What form or forms of financial statement fraud is this? Where would we expect to see the impact of this form of fraud in Sharefore Inc.’s financial statements?
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In a description of a fraud scheme at Sharefore Inc., an analyst writes: “The next quarter, analyst expectations are higher, but sales have not picked up. The firm provides additional incentives to its sales force, uses overtime to boost shipments but now has additional expenses to contend with (incentives and overtime), so it does not fully accrue all its consulting expenses. Third quarter rolls around and sales still haven't improved enough, but the analysts keep increasing targets. Because this time, operating tactics are not sufficient, management pressures the CFO to meet analyst
What form or forms of financial statement fraud is this? Where would we expect to see the impact of this form of fraud in Sharefore Inc.’s financial statements?
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- Companies often try to keep accounting earnings growing at a relatively steady pace, thereby avoiding large swings in earnings from period to period. They also try to meet earnings targets. To do so, they use a variety of tactics. The simplest way is to control the timing of accounting revenues and costs, which all firms can do to at least some extent. For example, if earnings are looking too low this quarter, then some accounting costs can be deferred until next quarter. This practice is called earnings management. It is common, and it raises a lot of questions. Why do firms do it? Why are firms even allowed to do it under GAAP? Is it ethical? What are the implications for cash flow and shareholder wealth?The CFO of PKD Corporation is very uncomfortable with its current risk exposure related to the possibility of business disruptions. Specifically, PKD is heavily involved in E-business, and its internal information systems are tightly interlinked with its key customers’ systems. The CFO has estimated that every hour of system downtime will cost the company about $10,000 in sales. The CFO and CIO have further estimated that if the system were to fail, the average downtime would be one hour per incident. They have anticipated that PKD will likely experience 50 downtime incidents in a given year due to internal computer system problems and another 50 incidents per year due to external problems—specifically, system failures with the Internet service provider (ISP). Currently, PKD pays an annualized cost of $150,000 for redundant computer and communication systems, and $100,000 for ISP support just to keep the total expected number of incidents to 100 per year. Required: Given the…4. Cost of Goods Sold is increasing at rate that does not match sales or gross profit. While sales and gross profit seem to be trending down, the Cost of Goods Sold. Specifically, we see a drop in sales and gross profit in 2021, yet the cost of goods sold increased. What type of documentation and information should the auditors request to further evaluate for potential fraud? What might explain this inconsistency?
- Reed Kohler is in his final year of employment as controller for Quality Sales Corporation: he hopes to retire next year. As a member of top management, Kohler participates in an attractive company bonus plan. The overall size of the bonus is a function of the firm's net income before bonus and income taxes - the larger the net income, the larger the bonus. Due to a slowdown in the economy due to Coronavirus, the company has encountered difficulty in managing its cash flow. The company auditors have recommended that the company change its inventory method from FIFO to LIFO . The change would cause a significant increase in the cost of goods sold for the year. Kohler thinks the company shouldn't switch to LIFO b/c its inventory quantities are too large. After expressing this opinion to the firm's treasurer, Kohler is stunned at the treasurer's reply "Reed, I can't believe that after all these years with the company, you put your personal interests ahead of the companies…Sandra: We are beginning our audit of Imex and have prepared ratio analyses to determine if there have been significant changes in financial position. This helps us guide the audit process. This analysis indicates that the inventory turnover has decreased from 5 to 2.8 and the accounts receivable turnover has decreased from 12 to 8. I was wondering if you could explain this change in operations. Travis: There is little need for concern. The inventory represents computers that we were unable to sell during the holiday buying season. We are confident, however, that we will be able to sell these computers as we move into the next fiscal year. Sandra: What gives you this confidence? Travis: We will increase our advertising and provide some very attractive price concessions to move these machines. We have no choice. Newer technology is already out there, and we have to unload this inventory. Sandra: …and the receivables? Travis: As you may be aware, the company is under tremendous pressure…Glencoe First National Bank operated for years under the assumption that profitability can be increased by increasing dollar volumes. Historically, First Nationals efforts were directed toward increasing total dollars of sales and total dollars of account balances. In recent years, however, First Nationals profits have been eroding. Increased competition, particularly from savings and loan institutions, was the cause of the difficulties. As key managers discussed the banks problems, it became apparent that they had no idea what their products were costing. Upon reflection, they realized that they had often made decisions to offer a new product which promised to increase dollar balances without any consideration of what it cost to provide the service. After some discussion, the bank decided to hire a consultant to compute the costs of three products: checking accounts, personal loans, and the gold VISA. The consultant identified the following activities, costs, and activity drivers (annual data): The following annual information on the three products was also made available: In light of the new cost information, Larry Roberts, the bank president, wanted to know whether a decision made two years ago to modify the banks checking account product was sound. At that time, the service charge was eliminated on accounts with an average annual balance greater than 1,000. Based on increases in the total dollars in checking, Larry was pleased with the new product. The checking account product is described as follows: (1) checking account balances greater than 500 earn interest of 2 percent per year, and (2) a service charge of 5 per month is charged for balances less than 1,000. The bank earns 4 percent on checking account deposits. Fifty percent of the accounts are less than 500 and have an average balance of 400 per account. Ten percent of the accounts are between 500 and 1,000 and average 750 per account. Twenty-five percent of the accounts are between 1,000 and 2,767; the average balance is 2,000. The remaining accounts carry a balance greater than 2,767. The average balance for these accounts is 5,000. Research indicates that the 2,000 category was by far the greatest contributor to the increase in dollar volume when the checking account product was modified two years ago. Required: 1. Calculate rates for each activity. 2. Using the rates computed in Requirement 1, calculate the cost of each product. 3. Evaluate the checking account product. Are all accounts profitable? Compute the average annual profitability per account for the four categories of accounts described in the problem. What recommendations would you make to increase the profitability of the checking account product? (Break-even analysis for the unprofitable categories may be helpful.)
