Financial Reporting and Disclosure Corporate governance framework should ensure that timely and accurate disclosure is made on all material matters regarding the corporation, including the financial situation, performance, ownership, and governance of the company Importance of Corporate Governance Disclosures * Stakeholders are paying more attention to what is reported * The global financial crisis has sharpened the lens through which corporate governance structures are held to account
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Acquisition, and Fraud Detection Recent notable instances of accounting fraud have led to regulator and public concern over the failure of experienced auditors to detect frauds prior to the issuance of a company’s financial statements. In response, the AIPCA has issued a new auditing standard, SAS 99, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit, in an effort to help auditors better assess fraud risk, detect fraud symptoms, and sharpen professional judgment as to whether a fraud has actually
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WOMEN DEVELOPMENT AND NATIONAL POLICY ON WOMEN IN NIGERIA Olubunmi Aderemi Sokefun Abstract This paper discusses the document on women in Nigeria (National Policy on Women). Several past administrations in this country have treated women issues and affairs with calculated levity: Carefully side - tracking or blatantly refusing to accord it the necessary attention. It is now a thing to gladden the hearts of all women of Nigeria that, "after four attempts by four former heads of Nigeria's Government
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Bankruptcy Fraud By Robyn Carter Forensic Accounting Data Analysis Bill Makkkawi October 13, 2009 Bankruptcy Fraud What is Bankruptcy? Bankruptcy is a way for individuals or businesses to satisfy debts. There are four types of bankruptcy. There is Chapter 7 which is a complete liquidation for individuals. Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidates assets that are not exempt and uses the proceeds to pay creditors. In this bankruptcy creditors may be paid in
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(October 2010) Accountancy Key concepts Accountant · Accounting period · Bookkeeping · Cash and accrual basis · Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting · Cost of goods sold · Debits and credits · Double-entry system · Fair value accounting · FIFO & LIFO · GAAP / International Financial Reporting Standards · General ledger · Historical cost · Matching principle · Revenue recognition · Trial balance Fields of accounting Cost · Financial · Forensic · Fund · Management · Tax Financial statements
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control. Even a recent development in accountancy profession called ‘forensic accounting’ could be traced to have emanated from the system of internal control in an effort to produce accounting information “suitable for use in a court of law”. Invariably, forensic accounting is increasingly playing more pro-active risk reduction roles by designing and performing extended procedures as part of audit, control measures and fraud deterrence. Therefore, internal control system is concerned with the
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American Journal Of Business Education –Fourth Quarter 2014 Volume 7, Number 4 Olympus Imaging Fraud Scandal: A Case Study Dennis Elam, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA Marion Madrigal, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA Maura Jackson, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA ABSTRACT This case examines the two decade long tobashi scheme by Olympus Imaging Executives to hide $1.7 billion in losses. In the 1980s, a soaring yen and falling dollar caused bottom line income problems for
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of the time period assumption. A. | True | B. | False | | 2. | Which of the following time periods would not be referred to as an interim period? A. | Monthly | B. | Annually | C. | Semi-annually | D. | Quarterly | | 3. | An accounting time period that is one year in length is referred to as A. | a reporting period. | B. | a fiscal year. | C. | an interim period. | D. | a distressed year. | | | | 4. | The time period assumption states that A. | companies must wait
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ACORN Fraud Case Anish Tamrakar Regis University MBAA-619 March 02, 2013 Dr. Steve Green Association of Community Organization for Reform Now In the twenty-first century there are around more than 1.5 million non-for-profit organizations in the United States. We cannot even imagine how many there are in this entire world, but their main purpose is to serve the public by using their revenues profits rather than distributing it to their owners or investors. The nonprofit sector is a collection
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MENUJU PELAKSANAAN FRAUD AUDITING Anna Retno Widayanti BPK-RI Imam Subekti Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Brawijaya Abstract The objective o f this research was to analyze the expertise o f Su preme Audit Board o f Indonesia (BPK-RI), which related to the imple mentation of Fraud Auditing. The analysis was based on the data acquired from 147 respondents. The result showed that the audit expertise of Supreme Audit Board of Indonesia’s Auditor unconformity with the criteria o f Fraud auditor. So, with
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