Ashley Johnson is the sole owner of Johnson Real Estate, hereby referred to as “JRE”, which is a sole proprietorship (LLC) that lists and sells real estate in West Virginia. Ashley’s husband James is the president of JRE and is the day to day operator. Besides James, there are two employees: office manager Joan Rogers and receptionist Doris Chambers. The realtors are contracted sub-agents that personally collect commission checks at the end of each month. These realtors receive 65% of the commission granted to the broker, the rest is deposited into JRE’s checking account. Ashley noticed discrepancies in the commission receipts from closings and the actual bank deposits in the year of 20X9. The previous year there were no problems. JRE has not been audited for the past three years due to rapid growth. Ashley filed a report with the local prosecutor, a family friend, and requested a thorough investigation, which resulted in the prosecutor’s office contracting an accounting firm to complete the financial examination. The prosecutor’s office assigned special agents Thomas and Longworth to the case. The prosecutors are Gina Conrad and Barry Morton. Joan Rogers has been employed by JRE since December 2001. She has two employed children that have both graduated from college and live in apartments. She has a mortgage, three credit cards (balances under $3,000), two automobile loans, and student loans for her children on her debt. Her husband, William, is a laboratory manager at a
Read the David Miller case from Chapter 5. After reading the case, describe a reason why someone who has been entrusted with the firm’s assets would commit a fraudulent act against the company. Based upon your understanding of the case and your professional and personal experience, recommend a series of actions that should have been taken in order to pre
2. Describe various false journal entries that Smith and Jones could have used to cover up the $34 million theft of cash over 12 years.
Scenario 3: Elaine R. was an accountant working for a large corporation. She had been falsifying the accounting records and sending some of the corporate funds to her own bank accounts in an offshore bank. The corporation found out what she had been doing and reported her to the police. Category of crime white collar crimes, Elaine
Real Property Robert Briggs and his wife purchased a home located at 167 Lower Orchard Drive, Levittown, Pennsylvania. They made a down payment and borrowed the balance on a 30-year mortgage. Six years later, when Mr. and Mrs. Briggs were behind on their mortgage payments, they entered into an oral contract to sell the house to Winfield and Emma Sackett if the Sacketts would pay the three months’ arrearages on the loan and agree to make the future payments on the mortgage. Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Sackett were sisters. The Sacketts paid the arrearages, moved into the house, and continued to live there. Fifteen years later, Robert Briggs filed an action to void the oral contract as in violation of the Statute of
The factors I will use to weigh in on reaching my decisions will be the evidence that is incriminating against Mr. Tim Defoy. Embezzlement is a serious charge against the superintendent over the school district. According to Forman (2017), "Embezzlement is defined as the misappropriation of funds for personal use by an entrusted individual. Studies do show that most embezzlers work alone, too many people working on the same task makes it much easier to be caught." In this case, Mr. Defoy was the only person that had been accused of the crime. I will have to investigate how long do the reports show the misappropriation of the public funds. I will also have to rule out everyone in that office at the time because Mr. Defoy was caught that does not mean anyone else was apart of the scheme. Once I
John H. Johnson created a name for himself as a very successful Publisher and entrepreneur. Johnson was born in Arkansas City on January 19th, 1918. Johnson is most well known for being the founder of Jet magazine, and Ebony two very popular and successful magazines in the African American community.
As indicated by the SEC's request initiating a settled body proceeding with, JDA's inward bookkeeping controls close VSOE were deficient from multiple points of view that. as a case, JDA needed satisfactory income acknowledgment arrangements and techniques and didn't decide all administration related contracts required for VSOE testing to see the honest worth of bound administrations. Also, JDA neglected to have abundant interior bookkeeping controls to see regardless of whether a product bundle permit understanding and associated administrations contract were associated with each distinctive. As an aftereffects of these control disappointments, some of JDA's cash articulations for 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 were tangibly misquoted. JDA restated those cash articulations in August 2012, reportage that it had exaggerated its income for twelvemonth 2010 by four p.c and overcompensated EBITDA by near eighteen p.c.
With the permission of the seller, Broker A submits a listing to MLS inviting cooperating brokers to help find a buyer. This is an offer of:
Assistant District Attorney, Emily McMaster, was having an unacceptable day. She had had a restless night’s sleep, she’d lost five clients’ case files and now she couldn’t find her laptop! With a frustrated sigh, she rushed out of her house and hurried herself to work. Just as she turning into the street of the District Attorney’s Office of Philadelphia, her phone, rang.
The actions of Cliff Hall in the loan application of Meridian were grossly unethical and unprofessional. His actions include misrepresentation of the fact that he was previously denied credit and misrepresentation of his financial condition and performance. His actions were leaning toward a more favorable application result without considering the potential ramifications of his unethical behavior. If an audit were mandated, his unethical actions would be uncovered to the detriment of his current and future creditworthiness. He may not be
c) Why had other Max & Co. accountants, specifically Kate Conrad, not perpetuated fraud at Rusher prior to Anna’s hiring?
Mr. Gable used poor judgment in his decision making process and has violated the ethic rules of the accounting profession. During the audit of the bank documentation he should have immediately notified the bank of the conflict with the Wilson file. He needed to be upfront with the bank and explain the Wilson’s were also a client of his for personal financial planning
This case was between two recently divorced couples by the name of Jane and Wycliffe and they were in their early forties and had been married for a period of 7 years in total. In their past years, they had both been married but divorced to other people and even though Wycliffe had no children in his previous marriage, Jane had one child with her ex-husband but the child was a young adult now. The two separated over infidelity issues claimed by Jane, saying that Wycliffe had an affair with his secretary at work. They both had two child during their marriage and Jane wanted to go to court after her divorce. She sought after her lawyer with the demands of settling in court and advised the ex-husband in this case Wycliffe to seek a lawyer of his own. Jane’s long-time close friend comforted her during this period and advised her not to go to court and consider seeking an alternative. She advised Jane to seek mediation considering that the property pool they shared with Wycliffe was not huge and a settlement made in court would deplete a large amount of the property in terms of legal representation on either side that is for Jane and Wycliffe.
It is no secret that foreign buyers make up a large percentage of the market in New York City. There are several factors for this including: NYC is possibly the most popular city in the world because of culture, commerce, and location.