting Fellow, 2005 School of Business Law Curtin University of Technology Cindy Blanthorne University of North Carolina at Charlotte ISSN: 1321-7828 ISBN: 174067 410 3 1 This paper was previously published in the American Taxation Association Journal of Legal Tax Research. 1 PERCEPTION OF A WHITE-COLLAR

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    Examining a Business Failure

    Examining a Business Failure - Tyco International Ltd Organizational behavior is defined as the study of the behavior of individuals, groups and structure and the impact to an organization. Organizational behavior uses the information gathered from this study to improve the organization’s effectiveness (Robbins, 2011). Organizational behavior focuses on a number of areas including the behavior of leaders, inter-personal communication, processes and structure within the organization, conflict and

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    Sound Financial Reporting Is Good for Bringing Confidence Back to the Corporate World.

    [pic] SOUND FINANCIAL REPORTING IS A GOOD THING FOR BRINGING CONFIDENCE BACK TO THE CORPORATE WORLD Submitted By: Ahmed Shafiul Huq 801414063 Principle of Accounting (EIB505) Section: B Executive Master of Business Administration Submitted To: Mr. Mohammad Rakib Uddin Bhuiyan Assistant Professor

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    Internal Controls

    Internal control also help accounting records to be accurate and more reliable by taking out the possibility of errors happening and irregularities. When you have an independent internal verification it is provided from internal controls. When this happens this max’s the benefits of the system. There is mechanical, physical, and electric control that when jobs are restricted there is more than one opportunity for accuracy to show for verification. Lots of time in company’s fraud has happened, companies

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    Reaction Paper

    18, 2013 Sarbanes- Oxley act 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) commonly known as SOX act or Sarbox Act. Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted as a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals including those affecting Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine System and Worldcom. I think Sarbanes Oxley Act was indeed the wake up call for all

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    Week 2

    the enactment of the law there still criticism arising from several sections included in SOX Act. This paper will discuss the negative and positive views towards the SOX Act, the discussion will determine the efficacy of the law in avoiding future frauds. Sarbanes–Oxley Act negative views Strong criticism come from Small businesses since the financial reporting and audit requirements included in the law are extremely costly for small companies. Small businesses struggle to become publicly, but

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    Sarbanes Oxley Act

    mistakes made by some companies that led to the creation of this Act. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was originally enacted in the wake of the Enron scandal, but then pushed to congress after a series of high-profile financial scandals followed Enron, including WorldCom and Tyco that rattled investor confidence and the level of confidence that the public held in corporate America (Rouse). Enron Corporation was one of the largest energy companies in the world, marketing primarily electricity and natural gas but

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    company Overstock.com in early 2009. Due to an accounting error, partners of the company were under billed by $1.8 million dollars over the course of 2008. Overstock chose to record this entry incorrectly which falsely ballooned the company’s revenues; in turn, causing them to record an incorrect profit of $1.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2008. Had this entry been booked correctly and within the guidelines of the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), Overstock would have recorded

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