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  Case 6: Bausch & Lomb (1994)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …estimates indicated that it might take some dis- tributors up to two years to sell the SVS lenses that CLD management was expect- Accounting Fraud in U.S… …received an anonymous letter from a group of concerned APD employees asserting the fraudulent booking of sales by local management. In response, a Bausch &… …After the scheme was discovered, company management replaced all Hong Kong personnel that it held responsible for the fraud. There was no evidence that… …down the line to make the numbers. The Commission’s view is that senior management has to be especially vigilant where the pressure to make the numbers…

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  Case 18: Qwest Communications International (2002)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …Wall Street that it used any means necessary to meet its “outrageously optimistic revenue projec- tions”. “Qwest senior management created a… …employees inter- nally referred to such transactions as “one hit wonders”). When senior management realized that it could not meet the projected growth… …sales increased each quarter as senior management continued to project significant year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter revenue growth. In 2001, in… …that the company “reset expectations and put the best face on to Wall Street that we can”. However, senior management rejected a reset…

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  Case 15: Xerox (2002)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …management. In May 2000, Xerox made a public announcement that it had discovered accounting irregularities associated with its Mexican operations. CEO… …recogni- tion”. But when the engagement partner challenged Xerox’s non-GAAP accounting practices, the company’s senior management told the audit firm that… …itself as a business increasing its earnings every quarter and meeting its competitive challenges. Senior management repeat- edly told investors that… …they were routinely presenting an inaccurate picture of Xerox’s financial per- formance. In November 1999, CFO Barry Romeril told senior management that… …against CEO Paul Allaire, CFO Barry Romeril and four other Xerox executives. The SEC noted that compensation of Xerox senior management depended… …. “Xerox today is a stronger company with a new management team that has taken all the right steps to turn our business around.” Eventually, the SEC… …concerns about the company’s accounting to its senior management. KPMG was “intimately familiar” with the accounting used by Xerox, the SEC said. The audit… …, 2005 Xerox: The Downfall – The Inside Story of the Management Fiasco at Xerox, Business Week Online, March 5…

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  Case 34: Royal Ahold (The Netherlands, 2003)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …, Ahold’s management team raised huge amounts of debt and equity capital over the years. With regard to the foreign operating units, Ahold’s top… …exactly where the company ran afoul. Senior management pres- sured lower-level managers throughout Ahold’s worldwide network to reach the sales and… …figures shocked Ahold’s new management as much as it did analysts and investors. The company immediately authorized an investigation by law firm White &… …. Ahold, under new management, was quite successful on its way to recovery from the scandal. It promptly took remedial actions which included revising its… …internal task force to ensure that every one of its subsidiaries is in compliance. A whole new management team was brought in from outside to run the… …, most important, the right to give management the boot with a majority of voices. “We learned that as a company you can lose your reputa- tion overnight… …compensation: the necessity of strict internal, financial and accounting controls across the organization. Ahold’s new management said the company’s “go-go… …Governance Institute: Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance, ECGI Working Paper No. 67/2005, www.papers.ssrn.com India Center for Management…

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  Introduction

  Professor Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …indicating that the occurrence of white-collar crime (management fraud) and related aberrational behaviour of em- ployees (employee fraud) has been reduced… …risk of fraud in the current environment. 16% stated explicitly that their company management was not committed to fighting fraud. The findings… …, in order to boost sales figures or net income. In an effort to meet analysts’ expectations, management intervenes in the reporting of its own… …terminology may be extraordinarily helpful. Introduction 20 Earnings Management � The active manipulation of earnings towards a pre-determined… …target (which may be set by management or may be a forecast made by analysts) � Often including income smoothing (pre-determined target is an amount… …not Income Smoothing � A form of earnings management designed to remove peaks and valleys from a normal earnings series � Including steps to reduce… …, including the aggressive choice and application of accounting principles, fraudulent financial reporting, and any steps taken towards earnings management or…

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  Case 4: MiniScribe (1989)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …more pervasive” than he had realized. Along with him, the entire management team also left. In March 1989, under pressure from investors who had… …started to smell trouble, the new management initiated an in-house investigation into the reliability of MiniScribe’s financial reports for 1986… …obsession. This obsession, along with Wiles’s aggressive and intimidating management style, led to a “pressure cooker environment”. “Basically,” one former…

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  Case 24: AIG (2005)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …a foreign subsidiary of Gen Re (a Connecticut-based holding company for global risk management operations). The transactions were structured to make… …General Eliot Spitzer. “And yet, top management routinely and persistently resorted to deception and fraud in an apparent effort to improve the company’s… …or director of any public company for three years.) Since stepping down in 2005, Greenberg has been a regular critic of AIG’s new management. In…

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  Case 9: Cendant/CUC (1998)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …president and COO. Commenting on the fraud, one FBI agent said: “Some people have referred to this as a case of earnings management. But this is an attempt… …appears to have been simple. People just made things up.” In another scheme, CUC’s senior management imposed moratoriums on recognizing expenses at the… …, each quarter, senior management would review the opportunities available for inflating the company’s earnings, and it would determine how many… …. Forbes and Shelton also used CUC’s inflated earnings and earnings projections to entice HFS management into the merger in late 1997. Soon after Cendant…

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  Case 23: Computer Associates International (2004)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …began slowly (mainly because of the obstruction led by Computer Asso- ciates’ senior management), it steadily gained momentum in 2004. In January 2004… …participated in a scheme to inflate revenues and then lied to cover it up. He said senior management pressured him to lie, although he didn’t name names. In… …name to “CA Inc.”. Since 2004, when Kumar resigned as chief executive, the company had replaced almost its entire senior management team. A spokeswoman… …intend to vigorously defend my good name and fight any and all efforts to place the crimes of Kumar and his management team at my feet.” He also said it…

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  Case 13: WorldCom (2002)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …Code. 17,000 em- ployees were made redundant around the globe, whilst senior management worked out a restructuring plan. Shareholders lost some USD 3… …costs. From 1999 to 2001, they accounted for more than half of the company’s total expenses. As a result, WorldCom management and outside analysts paid… …improve results when management felt this was needed. Governance failures at WorldCom The setting in which the fraud occurred was marked by serious… …senior management was final and not be challenged. Most of WorldCom’s people did not know that the fraud was occurring. Rather, it occurred as a result of… …fraud was not confined to Ebbers, Sullivan and Myers. Others at WorldCom either knew or suspected that senior management was engaged in improper… …over- sight of management activity – closed the finance and accounting department located in the company’s Clinton, Mississippi headquarters, where…

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