- Consider the following conversation between Leonard Bryner, president and manager of a firm engaged in job manufacturing, and Chuck Davis, certified management accountant, the firms controller. Leonard: Chuck, as you know, our firm has been losing market share over the past 3 years. We have been losing more and more bids, and I dont understand why. At first, I thought that other firms were undercutting simply to gain business, but after examining some of the public financial reports, I believe that they are making a reasonable rate of return. I am beginning to believe that our costs and costing methods are at fault. Chuck: I cant agree with that. We have good control over our costs. Like most firms in our industry, we use a normal job-costing system. I really dont see any significant waste in the plant. Leonard: After talking with some other managers at a recent industrial convention, Im not so sure that waste by itself is the issue. They talked about activity-based management, activity-based costing, and continuous improvement. They mentioned the use of something called activity drivers to assign overhead. They claimed that these new procedures can help to produce more efficiency in manufacturing, better control of overhead, and more accurate product costing. A big deal was made of eliminating activities that added no value. Maybe our bids are too high because these other firms have found ways to decrease their overhead costs and to increase the accuracy of their product costing. Chuck: I doubt it. For one thing, I dont see how we can increase product-costing accuracy. So many of our costs are indirect costs. Furthermore, everyone uses some measure of production activity to assign overhead costs. I imagine that what they are calling activity drivers is just some new buzzword for measures of production volume. Fads in costing come and go. I wouldnt worry about it. Ill bet that our problems with decreasing sales are temporary. You might recall that we experienced a similar problem about 12 years agoit was 2 years before it straightened out. Required: 1. Do you agree or disagree with Chuck Davis and the advice that he gave Leonard Bryner? Explain. 2. Was there anything wrong or unethical in the behavior that Chuck Davis displayed? Explain your reasoning. 3. Do you think that Chuck was well informedthat he was aware of the accounting implications of ABC and that he knew what was meant by cost drivers? Should he have been well informed? Review (in Chapter 1) the first category of the Statement of Ethical Professional Practice for management accountants. Do any of these standards apply in Chucks case?Correcting internal control weakness Each of the following situations has an internal control weakness. Jade Applications has decided that one way to cut costs in the upcoming year is to fire the external auditor. The business believes that the internal auditor should be able to efficiently monitor the company’s internal controls. In an effort to minimize the amount of paperwork, Ross Homes has decided that it will not keep copies of customer invoices related to sales revenue. Ross believes that this effort will minimize the amount of data storage the company will have to pay for. Elle Bee, a trusted employee for many years, has never taken a vacation. The owner believes that he’s lucky that she is so committed to her job. The Medicine Chest Company keeps a small petty cash fund to handle small cash transactions. Because no one wants to volunteer to be the custodian, the business manager has decided that all employees should have access to the petty cash. She figures that as long as…After completing a horizontal and vertical analysis of the Balance Sheet and Income Statement. It is noticed that the companies Accounts Receivables is rising faster than both sales and revenue. This brings up concerns of fraud. What type of documentation and information should the auditors request to further evaluate for potential fraud? What might explain this increase in AR?
- While spotting red flags is difficult, vertical and horizontal financial statement analysis introduces a straightforward approach to fraud detection. Evaluate Company A’s Five Year Financial Data, please see the attached. (a) Perform horizontal analysis of the above data to indicate any potential red flags regarding possible overstatement of sales. (b) Perform vertical analysis of the above data to indicate any potential red flags regarding possible overstatement of the COGS.The CEO and the CFO of Automation Company were both aware that the company’s controller was reporting fraudulent revenues. Upper-level executives are paid very large bonuses when the company meets the earnings goals established in the company’s budgets. While the CEO had pushed the CFO and controller to “make the numbers,” he had not told him to “make up the numbers.” Besides, he could plead ignorance if the fraud was ever discovered. The CFO knew he should prohibit the fraudulent reporting but also knew the importance of making the numbers established in the budget. He told himself that it wasn’t just for his bonus but for the stockholders as well. If the actual earnings were below the budgeted target numbers, the stock price would drop and the shareholders would suffer. Besides, he believed that the actual revenues would increase dramatically in the near future and they could cover for the fraudulent revenue by underreporting these future revenues. He concluded that no one would get…The CEO and the CFO of Automation Company were both aware that the company’s controller was reporting fraudulent revenues. Upper-level executives are paid very large bonuses when the company meets the earnings goals established in the company’s budgets. While the CEO had pushed the CFO and controller to “make the numbers,” he had not told him to “make up the numbers.” Besides, he could plead ignorance if the fraud was ever discovered. The CFO knew he should prohibit the fraudulent reporting but also knew the importance of making the numbers established in the budget. He told himself that it wasn’t just for his bonus but for the stockholders as well. If the actual earnings were below the budgeted target numbers, the stock price would drop and the shareholders would suffer. Besides, he believed that the actual revenues would increase dramatically in the near future and they could cover for the fraudulent revenue by underreporting these future revenues. He concluded that no one would get…
