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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agencies and even the government are all victims of both fraud and theft on a daily basis. Business owners are sometimes blindsided by these actions and may be unaware of the fraud due to lack of accounting experience or expertise. In almost every community, large or small, there are news stories about theft from employees. In several cases, unfortunately, the theft is from those entrusted to perform accounting functions. By the time fraud or theft is detected, sometimes thousands and even millions
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Corporation® and WorldCom® Your Name October 31st, 2012 FIN/486 Instructor Enron Corporation and WorldCom In the last decade, two powerful American companies, Enron Corporation and WorldCom, have become the models of accounting corporate fraud. The Enron Corporation was founded in 1985 by Kenneth Law in Omaha, Nebraska. The company later moved its operation to Houston Texas when InterNorth and Houston Natural Gas merged. This American organization offered paper, pulp, electric, communication
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all these millionaire managers wake up to discover they are not only now worth just a few hundred bucks, but that their jobs were disappearing. This situation was a reality for many WorldCom workers, because on that March morning America’s largest fraud at the time had been reported. WorldCom was a publicly traded corporation established in 1983 to provide Long Distance Discount Services (LDDS) (Internet Services, 2011). Through the acquisition of other businesses Worldcom became the world’s second
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to the collapse of Enron due to fraud, shady accounting practices, false reporting revenue, and general disregard of virtually every principle of business ethics. Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling and Richard Causey went on trial for their part in the Enron scandal in January 2006. The 53-count, 65-page indictment covers a wide range of financial crimes, including insider trading, making false statements to banks and auditor’s bank, fraud, securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy
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Consideration of Fraud within Small Business Organizations Introduction In recent studies made by Klynveld, Peat, Marwick and Goerdeler, LLC (KPMG), Fraud and Misconduct survey 2010 shows “The value of frauds committed by employees has double during the past two years with the average case now costing victims $3 million. The survey found that 61% of cases, there was no recovery of cash stolen, and that the average time to detect major fraud has increased from 342 days to 399 days. It
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