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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Accounting Fraud

  Case 19: Adelphia Communications (2002)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 126 Case 19: Adelphia Communications (2002) The Adelphia case ranks among the biggest corporate fraud… …, Adelphia filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 127 On July 24, 2002, federal prosecutors arrested… …. Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 128 Adelphia deliberately shifted liabilities onto the books of unconsolidated Rigas en- tities. The company created a… …capable” a greater percentage of its cable plant that in fact had been upgraded. Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 129 Third, Adelphia… …While most of the fraud took its form in hidden debt and misrepresentations con- cerning operational performance, the Adelphia case is especially notable… …: Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 130 – The Rigases created a special accounting system to mask their personal transactions, using the company’s… …disclosed to investors. Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 131 The SEC investigation found that chairman John Rigas and his sons had… …sentenced to 20 years in prison. The sentence was among the harshest handed down in any U.S. court for accounting fraud. The Rigas’s cases were low-hanging… …715 million. The funds were to be used to compensate Adelphia security holders who lost money as a result of the fraud. Adelphia and the Rigases also… …resolved civil fraud charges as part of a joint settlement with the SEC. In July 2006, the company sold substantially all of its assets, including the…

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• eJournal-Artikel aus "Zeitschrift Interne Revision" Ausgabe 6/2021

  Lässt sich Wirtschaftskriminalität im Unternehmen erkennen und bekämpfen?

  Die Bedeutung von FISG und HinSchG für das Fraud-Risk-Assessment
  

  Linda Heintz, Bernd Reimer

  …damit beschäftigt, wie Wirtschaftskriminalität, häufig auch Fraud genannt, im Unternehmen erkannt und bekämpft werden kann. Wie in der Vergangenheit… …. Grundlagen für eine effektive Bekämpfung von Fraud Die Identifikation von Fraud begünstigenden Faktoren in Unternehmen und Organisationen erfordert zunächst… …Klarheit über Art und Umfang des Themenbereichs. Was ist Fraud eigentlich? Was beinhaltet dieser schillernde, nur schwer zu übersetzende englische Begriff… …eigentlich? 06.21 ZIR 267 REGELN Wirtschaftskriminalität Abb. 1: Fraud Triangle nach Cressey Die Antworten auf diese Fragen sind überraschenderweise sehr… …Fraud „bewusst begangene unerlaubte Handlungen […], die direkt oder indirekt zur Schädigung oder Gefährdung des Vermögens einer Organisation und/oder zu… …Kern dieser Definitionen für Fraud sind unseres Erachtens jeweils unerlaubte Handlungen von Personen, die zu Verstößen gegen Gesetze oder interne Normen… …, Kunden oder Umwelt, entstehen. Entsprechend können als Fraud so unterschiedliche Delikte wie zum Beispiel Diebstahl, Unterschlagung, Untreue, Betrug… …Regelungen von Unternehmen gewertet werden. Für Unternehmen bedeutet dies, sie müssen als Grundlage der Bekämpfung von Fraud 1 DIIR Revisionsstandard Nr. 5… …[DE] 250 ( Revised)), Tz. 12. Anreiz/Zwang/Motivation zunächst einmal festlegen, was sie unter Fraud verstehen und welche Verstöße beziehungsweise… …Deliktsarten sie vermeiden wollen. Neben einem Verständnis über Art und Umfang des Themenbereichs stellen Erkenntnisse zu den die Entstehung von Fraud…

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  Case 32: Comroad (Germany, 2002)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …Accounting Fraud in European Companies 190 Case 32: Comroad (Germany, 2002) For audacity and scale, few cases of accounting fraud can match… …: Accounting Fraud in European Companies 191 (1) a lack of clarity about the existence of a Hong Kong company named “VT Elec- tronics Ltd.”, and (2) a… …, in the wake of that firm’s role in the Enron fraud in the United States. KPMG’s merger talks with Andersen broke down as the Comroad scandal… …was removed, and in November 2002, CEO Bodo Schnabel was ultimately jailed for seven years for criminal fraud and market manipulation. The Wall Street… …total revenues and backed them up with the name of a Accounting Fraud in European Companies 192 non-existing Asian customer. By 2000, roughly 97%… …. Still, the courts rejected most of the civil claims against Mr. Schnabel. KPMG said that it was victim of the fraud – and indeed, some observers… …thought that the “we were fooled, too” defense could be valid. “Comroad is not an account- ing issue. This is fraud,” said Hans-Georg Bruns, a member of… …series of accountings scandals in Germany that have badly damaged investors’ confidence in Accounting Fraud in European Companies 193 financial…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Accounting Fraud

