HealthSouth: Fraud, Greed & Corporate Governance Marilyn J. Bordeaux HCS 5339 Rachael Kehoe HealthSouth: Fraud, Greed & Corporate Governance During the 1990s, Richard M. Scrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth Corporation, engineered many acquisitions of rehabilitation clinics, outpatient surgical care operators, nursing homes and other health care companies. In 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused the company and Scrushy of inflating earnings to the tune of $1.4
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Teaching Notes HealthSouth Corporation: Fraud, Greed and Corporate Governance Case Summary During the 1990s, Richard M. Scrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth Corporation, engineered many acquisitions of rehabilitation clinics, outpatient surgical care operators, nursing homes and other health care companies. Mr. Scrushy had been a respiratory therapist who spotted a niche in the health care market and utilized his entrepreneurial talents, marketing skills, and super salesmanship to set up and run
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Bait and Switch John Doe Strayer University Law, Ethics and Corporate Governance LEG 500 Bait and Switch Betty drove three hours in one-hundred degree heat. Does this have any bearing on whether or not the dealer must perform in accordance with the published advertisement? The Federal Trade Commission defines bait advertising as an enticing but insincere offering for a product or service where the advertiser has no intention or desire to sell. Instead, the purpose is to entice
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WorldCon: A Case Study of WorldCom ACCT 424B Prof. R. Hayes May 12, 2011 WorldCom is a telecommunications company that was once worth billions but is now merged with Verizon after bankruptcy due to fraudulent activities. The question is what caused one of the largest US corporations began a spiral into financial ruin. WorldCom according to John Sidgmore, a former top executive of WorldCom, stated that WorldCom generated annual revenues of over $30 billion a year, has more than 60,000 employees
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support your response. When Edwin Sutherland first began his study/analysis under the Traditional Summary Reporting System, there was a limited amount of information available on White Color Crime. The white-collar offenses that are measured are fraud, forgery/counterfeiting, embezzlement, and all other offenses. Because white-collar crimes are not Index crimes, the only information available on these offenses is arrest information, which includes age, sex, and race of the arrestee. Additionally
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Financial statement fraud includes the deliberate misstatement of numbers by either booking false accounting entries or deliberately misapplying accounting rules. There are common ways to carry out a financial manipulation and fraud such as overstatement of revenues, understatement of expenses, overstatement of assets, understatement of liabilities, improper use of reserves, mischaracterization as one-time expenses, misapplication of accounting rules, misrepresentation or omission of information
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INTRODUCTION [1]Estafa also known as swindling is a crime committed by any person who shall defraud another by any of the means mentioned in the Revised Penal Code (RPC). Article 315 of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines enumerates the crime constituting estafa. Estafa is a criminal case that is punishable under the Revised Penal Code and is also classified as a crime against property under the same code. As to its nature, Estafa is a crime which is mala in se. [2]Mala in se as defined
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1.What are the pressures that lead executives and managers to “cook the books ” * Pressures from investors ……they want to see that the company/business is growing * Attract new investors ….for the business to grow * Personal reasons …greed and wanting more * Pressure form the big boss * Brand of the company … the business has been known to be a big brang * Slow/decline in the industry 1. What is the boundary between earning management and fraudulent reporting ?
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The Fraud Triangle Abstract In 2002 SAS No. 99, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit describes the difference between material misstatements due to errors and intentional fraud and defines two types of intentional fraud: fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of assets. SAS No. 99 also introduced D. R. Cressey’s theory of the fraud triangle which is so named because it consists of three conditions that are generally present when fraud occurs: incentive/pressure
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the constant struggle to conceal their fraud. It is for these reasons that it made Mr. Miller hard to detect. His employers thought he was putting in the extra mile when he would work long hours and he was said to do outstanding work. Most of this was most likely a ploy to cover his tracks. This coupled with Mr. Miller being a very likeable person proved to make his transgressions very hard for his employers to detect. 2. Mr. Miller committed the various fraud schemes by stealing money from his employers
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