Posts Categorized as 'How Fraud Occurs'

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

What is Teaming and Lading and How To Prevent It.

Teaming and lading is a term normally used for “borrowing” from cash to repay by cheque at a later date.
When a business received incomes receipts, it can come from both cash and cheques and if the internal check is lacking then the fraud perpetuator can divert the cash cheque for his/her personal use.
One good example […]

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Window Dressing,Purpose And Ways To Do It

Window dressing normally applies to the practice of bolstering the current asset ratio to make it appear stronger than it should be normally.
Some ways to window dress:

deliberately defer purchasing much-need capital expenditure until after balance sheet date,
allows stock to fall below normal level at balance sheet date
postponing purchases,
putting pressure on customers to pay their debts,
deliberately […]

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Fraud:Example Of Revenue Swaps & Violation Of Cut Off Period

we have discussed the many ways, accounting fraud can be commited . Amongst CEO/senior official and CEO/senior official of another company, “club-call” can be made to exchange revenue or so-called “revenue swap” namely by selling and buying with each other. The ultimate purpose is to artificially inflate the revenues generally or for a certain purpose […]

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

How Fraud Occurs- Disclosure Fraud (Part 6)

Overall Misrepresentation
( In the case of Bre-X Minerals )
This is mainly in the form of Disclosure Frauds.There are three (3) categories of disclosure frauds which comprises the following:

Overall misrepresentations about the nature of the company or its products, usually made through news reports, interviews, annual reports, and elsewhere
Misrepresentations in the management discussions and other non-financial […]

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

How Fraud Occurs- Overstating Assets (Part 5)

Overstating Asset Fraud
An example: WorldCom

Overstatement of current assets (e.g. marketable securities)
Overstating pension assets
Capitalizing as assets amounts that should be expensed
Failing to record depreciation/amortization expense
Overstating assets through mergers and acquisitions
Overstating inventory and receivables (covered earlier)