Corporate Fraud: How Fraud is Perpetrated in the Corporate World with a Case Against Enron Joseph Daly MBA-610 Saheed Dahar Southern New Hampshire University April 19, 2015 In a world where performance includes high stakes and competition where each firm is trying to win over as many customers as possible, organizations are under a lot of pressure to show progress in their firm. “Progress,” in Corporate America, is measured by high profit margins and maximum shareholder wealth
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financial fraud. Explain why you think certain areas need more analysis. What additional procedures would you perform? According to the handout of Financial Statements of the ABC Clothing Company for 4 years from 2003-2006, a vertical analysis is used. In the income statement, net sales are expressed as 100 percent and all other items are compared with net sales. So it is easy to compare the change of the percentage of each account for 4 years. There are some areas of financial fraud I find.
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will need to be signed for. If your gadget is not available, and we need to discuss the settlement of your claim, we will contact you within 2 working days of receiving notification from the repair centre that the gadget cannot be repaired. Your insurance policy will replace your gadget with one of similar specification and quality which may be from refurbished stock. If suitable stock is not available then we may provide you with a cash settlement based on the current market value of your gadget
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payments Down Payment Represents the buyer’s equity Must be paid at time of closing Anywhere from 5% to 20% of the purchase price of the house, depending on lenders. If down payment is less than 20%, lender usually requires PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) additional expense Points One-time fee charged by lender Represents a premium paid for obtaining a lower mortgage rate (pay more up front at closing for slightly lower payments) Usually 0-3 points assessed on a mortgage. One point – 1% of
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Blowing the Whistle on Healthcare Fraud: Should I? Diego Guzman Professor Al Williams MAN 2010 February 21, 2010 Blowing the Whistle on Health Care Fraud : Should I ? A whistle blower is defined as an individual who raises a concern about wrongdoing occurring in an organization or body of people, usually this person would be from that organization. This article brings to light the ordeal that individuals, specifically nurses, in the healthcare industry face when contemplating the possibility
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HEALTH CARE FRAUD AND ABUSE 2009 AHLA/HCCA FRAUD AND COMPLIANCE PROGRAM James G. Sheehan Medicaid Inspector General/former Associate US Attorney Albany, New York 518 473-3782 JGS05@OMIG.state.ny.us USUAL DISCLAIMERS • Focus on Medicare and Medicaid • Propagation is not plagiarism-if you see a good idea, I probably borrowed it • if you would like to use these slides in your own presentation, or pass them to others, feel free • JGS05@OMIG.STATE.NY.US TRENDS IN THE LAW OF FRAUD ABUSE AND COMPLIANCE
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Harver Health Insurance Counter Fraud Group: Zetia Lowers Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke After almost 10 years, the results of a long-awaited clinical study has proven that cholesterol drug Zetia of Merck & Co is capable of reducing heart attack risk when it is used together with statin. The study was conducted worldwide on 18,000 heart patients using Zetia, an ezetimibe, plus simvastation as compared to treatments with only simvastatin. LDL cholesterols levels, which is singled out as a critical cause
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Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) ©2011 Kaplan, Inc. 9 ©2011 Kaplan, Inc. 10 Terrorism Risk Insurance Act • Limits exposure of insurance industry and insurers • Federal government shares the risk of loss • TRIA prohibits terrorism exclusions • Keeps P&C insurance affordable and available after the September 11, 2001 attacks Terrorism Risk Insurance Act • Certified acts of terrorism – Must cause at least $5 million in aggregate property and casualty insurance losses and
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A health insurance exchange, which is also known as a Health Insurance Marketplace, is a set of government regulated and standardized health care plans in the United States. The Marketplace is a new way to find health coverage that helps people who do not have coverage or people who have coverage but want other options of coverage. When using the Health Insurance Marketplace, the applicant will fill out an application and will be able to see all the available health plans available in their
