Jamaica Water Properties A Case Study The case is about an accounting fraud that involves the Jamaica Water Properties, Inc. The fraud was characterized by misapplication of purchase method of accounting for acquisitions, recording fictitious assets, improper accounting for NOLCO, non-recording of appropriate allowances for uncollectible receivables, and misapplication of the percentage-of-completion method of accounting for long-term contracts. Ernest Grendi made the fraud possible, company
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Riordan Corporate Compliance Plan Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics producer with an employee base of 550. The company has projected annual earnings at $46million and is owned by Riordan Industries. There are different segments of the company but the major customers are the automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, beverage makers, bottlers, and appliance manufacturers. The company has recently undergone some strategic changes
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override controls - that provide an opportunity for the fraud to be perpetrated. Third, those involved are able to rationalize the fraud as being consistent with their personal code of ethics. Some individuals possess an attitude, character, or set of ethical values that allows them to knowingly commit a fraudulent act. Using hindsight, identify factors present at Waste Management that are indicative of each of the three fraud conditions: incentives, opportunities, and attitudes. Answer: Fraudulent
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works with transparency and provides full disclosure of information as and when required (Bing, 2007). This basically means that corporations must keep good records of what goes on in their business, not just for their benefit, but just in case of an audit, then they’ll have all their transactions ready to be reviewed and to keep future corporate scandals down. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed by Congress on July 30, 2002. The law forced public companies to spend much more money having their
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Jamaica Water Properties A Case Study The case is about an accounting fraud that involves the Jamaica Water Properties, Inc. The fraud was characterized by misapplication of purchase method of accounting for acquisitions, recording fictitious assets, improper accounting for NOLCO, non-recording of appropriate allowances for uncollectible receivables, and misapplication of the percentage-of-completion method of accounting for long-term contracts. Ernest Grendi made the fraud possible, company
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Compilation of Financial Statements 2011 AR Section 80 Compilation of Financial Statements Issue date, unless otherwise indicated: December 2009 See section 9080 for interpretations of this section. Source: SSARS No. 19 .01 This section establishes standards and provides guidance on compilations of financial statements. The accountant is required to comply with the provisions of this section whenever he or she is engaged to report on compiled financial statements or submits financial
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FINS3626 Group Assignment Evaluation of BBG, DJS, TEN, EWC Executive Summary Phenomenal growth of interest in corporate governance has emerged in recent years. The body of literature on the subject has grown markedly in response to successive waves of large corporate failures. Furthermore, there have been numerous attempts to define what constitutes ‘good corporate governance’ and to provide guidelines in order to enhance the quality of corporate governance. It must, however, be acknowledged
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principle of audit is that it should be a professional and objective process. An approach that has been assumed by Flint, (1971), and a theme that is strongly supported by the majority of the literature written on this subject. This idea is supported by Mautz and Sharaf (1961), who created an outline of standards that auditors should work, to in order to achieve the highest level of professionalism. To be able to achieve this level of professionalism it can be seen that a conceptual framework must be
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A337/A523 Accounting Information Systems Midterm Study General There will be two narratives, one for context/physical DFD, one for the flowchart. It is important for your DFDs to be consistent with each other. (See the Documentation Exercises for worked examples) DFD The physical DFD should be annotated with flow labels. At this point, you are expected to know the 4 DFD symbols and how to apply them. Flow Chart This will be a shorter narrative and/or partially completed one I will
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Course - International Diploma in Compliance Assignment due date - 29th August, 2011 Industry - Banking Board Memorandum To : Board of Directors Executive Management Subject : Recommendations to promote the independence of the Compliance Function Date : 29th August, 2011 In reviewing last year regulator’ report on our bank, the bank have been imposed more than fifteen major violations from the regulators and some of the violations have got the bank into
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