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Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) was the world’s leading provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses worldwide. Both Microsoft and Intel invested millions in L&H. however, accounting scandals and fraud allegations sent the company’s stock crashing, and forced the firm to seek bankruptcy protection in Belgium and in the US. Selected information was gathered concerning L&H operations: • Consolidated revenue increased 184% from 1997 fiscal year to 1998 fiscal…

The men in the 19th century discovered the unbelievable properties of an unknown liquid. It turned out that by simple distillation, it could be metamorphosed into a lubricant and lighting oil, superior and much cheaper to those which were known till now. The only known substance which experienced this type of acceleration was gold during the gold rush. Oil was not an exception. The discovery of both of them intrigued the attention of major business tycoons. John D. Rockefeller was one of them.…

TWhy do you think that people would steal art? To get money, to help a friend, to just get attention? Everyone has there reasons that we might never know. That is one of the challenges authorities have, trying to figure out why people steal the ear that they steal. Another major challenge is having to locate the art and the people who stole it. The masterpiece Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee was stolen. It had a five million dollar reward for whoever could find it. At the…

Defined as “a predictable surprise as an event or set of events that take an individual or group by surprise, despite prior awareness of all the information necessary to anticipate the events and their consequences...” by the authors Max Bazerman and Michael Watkins, the book Predictable Surprises sheds light on the question that surrounds many events in our live; the question of “could we have prevented this from happening?” In three parts, the book goes over how we can go through the motions…

Telecommunications, filed for bankruptcy and exposed an $11-billion-dollar fraud, making it one of the largest in all time. Spearheading the scandal were six employees, Bernard Ebbers the CEO, Scott Sullivan the CFO, David Myers the accounting controller, Buddy Yates the Accounting Director, and Betty Vinson and Troy Norman the accountants. The scandal went to federal trial, and after six days of jury deliberation, all six of the employees that were part of the scandal were found guilty.…

I found some existing case literature I thought you might find an interesting compliment for your forum's summary. EEO offenses aren't in my bailiwick so I was curious about international enforcement of the violation. There was a federal case prosecuted out of the Eastern District of Virginia: US v. Kolon Industries, Inc. Kolon is a South Korean company which competes with Dupont in the manufacture of synthetic fiber which Dupont has successfully marketed as Kevlar. Over a period of many…

are so many divisions hence they all are going to have their own budgets and the own accounting department. There invoicing…

Trident University Beverley Lionel Module 4 Budgeting, Variance Analysis, and Performance Evaluations ACC 501 Accounting for Decision Making Professor. Sunil Dixit March 5, 2017 Memo Introduction Budgeting plays an important role in an organization, it help leaders in the organization make plans and perform according to the desired budget and deviate from it as less as possible. In this paper the budget analysis is presented and the variance will be discussed. The outcome of increasing…

Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 which was also called SOX was published by the Congress in 2002 to protect investors’ interest (SOX, 2002). After the enactment of SOX, corporate financial reporting was more strict and normative. However, there were a lot of accounting scandals before 2002. And the Enron scandal attracted the most public attention of all the scandals. Enron was created in 1985 and was one of the largest energy companies around the world. However, in 2001 and 2002 the company was…

In the case of United States vs. Walter Liew, Liew is being charged with over 20 criminal counts, with one of them being misappropriation of trade secrets (Levine). Liew had gotten paid millions of dollars by a Chinese company to apprehend trade secrets of the American company Dupont in order to solidify the company in China. Liew, 56, living in California, received 28 million in order to bribe engineers and other employees for confidential paperwork that the Chinese company wanted. What was the…