1. What are the five major categories of fraudulent disbursements? 2. How do pay-and-return schemes work? 3. What are the five principal categories of check tampering? 4. What are the differences between forged maker and forged endorsement schemes?
What are the five check tampering schemes? Pick two of the categories and describe: a. How the check tampering occurs; b. Three red flags associated with the check tampering schemes: c. Three methods used by forensic accountants to detect the check tampering schemes. TT T Arial # 3 (12pt) T E
what is Ponzi Schemes, Explain and provide 4 example of ponzi schemes that have occurred and how they could have been prevented. 3 cited sources and 1500 words
1) A firm that makes car parts wants to adopt pay schemes that will best motivate its various workers to be productive. They hire you as a consultant. a) The firm is able to easily and accurately measure the productivity (including quality) of individual workers who make windshield wipers. What would happen to the productivity of the firm's windshield wiper division if it started paying per wiper of acceptable quality? Why? b) Seats are assembled by teams of workers. The...
How do the payback and accounting rate of return methods work? If the amount invested is $100,000 and the yearly expected cash flows are $20,000 per year, what is the payback period? If the amount invested is $100,000, the residual value is $20,000 and the average annual operating income is $10,000, what is the ARR? What is the time value of money? Using the tables provided in Appendix A, if the future value of an investment five years from now...
Describe how larceny schemes are committed. Please provide 3 examples of prevention methods organizations can use to prevent larceny schemes. Provide 3 examples of tools forensic accountants can use to detect larceny schemes? TTT Arial 3 (12pt) T E 35
pany has a choice of three investment schemes. Option I gives a sure $25,000 on investment. Option II gives a 50% chance of returning $50,000 and a 50% 20. A com return ce of returning $10,000. Option III gives a 5% chance of returning $100,000 and a chan 95% chance of returning nothing, which option should the company choose? (A) Option II if it wants to maximize expected return (B) Option I if it needs at least $20,000 to pay...
8. Management compensation Here are a few questions about compensation schemes that tie top management's compensation to the rate of return earned on the company's common stock.a. Today's stock price depends on investors' expectations of future performance. What problems does this create?b. Stock returns depend on factors outside the managers' control-for example, changes in interest rates or prices of raw materials. Could this be a serious problem? If so, can you suggest a partial solution?c. Compensation schemes that depend on stock...
How are dividends paid, and how do companies decide how much to pay?
1. In class we discussed several compensation schemes that employers may use to motivate workers. a. “Pay for performance” schemes may take several forms. One is a piece rate scheme, in which there is an explicit mathematical formula that translates workers’ output into pay. (For example, a worker might be paid $5 per unit of out put he or she produces.) A second scheme awards workers a year-end bonus that depends on their annual performance review. Question: All else equal,...