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Religion and Corruption

most, of these changes had little to do with religion, God, or truth. Richelieu was known for stepping outside the religious bo...

BOARDS, LIABILITY AND FRAUD

2008). The question were trying to answer in this paper, however, is how far the boards responsibility goes. If the boards ...

PHAR-MOR, FRAUD AND ACCOUNTING

a fraud, which had been carried out over several years by people at many levels of the organization (Cotrell and Glover, 1997). Fa...

Financially Relevant and Irrelevant Influences in a Decision Made at Autozone

as a deterrent to other who may try and make a fraudulent claim. However, it has been estimated that the amount that is saved as ...

Preventing Fraud,Waste and Abuse

Further, there are some instances that the government would label practices as being fraudulent when they are not, or are fraudule...

MiniScribe Fraudulent Behavior and Reporting

hard drives after payment for the goods had been received (Albrecht et al, 2009). However, this was only one aspect of the fraud a...

LINCOLN SAVINGS & LOAN: REASONS AND SOLUTIONS FOR FRAUD

Accounting and auditing fraud is, unfortunately, nothing new. During the early 2000s, a whole slew of accounting frauds...

Scams from Africa

Many types of fraud seem to be increasing, one of these is the Nigerian scams that many people are so familiar with. This is a cas...

Dishonest Claims from Dentist

Fraud hurts everyone and there is fraud happening in all industries, even those we deem to be professional. This essay discusses a...

Why Management Can Manipulate Records

Our business world continues to be challenged with fraudulent activities and other wrongdoings. This essay discusses some of the i...

White Collar Scandal

White collar fraud continues to be committed. Most people are well-aware of some of the huge corporate scandals, like Enron, the t...

Enron & WorldCom: Who Blew The Whistle?

agreement -- why should the whistle blowers? This is precisely how the handful of individuals felt when they learned their corpor...

ACCOUNTING FRAUD

this was that the collapse of these companies came down to the financials. The purpose of financial accounting is to develop repor...

WorldCom and Rising Auditing Standards

stock prices and other similar situations. When it is determined that an investigation should delve further into the busine...

Applications of Corporate Governance Issues to McBride Financial Services

in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...

Did Fair Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?

In 2007/8 there was the start of a global recession, which has also been referred to as the credit crunch. The writer looks at the...

Research Results: Have Attitudes Towards Whistle Blowing Change since Enron?

The writer analyses survey results provided by the student. The survey was undertaken to determine whether or not attitudes toward...

Fraud - The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...

Negative Aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...

Insurance Company's Fraudulent Sales Practices

In ten pages this paper examines the types of unethical sales practices associated with the hypothetical Prudent Life Insurance Co...

Marketing in a Post 911 Era

as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...

WorldCom and Enron Comparison

its current ratio is understandable. WorldComs values in these two ratios reflect its precarious operation position. Neith...

Values and Business Ethics

of philosophy dealing with right and wrong and the morality of motives and ends" (Shaughnessy, 2002, p. 20). But questions of ethi...

WorldCom, Enron, and the Application of Business Failure Prediction Models

known as the going concern concept1. In looking at the viability of the business the potential creditors are seeking to ensure tha...

Performance of the Stock Market and the Effects of WorldCom and Enron Failures

This demand is impacted by information regarding that share as well as market conditions. In the case of Enron and WorldCom the we...

Businesses and Individuals Confront Dishonesty

corresponding functional interest in them * The interests of all stakeholders are of intrinsic value (Donaldson et al, 1995, pp. 6...

America's Changing Business Ethics

these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...

Ongoing Debate Regarding WorldCom

disturbing facts is that the WorldCom documents that were released in July to the special Financial Services Committee of the U.S....

Companies and Class Action Lawsuits

about their eligibility. Q. How much money will I receive? A. You are eligible to receive a share of the settlement only if you o...

WorldCom and Enron

for bankruptcy due to its inability to hide such tremendous losses any longer. It took a matter of three month for the company to...