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    Whether you're looking for extra money or simply want to work from home, understanding scammers exist who target innocent victims is important. Scammers depend on your vulnerability. They promise great jobs with great pay – ones looking so good there's no way they're legitimate because they aren't. How Scammers Prey on Work at Home Job Seekers As you look for a work at home job you'll find yourself posting your résumé on many well-intended sites. Scammers then contact you via email or text

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    Ethical Dilemmas Of Tyco

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    his demise. His lifestyle became so extravagant that nothing was every enough, he had a taste of the “living large” lifestyle and he could not go back. Kozlowski and CFO Mark Swartz were charged with roughly thirty counts of corruption, conspiracy, fraud, grand larceny, and falsifying business records. However these two, Kozlowski and Swartz, were not the only two employees involved, Mark Belnick former general counsel was also

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    Holden Caulfield: Teenage Rebellion Phony is defined as a fake or an ingenuine person, this word was used most often by no other than Holden Caulfield, the most recognizable teenager in American literature. To truly understand who Holden Caulfield is, we must take a trip back in time to the 50s. The 1950s was a decade of prosperity and conformity, life in the 50s was simply peaceful. However, in the summer of 1951, J.D Salinger published a book entitled “The Catcher in the Rye”, the main protagonist

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    research by Vogel (2001) blamed Cendant’s compensation policy of stock-options tied to the company’s performance potentially caused fraud (p.409). Consistent with the research by Ball (2009) mentioned that some commentators blaming the stocked option employee compensation package and performance-based incentive compensation to offer additional motivation for accounting fraud (p.285). The research by Ball (2009) also indicated the cause of the accounting scandal stems from accounting practices to manage

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    higher socioeconomic status, works in office buildings for large corporations and commits crimes such as Embezzlement, Ponzis, Tax Fraud which are in the billions. In order to curtail conspiracies, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was passed. This helped so companies wouldn’t monopolize certain industries like Standard Oil did to keep the competition down. Consumer Fraud happens when customers are enticed to buy a product that is being sold and are unaware the person behind this is deceiving them

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    The Cendant Corporation

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    THE CENDANT CORPORATION ACCOUNTING SCANDAL BCOM21 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ………………………………………………………… 2 INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………. 3 SUMMARY ……………………………………………………………………….. 4-7 COMPANY PROFILE …………………………………………………………… 8 THE OFFICERS INVOLVE …………………………………………………….. 9-15 DISCUSSION ……………………………………………………………………. 16-20 THE SETTLEMENT The settlement with Cendant ………………………………………… 21-22 The settlement with Ernst & Young ……………………………….. 23 THE BREAKUP ………………………………………………………………… 24 CONCLUSION

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    Leslie Fay Companies

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    the public accounting firm who was the independent auditors for the Leslie Fay Companies, unfortunately, got the raw end of the deal having been caught up in this major accounting fraud, and signing off unqualified opinions for the Leslie Fay Companies ' falsified financial statements during the years the accounting fraud was taking place. The auditing program for a company such as Leslie Fay would have to be more carefully planned out. Each step of the auditing program would require a high level

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    All throughout history one thing that has consistently stayed prominent throughout the world is political corruption. Political corruption can be surveyed as when a ranking government official use their power to make illegitimate gains in their private life. However, to define political corruption would be an illicit act done by an elected official that institutes political corruption if the act is unswervingly correlated to their authorized responsibilities, which is also done beneath the color

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    What Kinds of Problems do White Collar and Corporate Crime Pose for Explanations of Criminality Until relatively recently, the concept of the criminal was that of a person who, somehow disadvantaged and disenfranchised from society, decided to ignore societal laws and concentrate on increasing his personal worth at the expense of society. The idea of the criminal as the outsider became an accepted part of criminological theory, so much so that almost all modern theories of criminology focus on

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    How Criminology has sought to explain Corporate Crime? Abstract Throughout the past years, there has been a growing propensity in criminology to explain emerging patterns of corporate crime within the United States by referring solely to different things like dysfunctional families or dysfunctional persons. Other criminologists have really interrogated these latter methods as separating individuals and crime from the social organizations that cover them. This paper will discuss how criminology

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