Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Vanessa Gail Woods Strayer University Connor-Green/ACC 576 March 21‚ 2010 Accounting Fraud at WorldCom The break up of AT&T opened the long distance service market to small companies during the mid- to late-1980s and 1990s. Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS) opened in 1983 with moderate growth until its stock went public in 1989. CEO Bernie Ebbers decided to grow the organization through acquisitions (70 companies over the course of its lifetime)
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Organizations Act‚ typically called RICO Act or RICO‚ is a United States federal law. The RICO Act is categorized as Chapter 96 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code. This act was formed on October 15‚ 1970 and signed into law by President Richard Nixon. The purpose of the law was to control organized crimes in the United States. Under this law‚ which deals with federal crimes and criminal procedures‚ it also permits prosecution and civil penalties for organized crime activities. This Act was designed and
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MLA Research Paper (Orlov) MLA Research Paper (Orlov) Orlov 1 Anna Orlov Professor Willis English 101 17 March XXXX Title is centered. Online Monitoring: A Threat to Employee Privacy in the Wired Workplace As the Internet has become an integral tool of businesses‚ company policies on Internet usage have become as common as policies regarding vacation days or sexual harassment. A 2005 study by the American Management Association and ePolicy Institute found that 76% of companies monitor employees’
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The statute of fraud is defined as‚ “a law that requires that certain contracts be in writing‚ and that those contracts be signed by the parties who are to be bound by the contract”. [1] The policy that underpins the Statue of Frauds was established during the reign of King Charles II through a statutory enactment requiring a written record for specified types of contracts. [2] These specified types of contracts could not be enforced unless a memorandum of it is written and signed by the party to
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describes the fraud of the century. As a result of the Ponzi scheme‚ social attitudes toward the investment industry were lukewarm. I will describe the highlights of the case. First‚ Bernard Madoff started a stock trading business in 1960 that was highly successful. This business consisted of buying and selling stocks that were not on the New York Stock Exchange. Conversely‚ once Pete Madoff came into the business‚ Bernard created the investment management business‚ which is where the fraud occurred
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Fraud Risk Memorandum This memo is to determine potential fraud risks that may exist within our client‚ Apollo shoes. There are reasons to believe that potential fraud risks do exist‚ however these risks are only hypothetical‚ but will be tested to assure users that Apollo’s financial statements are fairly stated. First‚ the client’s prohibition of contacting the predecessor auditor is considered a red-flag. The importance of the predecessor’s working papers and comparative work would make completing
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Adley – Week1 DQ1 Follow up Reply Financial reporting fraud cases typically involve “fictitious revenues‚ overstatement if assets‚ capitalized expenditures‚ misappropriation of assets‚ premature revenues‚ and understatement of expenses and liabilities‚ “according to Lawyers Connect (n.d). As a result‚ such intentional misstatements are fraudulent and illegal‚ and most likely material. Manipulation of accounting equation‚ Assets = Liabilities + Stockholder’s Equity (Rich‚ et al.‚ 2012‚ p. 9)‚ characteristically
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1. Consider how a hacker might trick people into giving him or her user IDs and passwords to their Amazon.com accounts. What are some of the ways that a hacker might accomplish this? What crimes can be performed with such information? How? * Social engineering (For example‚ instead of trying to find a software vulnerability‚ a social engineer might call an employee and pose as an IT support person‚ trying to trick the employee into divulging his password. The goal is always to gain the trust
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Car insurance fraud is of late becoming a very big problem not just in US but also in countries like Britain and those in the European Union. The sad thing is that most of these insurance fraudsters are becoming more and more cunning and creative with each passing day which makes it very difficult to nail them. It is now not surprising for insurance buyers to stage car accidents and then make claims for either personal injury or car compensation. Someone may also be cunning enough to craft out a
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Question 1: Name two cases in which companies have committed frauds by misstating inventory. Crazy Eddie and Goodner Brothers case are the good example for the inventory fraud cases. Question 2: What makes the intentional misstatement of inventory difficult to detect? When you have the most senior management of the company‚ particularly its financial management‚ consciously setting out to fool the auditors‚ to hide information from them‚ as they testified in the Monus trial‚ it’s very hard to
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