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• Ni Hao! – Fernöstlicher Besuch bei der School GRC

  …Die Ausbildung in Sachen Compliance und Fraud Management an der School GRC stößt weiter auf großes Interesse im Ausland. Am 6. Juli hatte die School… …Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland kennen lernten. Quelle: ZRFC Risk, Fraud & Compliance, Heft 5/2010…
• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Accounting Fraud

  Introduction

  Professor Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …17 Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Fraud: A Constant Threat to Companies around the World Fraud is nothing new. History has shown that it has… …long been part of our society. In 1941, a well-known American judge said: “Fraud is as old as falsehood and as ver- satile as human ingenuity.” Several… …years later, in 1949, a criminologist from Indi- ana University named Edwin H. Sutherland coined the term white-collar crime, referring to fraud… …committed by the elite upper-world business executive, against either shareholders or the public. Sutherland, one of the pioneers in fraud research, defined… …indicating that the occurrence of white-collar crime (management fraud) and related aberrational behaviour of em- ployees (employee fraud) has been reduced… …. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ “Global Economic Crime Survey 2007”, fraud remains one of the most problematic issues for companies worldwide. In the… …respondents who suf- fered fraud also stated that this had caused significant damage to their businesses. The survey found that the level of damage was… …decreased. Although different sectors are impacted by different types of fraud, no industry is immune from the threat posed by economic crime. The key… …findings of KPMG’s “Fraud Survey 2009” are quite similar: fraud is a ma- jor threat to companies regardless of their size, location, or industry. About three… …out of four executives interviewed by KPMG believed that fraud risks would either stay the same or increase over the next 12 months. Nearly one-third…

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• Accounting Fraud aufdecken und vorbeugen

  …Unternehmensberichterstattung, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, zur Folge. Wie Revisoren, Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat ihre Arbeit im Kampf gegen Accounting Fraud weiter optimieren können… …Bilanzskandale zum Anlass, sowohl die Möglichkeiten der Vermeidung von Manipulationen in der Rechnungslegung als auch den Umgang mit Accounting Fraud näher zu… …. Abschließend betrachtet sie in diesem Kapitel den Bereich Bilanzpolitik, das Verhältnis Bilanzpolitik und Fraud sowie verschiedene Formen von Bilanzpolitik… …sowie der Corporate Governance durch die Gefahr von Accounting Fraud .Auch hier werden Möglichkeiten und Maßnahmen zur Vermeidung von Accounting Fraud… …dargestellt. Im sechsten Kapitel stellt Corinna Boecker Accounting Fraud im Spannungsfeld von Revision und Corporate Governance vor, bevor sie im letzten… …Kapitel resümiert. Das Fazit der Arbeit: Accounting Fraud wird nie gänzlich verhindert werden können, lediglich ist das Eintreten von Verstößen zu… …erschweren und die Aufdeckungschancen durch verschiedene vorgestellte Möglichkeiten zu verbessern. Quelle: ZRFC Risk, Fraud & Compliance, Heft 3/2010…

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  Case 13: WorldCom (2002)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 93 Case 13: WorldCom (2002) When Enron collapsed at the end of 2001, worried investors searched for who… …were managed. Former President George W. Bush condemned the fraud as “outrageous” and vowed to address the problems shaking Corporate America. The… …SEC said that WorldCom’s accounting improprieties were of “unprecedented magnitude”. But as enormous as the fraud was, it was accomplished in a… …relatively mundane way. The modus oper- andi of the fraud was rather simple, and it was carried out over a comparatively short period of time. Yet the… …reverberations of the fraud would echo around the world of business for years to come. Background: WorldCom from 1983–2002 The fraud was the consequence… …source of the culture that gave birth to this fraud. In 1983, he had discovered the telecom business and founded WorldCom. In the 1990s, the Clinton… …in this endeavour. Yet he continued to feed Wall Street’s expectations of double-digit Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 94 growth, and he… …fraud occurred. In the spring of 2002, amid questions regarding USD 400 million in personal loans, Ebbers was facing dismissal (although the board… …did not yet know about the fraud that had been committed). Knowing that the company had accumulated mas- sive levels of debt and that he could not… …standards others will follow.” It was shortly after Ebbers had left that the fraud was discovered and disclosed. Fraud detection and disclosure As…

