Ethics in the Corporate World ACC 557 Financial Accounting January 26, 2014 In today’s society, it seems that most companies are out to chase the almighty dollar and have little to no concern for the repercussions of their actions. In this paper, we will address five aspects of the corporate world and the ethical breaches that have been made in the last few years. The company that we will look at for examples is WorldCom. WorldCom was one of the companies that led to the creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley
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Assignment 1: Review of accounting ethics 1 Assignment 1: Review of Accounting Ethics By February 1, 2013 ACC 557: Financial Accounting Oleksii Morgun Strayer University at Arlington Campus School of Business Administration (M.S. Accounting Program) Assignment 1: Review of Accounting Ethics 2 Abstract This research writing is to describe the following: 1. Given the corporate ethical breaches
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Ethics in Accounting | Managerial Accounting Q1 | | | Instructor: Nikolaos Kourkoumelis, Ph.D. | Student: Marija Lukic | 11/14/2012 | | Table of Contents The Ethics in Accounting case and the plan…………………………………………….4Incidentals of Authorization and Submittal…….………………………………………………………………..4Objective………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Use of Observational Techniques…………………………………………………………………………………….4 An overview of the Report……………………………………
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HealthSouth: The Scrushy Way Vonetta M. Henderson Northcentral University Introduction The Enron and Tyco scandals brought visibility to corporate scandals. The magnitude of these scandals resulted in the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act in 2002. Richard M. Scrushy and HealthSouth Corporation were the first CEO and company to be indicted under the SOX Act. HealthSouth was charged with filing false financial statements with the SEC to hid poor financial conditions
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making or exceeding a number. Consequently, the auditor invariably gets swept in the wave of reporting mayhem. Unequivocally, management is the first line of defense against fraud. A strong system of internal control serves to minimize fraud. However, no system of internal control, no matter how strong, will guard against fraud in the event of collusion. Indeed, when management engages in misconception and deceit, it makes the financial information repor ted that
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Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Ann Fulmer March 2010 Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Mortgage fraud is bank robbery without a gun. 1 It is a high-yield, 2 low risk enterprise that has been reported in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, 3 Canada, 4 New Zealand, 5 Australia, 6 and England. 7 In the United States, it is committed by organized international and domestic
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every day about all kinds of corporate schemes and scams. Behind every fraud is a person or a group of people who has taken what is not theirs to take. Some of those people intended to steal they just never thought they would get caught. Others were pulled into the original crime or some aspect of the cover-up and before they knew it they were labeled a co-conspirator. This study will examine the people behind the much publicized fraud scheme at HealthSouth. Some did not set out to commit white-collar
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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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felony counts—securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, false statements, perjury, false filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and theft from an employee benefit plan—on March 12, 2009. (Biography, 2011) Mail fraud includes any scheme that attempts to unlawfully obtain money or valuables in which the postal system is used at any point in the commission of a criminal offense. (Mail fraud, 2011) By using the
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The Fraud Triangle Abstract In 2002 SAS No. 99, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit describes the difference between material misstatements due to errors and intentional fraud and defines two types of intentional fraud: fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of assets. SAS No. 99 also introduced D. R. Cressey’s theory of the fraud triangle which is so named because it consists of three conditions that are generally present when fraud occurs: incentive/pressure
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