Fraud Examination & Forensic Accounting Professor: David L. Cotton Meriann El Haddad Student Travel Agent Fraud Analysis Christopher Ryan Thomas‚ who ran a travel business‚ was sentenced for stealing students’ spring break funds. In September 2006‚ Thomas was selected as a travel agent by the senior class at Hampton University who were planning a spring break trip to the Sunset Beach Resort and Spa in Jamaica. From November 2006 through April 2007‚ Thomas collected approximately
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KPMG United States- Oct. 17‚ 2015 1. Issuer O: “The Firm identified a fraud risk related to revenue. The Firm’s testing of controls over revenue and accounts receivable‚ however‚ was insufficient. Specifically: With respect to one of the issuer’s segments‚ which consisted of three business units‚ the Firm failed to identify and test any controls over revenue and accounts receivable for two of the business units‚ which‚ in combination‚ represented a significant portion of the issuer’s total revenue
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Tanner can get his funds back Fraud. When Tanner was getting information over the hotel‚ Grano‚ the owner‚ stated that the motel netted $30‚000 during the previous year and that it will net at least $45‚000 for the next year. When Grano turns over the motel books‚ which had all the information of the motel‚ and is where Grano could have gotten the information of the numbers that he told Grano during negotiation. But‚ he committed an element of fraud which is silence because in the motel books it
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ZZZZ Best Company Fraud Case Study 1) At an early age‚ Barry Minkow was introduced to the carpet cleaning industry by his mother who worked part time as a telephone solicitor for a small carpet cleaning company. This insight of the industry allowed Minkow to understand that the carpet cleaning industry was one which had very few barriers to entry‚ no licensing requirements‚ and required only a small amount of capital to enter. Also‚ because of these few barriers to entry‚ the industry has historically
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Livent. Inc Overview In the year 1979 Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb decided to enter the show business world. These two young entrepreneurs were able to convince a well-known Toronto businessman to invest one million in “cinema complex”. Over the next several years Drabinsky and Gottlieb were successfully able to expand their company‚ while they convinced to gather up large sums for the development of multiscreen theaters complexes throughout Canada and the United states. By 1980 Cineplex Odeon
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1. Compose a summary of the case. Include how the fraud was perpetrated‚ the characteristics of the perpetrator(s) who committed the fraud‚ the role the auditor(s) had in the case‚ and the direct and indirect effects the incident had on the organization’s stakeholders (customers‚ vendors‚ employees‚ executive committee‚ and board of directors). Comerica is being sued by Experi- Metal’s for a $560‚000 phishing attack to their bank account. Experi- Metal‚ a custom auto- parts maker‚ was hit by phishing
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Railroad was authorized to construct a transcontinental railroad with substantial financial support from the federal government‚ officers and directors of the company devised a plan to make an immediate profit from its construction by fraud. The vehicle for this fraud was a company called Credit Mobilier of America. The method was to have Credit Mobilier‚ which was entirely controlled by the same people‚ bill the Union Pacific for the costs of constructing the railroad. There was no "market value"
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The case I found was called “Gupta Gets Two Years for Leaking Insider Tips”‚ and I found it in the Wall Street Journal. Rajat Gupta was the director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is a full service investment bank and security firm. Rajat Gupta was found guilty of leaking inside information to the outside‚ and was sentenced to two years in prison‚ and some pretty hefty fines. Rajat Gupta was not the average fraud perpetrator he was total opposite at least from the articles
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Can corporate fraud ever be eliminated from the workplace? Abstract Corporate fraud has been a growing issue since Enron bankruptcy. The factors that contribute to the occurrence of corporate fraud are hard to control and methods used to prevent and detect fraud both by internal control and outside auditing have unavoidable weaknesses. Despite all the effort being made‚ it is highly unlikely that corporate fraud can be eliminated from the workplace. Introduction After Enron scandal got
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Fraud Fraud is listed by the 2003 UK Threat Assessment issued by the National Criminal Intelligence Service as one of the seven most significant threats facing the world1. What is a Fraud? A fraud is when one party deceives or takes unfair advantage of another. A fraud includes any act‚ omission‚ or concealment‚ involving a breach of legal or equitable duty or trust‚ which results in disadvantage or injury to another. In fact‚ in a broad strokes definition‚ fraud is a deliberate misrepresentation which
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