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Fraud Accounting Exercise! I will be reviewing answers for accuracy so please give legitimate answers and not just Fluff. Thanks! There are several fraud categories:

Fraud Accounting Exercise! I will be reviewing answers for accuracy so please give legitimate answers and not just "Fluff". Thanks!

There are several fraud categories:

  1. 1) Overstated revenues
  2. 2) Management estimates
  3. 3) Proforma
  4. 4) Earnings problem
  5. 5) EBITDA
  6. 6) Excessive debt
  7. 7) Inventory problem
  8. 8) CPA problem
  9. 9) Sales and expense problem
  10. 10) Big bath
  11. 11) Balance sheet accounts
  12. 12) Pension plan
  13. 13) Reserve estimates
  14. 14) Personal piggy bank
  15. 15) Barter deals

There are also a number of fraud detection tools:

  1. A) Interviewing techniques
  2. B) Analytics
  3. C) Percent analyses
  4. D) Using checklists
  5. E) Behavioral approaches
  6. F) Clawbacks

Suggest the best tool to handle each type of fraud 1-15, for example 1. Overstated revenues and B. Analytics. Then look at the next category, and so on, all the way till 15. Please also write a couple lines for each example stating how and why this tool would help detect this type of fraud.

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