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Answers to Questions on Contract Law

Chryslers Fifth Avenue nameplate after noticing advertisements claiming it was high quality and luxurious. The salesman compared ...

Overstatement of Revenues at the Xerox Corporation

Xerox has become universally to be known as a photocopy (Pratley and Treanor 2002). ELEMENTS OF THE FRAUD While Xerox originally...

Report on Cyber Crime

situation has resulted in opportunities for great innovation and creativity in both legitimate and illegitimate enterprise. Not su...

Auditing Process and the External Auditor's Role

appears to be a prevalent theme in almost all of the recently profiled collapses (2002). In other words, even if there are proble...

Direct Mail Order Industry in South Africa

rights," said James Rosenfeld of the Direct Marketing Association (Rosenfield, 1999, p. 26). Rosenfeld indicated that things are g...

Insurance Fraud and Organized Crime

tissue injuries and psychological stress are not easy to disprove. Dirty professionals make the job tougher" (Schlossberg, 1992, ...

Future Outlook for Organized Crime

Such groups are connected by strong ethnic ties (Chinese); large numbers (black gangs) and sophistication (Russian mobs) (Couns, 1...

Credit Card Fraud

nearly $70,000 using stolen credit card information (Brunker, 2004). Clearly, this is not a small-stakes game, but a potentially ...

Abuse and Fraud in Medicare

American Medical Colleges, American Medical Assn. et al. v. United States), which alleged the government is conducting illegal Med...

Crimes on the Internet

Finally, another Internet crimes (which is similar to hacking) is to release a virus on the Internet. Again, viruses can disrupt t...

Fraud Prevention and Best Practices

fraud is different in all situations but there are common elements among all kinds of fraud that can make detection and prevention...

Auditing Problems and Solutions

done to detect fraud (Calderon & Green, 1994)? It is obvious that there is no simple answer or the problem would not persist; one...

A Case Study of Administrative Insolvency and Liability

The companys creditors have a claim only on...

Failure of Internal Controls and The Impact on Stockholders

one responsible for approving purchase orders and adding new personnel to the payroll system, the opportunity for abuse is readily...

Investors, Scandal Warnings, and the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act

perception of the regulatory environment is one that inspires confidence that the results and basis of the valuation accurate and...

Accounting at Enron

aside through Enron stocks. The question here is, could an Enron have been avoided? What would a financial consultant (one...

Improper Accounting Practices

derivative, why its typically used and how its typically used. Following that, we can go in depth into both Enron and Worldcom, an...

Corporate Debacle of Enron

Enron but when speculation about shady accounting practices hit the media, stock prices plummeted and Dynegy quashed the deal (200...

Enron and Ethics

point forward was the beginning of the end for Enron. Indeed, the history of Enrons empire is nothing if not prolific. The...

Rise and Fall of Enron

Timeline, 2004). Jeffrey Skilling took over as CEO but resigned six months later; Lay returned to the post of CEO (FOX News Networ...

WorldCom, Enron, and IAS

principles of accounting in the U.S. (Larson et al, 2001). Since that time, a number of authoritative bodies have been instituted ...

What Could Have Been Done to Save Enron

Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...

Post Arthur Anderson and Enron Accounting Implications

the financial statements. This sent investors scrambling. Nancy Temple was viewed as the culprit (by both the courts and observers...

Ethics, Objectivity, and Values

business, but it has "confused some employees spiritually -- a side often overlooked by vitally important to an ethical workplace"...

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...

An Analysis of One Market Under God by Thomas Frank

done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...

Enron and WorldCom Financial Statement Manipulation

processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...

Leadership and Business Ethics

Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...

Creative Accounting Incentives and Maintenance

share price performance. There are also the wider culture issues that encourage this and place an onerous duty on those who may be...

Individual Character and Ethics

and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...