Repository Honors Theses Student Scholarship Fall 2012 An Analysis of Fraud: Causes, Prevention, and Notable Cases Kristin A. Kennedy University of New Hampshire - Main Campus, kaj79@wildcats.unh.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholars.unh.edu/honors Part of the Accounting Commons Recommended Citation Kennedy, Kristin A., "An Analysis of Fraud: Causes, Prevention, and Notable Cases" (2012). Honors Theses. Paper 100. This Senior Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access
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partner through whom you purchased your course. If this is not the case, please contact Edinburgh Business School at the address below: Edinburgh Business School Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS United Kingdom Tel + 44 (0) 131 451 3090 Fax + 44 (0) 131 451 3002 Email enquiries@ebs.hw.ac.uk Website www.ebsglobal.net Credit Risk Management Ken Brown MA MSc Ken Brown, MA Econ (Hons), MSc International Banking and Financial Studies, is a Finance lecturer in EBS, having previously worked as a
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Eli Stahler EBM 493 Ethics in Business Ethics and Business: Lovers or Enemies? Works Cited Berrone, P., Surroca, J., & Tribo, J. CORPORATE ETHICAL IDENTITY AS DETERMINANT OF FIRM PERFORMANCE: A TEST OF THE MEDIATING ROLE OF STAKEHOLDER SATISFACTION. Universidad Carlos Ill De Madrid, Departamento de Economía de la Empresa . Universidad Carlos Ill De Madrid. Friedman, M. (1970, September 13). The Social Responsibilty of Business is to Increase Its Profits. The New York Times Magazine
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talk about how big corporations deal with sustainability. That for me was really important, as sustainability is such a hard concept to grasp. I believe that the best way to understand about sustainability is with examples and cases that happen in real life. On this book Andrew Savitz and Karl Weber, put all their vast experience and knowledge in sustainable practices and recollect big cases of the corporate world and study them. Some events are about mistakes the corporations did when they failed
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Ryan Streetman July, 26, 2011 WORLDCOM’S FALL AND THE CONTROVERSY OF SARBANES OXLEY WorldCom provided telecommunication services of voice and internet. They began as a long distance reseller in 1984. The company was headed by Bernard Ebbers who became the CEO in 1985. The company didn’t go public until the middle of 1989. Through the years, WorldCom became more than just a telecommunications company. They were also information technology out-breakers. They were able to become an internet powerhouse
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cultures between China and USA 1 6 Case Analysis 1 6.1 NAICOM may sanction operators on unethical practices in insurance 1 6.2 Unethical and unauthorized medical practice - an alarming situation 1 6.3 Analysis and Recommendations 1 7 Conclusions 1 8 References 1 1. Background We end up in a century loaded with corporate embarrassments because of untrustworthy practices of corporate administrators over the globe. Outrages, for example, that of Enron, WorldCom,
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ABCD COSO case study Case study – Parmalat The situation - - - - - - - - Parmalat is a multinational Italian dairy and food corporation The company was founded by Calisto Tanzi, a university dropout who transformed a family business, Calisto Tanzi & Sons - Salamis and Preserves into an organisation hailed as one of Europe's biggest corporate success stories. In 1997 Parmalat jumped into the world financial markets in a big way, financing several international acquisitions
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A special CBI court on Thursday sentenced B Ramalinga Raju, his two brothers and seven others to seven years in prison in the Satyam fraud case. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5 crore on Ramalinga Raju, the Satyam Computer Services Ltd's founder and former chairman, and his brother B Rama Raju and Rs 20-25 lakh each on the remaining accused. HT presents a lowdown of the country's biggest-ever corporate accounting scandal . What is the Satyam scam about? It is about corporate governance
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discussed in light of the collapse of Health International Holdings (HIH). The HIH collapse warranted a Royal Commission investigation and also recorded the biggest corporate collapse in Australia's history. Corporate failures of similar magnitude such as Enron and Parmalat have occurred elsewhere and sparked large scale investigation and media scrutiny. In all of these corporate failures, the level or absence of disclosure has had a lot to do with the unexpectedness of the collapse. This paper analyses the
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board as there is “no one size fits all” rule, they are largely governed by governmental regulations and other international regulatory bodies such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Some positive relationships have been explored between the number of women, director ages, nationalities and other minorities on the board and the overall value of the firm. Being a household products and pharmaceutical company it is imperative
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