is audited by accounting public officer. To fulfill that requirement, ZZZ Best Company Inc. hired George Greenspan to perform audit for 12 months. According to his testimony regarding ZZZ Best scandal to congressional subcommittee that investigated fraud in ZZZ Best Company, Inc., Greenspan insisted that he has proprtly audited Minkow’s company although finally Greenspan admitted that he had not inspected any of the insurance restoration sites. Next audit company which audited Minkow’s company
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State of Utah DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE DIVISION OF CONSUMER PROTECTION TELEMARKETING PERMIT APPLICATION FORM OFFICE USE ONLY Date Permit Issued:_______________ Permit Number: _________________ Annual Application Fee: $250.00 (Non-refundable) Approved: ______________________ Denied: _________________________ Expiration:______________________ _________________________________________________________ (This is the name of institution that is registering.) ___________________________________________________________
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1- What are the pressures that lead executives and managers to “cook the books?” In the 1990s, the telecommunication was rapidly growing which led WorldCom to adopt the strategy of purchasing small long distance firms with limited geographic service areas and consolidating carriers with large market shares. This was the company’s main key profit. Indeed, by adopting this strategy, WorldCom grew quickly by expanding internationally in South America, West America, Europe and Latin America. As a result
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Customer Fraud 2) Consumer Fraud/ Investment Scam 3) Employee Embezzlement 4) Management Fraud 5) Vendor Fraud 6) Customer Fraud Case 7: 1) Fraud is being committed against the firm in this case by Bob. Fraud occurs when a person intentionally cheats or tricks others for their own benefit. Regardless of the magnitude of the charges or the fake excuse given to the reason for the charges, he is intentionally charging non-business lunches to his employer. This is also known as employee fraud, or
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1. Introduction WorldCom, the telecommunications giant, once was the largest telecommunications company in the world, with more than $30 billion annual revenue, $104 billion in assets and more than 20 million customers. John Sidgmore (2002), Ebbers’ successor after the scandal, said “WorldCom is a key component of our nation’s economy and communications infrastructure.” However, the giant collapsed in 2002. 2. The Main Issue: Earnings Management 3.1 Definition of Earnings Management
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Business Fraud Amber Boltze ACCT451 November 8, 2013 David Adu-Boateng In April 2011, a number of lawsuits were filed against Sony Corporation for the theft of user data from the PlayStation game network. The lawsuits accuse Sony of negligence and breach of contract for allowing the personal data of more than 100 million on-line video game users to be compromised (Tauriello, 2011). A hacker stole the names, birth dates and possibly credit-card numbers for millions of people who play online
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Enron announced that there was a critical circumstance within California with regard to the supply of Natural gas. Many historians and economists suspected that the Enron executives manufactured this crisis in preparation of the discovery of the fraud they had committed. The executives of Enron were enjoying the funds rendered from investments; the corporation itself was approaching bankruptcy. Enron executives are defined as the criminal activity involving the unlawful and unethical attainment
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balance sheet look better than what it really is. The second issue for the company was making fake accounting entries to make them look like they generated revenues from corporate unallocated revenue accounts. WorldCom had approximately $3.8 billion in fraud of June 2002. For unethical practices WorldCom was capitalizing their products when they should have been expensing them. As well WorldCom was generating revenues to corporate unallocated revenue accounts. To counter this measure the external auditors
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focus on fraud from a business perspective has significantly increased over the last decade. Every business, company or entity is subject to fraud risk; there is no immunity when it comes to fraud. There has been much legislation passed by the government and many new guidelines required by different accounting agencies. The Implementation or addition of an internal audit department has been wide spread. External audit independence, corporate governance and most recently the use of a fraud risk assessment
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on the issue for an extended period of time there might be no recovery from the issue and the accountant could be fired, or worse, the company could go under. Another situation for misrepresentation of figures could be from hiding money, which is fraud, in relations to taxes or personal gain. The consequences for this are of course a hefty fine and imprisonment. Companies do this very frequently but not all get caught. Companies and accountants will do this to try and squeeze every dollar into their
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