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1. Article: Corruption Causes and Cures
What do you consider the biggest red flag indicating bribery and kickback schemes?
2. Article: Case of the Pilfering Purchasing Manager
What are the five tips to remember when closing in on the fraud suspect?
3. Article: When Customers Want Kickbacks
Customers may call a kickback a "commission," because they may pay commissions to sales agents and other middlemen. How should you reply?
4. Article: Fuzzy Numbers, Business Week
Name at least three ways companies can legally use accounting rules to inflate (or deflate) earnings and cash flow?
5. Article: And Nothing But the Truth: Uncovering Fraudulent Disclosures
To detect fraudulent disclosures and other off-book frauds, what must the auditor almost invariably rely on?
6. Article: Enemies Within
Describe the techniques of false debits, omitted credits and forced balancing to perpetrate a theft of cash.
7. Article: Dipping into the Cookie Jar.
Under-reporting earnings using intentionally inflated reserves is not considered a fraud. It is considered a conservative approach to accounting. However, over-reporting earnings using intentionally deflated reserves is considered a fraud.