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Gus Jackson is a new internal auditor for a newly acquired subsidiary ABC company, working with Jane Ramon for auditing year - end AP function.

Gus Jackson is a new internal auditor for a newly acquired subsidiary ABC company, working with Jane Ramon for auditing year-end AP function.
A written comment on some AP checks that lack of complete endorsement by the payees. Especially dual payees and endorsement of each payee is required.
Finding 5 checks with the same handwriting but names are different.
All have been cashed at the same convenience store less than 5 miles from office, though one mailing address was 200 miles away. No supporting document is found.
Investigation showed that 9560,000 paid checks has been cashed in above store.
Suspicion of "fictious payment to real payees". Use "affidavits of forgery" to narrow down 7 suspects to commit the fraud. Use "personnel spreadsheet file" to detail each suspect.
Hank Duckworth, AP manager, used to be Gus' former big 4 firm client, was confirmed perpetrator.
Former residence was near the store to cash in.
He pled guilty and received probation sentence in return of full restitution.
Case 1: internal audit on year-end AP Gus Jackson/Jane Ramon/Hank Duckworth (Ch1-Casel-2/4)
What clues cause Jane to suspect that fraud was involved?
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