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of Adelphia Communications would be just another example of the vicious act known as fraud. Fraud is the intentional act of misleading others about financial information for profit, personal gain, or other dishonest advantage. As the new millennium dawned 14 years ago, we saw an unraveling of numerous fraudulent activities by organizations large and small. One of these organizations that became perpetrators of fraud was Adelphia Communications. During its existence, Adelphia Communications quickly
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Death Fraud: What is it and how to prevent it? Acco 455: Fraud Prevention and Investigation D. Peltier-Rivest November 26, 2013 In 1986, fraudster James Hogue famously stole the identity of a dead infant to conceal his criminal past in order to attend high school while pretending to be an orphan with special backgrounds. Each year, nearly 2.5 million deceased Americans' identities are stolen by perpetrators (Kirchheimer, 2013). Death frauds have affected victims, companies
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Obama Care health care plan and bill, so you can decide for yourself what you think of ObamaCare, based on the facts and not the News Radio / TV opinions · · • ObamaCare's goal is to provide affordable health insurance for all US citizens. · • ObamaCare does not replace private insurance, Medicare or Medicaid · • ObamaCare reforms and expands Medicaid in order to help cover more people, especially those below the poverty level. Unfortunately since the supreme court ruling where the NFIB attempted
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Fraud symptoms An organization culture can be defined as the sum total of the attitudes and psychology which are communicated by management to the workers. The ethics, beliefs and core values are incorporated into the overall company objectives and the day to today execution of work. Unfortunately, organization culture is an often-ignored risk for assessing propensity towards corporate fraud. In Watkins opinion if the values of the top erode it is “magnified in the trenches”. In the Enron case
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Fraud in Organizations Thesis Bigger the organization, Greater is the chance to commit Fraud. Organizations lose an estimated 5% of annual revenues to fraud (ACFE 2010). Less supervision leads to major scams The organizational frauds can be a result of less control on the workers. Small firms have a proper hierarchy of control and guidance to be followed whereas the big renowned companies have proper maps or itinerary but these companies are not concerned what is being followed in real scenario
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Telemarketing Fraud When you send money to people you do not know personally or give personal or financial information to unknown callers, you increase your chances of becoming a victim of telemarketing fraud. Here are some warning signs of telemarketing fraud—what a caller may tell you: “You must act ‘now’ or the offer won’t be good.” “You’ve won a ‘free’ gift, vacation, or prize.” But you have to pay for “postage and handling” or other charges. “You must send money, give a credit card or bank
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Social Insurance Social Insurance is insurance that protects people against different kinds of risk, such as loss of income due to sickness, unemployment or simply old age. For receive social insurance you must qualify for the assistance and be accepted. Even though you get accepted your choices of program and services may be limited to what you qualify for. Social Insurance is a type of compensation in a way. Social Insurance is funded by wither taxes or money that is paid on premiums by the
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Online Romance Fraud Checking my email account, i came across an email notifying me of a friend request on my social networking site. It was some boy i didn’t knew so, i ignored it. But it didn’t stop him. He kept on messaging me, complimenting me. This was disturbing me so i decided to analyse it. Online Romance Fraud, as the word suggest is a false trick that scammers use to fool people for money by pretending to be in a romantic relationship with them. Online Romance Scam is becoming so common
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100% paid for with housing allowance which she intends to use for her children’s Christmas this year. She stated that if she were to get married she would lose her “benefits”. I was totally taken back. Witnessing and recounting one form of welfare fraud has exposed another form. This made me think, I am working full time sometimes 50 hours a week, I am in school, a single mom of 2 kids that are in multiple extra-curricular activities and I am contributing to other people’s livelihoods and they are
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∙ ignore the consequence of a wrongful act ∙ eg. you have given up on a task because you don’t have enough time to finish it, and believe that the manager will forgive you this time real life eg: Enron and all its executives made billions of money from accounting fraud, but they ignored huge consequences after people would find out the truth. 2. Shifting the blame ∙ Blame others and make them responsible for what you did ∙ Eg. Late for the meeting because everyone else is also late. eg. even the Arthur Anderson firm he
