Fraud Triangle

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    Auditoria

    Professional ethics Ethics has been defined as the study of moral principles and values that govern the actions and decision of an individual or group. An ethical dilemma is a situation that an individual faces involving a decision about appropriate behavior. Districts involved in making any decisions generally include: 1. Identify the problem 2. Identify possible courses of action 3. Identify any constraints relating to the decision 4. Analyze the likely effect of the possible

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    Law and Ethics

    Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley Due Gbemisola Salako Dr. Oris Guillaume LEG 500 – Spring/ 2015 April 21, 2015 Question # 1- Describe the key characteristics of a whistleblower, and briefly summarize one (1) researched instance of whistleblowing in one (1) publicly traded company within the last 12 months. Include the details of the issue that the whistleblower reported and the effect of the whistleblower’s actions on both the whistleblower himself and the company. Whistleblowing can

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    Sarbanes-Oxley

    Sarbanes–Oxley, Sarbox or SOX, is a United States federal law which was introduced in 2002. It is also known as the “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” and “and 'Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act”. The main objective of the act is to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures. New aspects are created by SOX act for corporate accountability as well as new penalties for wrong doings. It was basically introduced

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    Do Big Companies Abuse There Power ?

    with a just 20 employees and converted the company got Public in 1992.The chairman of the company was the founder himself, Mr. Ramalinga Raju (Alias Raju) until January 7, 2009 when he resigned from the board of directors after admitting to corporate fraud. (Author HT correspondent, April, 9, 2015). The company offered consulting and information technology services to the various business sectors. The company had services in 66 countries and 53000 employees in 6 continents. It was listed on Bombay stock

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    management can be defined as using reasonable and legal means to achieve stable and optimised financing results (Burgstahler & Dichev 1997). It should be noticed the earnings management is legal activities rather than the illegal accounting fraud. Due to the availability of difference legal choices, the management can choose the most suitable choice which can generate more close earnings number to desired target. For example, the test on the intangibles impairment requires professional judgement

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    Check Tampering - Ms. Sherelle Brugin-Evans

    numbers. Ms. Evans would use her false identification cards to forge documents. She and her husband ran a gang that used fake W-2s to obtain false checks from the state. However, this was only one of the many check tampering frauds she committed. The second such fraud was for her and her gang to produce fake checks and have members of the gang cash the checks around town. She had a history of forging the SSNs and licenses. Although not highlighted in the article, it would be within her to use

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    Cyber Crimes

    Cyber Crimes Cyber crimes are on some of the hardest crimes for the police to stop and catch the perpetrators because they can commit a crime in one state or country and physically be in another state or country. While the invention of the Internet has had great affects on the growth of technology, it has also given criminals an extremely large place to hide in and the laws are still trying to catch up with the growth of technology. The different technology crimes that occur fall into one of

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    Accounting

    Introduction: Accounting fraud is an intentional manipulation of accounting records in order to make a company’s financial performance or condition seem better than it actually is (Accounting, 2015), and the main reason that I am really interested in this topic is because of the widespread of this situation in my home country-China. There are so many individuals or even big corporations use their relationships to avoid paying the full taxes. It causes the government has less money to help many poor

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    Lennar Corporation’s Joint Venture Investments

    The Lennar Company faces the damage caused by the Fraud Discovery Institute’s claims, the financial crisis, mortgage defaults, and dramatic fall in house prices, particularly in some of their active markets. The country is in the midst of an economic recession that began in 2007, and on top of that, the company has been accused of operating a ponzi scheme and profiting while allowing investors to lose money. On the day of the announcement by the Fraud Discovery Institute, the company’s stock price took

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    Unethical Conduct

    HealthSouth, the nation's largest provider of outpatient surgery and rehabilitative services, was founded in 1984 by Richard Scrushy and co-founder Aaron Beam. HealthSouth was involved in a corporate accounting scandal in which Richard Scrushy was accused of directing company employees to falsely report grossly exaggerated company earnings in order to meet stockholder expectations. Revenues continued to grow to more than $3.5 billion allowing Scrushy and Beam to enjoy the lifestyle that accompanies

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