Case 2-8 Juggyfroot This case shows the auditors resisting pressure from the client to change to a non justified accounting treatment. The stakeholders of this case are the bank, the shareholders, creditors, suppliers, employees, and officers of the firm. The stakeholders expect non-misleading financial statements. Deziloo has an obligation to perform the audit with integrity, objectivity, and due professional care. From a rights perspective, it is not right to mislead the investors by making
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Current Issues in Accounting The case of Phar-Mor Inc is new to me after coming across a number of scandals and I am excited to do research on it. Phar-Mor Inc is a deep discount drug store that was established in 1982. The business model was to by huge masses of products or alternatively called “power buying” and selling them at a huge discount of 25 to 40% of retail price (Lansing, 2011). In 2002, the corporation had 310 outlets with 25,000 employees in majority of the states, 34 to be precise
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Running Head: Is Ethics The Main Reason For Accounting Scandals? Is Ethics The Most Important Reason Behind Years of Accounting Scandals? Joshua A. Williams DeVry University Is Ethics The Main Reason For Accounting Scandals? Ethics: Is It The Most Important Reason Behind Years of Accounting Scandals? Ethics is a term that refers to a code or moral system that provides criteria for evaluating right and wrong (Spiceland, Spe, Tomassini, 2007). An ethical dilemma is a situation in which
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is to restrict auditing companies from providing non-audit services (e.g., consulting services) for the same clients in which they audit. In the article “The Case of Phar-Mor Inc.” the author Williams, S. Lansing (2011) presents a case study in hindsight to determine if the 1992 bankruptcy of the deep discount drugstore Phar-Moc Inc who cost its investors 500 million dollars might have been prevented if the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) had been in effect. Do you think that Title II,
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Auditing Cases An Interactive Learning Approach FIFTH M F S D E D ITIO N S. B A. B M. G F. P Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editor in Chief: Donna Battista Acquisitions Editor: Stephanie Wall Editorial Project Manager: Christina Rumbaugh Senior Managing Editor: Cynthia Zonneveld Production Project Manager:
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restated their financial statements. This resulted in almost $6 trillion of stock market value disappearing (Cunningham, 2003). I decided to do more research to see how many scandals such as these have occurred over the years before the act was created. Phar-Mor Scandal was a popular chain of drugstores in the 90’s. They were accused of mail fraud, embezzlement, bank fraud and transportation of funds received from theft or fraud. Once these illegal activities were discovered, it eventually leads
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Despite intense efforts to stamp out corruption, misappropriation of assets, and fraudulent financial reporting, it appears that fraud in its various forms is a problem that is increasing in frequency and severity. KPMG’s Fraud Survey 2003 documented a marked increase in overall fraud levels since its 1998 survey, with employee fraud by far the most common type of fraud. The 2003 survey also noted that fraudulent financial reporting had more than doubled from 1998. This trend is consistent with the
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Fordham University Graduate School of Business ACGB 7171 Auditing of Accounting Systems I—Fall 2013 Course Objectives: The objective of this course is to introduce students to the auditor’s decision-making process in both an audit of financial statements and an audit of internal controls over financial reporting. The class consists of lecture, individual case studies and in class exercises. Students are given an introduction to the following topics: • Generally Accepted Auditing
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Arthur Andersen and a series of investigations and shareholders lawsuits, most of which are still pending. Sunbeam joins an ignominious cluster of companies — Rite Aid, c u e International (now part of Cendant Corp.), Livent, Oxford Health Plans, Phar-Mor, Miniscribe and, most recently. MicroStrategies — in business's hall of shame. All of these companies have one depressing feature in common: top managers who, whether out of desperation or greed, apparently turned to accounting trickery to manufacture
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