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and dump scheme.” His brokers would first push stocks on investors from reputable companies before then urging them to purchase stocks in Stratton’s IPO’s or penny stocks in at least thirty four companies. Penny stocks gave them a fifty percent commission and were pretty much worthless to the buyer.The more investors, the greater the inflation of stock, until Stratton would then sell it’s own holdings in the stock creating a profit. (A&E, 2015). Belfort’s “pump and dump” scene was quite clever

Executive Summary: Financial reporting has been dissected over and over again by legislation. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) hold the key to providing protection and integrity when companies are submitting their financial statements. Although their mission is to provide order and efficiency for financial markets, insidious plans are still developed by companies which ultimately result in turmoil to the economy. To provide a safeguard to investors, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

SEC whistleblowers who provide tips about possible unlawful conduct are heroes, although they rarely see themselves that way. Anyone who is considering alerting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about irregularities that involve their employer, colleagues or friends has probably wrestled with the decision for a while before taking action. People who find the courage to report potential violations should remember that they are protecting investors who are saving for retirement or their

Research Xerox Financial Fraud Case Analysis This paper was prepared for Auditing Procedures Financial Research – The Xerox Abstract On April 8th, 2002, the Xerox Corporation ("Xerox") announced its willingness to accept the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reach a settlement with the conditions. Thereafter, its financial fraud became surfaced. On June 28th, Xerox Corporation in accordance with the requirements of the settlement, submitted the unaudited 1997-2000 restated annual

set using Chinese standards and GAAP (as meager as those standards may be) and the other for use in the US attempting to conform to U.S. GAAP. The Chinese financials contain a single footnote describing the accounting principles used in the original books of entry. In the United States, the public capital markets are regulated primarily by the US Securities and Exchange

which are individuals licensed to act as agents in the buying and selling of securities. SGC had approximately 2,000 customer accounts, of which 1,200 were based outside the United States. The

directors with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The complaint alleges that during the Class Period, defendants disseminated false and misleading financial statements to the investing public. The true facts, which were known by each of the defendants but concealed from the investing public during the Class Period, were as follows: (a) that the Company was paying illegal and concealed "contingent commissions" pursuant to illegal "contingent commission agreements;" (b) that by concealing

Shkreli’s debts and obligation. They were able to defrauded Retrophin by manipulating shares of Retrophin and defrauding investors as an alternative means to settle liabilities (U.S. Attorney’s office, 2015). The fraud scheme started to become undone when external auditors extended their investigation (Mangan, 2016). Investigators started questioning the activity of the agreements that were made and discovered that Retrophin had insufficient funds to cover the transactions that took place (Mangan

“The Madoff investment scandal was a major case of stock and securities fraud discovered in late 2008. In December of that year, Bernard Madoff, the former NASDAQ Chairman and founder of the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, admitted that the wealth management arm of his business was an elaborate Ponzi scheme”, according to Wikipedia. In other words, Bernie Madoff claimed to pay original investors their returns from a legitimate business, when in all actuality, he was

Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002”, is recognized to be the most noteworthy U.S. federal disclosure and corporate governance legislation since the Securities Act of1933 (the Securities Act) and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act). Furthermore, the provisions of the Act are momentous enough that it is considered by many to be the most significant change to the federal securities laws in the U.S. since the New Deal. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Act & Impact