. In May 1984, he borrowed money from a co-worker and bounced several checks trying to repay him. In July 1984, Pollard’s supervisor received a letter of indebtedness from the Navy Federal Credit Union reporting that Pollard was delinquent in repaying a loan. His supervisor failed to report the letter to the OIC and did not record the financial troubles in Pollard’s file. In post-arrest interviews, Pollard claimed to have perceived anti-Israel/anti-Semitic sentiment from coworkers and…
Select one of the studies presented at a Friday seminar workshop during the first semester. For this study, identify both a threat to internal validity and a threat to construct validity. In each instance, explain why the threat that you’ve identified is a threat and how significant a threat it is. King, Massoud and Song (2016), suffers from multiple validity threats of varying degrees of significance. Internal Validity As the principle-agent problem goes much of the way to explain the results…
In this discussion, I will be discussing a fairly rare cardiovascular disease known as Brugada syndrome. Not only will I discuss the disease itself, but I will also discuss the limited treatment options and the abundant amount of research and scientific facts found by several different organizations on whether or not we can predict the risks of this disease. Brugada syndrome is a disease that is characterized by an abnormal heartbeat. This cardiovascular disease mostly occurs in the later years…
and several peddlers. The operator overstated the net weight information on the weight tickets and would create fictitious weight tickets when no weighing had taken place. Pratt started to require more documentation from peddlers and updated an automated scale system. Moreover, Pratt strengthened its monitoring process and adopted other internal control methods. Also, Pratt gradually eliminated the practice of purchasing scrap from peddlers. The paper studies the fraud prevention and detection…
The fraud was perpetrated in two ways. First, reserve accounts were drawn down to boost earnings. However, when the reserve accounts eventually ran out of money, Scott Sullivan ordered the accounting staff to treat line costs, which should have been treated as expenses, as capital assets. This accounting treatment was against the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, which should have been used by WorldCom’s accounting department. By classifying the line costs as capital expenditures instead…
foundation of excellent corporate governance. Corporate governance concentrates on management as well as on shareholder’s wellbeing . Internal as well as external corporate governance helps organization in board culture, their share price in market, future need for raising capital and the most important is to gain shareholders trust. The internal and external check upon the company’s management is maintain by the help of the process of audit and the role of auditors has to be a very concrete…
did not put more emphasis on the negative side effects makes me question the reliability of the information I am being given. Reliability also came up with the fact the media article does not tell us how the participants are being operationalized . External validity is low because of the lack of information on how the study was conducted. We did not know the operational definitions, conceptional definitions or the specific variables being studied, without that information how can one replicate…
External Auditor: External Auditor performs an audit, Previously, understanding for particular laws or rules, of the fiscal explanations of a company, legislature entity, different legitimate entity, or organization, and is autonomous of the substance being audited. clients of these entities ' monetary information, for example, investors, legislature agencies, and the general public, depend on the outside evaluator will exhibit an impartial What 's more autonomous review report card. Those way…
Q4. Identify the key auditing principles violated by the E&Y auditors in this case. Briefly explain how each principle was violated. https://pcaobus.org/Standards/Auditing/Pages/Auditing_Standard_3.aspx In this case, E&Y auditors violated several auditing principles among the ten generally accepted auditing standards, and I would like to illustrate specifically four key auditing principles that they violated: 1) Due professional care (General Standards), 2) Sufficient appropriate evidence…
Gross Profit Reflection Paper When an organization face a froud, it is not an error for the guilty person; this is more a mistake from the own organization system. it might sounds conflicted, however, the management of the sytem is not well monitores or prepared for any mysterious activity. Of course there are several activities that an organization is not able to notice them because we are more concern and worried for those top amd big mistakes instead of the little ones. I have to mention that…