Go to the SEC (Security and Exchange Commission)'s website, click on the Enforcement tab, and then click on Litigation Releases.

Choose a Litigation Release Number to analyze that deals with one of the following issues:

Company pushing net income or profits intentionally into the future

Company purposely inflating reported revenues

Company intentionally deflating or decreasing reporting expenses Ponzi scheme(s) Shell company

Company intentionally increasing the number of reported assets "Pump and dump" scheme An oil and gas promoter

Bernard (Bernie) Madoff Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (bribery) Kickbacks Mark Cuban

The backdating of stock options

The misappropriation of assets An external accountant

Select a Litigation Release Number within the past five years of the date of your posting dealing with one of the above issues. Analyze an issue of personal or professional interest to you. Additionally, discuss how a forensic accountant can identify or help the company involved to fight, detect, or prevent the scheme(s) and/or issue(s) that you addressed from the Litigation Release.