In this paper I will be analyzing the research on Mickey Monus and his fraud crimes. I will exam the fraud and how it applies to this course, such as where it belongs on the fraud tree. Along with what type of fraud was committed, and how they got away with it for so long.
Lehman Brothers were an investment bank involved in transactions worth billions of dollars and one of the most powerful investment banks in the world.
Thinking we live in a place where no one steals or harms, and everyone has ethical morals is false. This summer in our hometown, Chesterfield, a woman was caught stealing at least $800,000 from Physicians for Women. Edith Harris, 51, was arrested on June 29 on 11 counts of felony embezzlement. Edith Harris has been charged for alleged offenses, from January. The investigation started after a patient asked why they had never received their refund. Harris’s responsibility was to provide refunds to patients. After investigating, they noticed that many patients hadn’t received their refunds. The investigator said that over the past years she had embezzled more than $800,000. Harris’s responsibility was to provide refunds to patient’s. Surprisingly,
With 7 fraud-related charges and accusations of 49 more, these unethical and illegal acts of fraud and theft were abuses of her employment contracts, trust, and power. As she was in such a high position of power in both circumstances she had the ability to take advantage of the companies because they did not have suitable controls in place to prevent or even detect her fraudulent actions. In response to this incident, both Sky City and Dio should put risk detection and prevention plans in place, as well as analysing their senior management strategies in order to stop this from happening
The entitlement philosophy can be defined as assumes that individuals who have worked another year are entitled to pay increases, with little regard for performance differences. The entitlement philosophy can be seen in many organizations that traditionally have given automatic increases to their employees every year. Further, most of those employees receive the same or nearly the same percentage increase each year. Employees and managers who subscribe to the entitlement philosophy believe that individuals who have worked another year are entitled to a raise in base pay, and that all incentives and benefit programs should continue and be increased, regardless
Throughout the case, it can be seen how Cendant Corporation was performing activities that dealt with the interactions of income smoothing. The main cause of performing with Income Smoothing was to make their shareholders and investors believe that they had a professional and ethical operation running. Income smoothing can best be represented as how either gains or losses from a certain period are taken into a good or bad period with losses or no profits. Income smoothing throughout this case was used as an unethical practice performed by Cendant Corporation to achieve financial stability and falsify numbers to make the investors believe they had premium stocks when in reality it wasn’t what was really occurring which would then lead to the
Bernie Madoff created Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in 1960 by purchasing penny stocks not listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYE) (Ferrell, Fraedrich, & Ferrell, 2013). He was a well-respected financier, until his fall from grace. Now he has been convicted of operating a massive Ponzi scheme that went undetected for decades.
Throughout the period of the audit, assignation PCAOB describes professional skepticism as a general duty of care that needs to be applied by the examiner. Professional skepticism is when someone has a questioning mind that involves a critical assessment and analyzes of audit evidence. It is primordial for an auditor to exercise professional skepticism when conducting the audit of financial statements. In other words, an auditor must refer to quality and credible reference. The auditor needs to question every aspect of the data presented or words that management is feeding them in order to achieve reasonable assurance about the conclusiveness of evidence. In the end, this kind of attitude helps to detect fraud prior to the issuance of a company’s financial statements.
The main objective of the paper is to develop a report for a shareholder that will interpret financial statements of Tesco Plc. for 2013-2014. The shareholder is specifically concerned about the fraudulent reporting. In this way, the paper will explain the reason of income statement and statement of financial position. The paper will calculate the financial ratios of company that will be interpreted with the implications of ratios. Moreover, the paper will describe the indicators of fraudulent reporting.
WorldCom, once known as one of the most powerful telecommunication organizations of the world, is now studied as a case of a fraudulent company that carried out unethical financial activities to cover its weakening position in the market. After some aggressive investment decisions, the company started to witness huge financial pressure. The management used various forged accounting entries to conceal its weakening position. Cynthia Cooper, Vice President Internal Audit, discovered the unethical activities and raised the issue with the management and relevant departments and received bitter responses. She carried out internal audits in her own capacity with her colleagues and compiled evidence against fraudulent activities.
Professional scepticism is an important part of auditing as it necessitates the auditor exercising their qualified judgement in dealing with occurrences and circumstances of a countless number. (Auditing and Assurance Standard Board, 2012). Since the global financial crisis, there has been increasing importance placed on applying professional scepticism and many auditors have been criticised for not using scepticism in their valuation and assessments of factors like going concern issues, fair value judgements and related party transactions. (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, 2015). Additionally, the importance of professional scepticism is essential in reducing the number errors found in financial statements. These mistakes can
There is very little one can predict from just the section of case. There was very little to none of her management style revealed. With her years of experience as an associate VP
Peter Loescher was hired by Siemens when the company was experiencing extremely difficult times. After the bribery scandal, the main goal was to gain back the trust and respect from the customers and partners, as well as building a new vision. The company’s board of directors decided that they needed a person from outside of the company, who had no connection and loyalty to previous vision, and no affiliation with previous management team.
Question: If you were consulting with the HTE board of directors soon after Harold started making changes, what would you advise them regarding Harold’s leadership from a transformational perspective?
Financial forensic accounting is the use of knowledge and skills to investigate fraud and to analyze financial information for the use in legal proceedings (Kranacher, 2011, P.5). The three most interesting topics are criminology, fraud examination, and categories of fraud. Criminology is the sociological study of crime and criminals. Few questions to consider while studying this topic is “why do people commit such crime,” “what can we do to prevent crime,” and “what knowledge and skill need to identify such criminals?”. Various types of crimes include occupational crime, white-collar crime, organizational crime, and tort, breach of duty, civil litigation which can destroy company’s success and