Fraud Triangle

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    every day about all kinds of corporate schemes and scams. Behind every fraud is a person or a group of people who has taken what is not theirs to take. Some of those people intended to steal they just never thought they would get caught. Others were pulled into the original crime or some aspect of the cover-up and before they knew it they were labeled a co-conspirator. This study will examine the people behind the much publicized fraud scheme at HealthSouth. Some did not set out to commit white-collar

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    The Role of Auditors in Fraud Detection, Prevention and Reporting in Nigeria

    University of Nebraska-Lincoln 11-2-2010 THE ROLE OF AUDITORS IN FRAUD DETECTION, PREVENTION AND REPORTING IN NIGERIA Ayobami Oluwagbemiga Oyinlola Mr Tai Solarin University of education,Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, oluwagbemiga@in.com Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Oyinlola, Ayobami Oluwagbemiga Mr, "THE ROLE OF AUDITORS IN FRAUD DETECTION, PREVENTION AND REPORTING IN NIGERIA" (2010). Library Philosophy

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    What Is Going on

    Actuarial Accounting: A Cautionary Report Dan R. Young, Esq. Attorney at Law Law Offices of Dan R. Young Seattle, Washington danryoung@netzero.net Presented the Spring Meeting of the CAS New Orleans, Louisiana May 6, 2009 The Story of the AIG Accounting Scandal        The Companies The Participants Regulatory Scrutiny Intensifies The Prosecution Case The Defense Case Relevant Laws and Regulations The Fate of the Participants The Companies AIG Overview (2007)        World’s

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    Accounting Fraud at Worldcom

    4. 2.  What is the boundary between earnings smoothing or earnings management and fraudulent reporting? To me there comes a line where you know that the entry that you are making is incorrect, and you make the entry anyways. That to me is where fraud is committed. Otherwise make your best judgement call on what would be appropriate to capitalize, or develop a new way of calculating estimates for accruals if you believe them to be wrong. 3.  Why were the actions taken by WorldCom managers not

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    Cyber Crime

    Topic Outline Crime and Cyber Risk RMI 4300-Klein Distinctive Features of Crime Risk Common Crimes • Burglary • Robbery • Shoplifting • Fraud • Embezzlement • Forger and Counterfeiting • Vandalism • Arson • Espionage • Computer Crime Fraud • Fraud involves inducing another to act to his or her detriment. • Examples of fraud • A merchant collects payment in advance for good that will not be delivered or will be greatly inferior to what was promised • A customer accepts delivery od

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    Rite-Aid Accounting Fraud

    Rite- Aid Accounting Fraud: How It Could Have Been Detected Abstract Martin Grass assumed leadership of Rite-Aid from his father in the mid-1990s. In the next 5 years Rite-Aid experienced rapid growth. The company was reporting higher earnings per share each year and a rise in stock prices only to discover it was all because of accounting fraud perpetrated by its senior executives. The SEC filed multiple charges listing the fraud perpetrated by senior management. There were warning signs to

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    Leg500 Assignment 1

    reporting corporate fraud and financial malfeasance to the government. The negligence became apparent in the 1990’s when corporations such as Enron, HealthSouth, Tyco and WorldCom were found to have grossly overstated their earnings. This cost billions of dollars in losses to shareholders and caused the near-collapse of the stock market (Prentice, 2010, p. 17). The companies were able to hide, scam or misrepresent their earnings due to the dot-com boom, soaring investments, and auditor fraud. The Sarbanes-Oxley

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    Moral Hazard

    Introduction Moral hazard arises when an entity protected from risk may behave differently than they would bear all the consequences of risk. Moral hazard increases because individual people and institutions do not assume the consequences of their actions and, therefore, tend to behave less careful than would be the case bear the full consequences. An example is the behavior of the driver of the car, which in the absence of insurance is driving more carefully and ensure that the car is parked in

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    Fashion of Fraud

    Fashioning A Fraud Case Study Expense reports are a fact of life for any business that sends employees to visit clients other offices, or conferences. While most employees are honest and abide by corporate rules, there are enough dishonest ones to make a serious dent in the bottom line. In the “Fashioning A Fraud Case”, Bobbie Jean Donnelly defrauded her company of approximately $275,000 over a two year time span, by submitting travel and expense reimbursements. She committed this fraud by using

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    Cyber Theft

    Introduction The 21st century is an era where the world is developing faster to insure a better life. One of the main factors of this is technology. It is developing daily, which is helping people live in a more comfortable lifestyle. Technology is very useful, almost everybody has a cell phone in order to stay in contact with their family, friends and business associates. Another example would be computers, and now-a-days a future employee needs to have some sort of computer skill to get a decent

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