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With different industry definitions and viewpoints, fraud can be a tough issue for audit committee members to grasp for oversight purposes. The legal obligations of audit committee members have intensified because their standard duty of care and loyalty to the entity has increased in light of management fraud activities.

2 Managing fraud risk: The audit committee perspective Fraud in a fi nancial statement audit

The analyst should present one of the popular American corporate accounting scandals. Furthermore, the presentation should point out the issues of the scandal. These problems should include the strategies of manipulating the financial statements, the involved penalties, the new laws, and regulations. Consequently, the financier should reveal the success of the actions; the government agencies responsible for monitoring these actions. Moreover, the manager should point out the powers and limitations of the financial statements, ratio analysis, and financial reporting. Consequently, the financial analyst should present effective tools that the investors should apply against corporate frauds. Corporate scandals should help the financier to resolve

The services provided by auditors can have a far-reaching influence. For many years, investors have relied on audited financial statements to make sound investment decisions. Thus, auditors are obliged to protect the interests of investors, taking on the role of gatekeepers (Kane, 2004). In recent years, countries around the world have witnessed examples of corporate fraud. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed by the US Congress in the wake of such scandals, is considered the most influential act with the greatest impact on auditing professionals. This is an example of a government’s attempt to halt corporate fraud by improving corporate governance and strengthening the function of auditing, as a means to restore trust. However, quality and integrity

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Exploring the appointment of directors of different professional backgrounds, levels of independence, age, gender and ethnicity, this paper develops a taxonomy describing what is meant by diversity on the board and its implications for decision-making. Board configuration is considered in terms of empirical evidence highlighting the criteria used in appointing directors and the associated implications of social capital for board dynamics. Issues raised include the influence of these on board performance and the ability of individual directors to make an effective

Financial statement fraud is usually a means to an end rather than an end in itself. When people cook the books they may doing it to buy more time to quietly fix business problems that prevent their entities from achieving its expected earnings or complying with loan covenants (Fraud Magazine, 2014. It may also be done to obtain or renew financing that would not be granted or would be smaller if honest financial statements were provided. People intent on profiting from crime may commit financial statement fraud to obtain loans they can then siphon off for personal gain or to inflate the price of the company 's shares, allowing them to sell their holdings or exercise stock options at a profit (Fraud Magazine, 2014). However, in many past cases of financial statement fraud, the perpetrators have gained little or nothing personally in financial terms. Instead the focus appears to have

Many financial companies fail for various reasons that include fraud and the manipulation of assets within the company. The research done in the paper will discuss financial companies that have been affected because of fraud and the way they are ran. This will show how companies develop their organization amongst the managers and create communication throughout the Company. Also, there will be knowledge of competitive teams and what the companies bring to the table about while sustaining that business. Another way fraud develops is through the Shareholders in the company and how they control the stocks and make them

Accounting is a necessary and vital part of maintaining any business, it is needed to file taxes, know how much one has in assets and liabilities, and indicate to investors whether the company would be a profitable undertaking. However, sometimes the accounting goes horribly wrong when people, even those who seem to be moral and uncorrubtable, fudge the numbers. By inflating books, they can get away with billions of dollars in fraud and make nice bonuses for themselves. However, these acts of greed affect not only the fraudulent person, but their families, coworkers, and other businesses. There are several ways massive accounting fraud has taken place in companies, from increasing depreciation, to not reporting debt, to right-out making up numbers to report. These frauds have been detected in multiple ways as well whistleblowers, internal audits, and even the fraudulent people themselves. The effect of these scandals have taken a heavy toll on businesses financially and on people involved emotionally.

A number of financial statement frauds went undetected from auditors in past and attracted a high profile attention. The businessmen add fake assets or transfer the assets of companies to their personal assets and result in accounting scandals when the affected companies are bankrupted or are even close of bankruptcy. Just to mention a few names, accounting scandals of Enron, AOL Time Warner and Xerox are among the hottest accounting scandals of the century. This means that despite presence of professional auditors accounting scandals happen and there is a need to learn from the mistakes of the auditors who overlooked these activities. In this report the case study of Xerox is analyzed in detail to highlight violations of accounting principles and present an example from which lessons can be learnt for the future.

This paper describes financial statement fraud (FSF) and how it may occur within companies. The reason of this study was to research FSF detection and prevention. Research was also done to determine any influences that SAS (Statement on Auditing Standards) No. 82 and SAS No. 99 had on audit programs and the analysis from external auditors. Thirteen scholarly journals were

Financial statement fraud is usually a means to an end rather than an end in itself. When people "cook the books" they may doing it to "buy more time" to quietly fix business problems that prevent their entities from achieving its expected earnings or complying with loan covenants (Fraud Magazine, 2014. It may also be done to obtain or renew financing that would not be granted or would be smaller if honest financial statements were provided. People intent on profiting from crime may commit financial statement fraud to obtain loans they can then siphon off for personal gain or to inflate the price of the company 's shares, allowing them to sell their holdings or exercise stock options at a profit (Fraud Magazine, 2014). However, in many past cases of financial statement fraud, the perpetrators have gained little or nothing personally in financial terms. Instead the focus appears to have been preserving their status as leaders of the entity - a status that might have been lost

The results suggest that although boards may have internal tastes for diversity they also appear to respond to outside pressure to add women directors. Despite finding a positive relation between return on assets and the likelihood of adding a woman to the board, event study results fail to detect any significant market reaction to female additions. Therefore, although better performing firms tend to have more women on the board, we cannot conclude that more gender diverse boards generate better firm performance. In general, our results tend to suggest that adding women to the board does not result in value creation (or destruction). Instead, due to internal preferences or external pressure for greater board diversity, the demand for female representation allows women to self-select better performing firms. Our evidence is also consistent with firms operating in a manner consistent with tokenism. Women are added to boards when a board has low or no female representation. Efforts are made again to attract female candidates when a previous female board member leaves. We do not attempt to address the social implications of firm behavior but merely document the evidence associated with the determinants associated with director selection. The remainder of our paper is organized in the following manner. In the next section, we review the relevant literature relating to the supply and demand side determinants associated with

Financial management has closed relation to corporate governance because the failure of corporate governance can lead to reporting failure whereby most of them manipulated their financial statements. In addition, the failure in corporate governance that is occurring in the organization will put a pressure to the company when it comes to report on the performance of the company. In order to show that the performance of the company is in line with the expectation, they tend to produce a false accounting, aggressive earnings management and other reporting failure where there is no existence of transparency, accountability and

Regulators have expressed an interest in knowing the characteristics of FCPA firms (such as poor tone-at-the top or controls incapable of detecting misconduct). The SEC outlines the following criteria for considering whether or not to bring enforcement action: “How did the misconduct arise? Is it the result of pressure placed on employees to achieve specific results, or a tone of lawlessness set by those in control of the company? What compliance procedures were in place to prevent the misconduct now