majority of Adelphia's stock and occupied the majority of the seats on the board. These two components would be key in the fraud that would ensue. The personal lives of the Rigas’ would be the root cause of their need for cash and the reason behind the fraud they would commit (USA Today, 2004). The Scandal The government described it as ''one of the most extensive financial frauds ever to take place at a public company" (Sorkin, 2004). The Rigas' used company money to construct a private golf course
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Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Ann Fulmer March 2010 Burning Down the House: Mortgage Fraud and the Destruction of Residential Neighborhoods Mortgage fraud is bank robbery without a gun. 1 It is a high-yield, 2 low risk enterprise that has been reported in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, 3 Canada, 4 New Zealand, 5 Australia, 6 and England. 7 In the United States, it is committed by organized international and domestic
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Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit, also known as Statement on Auditing Standard 99 was issued in November 2002. It is a revision to improve the deficiencies of SAS 82 with regards to audit process and quality (Marczewski and Akers, 2005, p. 38). The revision of SAS 82 was started prior to the huge accounting scandals that shook public confidence in the reliability of audits. Nevertheless, it gave the accounting profession more focus on tackling the issues of fraud detection on
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a loyal long time employee. Since she was considered a valuable employee and had been with the company for so long it seemed unlikely that she would have been capable of such a crime. There are three in the opportunity triangle that happens when fraud occurs. The three elements are commit,
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Con artists make money through deception. They lie, cheat and fool people into thinking they've happened onto a great deal or some easy money, when they're the ones who'll be making money. If that doesn't work, they'll take advantage of our weaknesses -- loneliness, insecurity, poor health or simple ignorance. The only thing more important to a con artist than perfecting a con is perfecting a total lack of conscience. What does the average con artist look like? Despite what you may think, he
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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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the beginning. In January 1986, ZZZZ Best went public and began to sell shares on NASDAQ. However, the company began to rapidly decline. In July 1987, Minkow resigned and the company sued him for fraud allegations. This landed Minkow in federal prison, with a sentence of 25 years for 57 counts of fraud. In the beginning, Minkow struggled to meet the basic expenses of his company. Two banks closed his business accounts because the California Law did not allow minors to sign binding contracts, including
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Auditing Research Paper City of Dixon Embezzlement 11/6/2012 ACC 235 Growing up in a small town, Rita Crundwell spent most of her life very close to the town of Dixon. She was from a well brought up, hard working family and was one of six children. Her family was very interested in horses and would participate in horse shows while the children were growing up. Rita was an honors student while in high school, landing in the top 20 out of 300 students who were in the National Honors
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Angelica Olivarez 430 ethics Fannie Mae Accounting Scandal 2001 Ethics is based on how people should act through well-based standards. Ethics on the other hand, does not describe the way people actually act. Ethics is a prescriptive term in which people should always aim to make the right decision. Those who act on ethics do not rationalize their actions founded own perceived self-interest. The accounting profession has its own understanding and framework of ethics. Accounting applications of
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