PRINCIPLES OF AUDITING The field of accounting offers its candidates several career choices from Tax Accountant, Payroll Accountant, CPA, and Forensic Accountant just to name a few. Most of the jobs require a Bachelors’ Degree from an accredited university. Local accounting firms (AKA) public accounting firms provide services such as preparing taxes for business or personal, located within the city limits. The federal, state, and local taxes that are due from or to the business or individual
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Systems and Information Breach A Review of Business Fraud Abstract This paper explores the Sony Corp hacking case committed in April 2011, with the use of five published articles that support a review of business fraud against the company. The paper will include the following requirements: 1. A summary of a case study and include how the fraud was perpetrates, the characteristics of the perpetrators who committed the fraud, the role the auditors had in the case, and the direct and
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Intro to HealthSouth Fraud Case Review In 2003, HealthSouth was accused of one the largest accounting fraud cases in healthcare history and those involved are still being tried today, nine years later. HealthSouth was founded in Birmingham, Alabama in the year 1984 by a respiratory therapist name Richard Scrushy. By the year 1999, HealthSouth had grown to house 230 surgical centers, 120 inpatient hospitals, 5 medical centers, 129 diagnostic centers and 1379 outpatient rehab centers and was worth
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Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….10 References……………………………………………………………………………………….11 Abstract This paper looks at the rise and fall of the Health South Corporation along with its founder and CEO, Richard Scrushy. One of the biggest fraud cases in recent history, this one company over- stated its revenue by four billion dollars, causing many people to lose both their life savings and their jobs. Over fifteen people received jail sentences, and even the Governor of Alabama went to prison
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Billy Bob Trapped Doors and Trojan Horses Discussion questions 1. Forensic auditing is basically going through one aspect of an audit with a comb. The auditor will be paying more attention to specifically cases that have fraud. This is mostly done when fraud is suspected. They will do as much as possible for that one aspect to make sure it is acceptable or not. 2. Danny Mays was submitting fake expense forms from employees to other offices. When it goes through the computer, Mays
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Waltham, MA May 2016 Master of Science in Accountancy, candidate GPA 3.75 • Selected coursework includes: Managerial Statistics, Economics, Accounting Problem II, Business Process & System Assessment, Financial Statement Auditing, Fraud and Forensic Accounting Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China Bachelor of Science in Management Major: Accounting Education GPA: 3.4/5.0 (Top 15%) • Honors: Annual Academic Excellence Scholarship of 2013 (3/45), Merit Student of 2013 • Awards:
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Forensic Accounting Name Institutional Affiliation Fraud committed on behalf of an organization vs. fraud committed against an organization Fraud commuted on behalf of the organization entails a section of the organization’s employees especially the senior management engaging in activities that are meant to benefit the company but in reality cause serious issue to the larger society the group is supposed to serve. An example of these types of frauds is false bidding scheme that refers to situations
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like to start before diving into the details of this accounting scandals, take a look at some of the tools that were used to first detect them which is include the sophisticated accounting systems and etc. Information technology which brought high tech computerization, digital storage and communication became very sophisticated, which made possible the accumulation of gathering of information in an instant. Recording and verification of accounting transactions in real time were made easier and more
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FORENSIC ACCOUNTING ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room Movie Summary Gerald Prayogo ------------------------------------------------- 342858 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the room is a documentary movie based on the book of the same name. Essentially, it tells us about one of the biggest fraud ever performed in the US. It tells us of the downfall of Enron: its scandals, the prosecution of its perpetrators, as well as its role in California electricity crisis. The film describes the biggest names
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for the creation by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) of a national center to facilitate auditing firms’ and other market participants’ sharing of fraud prevention and detection experiences, practices, and data and innovation in fraud prevention and detection methodologies and technologies, and commission research and other fact-finding regarding fraud prevention and detection, and further, the development of best practices regarding fraud prevention and detection. a. Discuss
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