ACC 421 6-2 Short Paper- Interview & Witness for the Prosecution

Discussion Question 37:  Explain why Benford's Law is useful to auditors in the detection of fraud. (write a one page response for each question):

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) contains all of the following titles that have a direct impact on forensic accounting and fraud except: Group of answer choices   Title 4 prohibits personal loans and requires certain financial disclosures. Title 11 provides a possible 25-year prison sentence for anyone altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing a record, document, or other object (or otherwise impeding) for an official proceeding. Title 9 increases maximum prison sentences for mail and wire fraud from 5 to 20 years. Willfully and knowingly certifying financial reports not in compliance with the Act is now a criminal offense. Title 4 prohibits personal loans and requires certain financial disclosures.

Assignment 1: Individual research/essay You are a newly hired fraud examiner. You have been asked to write a preliminary report on the Paving Company Case scenario based on the information presented in Units 1 to 4 and findings from your additional research.  Your report should not exceed 2,000 words. The word limit is not inclusive of the bibliography and cover page.  In your response, the following points must be addressed fully: a)      Determine the type of fraud committed and describe the symptoms of fraud that might be evident to an investigator.  b)      As discussed in units 1 to 4, all frauds involve key elements. Identify and describe using examples the elements of the Sharp's fraud.  c)       In the scenario, Sharp’s employer has been putting more emphasis on controlling costs for the various businesses. With the slowing of overall spending in the construction sector, Travolta had ordered managers to closely monitor expenses. He had sold several companies and has given vice…

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FBI and Financial Fraud This assignment aligns with Outcome 4: Model techniques used to collect and analyze data. Adapted from Question 24 on pages 14-40 & 14-41 of the textbook. Go to the FBI websiteLinks to an external site. and use the search box in the top right corner to conduct a search on financial fraud. The FBI site provides numerous descriptions of financial fraud cases that they have prosecuted. Choose a case and select one of the convicted defendants named in the case. Use the profiling methods described in the chapter to perform a due diligence search and collect all the internet information that you can about this individual. The information that you collect can include news reports, addresses either physical or virtual, education background, etc. Document where you found the information by including the name of the website and its URL.

Chapter 3 of the textbook discusses many methods individuals can use to communicate financial statement information to stakeholders in a fraudulent manner. Choose one method and explain how perpetrators use it. Which of the three “M’s of financial reporting fraud does this method fall under? Cite a case related to the method.

6. Access a recently issued SEC Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release related to a fraud action (www.sec.gov). Click on enforcement and determine incentive(s)/pressure to commit the fraud, accounting issue(s), and the motive for the fraud. " Access the Accociation of C

Subject: Accounting Information System ETHICS, FRAUD, AND INTERNAL CONTROL Stated Problem: EXPENSE ACCOUNT FRAUD While auditing the financial statements of Petty Cor-poration, the certified public accounting firm of TrueBlue and Smith discovered that its client’s legal expenses account was abnormally high. Further investigation of the records indicated the following:•Since the beginning of the year, several disbursements totaling $15,000 had been made to the law firm of Swindle, Fox, and Kreip.•Swindle, Fox, and Kreip were not Petty Corporation's attorneys. A review of the canceled checks showed that they had been written and approved by Mary Boghas, the cash disbursements clerk. Boghas’s other duties included performing the end-of-month bank reconciliation. Subsequent investigation revealed that Swindle,Fox, and Kreip are representing Mary Boghas in an unrelated embezzlement case in which she is the defendant. The checks had been written in payment of her personal legal fees.…

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