severely affected by fraud over the past few years. Indeed, despite all the research and systems available, fraudsters have been able to outsmart and deceive the banks and their customers. With this in mind, we intend to introduce a novel and multi-purpose technology known as Stream Computing, as the basis for a Fraud Detection solution. Indeed, we believe that this architecture will stimulate research, and more importantly organizations, to invest in Analytics and Statistical Fraud-Scoring to be used
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A GUIDE TO FORENSIC ACCOUNTING INVESTIGATION THOMAS W. GOLDEN, STEVEN L. SKALAK, AND MONA M. CLAYTON JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. A GUIDE TO FORENSIC ACCOUNTING INVESTIGATION THOMAS W. GOLDEN, STEVEN L. SKALAK, AND MONA M. CLAYTON JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 2006 by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. PricewaterhouseCoopers refers to the individual member firms of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organization. All rights reserved. Published
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changed considerably. Sealed bidding is less frequently used now than in the past. However, there are certain situations when sealed bidding is mandatory. According to the Federal Acquisition Regulation when preparing sealed bidding invitations must describe the requirements of the Government clearly, accurately, and completely. Unnecessarily restrictive specifications or requirements that might unduly limit the number of bidders are prohibited. The invitation includes all documents (whether attached
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s Detection of financial statement fraud and feature selection using data mining techniques P. Ravisankar a, V. Ravi a,⁎, G. Raghava Rao a, I. Bose b a b Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Castle Hills Road #1, Masab Tank, Hyderabad 500 057, AP, India School of Business, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Recently, high profile cases of financial statement fraud have been dominating the news. This paper
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1. The Enron debacle created what one public official reported was a “crisis of confidence” on the part of the public in the accounting profession. List the parties who you believe were most responsible for that crisis. Briefly justify each of your choices. In our opinion, we believe that Enron’s top executives- Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, Andrew Fastow, and the Andersen auditing firm are mainly responsible for the “crisis of confidence.” As the top executives of the Enron Corporation, Lay
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1. Why were the Wall Street analysts willing to believe anything about Enron? What factors perpetuated the Enron myth? Why were the warnings ignored? Wall Street analyst did not want to believe that Enron was doing anything illegal, because of the amount of money they knew they could make. In the film, analysts blamed Enron for giving them false information. The false information kept Enron looking profitable, so it was recommended to investors. Also analysts were tricked or “bought” into overlooking
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enable the auditor to eliminate analytical review procedures. To provide the auditor with the opportunity to reduce substantive procedures. To enable the auditor to restrict substantive procedures to income statement items only. 3 ‘Audit risk’ is the risk that the auditor expresses an inappropriate
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United States Surgical Corporation Prepared by Alex Gonzalez & Daniella Trinchet for Professor C.E. Reese in partial fulfillment of the requirements for ACC 540 – Fraud Examination School of Business / Graduate Studies St. Thomas University Miami Gardens, Fla. Term A7 / Fall, 2014 October 24th, 2014 Table of Contents Issues 1 Facts 2 Analysis 5 Conclusions/Recommendation 12 References/Bibliography 14 Issues 1. What audit procedures
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resource commitment, particularly with regards to construction of infrastructure, budgetary planning and operations. This analysis therefore categorises the FIFA World Cup as a high risk mega event as it presents a site for operational, technological, social and political failures, some of which are caused by internal factors while others arise from the external environment. Situation Analysis FIFA has emerged unscathed from the turbulence in the financial markets and the global economic recession
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evaluate the financial health of the company. They use current asset which include the cash account to compute several financial measures. Other than that, cash is the highly liquid asset in a company and it is an area of high inherent risk since there is a relatively high risk of misappropriation. Part b (ii): For each audit procedure listed in the audit program (Schedule C 2), indicate the primary assertion(s) assessed by the procedure. 1. Obtain Cutoff Bank Statements and Confirmations returned
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