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Acc 291 Week 4 Assignment

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IDEA Assignment Through using the IDEA software, I was able to dive deeper into the recorders of Troy Township. I was able to import Troy’s fiscal year transaction data and run multiple analysis on the data. IDEA is an easy-to-use software that took the difficulty out of the sorting and configuring reports that could show exactly what I was looking for. I was able to create many useful reports that helped me get to the bottom of the fraud that I believe was happening at Troy Township. The records I will be evaluating are; a record count report, a material amount report, a highest expenditure report, a day specific report, a Benford’s report, a duplicate report, and a name specific report. All these reports have their own bit of useful information that had led me to the conclusion that fraud is occurring at Troy. The first report is the record count report. This report breaks down the total number of records in the year they took place. This will make it easy to see if the activity has dramatically increased in one specific year. As we can see, this makes me suspicious as it is a fairly large increase from the other years and it definitely catches my attention. I would most likely want to look closer into why this occurred. The second report, we analyze was one that focused on …show more content…

Getting an internal auditor into the government office was a great move on their part. We can now move forward in this case as we have established that fraud is taking place. The next steps that could be made it to pay close attention to the employees. Any suspicious behavior, such as a sudden eager to work till late at night, or even noticing bad habits like gambling or drug problems could lead someone to steal. Another way to aid against fraud is to control and intensify the paper trail. Make it difficult to be able to get away with cash without recording it and clearing it with someone

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