How did fraud occur at Enron?

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Hypothesis Development

a) What frauds could occur within the Enron environment? How are these related to the specific company, the industry, and the economic conditions as a whole?

b) Of all of the employees, who would have incentives or opportunities to commit fraud? Why?

c) Which of the employees who had the incentive or opportunity to commit fraud is in a position to cause the financial anomalies found? Explain why.

Investigation Planning

a) Describe the process of how could you investigate the potential fraud and the appropriate steps to complete the process.

b) What documents might you need? Who might you need to speak with regarding the fraud? Support your responses.

c) Illustrate how regulatory issues such as Sarbanes–Oxley or SAS No. 99 would impact the investigation. d) What other fraud risk inquiries are needed to investigate the suspected fraud? What steps would need to be taken to address these risk inquiries?

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ACC 646 Final Project Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric Overview: Forensic accounting has been identified as the fastest growing area of accounting. Fraud examiners must understand the legal aspects of fraud and what constitutes fraud. To be successful in this industry, they must be able to determine why people commit fraud and how to prevent it from happening. Through this analytical process, examiners may then provide organizations with recommendations for improving their internal controls, thus preventing further financial losses and additional harm to their reputations. For Milestone Three, you will submit your hypothesis development and investigation plan for your company. Consider potential frauds and perpetrators in your company, how the fraud could be investigated, regulatory issues, and any other fraud risk inquiries required. Once you have developed your fraud hypothesis, propose an investigation plan. Describe the process of how you would investigate the potential fraud and all of the factors that must be considered for carrying out the investigation. Prompt: Develop a fraud hypothesis for your case and a plan for investigating the fraud. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: III. IV. Hypothesis Development a) What frauds could occur in the environment you researched? How are these related to the specific company, the industry, and the economic conditions as a whole? b) Of all of the employees mentioned, who would have incentives or opportunities to commit fraud? Why? c) Which of the employees who had the incentive or opportunity to commit fraud is in a position to cause the financial anomalies found? Explain why. Investigation Planning a) Describe the process of how could you investigate the potential fraud and the appropriate steps to complete the process. b) What documents might you need? Who might you need to speak with regarding the fraud? Support your responses. c) Illustrate how regulatory issues such as Sarbanes–Oxley or SAS No. 99 would impact the investigation. d) What other fraud risk inquiries are needed to investigate the suspected fraud? What steps would need to be taken to address these risk inquiries? Guidelines for Submission: Your fraud hypothesis and investigation plan must be submitted as a 2–3 page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format. Rubric Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Hypothesis Development: Explains what frauds could occur in the Occur in the Environment environment researched and how they are related to the specific company, the industry, and the economic conditions as a whole Hypothesis Development: Determines which of the employees Incentives or would have incentives or opportunities Opportunities to commit the fraud and defends response Hypothesis Development: Determines which of the employees Which Employees with the incentive or opportunity to commit fraud is in a position to cause the financial anomalies found and explains why Investigation Planning: Describes the process of how the Process potential fraud could be investigated and the appropriate steps to complete the process Investigation Planning: Determines what documents might be Documents needed and who might need to be spoken to regarding the fraud and supports responses Investigation Planning: Illustrates how regulatory issues would Regulatory Issues impact the investigation Investigation Planning: Fraud Risk Inquiries Determines what other fraud risk inquiries are needed to investigate the suspected fraud and the steps to address these risk inquiries Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Needs Improvement (75%) Explains what frauds could occur in the environment researched but does not explain how they are related to the specific company, the industry, and the economic conditions as a whole or explanation is cursory or contains inaccuracies Determines which of the employees would have incentives or opportunities to commit the fraud but does not defend response Determines which of the employees with the incentive or opportunity to commit fraud is in a position to cause the financial anomalies found but does not explain why Describes the process of how the potential fraud could be investigated but description is cursory or lacks important steps Determines what documents might be needed and who might need to be spoken to regarding the fraud but does not support responses Illustrates how regulatory issues would impact the investigation but does not apply a variety of regulatory issues to the case study Determines what other fraud risk inquiries are needed to investigate the suspected fraud but does not determine the steps to address these risk inquiries Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Not Evident (0%) Does not explain what frauds could occur in the environment researched Value 14 Does not determine which of the employees would have incentives or opportunities to commit the fraud 14 Does not determine which of the employees with the incentive or opportunity to commit fraud is in a position to cause the financial anomalies found Does not describe the process of how the potential fraud could be investigated 14 Does not determine what documents might be needed and who might need to be spoken to regarding the fraud 14 Does not illustrate how regulatory issues would impact the investigation 14 Does not determine what other fraud risk inquiries are needed to investigate the suspected fraud and supports response Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 14 Earned Total 14 2 100%
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Enron Fraud
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Hypothesis
The environment that could happen at Enron is financial fraud relating to the accounting
procedures to report the wrong company financial position to recover from the poor reputation
from the previous scandal. This is an accounting in appropriation will cheat the public on the
performance of the company. This attracts more investors to risk their money in the organization
with an aim of making more money from their investment (Bauer, 2015). Misleading account
reporting is illegal and unethical at the same time. Enron faces a possible threat of scandal like
experienced in 2001.
The most vulnerable employee to this fraud or the employees with the greatest
opportunity to commit this fraudulent act includes the management. The management may
discuss the methods that could help the company regain its glory through inappropriate repo...


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