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  Case 3: Crazy Eddie (1987)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 36 Case 3: Crazy Eddie (1987) When Crazy Eddie, Inc., blew up in a financial scandal in 1987, the debacle… …in- volved just about every kind of accounting fraud then known, as well as receipts skimming and money laundering. Although the total dollars involved… …multi-pronged fraud, probably one of the twentieth century’s most infamous frauds. And even though the fraud is more than two decades old, it provides vivid… …financial statement fraud of all time, but for outrage- ousness, it is going to be very hard to beat.” In 1969, Eddie Antar, a 21-year old high school… …individuals, including Eddie Antar’s wife and mother, were receiving huge salaries for little or no work. Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 37… …the most frequent manipulations occur in inventory. In the Crazy Eddie fraud, Eddie Antar “borrowed” merchandise from cooperating suppliers to boost… …Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 38 inventory. Besides, Antar’s underlings shipped stock from one store to another overnight, so that it could be… …auditors. “Where were the auditors?” was a question posed repeatedly when the public learned of the Crazy Eddie fraud. The auditors did not detect the… …doctored numbers, and were later sued for malpractice (see Wells 2000, pp. 91–95): Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 39 – They had not… …inventory observations were conducted, the auditors inadver- tently contributed to the fraud. For example, rather than climb over boxes in the warehouse…

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  Case 22: Symbol Technologies (2004)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 144 Case 22: Symbol Technologies (2004) To the outside world, Symbol Technologies, Inc. was an icon of… …Holtsville, New York-based com- pany was more fittingly viewed as a classic case study in accounting fraud. “This was a veritable playbook of corporate… …fraud,” the chief prosecutor, Roslynn R. Mauskopf, said. “They cooked the books every which way they could. The execu- tive misconduct was breathtaking in… …its scope.” The investigation of fraud at Symbol began in April 2001 with an anonymous letter sent to the SEC. The letter described two specific… …charged 11 former Symbol executives with securities fraud. According to the Commission, the wide-ranging deception ran from at least 1998 until early… …, they were induced to place orders by the following common features of the “Frank spe- cials” (see SEC 2004): Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies… …manipulating raw data to match the forecasts given to analysts. Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 146 Cookie jar reserves Company executives also… …picked” from a 30-day “look-back period” so as to reduce the cost of the exercise to the executives. Accounting Fraud in U.S. Companies 147… …In addition to committing fraud, some of the executives engaged in efforts to cover up the misconduct and to impede the SEC’s investigation as well as… …sanitize” key portions of schedules that they intended to provide to the investigators. The fraud at Symbol was orchestrated by CEO Tomo Razmilovic…

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• Lehrkräfte stellen sich vor

  …der Banken- und Finanzkrise, dabei ist er häufig mit den Themen Compliance & Fraud Management konfrontiert. Laska über seine Arbeit: „Ich verfolge… …dar.“ Quelle: ZRFC Risk, Fraud & Compliance, Heft 6/2010…

• Alumni stellen sich vor

  …Karl Ulber absolvierte im dritten Jahrgang das MBA-Programm in der Spezialisierung Risk & Fraud Management. Zuvor erwarb er sein Diplom in… …Quelle: ZRFC Risk, Fraud & Compliance, Heft 5/2010…

• Business Keeper-Stipendium für MBA-Studium an der School GRC

  …Fraud Management ein Stipendium in Höhe von 14.500 Euro aus. Dazu Kenan Tur, Gründer und Vorstand der Business Keeper AG: „Mit dem Business… …: ZRFC Risk, Fraud & Compliance, Heft 3/2010…

• Whistleblowing: EU startet Hinweisgeber-System über das Internet

  …Das neue „Fraud Notification System (FNS)“ soll es Bürgern und Unternehmen vereinfachen, Fälle von Betrugs- oder Korruptionsverdacht mit EU-Geldern…