  Case 21: HealthSouth (2003)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 138 Case 21: HealthSouth (2003) In 2002, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia and several other U.S. companies joined… …2003, the SEC charged HealthSouth and its founder, chairman and CEO, Richard M. Scrushy, with accounting fraud. SEC director of enforcement Stephen… …revenues to derive net Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 139 revenues, which were disclosed on the periodic reports filed with the SEC. Because… …PricewaterhouseCoopers found additional fraud and concluded that HealthSouth’s cumulative earnings were overstated by at least USD 3.8 billion. PwC’s post-mortem report… …forensic experts (brought in by HealthSouth’s law firm to unravel the scheme) described the recipe for the fraud as follows: take legitimate numbers… …“Transmittal 1753”) for reduced future earnings. Transmittal 1753 Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 140 required certain healthcare providers to bill… …, the fraud’s impact was greater than USD 4 billion. But the fraud didn’t end there. In late 2003, federal law enforcement officials began to… …investigate Medicare fraud at HealthSouth, after a Texas jury had awarded USD 1.5 million in damages to the former medical director of a Houston hospital, Dr… …belonged in a psychiatric facility, not a rehab facility, but we had a bed available and we were encouraged to take them.” “In this sea of fraud, is it… …they exercise their fiduciary duty and responsibility to sharehold- ers?” However, the auditors, Ernst & Young, disavowed knowledge of the fraud…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Accounting Fraud

  Case 1: McKesson & Robbins (1938)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …25 Chapter 2: Cases of Accounting Fraud 2.1 Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies Case 1: McKesson & Robbins (1938) “Like a torrent of… …accounting scandals. The preceding paragraph was published in February 1939 in the wake of the infa- mous accounting fraud at McKesson & Robbins, Inc. Unknown… …December 31, 1937. The mastermind of the fraud was Philip Musica. Born to poor Italian immigrants, he was raised in poverty in the streets of… …society. Philip Musica’s criminal career began early. By his 30th birthday, he had been con- victed of fraud twice. The first conviction was for… …bootleg- Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 26 gers who bought huge quantities of the company’s products and distilled out the alcohol to make booze… …thing. The fraud centred on the company’s crude drug division: unlike the rest of the company, only Musica and his three younger brothers had access to… …among themselves with Philip Musica, the oldest brother, getting the largest share. The fraud was not discovered until late 1938 when McKesson &… …obtained copies Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 27 of the Dunn & Bradstreet credit reports that had been used to satisfy McKesson & Robbins’… …circumstances of the McKesson & Robbins case gave the fraud much publicity. Hollywood set to work on a Musica movie. However, the scandal also led to major… …corporate governance and auditing reforms. Within months of the discov- ery of the fraud, a special committee of the AICPA recommended significant changes to…

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  Case 40: Kanebo (Japan, 2005)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …Accounting Fraud in Asian Companies 236 Case 40: Kanebo (Japan, 2005) By the late 1990s, Kanebo Ltd. ranked among Japan’s largest public… …crisis” in the United States. Japan’s business press quickly referred to the Kanebo fraud as “Japan’s Enron”. In March 2006, Takashi Hoashi pleaded… …learned of this scheme from reading the published reports of the Enron fraud.) When the executives were no longer able to sustain the scam in 2005, they… …announced that an internal inquiry had found “instances of accounting fraud” in the past. Finally, they admitted overstating oper- ating results by… …charged in connection with the Kanebo fraud admitted helping the company to hide losses. They had pointed out irregularities, but no Accounting… …Fraud in Asian Companies 237 demand had been made to have Kanebo’s statements corrected, resulting in an audit approval. According to the… …company’s poor financial health (the three defendants never admitted as much, though). During trial, the auditors testified that shortly before the fraud… …prevent the fraud was a consequence of “serious deficiencies” in its internal controls. As a result of inspect- ing Chuo Aoyama, the firm-wide management… …. Accounting Fraud in Asian Companies 238 As well as causing an exodus of audit clients, the punishment of Chuo Aoyama also helped to fuel extreme… …that it was also Accounting Fraud in Asian Companies 239 “unprecedentedly cleverly devised”. Despite these remarks, he handed suspended…

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• eJournal-Artikel aus "Zeitschrift für Corporate Governance" Ausgabe 2/2012

  Anreizsysteme als Element des Anti-Fraud-Management in mittelst?ndischen Unternehmen

  Welche Instrumente stehen der Praxis mit welchen Wirkungen zur Verf?gung?
  

