The case Satyam fraud was an eye opener for everyone who has a part to play in the business chain – the promoters‚ employees‚ auditors (both internal and external)‚ customers‚ shareholders‚ board-members‚ executives‚ creditors‚ institutional banks‚ regulatory bodies and even the Government. Just because regulators and Government were not directly linked to the functioning of the company they cannot deny that they were faultless or knew nothing or were not supposed to know anything. Satyam case
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possible to analyze the Satyam case under two main different perspectives. The first addresses the conditions that made possible‚ and eventually stimulated‚ the existence of the accounting fraud perpetrated from the company top management. The second one is about the issue of gaps in the company’s control framework‚ which failed miserably in identify and properly address the problems in company financial statements. Analyzing the first aspect listed above‚ seems that Satyam scandal originated‚ in
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Issues December 16‚ 2008: Satyam board approved a 51% stake acquisition of Maytas Infra‚ a listed company in the Bombay Stock Exchange for US$1.3 billion and 100% stake in unlisted firm Maytas Properties for US$300 million. Both of these firms were in the construction and real estate business and Satyam’s chairman‚ Ramalinga Raju family held a 36% stake in Mayta’s Infra and 35% stake in Maytas Properties. Implication: The deal was seen as a way of diverting cash from Satyam’s shareholder to Satyam’s
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Mehta Case‚ Satyam‚ Ketan Parikh and UTI on national level and Lehman Brothers on international level are some of the examples resulting in topics on corporate Governance and Business Ethics being included by many universities and autonomous institutions in their curriculum post liberalization. January 7‚ 2009 will be etched in the annals of India ’s corporate history as it brought to light one of the biggest scams in India. It was on this day that chairman B Ramalinga Raju of Satyam Computer
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ON: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Presented by students of Department of Business Studies‚ DeenDayal Upadhyaya College‚ University of Delhi. Devesh D Lalwani 10/BBS/0165 Shivam Gupta 10/BBS/0177 Abhinav Goel 10/BBS/0179 Jai Singh Gambhir 10/BBS/0157 Declaration We student of Bachelor of Business Studies (1st semester)‚ in Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College‚ University of Delhi‚ hereby declare that I have made this academic project titled ‘Corporate Governance’ as a part
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Open Journal of Accounting‚ 2013‚ 2‚ 26-38 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojacct.2013.22006 Published Online April 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojacct) Corporate Accounting Fraud: A Case Study of Satyam Computers Limited Madan Lal Bhasin Bang College of Business‚ KIMEP University‚ Almaty‚ Republic of Kazakhstan Email: madan.bhasin@rediffmail.com Received January 15‚ 2013; revised March 12‚ 2013; accepted March 28‚ 2013 Copyright © 2013 Madan Lal Bhasin. This is an open access article distributed
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Introduction to Satyam Computers Limited Satyam computers limited established as a private limited company by two brothers B. Rama Raju and B. Ramalinga Raju in 1987. It was converted to a public limited company in August 1991. By 2008‚ Satyam was established as a fourth largest Indian IT Company in India and US. It had grown upto 53000 employees‚ 600 plus customers including 185 fortune 500 companies. The company had annual revenues over $2 billion. The company was operated in more than 66 countries
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Satyam Story: Many Lessons to be Learnt Ramalingam Raju along with 2 other accused of the scandal‚ were granted bail from Supreme court on 4 November 2011 as the investigation agency CBI failed to file the chargesheet even after more than 33 months of Raju being arrested. Raju had appointed a task force to address the Maytas situation in the last few days before revealing the news of the accounting fraud. After the scandal broke‚ the then-board members elected Ram Mynampati to be Satyam’s interim
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CASE STUDY: MARCH 2012 SEMESTER I. Analyze the case and respond to the following questions: a) Discuss the earnings management techniques employed by the management of Satyam. Earning management or creative accounting is referred to the manipulation or misrepresentation of the company’s financial earnings in order to achieve stable and positive financial position. This was achieve through directly or indirectly use of the accounting methods. Even though the manipulation may follow all
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Satyam was the fourth largest information technology group in Indian and won various award pertained to innovation‚ governance and corporate accountability. However‚ Satyam was involved into a massive accounting fraud. As mentioned in the case‚ corporate governance at Satyam is unsuccessful due to the lack of obligation of the company interest to serve the stakeholders. Given that the shareholders have the right to obtain key information regarding to acquisition‚ request transparency of managing
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