Generational accounting

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. Benson violated Section 17(a) (1)-(3), Section 13 (b) (5) and Section 13 (a) of the Exchange Act and was charged $75,000 as a penalty and was…

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…

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…

valuable tips and information. In the effort to find out more about the career that I chose, Accounting, I contacted a young auditor from E&Y and set up an interview with her. During the interview, the auditor provided me information about how she obtained her current position and what the accounting profession demands. She also gave me some advice about how to enter and remain competitive in Accounting. The following are specific details from the interview. Current position Ms. Chau Nguyen,…

The company tried to maintain premium prices for most of the eight years. Customers expect prices to fall within a reasonable range. With that being said, the market price for Able and Abby for the first four years was $35.00 and $45.00. Before discontinuation, in year five, Ace was priced at $35.00 while the price for Able and Abby was lowered to $34.00 and $43.00 to create more sales (Capsim.com, n.d). However, at this point the company did not want to drop the prices lower because we were…

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.…

We make many decisions in our lives from small, daily decisions to major life decisions. The majority impact us economically. Fiscally responsible people often take the cost-benefit principal into account when making economic decisions. The principle first assumes people are rational and so, their goals are rational. It then states, one should only take action when the benefits of that action are as least as high as the costs associated with the action. I wondered what the outcome would be…

Problem Formulation [1] Figure 2 shows the utility-connected HPGS, which consists of WT, PV, SB, GT, and utility grid. The main objective functions of this system are the total annual cost (TAC) and the system pollution (SP). Equation 3 shows the multi-objective function should be minimized. f=min⁡(TAC,SP) (3) Equation 4 shows the first objective function, which it…

Transfer price has been defined as an amount charged on a product or service when supplying division transfers the good or service to receiving division. In this situation, Electrical Division is the supplying division, while Brake Division is the receiving division. During the process of setting transfer price, W Industries should ensure the goal congruence between Electrical Division and Brake Division. In other words, both divisions should not strive to maximize their own divisions’ profits…

SATYAM SCANDAL- INDIA’S OWN ENRON The Satyam Computer Services Limited company’s wrongdoing is a corporate scam that occurred in India in 2009 where the chairman, Mr. Ramalinga Raju revealed that the company’s accounts had been falsified. Background In 1987, Ramalinga Raju established Satyam, with his brother and brother in law, for providing software development and consultancy services to large firms. The company became public in 1991 and was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (Balachandran…