Wells Fargo Bank filed a lawsuit, in September 2014, against the accounting firm Worley Stroud & Associates PC claiming professional negligence. Wells Fargo accused Worley Stroud and two of its representatives of causing over $25 million worth of damages through their accounting errors. In March 2008, Wells Fargo agreed to make an asset-based loan to an agricultural commodity company, by the name of West Plains Co., where the amount of money lent would be dependent on the amount of assets the company held. However, Wells Fargo says that they lent $20 million more than they otherwise would have lent. Harry Worley and DeWitt Stroud of Worley Stroud & Associates PC were responsible for auditing West Plains’ financial statements from at least
Target Corporation uses an interesting capital-budgeting system. Projects are proposed using Capital Project Requests (CPRs) and must be approved before money can be spent. The level of approval needed depends on the amount being requested. For projects requiring less than $100K, lower management can approve, but anything above this amount goes to the Capital Expenditure Committee (CEC) which is comprised of 5 executive officers. For projects requiring greater than $50 million, the Board of Directors must approve.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was put in place to prevent corporations from committing accounting fraud or corruption. When a corporation manages somehow to get passed all the laws they do anything to keep the corruption going by covering up everything. With this going on the company’s main focus is keep the lies going and firing whoever is in the way. Wells Fargo has stated that they have fire over a hundred thousand people throughout the nation for being a part of the illegal activity in the company. Unfortunately for Wells Fargo employees are coming out from hiding telling their side of the story.
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However, the customer did not know about some of the services being provided because the financial advisor would not reveal the services being charged. A particular service was insurance on the vehicle a customer was financing even though the customer had their own insurance. This action alone cost Wells Fargo over $200 million in a settlement to over 800,000 customers for the insurance fraud (Goldfarb, 2017). Wells Fargo has not lived up to the management’s ethical values stated for the organization to follow. The CEO and board chairman has not led by example because their salary and bonus was depending on the amount of services provided.
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As director of Educational and Professional Publishing for the American Lawbook Publishing Company (AL), Ed Troy needs to choose one of the three titles the company would offer for use in American Law Schools in the fall of 1982. According to Troy, a more systematic approach for evaluating and weighing the critical factors affecting sales, assessing the risks etc. was required. AL used to measure performance of new publications through Return on Sales and Return on Investment goals and the objective was 40% gross margin but the standard AL “Profit Planning” formulae were not easily applicable to law school publication titles therefore Troy evaluated the profit potential of new titles in a different manner but he was sure that results could
In a recent case involving the Wells Fargo company, the judge ordered the company to pay a penalty worth $5.4 million to a manager who had been fired from the company in 2010 for reporting his suspicion on fraudulent behavior to seniors on the ethics hotline. The decision that the employee should resume back into his position in the company was also included in the verdict reached by the judge. The supposed $ 5.4 million was meant to be the compensatory fees for all the damages that he had been caused as well as to cater the legal fees. According to the reports from OSHA, the fired manager had received positive reviews for his job performance but was unsuspectingly dismissed after he had reported the cases of blackmail and wire fraud by some
1. An increase in production and lowering cost has resulted in a smaller loss for Crescent Point Energy Corp. Crescent Point main objective is to lower cost in which this quarter operating expenses for example, improvements in transportation, chemical, and service cost, were 7% less than last quarter. Crescent Point’s production for the second quarter increased by 10% compared from last year.
Borrower found a home . Its new construction with D. R Horton dba Express Homes. Builder will pay title commitment if borrower chooses their preferred Lender. I can sell the customer on parcel help with title commitment as long as we can help her get 3.75 with any discount. She’s has been shopping for interest rate. Wells Fargo is offering 3.875 with any discount. Can we get her .875 or $1977.54 total
The scandal that broke up in wells Fargo last year involving the fake accounts with the customer money was found to be a corporate scandal. The case has been determined to issue important lessons in the way a company should avoid forming a culture that is vulnerable to corruption. The unethical behavior characterizing the Wells Fargo scandal had spread at the bank and many employees were engaged in the secret creation of the new bank credits and the credit-card accounts for the clients without their knowledge that later resulted in an overdraft and other fees. Most of the headline creating the unethical behavior was aimed at promoting financial gains for the firm and individuals. However, the case for Wells Fargo appeared to be more related
Q1. What are the built-in tensions with a public private equity firm? How does Blackstone 's structure attempt to reconcile them?
In California, eight Wells Fargo employees were convicted of committing fraud facing a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison, also each employee is charged with at least one count of aggravated identity theft, which carries another two years in prison (https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/eight-people-charged-bank-fraud-scheme-allegedly-used-information-stolen-wells-fargo). In the wake of the scandal, over 5,300 employees were fired over the course of five years for their involvements in the creation of the fake accounts. Some of the initial whistleblowers of the scandal faced retaliation by being terminated for speaking out against the orders to open fake accounts. CNN Money correspondent Matt Egan spoke with Bill Bado, a former employee of Wells Fargo, who has not been able to security another banking securities job since his termination for calling the Ethics Hotline to report the fraudulent activities.
Employee fraud often takes place when pressure (motivation), opportunity and rationalism are present. In fact, employee perception where failure to meet sales target might leave them unemployed and unable to settle bills for their family (Kelly, 2016). Furthermore, watching other co-worker committing fraud will most likely influence the employee to do the same because their mindset tends to persuade themselves that it is one of a way to meet their quota plus “everyone is doing it.”
Multiplying Sun Coast’s book value of equity with 0.8 gives a value of $47,095,840 (Figure 5.1) for the company’s market value under this assumption. This results in a share price of about $5,233 with a total number of shares outstanding amounting to 9000.