Asset misappropriation schemes are frauds in which the perpetrators use trickery or deceit in order to steal or misuse the resources within an organization. When asset misappropriation occurs the specific assets of the organization are taken directly Continue Reading...
Introduction
Combating fraud and corruption in nonprofit organizations (hereinafter alternatively “nonprofits”) and/or non-government organizations (NGOs) is an especially challenging enterprise because of the nefarious methods that are u Continue Reading...
1. As the consultant, create an argument that you will present to the CEO that suggests accounting and financial management knowledge and skills will be essential to the company’s success and stability over the next five (5) years. Provide supp Continue Reading...
Fraud
Ethics
Fraud in the United States: An overview
Fraud has always existed in the United States, but a number of systemic changes in the way that business is handled have caused fraud to become more common than ever before, in both private indu Continue Reading...
Internal Fraud Detection
Fraud can be detected by deliberate effort through internal control efforts or by coincidence or chance. When companies do not practice strong internal control, it leaves the door open for employees to misappropriate assets Continue Reading...
Fraud and Corruption in Nonprofit Organizations
Recently, there has been a lot of media attention focused on cases of fraud and corruption in all the sectors of the economy. The nonprofit sector has been growing steadily and this offers a tantalizing Continue Reading...
Small Business' Need for a CPA
One of the critical investments a small business can make to mitigate loss and risk is hiring a CPA and putting that CPA on the 'management team.' As Wells notes in his groundbreaking research, "Denise, a bookkeeper Continue Reading...
Barry Minkow (ZZZZ Best)
Tell the story
Barry Minkow is a con-man, who at the sage of 16 years established an outwardly fruitful carpet cleaning and restoration company by the name ZZZZ Best. Four years in after founding the company, Minkow took the Continue Reading...
Corporate Crime
In APA Style
Accounting crimes in a Corporation are committed by either the employees within the firm or by other external forces and the result is that large Corporations are affected and so are the large numbers of stockholders, e Continue Reading...
roles of forensic accountants in preventing and detecting fraud within a business community. The paper highlights the requisites and basic responsibilities of a forensic accountant. The paper also makes references on the special cases where forensic Continue Reading...
Enron could engage in their derivative trading strategy with no fear of government intervention because derivative trading was specifically exempted from government regulation. Due in part to a ruling by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission' Continue Reading...
Ethics, Values, Social Responsibility
Bailout of Banking Industry in United States
Ethical Compliance by Banking Industry
It is quite common in American history that government comes for the rescue of companies and organization in the time of fina Continue Reading...
" (Cummins, 2006). The VP for Corporate Governance, Pillmore announced a series of ethical principles, to prevent such scandals. The first principle "calls for strong leaders who see themselves as stewards of the company and mentors for its future le Continue Reading...
Computer Security
People, process and technology are three things which are involved in information security. Biometrics, passwords and firewalls are some of the technical measures and these are not enough in justifying threats to information. In o Continue Reading...
Financial Ethics on Business
The reason of our frequent acquaintance about the fact of bouncing checks as a result of inadequate funds is worth noting so also the reason of sanction of unsuitable loans by banks, the acceptance of fraudulent claims Continue Reading...
Control environment: (i) Insistent accounting policies or practices. (ii) Demands from senior management to augment revenues and earnings (iii) Absence of involvement by the accounting or finance department in transactions or in the supervision of a Continue Reading...