Corporate Fraud and Schemes ACC 571 – Forensic Accounting October 20, 2014 Russell Wasendorf was the owner and chief executive officer of Peregrine Financial Group based in Cedar Falls Iowa. He stared the business in 1967 in Iowa and later decided to move the company to Chicago. Not long ago, he decided to move the company back to Iowa convincing many of his colleagues to move with him. Peregrine Financial Group had many customers and clients who trusted
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‘The most efficient way to treat insolvent companies INTRODUCTION: The adverse effect of the collapse of corporate enterprise is the principal concern of Corporate Insolvency Law. Its dramatic implications on the society at large, both locally and internationally, are so drastic, that corporate insolvency law, putting the repercussions of this cankerworm into serious considerations, is always torn between the two options of either protecting the private rights which is basically maximizing returns
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MASENO UNIVERSITY ABA 302:- COMPANY LAW WINDING UP DAVE LUNG’AHO SIGANGA This is the legal process by which a company’s legal existence is brought to an end. It is carried through by a person known as a liquidator who wraps up the company operations by taking control of the Company, collecting the company’s assets, pays the Company’s debts, and then distributes the surplus among the members of the company. The liquidation process involves inter alia; A] Settling the list of contributories B] Collecting
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profits of the company, making it impossible to earn enough money to cover the loans. On July 21st, 2002, the largest filing in USA history, WorldCom filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, resulting in one of the largest corporate fraud scandals. Becoming MCI and moving to Dulles, Virginia on April 14th 2003, the bankruptcy reorganization agreement meant the company paid $750 million to the SEC in cash and stock, this was
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(Controller) and Buford "Buddy" Yates (Director of General Accounting)) used fraudulent accounting methods to mask its declining earnings by painting a false picture of financial growth and profitability to prop up the price of WorldCom’s stock. The fraud was accomplished primarily in two ways: Underreporting ‘line costs’ (interconnection expenses with other telecommunication companies) by capitalizing these costs on the balance sheet rather than properly expensing them. Inflating revenues with bogus
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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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all these millionaire managers wake up to discover they are not only now worth just a few hundred bucks, but that their jobs were disappearing. This situation was a reality for many WorldCom workers, because on that March morning America’s largest fraud at the time had been reported. WorldCom was a publicly traded corporation established in 1983 to provide Long Distance Discount Services (LDDS) (Internet Services, 2011). Through the acquisition of other businesses Worldcom became the world’s second
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company after it declared bankruptcy and before it was acquired by Verizon. The postscript also will relate subsequent important events in the telecommunications industry, the effect of WorldCom's problems on its competitors and labor market, and the impact WorldCom had on the lives of the key players associated with the fraud and its exposure. From Benchmark to Bankrupt Between July 2002 when WorldCom declared bankruptcy and April 2004 when it emerged from bankruptcy as MCI, company officials
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Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative University of New Mexico http://danielsethics.mgt.unm.edu WorldCom’s Bankruptcy Crisis INTRODUCTION The story of WorldCom began in 1983 when businessmen Murray Waldron and William Rector sketched out a plan to create a long-distance telephone service provider on a napkin in a coffee shop in Hattiesburg, Miss. Their new company, Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS), began operating as a long distance reseller in 1984. Early investor Bernard Ebbers was named CEO
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scandals in the American history which finally led to its bankruptcy in 2002. On July 21st, 2012, WorldCom filed for bankruptcy, which was worth 103.9 billion USD and became the largest filing at its time. Its CEO, Bernard Ebbers, was found totally guilty and sentenced to 25-year imprisonment regarding the crime of stock and accounting fraud. Before WorldCom, the world had seen several cases of famous, or infamous, financial and accounting frauds, including Enron, Tyco, Aldelphia, Global Crossing and
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