the “truth in securities” law. The Act has two objectives, one is requiring that investors receive financial and other significant information concerning securities being offered for public sale; and prohibit deceit, misrepresentations, and other fraud in the sale of securities (The Laws That Govern the Securities Industry , 2012). The Securities Act of 1934 The Securities Act of 1934 Congress created the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Act empowers the SEC with authority over all aspects
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The London Whale Scandal BU486-B : Accounting Information Systems and Computer Audit & Controls Kevin G. Bullock Wilfrid Laurier University Alexander Brik - 110882860 Aman Smagh – 110257570 Jack Welton – 100791540 Zaid Iqbal – 110184970 Synopsis of the Case In April and May of 2012, JP Morgan Chase & Co. incurred major trading losses of $6 billion dollars. However, JPMorgan’s financial statements represented these losses as only $2 billion. The losses were the result of risky
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how organizations can protect themselves from it, and multiple real-life examples, an insightful analysis of the implications of cybercrime can be better understood. Wiretapping Wiretapping has become a very common way of committing computer fraud. This occurs when perpetrators read information being transmitted between an organization’s computers. In order to decrease this, companies can implement various encryption techniques to help ensure that confidential information does not reach the
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Assignment #2 Introduction Money laundering is a complex scheme that can be very hard for fraud investigators to investigate and catch. Essentially what money launderers do is take illegal money and through a three-step process, make it look like money from legal sources. The three steps are placement (getting the money into the financial system), layering (concealment of the true source of the money), and integration (conversion of money into perpetrators possession). It is common for drug
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years, businesses have been faced with the arisen of false accounting frauds which caused significant damage and losses to companies. It was reported in the 2012 Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse by The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners that approximately 14.5% of all asset misappropriations investigated involved expense reimbursement frauds. Employee’s inflating their spending accounts is one among many expense fraud schemes that are reported. It occurs when employees try
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Failures by Frederick D. Lipman In order for boards to fulfill their oversight obligations, the organizations they serve must have robust whistleblower and compliance policies and programs to encourage reporting that can help identify risk exposures, fraud, or other illegal activity. This report identifies common pitfalls in many current whistleblower and compliance programs, and it offers recommendations on how audit committees can strengthen them. Government investigations, bankruptcy receiver reports
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Hagel, Jack. "The long-term effect of doing more with less: Doing less." Journal of Accountancy . (2013): n. page. Web. 22 Jan. 2013. The long-term effect of doing more with less: doing less It is no secret that companies and small businesses have been forced to lay-off or terminate employees in order to cut costs due to the recent financial crisis. Experts are now researching the long-term effects of these practices. When you lay-off or fire employees you are essentially distributing
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Sierra Damico Book Report Forensic Accounting Joseph T. Wells did an outstanding job in writing his book, “Frankensteins of Fraud.” Throughout this book, there are ten white-collar criminals that perform fraud in such ways that they earn themselves and their companies many millions, sometimes billions of dollars. Innocent investors lost their life savings, their homes, their families…. A common trait amongst the perpetrators in this book was that every single one of them never saw themselves
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Use the Fraud Triangle and Fraud Scale to critically analyse the actions of Bernie Ebbers and Scott Sullivan during the WorldCom saga/ What does your analysis suggest? Dennis Greer’s fraud triangle is a key framework in analysing the ‘factors that cause someone to commit occupational fraud’ (ACFE-The Fraud Triangle, Association of Certified Fraud, Examiners Available from:http://www.acfe.com/fraud-triangle.aspx [January 2014]). The three elements that make up the model are perceived
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Fraud Auditing and Different type of fraud Introduction Over the years, the role of auditors become increasingly important especially in a capitalist economy as the process of wealth creation and political stability depends heavily upon confidence in processes of accountability and how well the expected roles are being fulfilled. An auditor has the responsibility for the prevention, detection and reporting of fraud, other illegal acts and errors is one of the most controversial issues in auditing
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