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Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange, a jewelry company, created and filed with the Commission materially inaccurate financial statements since 2009. I. John Benson, the Chief Financial Officer of DGSE, was found to manipulate the amounts of inventory for 2009 and 2010 by inflating millions of dollars (Jacobson, 2012). He exploited the inappropriate controls of DGSE and made some fraudulent accounting entries; He concealed them with false inventory details and management representation letter. Mr.…

HealthSouth & Fraud Risk Factors HealthSouth was faced with a number of incentives and pressures that contributed to its fraudulent actions. For instance, the doubling of pretax earnings in 2000 although sales only grew about 3%, management’s commitment to meeting the Wall Street analysts’ expectations, and the significant financial interest and business dealings that the directors had with the company. The financial interest of the directors certainly increased their motivation and drives to…

The reason why people go down in history as one of the greatest or one the worst and are remembered is because they influence everything around them. When a person is influential they impact other people around them and the world, in negative or positive ways. Bill gates is one of these influential people who changed people and the world around him for the better. Gates completely revolutionized technology and business, and today helps people who do not have the same opportunities as far as…

For the amount of crime scenes in the film Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore, filmmaker of the 2009 documentary, stirs up the question of who’s taking and who is giving in our law abiding society. The film consists of witnessing families losing their homes due to bank foreclosures, and being taken advantage of - something nobody wants to go through. Corporations are being corrupted by the government. Governments are being run as corporations and they are being infiltrated by former…

In 1977, Crown cork and Seal Company was one of the largest companies in producing metal cans and crowns worldwide. After 20 years of going into liquidation, the Crown Company stand out to prove itself in the domestic and international metal container markets. They centered their production on tin-plated for holding beer, soft drinks, and aerosol products. Unfortunately, some legislative regulation intimidate Crown’s business. They have to do something in order to compensate their products.…

One of the most frustrating involvements we have as humans is the fact that we enter more and more contracts as working adults. Why does everyone seem to want to enter a contract in recent times? Where do we go when things are so convoluted or cryptic in the fine print of a simple download or update. How do we get answers for the contracts that we are aware of moreover, how do we defend against those that we are unknowingly a part of? How challenging might it be for us to interface with a false…

Sir Isaac Newton, the famous English physicist and mathematician, was undoubtedly one of the smartest people in the history. Back in the spring of 1720, Sir Newton owned shares of the South Sea Company, the hottest stock in England at that time. At first, he sensed the market was going rogue, and as O’Farrell recorded in his book in 2007, he described himself as a man who “could calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people.” He sold his South Sea shares,…

Executive summary The assignment discusses corporate governance in reference to the Libor scandal. The Libor scandal included most of the biggest banks in the world at the lack of good corporate governance. The scandal revealed the flaws and corruption in the banking system, this has left thousands of people questioning if whether the banking system can be trusted? Introduction Discussed in this assignment in great detail below…

The Company AIG was a company that had risen to the top through unethical procedures and acts. The company became a big financial giant in the insurance industry and later added the subprime mortgages to its portfolio that increased its profits into the billions. The company cut corners by aggressively lobbying for laws and rulings that would go in their favor (Thorne, Ferrell, & Ferrell, 2011). They came under investigation by the SEC because they thought they were reporting profits wrong.…

Phaneesh Murthy-An Introduction A business magnate, Mr. Murthy served as the Director of Infosys Ltd. In 2000 where he was fired from the company 2 years later. In 2003, Mr. Murthy became the Chief Executive Officer of iGate Corporation where he became the President in 2006 & later got re-elected in 2010. The board of iGate removed Mr. Murthy as President in May 2013 in view of an ongoing investigation against Phaneesh. An alum of prestigious institution such as the Indian Institute of…