  Christine Schweikert, Prof. Dr. Stephan Grüninger

  …welchen Wirkungen zur Verfügung? Christine Schweikert / Prof. Dr. Stephan Grüninger* Das Risiko, Opfer wirtschaftskrimineller Handlungen (Fraud) zu werden… …auch eine Rolle im Zusammenhang mit der Entstehung und Prävention von Fraud auf allen Unternehmensebenen 2 . Der international gebräuchliche Begriff… …Fraud bezeichnet wirtschaftskriminelle Handlungen in Unternehmen 3 und umfasst dabei die Kategorien „Manipulation * Dipl.-Betriebswirtin Christine… …. 24. 2 Vgl. das Konzept der Fraud Triangle von Cressey, Other people’s money, 1953, S. 30, sowie Wells/ Kopetzky, Handbuch Wirtschaftskriminalität in… …Unternehmen, 2006, S. 5 f. der Rechnungslegung“, „Vermögensschädigung“ und „Korruption und Kartellrechtsverstöße“ 4 . Fraud ist nicht nur ein Problem für… …verwickelt zu werden, als hoch einzustufen 6 . Jedoch ist nicht nur das allgemeine Fraud- Risiko hoch, hinzu kommt, dass die Ausgestaltung von… …System, in: Wieland/Steinmeyer/Grüninger (Hrsg.), Handbuch Compliance-Management, 2010, S. 42. 4 Vgl. den Fraud Tree der ACFE; ACFE, Report to the nations… …on occupational fraud and abuse – Global Fraud Study, 2010, s. u. http://www.acfe. com/uploadedFiles/ACFE_Website/Content/documents/rttn-2010.pdf (1. 3… …. 2012), S. 7. Die Begriffe Fraud und wirtschaftskriminelle Handlungen/ Wirtschaftskriminalität werden in diesem Artikel synonym verwendet. 5 Unter den… …konfliktreichen Entscheidungssituationen Orientierung gibt und Fraud vermeidet. Die unternehmensspezifischen Werte, insbesondere die Integrität im Geschäftsalltag…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Digitale Datenanalyse, Interne Revision und Wirtschaftsprüfung

  Digitale Analyse von Finanzdaten

  Thomas Keller

  …, um Risiken und Fraud effektiv aufzude- cken. Doch die aktuelle Diskussion zur Mitarbeiterüberwachung zeigt auch, wie sensibel die Unternehmen bei dem…
• eJournal-Artikel aus "Risk, Fraud & Compliance" Ausgabe 1/2009

  GRC-Report - Master Thesis an der School of Governance Risk and Compliance: Risikogesteuerte Prävention und Detektion von Wirtschaftskriminalität mittels Informationstechnologie

  Dr. Gunter Bitz

  …Wirtschaftskriminalität mittels Informationstechnologie Dr. Gunter Bitz* Was ist das Ergebnis zwei Jahre intensiver Beschäftigung mit dem Thema „Risk & Fraud Management“?… …kann. 1. Motivation Risk & Fraud im Kontext von (SAP-) Software und Unternehmensprozessen in seiner der Master Thesis zu thematisieren, stand für den aus… …extweb/ncpressrelease.nsf/docid/ 26CD5822A7DB04A2802573750048D852, 5.8.2008. 5 Vgl. Wells, J.-T.: Corporate Fraud Handbook – Prevention and Detection, 2nd Edition, New Jersey 2007…

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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Accounting Fraud

  Case 38: Daewoo Group (South Korea, 1999)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …226 2.3 Accounting Fraud in Asian Companies Case 38: Daewoo Group (South Korea, 1999) At the end of 1999, the Daewoo Group, one of… …the largest conglomerates in the world, collapsed in a spectacular fashion. The accounting fraud that was uncovered was described as one of the… …. The lending Accounting Fraud in Asian Companies 227 banks maintained rather lax standards, focusing on revenues and sales volume, instead… …“rags-to-riches” founder of Daewoo Group ended in a big corporate fraud scandal. Although the government prosecutor’s office released only scant details, it… …accounting fraud in a variety of ways. However, a substan- tial degree of the fraud occurred through asset swaps among Daewoo subsidiaries. One subsidiary… …illegitimately propped up Daewoo’s failing companies. Accounting Fraud in Asian Companies 228 Cover-ups of failed ventures When, e.g., Daewoo… …Motor attempted to cover up its failed USD 200 million investment in a car plant in Ukraine, the fraud bordered on the farcical. Daewoo Motor (the… …accounting fraud. Daewoo companies with questionable credit status would issue new stock that the overseas institutions would acquire, technically as equity… …for personal enrichment by Kim and senior Daewoo managers. Accounting Fraud in Asian Companies 229 Daewoo was not an isolated incident; a… …number of Korean firms found themselves in the spotlight over accounting fraud and embezzlement at the time of the Asian financial turmoil. In Korea, a…

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