FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING:TOOLS FOR BUSINESS
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ISBN: 9781119493624
Author: Kimmel
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 7, Problem 7.1BE
Match each situation with the fraud triangle factor (opportunity, financial pressure, or rationalization) that best describes it.
- (a) An employee’s monthly credit card payments are nearly 75%of their monthly earnings.
- (b) An employee earns minimum wage at a firm that has reported record earnings for each of the last five years.
- (c) An employee has an expensive gambling habit.
- (d) An employee has check-writing and -signing responsibilities for a small company, and is also responsible for reconciling the bank account.
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Match each situation with the fraud triangle factor (opportunity, financial pressure, or rationalization) that best describes it.
(a). An employee has check-writing and -signing responsibilities for a small company, and is also responsible for reconciling the bank account.
(b) An employee earns minimum wage at a firm that has reported record earnings for each of the last five years.
(c) An employee has an expensive gambling habit.
(d) An employee's monthly credit card payments are nearly 75% of her monthly earnings
Match each situation with the fraud triangle factor-opportunity, financial pressure, or rationalization-that best describes it.
a.
An employee's monthly credit card payments are nearly 75% of his or her monthly earnings.
Financial Pressure
Rationalization
An employee earns minimum wage at a firm that has reported record earnings for each of the
last five years.
b.
Opportunity
C.
An employee has an expensive gambling habit.
An employee has check-writing and signing responsibilities for a small company, as well as
d.
reconciling the bank account.
Consider each of the following situations. Is there a potential problem? Which part of the fraud triangle is involved, if any?
A. Susan is an accounts payable clerk. She sets up creditors in a financial database and pays invoices as they come in. Last year, she won employee of the year and is a valued employee. Through the grapevine, Susan's boss just learned that Susan's brother has a gambling problem.
B. Now suppose that Susan from situation A is now secretary for the head of the marketing department. She keeps track of the vice president of marketing's schedule and handles the correspondence.
C. Keith has been employed for 6 months as a teller at a community bank. All is going well, and his cash drawer has had shortages only twice (of less than P500). The shortages were traced and the problems corrected.
D. At the company Memorial Day picnic and golf outing last week, Nancy noticed that June moved her ball to a better lie when she thought no one was looking. There…
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