Question: Fraud Paper
Your final exam is writing a case statement and scheme on a fraud topic. You have two choices in the development of the case.
1. How to commit a significantly large employee embezzlement and fool the auditors.
Invent a fictitious person (giving a position and title) whose duties include management and or accounting duties for a company. Choose the company and industry, and choose an area (e.g. accounts receivable and cash receipts, purchasing and cash disbursements, inventory custody, payroll, etc.) invent a situation (accounting and control organization), and develop an employee embezzlement fraud perpetration scheme.
2. How to produce materially misleading financial statement and fool the auditors.
Identify a context (industry, high company officer(s) and accomplices). Choose one or two areas to create misleading financial statement numbers from: cash, account receivable, inventory, fixed assets, deferred charges, accounts payable, taxes payable, note payable, deferred revenue, etc. invent a situation (accounting and control organization) and develop a scheme for creating misleading financial statement numbers that cause the company's financial statement to be materially misleading.
In the case statement and scheme, most of your paper is descriptive essay style. However, the paper also must contain a description of the how the company gets away with the fraud, and this art of the paper bear some similarity to argumentation. You need to asset an ability to get away with it (at least for a while), making your scheme believable.
Guidance: 1. Introduction: situational brief and scheme overview.
2. The setting: set the stage. Describe a company/organization, size, control structure, personnel and transactions.
3. The scheme details: describe the financial misstatement scheme. Describe in a convincing manner the method of placing misleading numbers in the accounting system and hence in to the financial statement. If you are using the embezzlement scheme, describe any necessary document alteration, destruction, forgery, etc. necessary to obscure the paper trail. Keep in mind the face that internal and external auditors are or will be at work in the company.
4. The conversion (may be combined with section 3). If you do the embezzlement scheme, describe in a convincing manner the method for converting company cash or other assets to the fraudster's own use.
5. Get-away (fooling the auditors): prevent a convincing a convincing argument or reasons you think the cover-up will fool the auditors. You can concentrate on fooling the external auditors. Also, you plan need not be prefect; it can involve some risk or getting caught.
Invent an appropriate title for your paper.
Approximately 5 pages (type, double-spaced)