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Dena Brenner Case Summary

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Dena Brenner, the ambitious payroll manager and attractive woman, has been working for the Sure Growth Company for three years. After three years, the company obtained larger establishments and decided to hire Dena as the Corporate Payroll Manager. She was well spoken and was well liked by the upper management. The upper management decided to move her to the Human Resource department where she worked with Klaus Dieter. Klaus Dieter worked with the company as a Treasurer for twelve years and ensured that each individual in the company focused on details and cash flow.
This created tension between Dena and Klaus because Dena’s work did not have sufficient details and accuracy in regards to cash flow. Klaus became suspicious of the minor fluctuations in the payroll cycle that Dena created. He decided to hire …show more content…

Mr. Klaus performed well in hiring an outside private investigation team after noticing fluctuations in the payroll cycle from 4 million to 4.5 million and 700,000 wire transfer. Hiring is better than an internal investigation because it could cause problems in the lack of necessary tools, training, and experience. Thus, the experienced investigation team brought forth clear evidence that Dena was conducting money laundering and forgery. Dena Brenner committed fraud that could have been prevented if the company had stronger controls. IAS management needs to implement a stronger system that has a supervisor review and approve changes in payroll to ensure that transactions and changes are performed correctly. Also, the controller of the company needs to reconcile accounts each month and have them reviewed and approved by the supervisor. Lastly, payroll needs to be reviewed, approved, and mailed by a non-preparer and sent directly to the company’s lockbox.

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