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Today’s Topics
Transparency Barriers
Financial Fraud Overview
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Barriers to Transparency
Transparency defined
WYSIWYG
Management bias
Measurement bias
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Financial Fraud Statistics
Key players
COSO
The Treadway Comm.-NCFFR
SEC’s AAERs
Treadway Commission: 1987
Accounting & Auditing Enforcement Releases
Infrequent but costly
COSO Update: 1999
300 AAERs 1987-1997
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Drivers of 2000’s
Meltdown
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Booming economy
Moral decay
Incentives
Analysts’ expectations
Debt
Rules versus principles
Auditor independence issues
Greed
Educator failure
Failure to forecast
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Financial Fraud
Motivation
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Greed
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Fear of failure
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Lack of accounting expertise
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Scope of operations—too broad
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18 Key Tidbits
Average period: 23.7 months
Revenue frauds were #1
Asset misstatement-spread around
Mean misstatement = $25 M
CEO involved in 72% of the cases
Last audit was unqualified in 55% of the cases
Mean assets = $532 M; revenues = $232 M
S/W and manufacturing involved in 12% of the cases
NASDAQ had 78%
36% filed for bankruptcy
Non-existent or uninvolved audit committees
Insiders on Boards of Directors
Family relationships were common
Financial pressures were high
56% of auditors were Big 6
Auditors named in 30% of cases
25% changed auditors after the fraud
Relatively few executives went to prison
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Financial Fraud
Detection
KTT is the key
Use the Fraud Exposure Rectangle
Management & Directors
Company relationships
Background, motivation & influence
Obligations, related party transactions &
compliance
Nature of organization & industry
Financial results & operations
GAAP, attitude
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