Today’s Risk of Fraud: Forensic Accountants Help Protect Identity Theft Megan Laughman Financial Accounting Theory Michael Miller 4/7/15 Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore the recent cyber breaches that have occurred within companies throughout the United States and to look at the different ways these cyber breaches could have been prevented. The research also examines the need for forensic accountants within the business field, as they are able to help protect a company’s
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Answers to Questions 1. The substance-over-form principle states that the true economic nature of a transaction should determine how it is reported on a company’s accounting records, rather than its legal form (Donaldson, 1964). This concept aims to undercut certain transactions such as related party transactions that are solely to distort profitability, rather than a true economic transaction between two parties. The auditor is responsible for the review and testing of the client’s accounting
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The talk of having a new body that was tasked with the mandate of overseeing public companies accounting and auditing process had been circulating before the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley act. As early as 1990s, the then chairman of the Security and Exchange Commission was already lamenting about the erosion of auditor independence. However, accounting scandals that emerged towards the end of 1990s showed the deplorable state of the corporate world that characterized the United States corporate
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EthicHow to Be An Ethical Accountant? About eleven years ago, Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies with 21,000 employees (Enron Corporation, 2012), collapsed. The whole nation was shocked as the investigation went on. “Ten years ago this week, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen sealed its fate when a few partners in its Houston office decided to shred documents related to the collapse of one of its clients, Enron” (Agnes, 2011). Found out that Enron scandal had close relationship
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to verify transactions or accounts and detect fraud has been present since the advent of trade and accounting. Thus the goal of auditing, in this sense, has not changed since. Teck-Heang Lee observed that “auditing serves as a mechanism to monitor conduct and performance, and to secure and enforce accountability (Lee 2008). All in all, an audit function plays a crucial role in maintain welfare and stability in society.” However, what has changed is how the roles and responsibilities of auditors have
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Among the ten generally accepted auditing standards is the standard that requires an auditor to have independence in mental attitude. As with so many rules and guidelines set forth by the government and numerous other organizations, the interpretations of many of these rules can be vastly subjective. During the case against Health Management’s founder Clifford Hotte, his co conspirators and the auditors at BDO Seidman the defendant’s attorney Michael Young brought forth the idea that according to
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Segregation of duties can be described as the separation of related procedures that will prevent employees and officers from committing fraud. The duties that should be kept separate are authorization, record keeping, and custody. According to the AICPA,” no single individual should be able to (1) authorize a transaction, (2) record the transaction in the accounting records, and (3) maintain custody of the assets resulting from the transaction”( Members in Government Guide to Internal control, pg
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“Forensic Accounting” is a term that you do not hear every day so let’s examine its definition. The Strayer University BUS508 textbook defines accounting as, “The process of measuring, interpreting, and communicating financial information to enable people inside and outside the firm to make informed decisions.” Merriam-Webster defines forensic as, “suitable for a court of law.” Our textbook defines forensic accounting as, “Forensic accounting is accounting performed in preparation for legal review
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internal audit. Legal Issues and Applicable Laws There are several laws that United Thermostatic Controls need to abbey in order to function. Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) act of 2002, the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and the AICPA Code of Conduct, and in this case, the regulations that auditors need to comply with while performing an audit, for example the Statement on Auditing Standards, and their responsibilities to the company they work for. Sarbanes-Oxley and United Thermostatic
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correctly states that the bond's basis is reduced by the amortization. | |[pic] |D. The bond's basis is increased by the amortization. | |Question #2 (AICPA.921101REG-P2-AR) | |[pic] | Alex and Myra Burg, married and filing joint income tax returns, derive their entire income from the operation of their retail candy shop
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