prevent or detect fraud within the company.
Prevention of Fraud
During the case, it was determined that Tesco has been preparing artificial financial records, book, and statements that were inaccurate and there was an absence of proper internal controls in the company through the years (Wells, 2017). The company deliberated created loopholes in the accounting… Continue Reading...
(Hanna, 2014). Indeed, there is no direct way to measure whether a law has prevented fraud because a) not all frauds are detected and b) prevention of fraud relies on knowing exactly when someone would have committed a fraud but thought twice because of the risks created by the law. The only real measure that can be undertaken is the percentage instances of fraud that have occurred before and after. It does not appear that many studies have been conducted on this subject, and none that have focused on the health care industry.
Such a study would have to examine the rates of accounting fraud among publicly traded healthcare companies before and after Sarbanes-Oxley. Without… Continue Reading...