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Fraudulent Claims False insurance claims are insurance claims filed with the intent to defraud insurance provider. Insurance fraud occurs when any act is committed with the intent to claim fraud to obtain some benefit or advantage. Fraudulent claims account for a significant portion of all claims received by insurers, and cost billions of dollars annually. People claim insurance fraud on every and anything home, car, health, and even life insurance. Insurance fraud has existed ever since
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established ethic policy and did not created atmosphere of honesty and truthfulness. All effort to establish Code of Conduct failed because Bernie Ebber’ opinion was that its “colossal waste of time.” Lack of proper training and internal control leads to fraud. WorldCom headquarters structure was spread across USA. Top management office was in Texas, HR department was in Florida and legal department in Washington DC. Such geographical location made it difficult to report any problems for regular employees
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Chris Zurcher Prof. Floyd ENG 101-C10 Medicaid Fraud in America The U.S. spends more than $2 trillion on healthcare annually. At least three percent of that spending — or $68 billion — is lost to fraud each year. Fraud accounts for 19 percent of the $600 billion to $800 billion in wasteful spending in the U.S. healthcare system annually. According to the Coalition against Insurance Frauds national website, Fraud amounts to between $125 billion and $175 billion annually, including everything from
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Dealing with Fraud Demetrice Armwood Dr. James Coon, Jr HSA 515 Health Care Policy, Law, and Ethics June 16, 2013 As the Chief Nursing Officer of the state’s largest Obstetric Health Care Center, this author is responsible for complaints regarding fraudulent behavior in the center. The purpose of this report is to (1) evaluate how the Healthcare Qui tam affects health care organizations, (2) provide four examples of Qui Tam cases that exist in a
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University of Phoenix Material Health Insurance Matrix Origin: When was the model first used? What kind of payment system is used, such as prospective, retrospective, or concurrent? Who pays for care? What is the access structure, such as gatekeeper, open-access, and so forth? How does the model affect patients? Include pros and cons. How does the model affect providers? Include pros and cons. Indemnity In 1932 the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a strong position
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INSURANCE LAW PROJECT | HEALTH INSURANCE AND REGULATORY ISSUES UNDER IRDA ACT 1999 | Rudresh Pratap Singh Roll No. 49 Semester V RMLNLU | Contents INTRODUCTION 4 The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority 5 Regulatory issues in the health insurance business 5 It should be the duty of the regulator (IRDA) to ensure that the new entrant in the health insurance sector: 5 II. Regulations Pertaining To Consumer
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Running Head: Fraud and Abuse Fraud and Abuse in the U.S. Healthcare System Tenisha Howard Keller Graduate Professor Cutspec June 12, 2011 Background People can be affected by healthcare fraud and abuse directly and indirectly. Fraud is defined as an intentional deception, false statement or misrepresentation made by a person with the knowledge that the deception could result in unauthorized benefit to oneself or another person. It includes any act that constitutes fraud under applicable
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Phar-Mor declared bankruptcy due to fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of assets, making it one of the largest frauds in U.S. history. Below, we will use auditing standard AU 316.85 Appendix A in conjunction with the video “How to Steal $500 million” to analyze how incentives/pressures, opportunities, and attitudes/rationalizations allowed for fraud to start and continue at Phar-Mor. Incentives/Pressures Annual reoccurring losses due to small margins put pressure on the
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investor to purchase the stock at the put option because of the risks that was involved. B. How might Enron’s harsh Performance Review Committee (PRC) have aided company executives in committing the fraud? Enron’s harsh Performance Review Committee (PRC) have aided company executives in committing the fraud because the high turn over may have caused them to seek revenge. All of the Enron employees were rated on a scale of 1-5. The employees that are at bottom of the scale were terminated and replaced
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