As corporate controller for Apollo Shoes, you are tasked to find and explain any irregularities in the Apollo Shoes Case. Resource: Apollo Shoes Casebook Define the process you will use and address the following assessed classroom discussion questions: What procedures will be used to collect accounting evidence? What sampling tools and techniques will be used for the examination? How will you use analytical and inferential tools to evaluate accounting evidence? Submit your assignment
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Running head: Article Review Shawn Detamore January 29, 2012 Payroll fraud schemes happen when an employee generates overcompensation for themselves. There are three types of payroll fraud schemes; ghost employees, bonus and commission schemes and falsified hours and salary (Shields, 2009). This type of fraud accounts for 17% of fraud that is committed in organizations (Shields, 2009). Back in May of 2009, a payroll manager and a retired employee of the Detroit Public School system worked
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Association of Certified Fraud Examiners; conducts comprehensive fraud studies; Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud & Abuse • Fraud - deception that includes: a representation, about a material point, which is false, and intentionally or recklessly so, which is believed, and acted upon by the victim to the victim’s damage. Fraud is an act of dishonesty with the intention to deceive or cover the truth to gain an advantage. Most critical element: confidence. Fraud can be classified as (in terms
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Heston E Cummings, Daman Sandhu, Jamiel Najmeddine Principle or rules based accounting Heston E Cummings, Daman Sandhu, Jamiel Najmeddine Principle or rules based accounting Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 Principle Based Accounting 4 Rule Based Accounting 6 CONCLUSION 7 REFERENCES …………………………………………………………………………………………… 8 Abstract There have been lots of discussions about principle and rule based accounting approaches, mostly people view U.S GAAP as rule based and IFRS as principle
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practices. Until recently, detecting fraud was thought to be a part of the responsibility of the accountant. Fraud was something the internal or external auditors were expected to guard against by their periodic audits. We now know that auditors can only check for compliance of a company’s books to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAPs) and to company policy; therefore, a new category of accounting had to be established, one which revealed the fraud for companies with suspected fraudulent
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crimes and insurance fraud of white collar crook on behalf of companies and public law enforcement agencies. In addition, most of the high profile corporation, will misconduct in money laundering. The fraud will identify by forensic accountants and wherever they go money will takes them. Less attention is focused towards perpetrators compare to actual crime committed by the white collar crook. Antitrust violation, bank fraud, bribery/kickbacks, computer/internet fraud, consumer fraud, counterfeiting
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University of Phoenix Material Article Review Format Guide MEMORANDUM UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX DATE: November 25, 2013 TO: XXX FROM: XXX RE: Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act upon management: a behavioral discussion. (Linsley, C., & Linsley, C., 2008) ARTICLE SYNOPSIS The authors of this article had a desire to examine the behavioral psychological affects on senior management staff members after the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The behavior changes
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accounting frauds A. Seetharaman, M. Senthilvelmurugan and Rajan Periyanayagam Faculty of Management, Multimedia University, Malaysia Keywords Fraud, Corruption, Financial reporting, Whistleblowing, Internal control, Corporate governance Abstract This paper introduces fraud as asset misappropriations (85 per cent of cases), corruption and fraudulent statements. Symptoms include accounting anomalies, lack of internal control environment, lifestyle and behaviour. The most effective tools for fraud detection
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History of Digital Crimes and Digital Terrorism and Their Common Current Forms Stephanie Fisk Strayer Universality CIS 170 Professor CIANCIOTTA Dec. 12th, 2013 Introduction Computer crime refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target. Net crime refers to criminal exploitation of the internet. Dr. Debarati Halder and Dr. K. Jaishankar (2011) defines cybercrimes as: "Offences that are committed
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The Internet and how it Singlehandedly Transformed nearly Every Aspect Crime The Internet and how it Singlehandedly Transformed nearly Every Aspect Crime There are several examples of specific crimes that have been around for centuries that have evolved into computer-based crimes. While these crimes may not be strictly committed with the use of key strokes, the advent of computers and the progression of technology have adapted these crimes making them in a lot of ways easier to commit
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