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Assignment 1: Madoff Securities

Due Week 3 and worth 280 point

Review the Madoff Securities case, located in Chapter 6 of your textbook.

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

  1. Determine the regulatory oversight that was in place while the Ponzi scheme was operating, and speculate on the main reasons why they did not discover the scheme.
  2. Assume you are an auditor for a firm that had $10 million dollars invested in Madoff Securities.
  3. Determine the fundamental audit procedures that you should have applied to this investment.
  4. Predict the way in which a peer review of Friehling and Horowitz would have uncovered the scheme related to Madoff Securities.
  5. Pretend you are Harry Markopolos and suggest one (1) strategy, different from that of the case study, to expose the potential fraud. Provide a rationale to support the suggestion.
  6. Analyze the role of the audit committee for Madoff Securities in regard to the discovery of Ponzi scheme, and suggest one (1) action the audit committee could have taken in order to prevent or detect the fraud. Provide a rationale to support the suggestion.
  7. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar type Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze the requirement for the profession of auditing and the integral role that independence assurance plays within the economy.
  • Examine the corporate governance of audits including the professional, regulatory, and corporate managerial requirements.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in auditing.
  • Write clearly and concisely about auditing using proper writing mechanics.

 

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Jeremy, a sales representative, is preparing a sales presentation for his company, Champion Hardware, which manufactures nuts and bolts. Jeremy hopes to obtain a large sale from a construction firm that is building a bridge across the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Missouri. The bolts manufactured by Champion have a 4 percent defect rate, which, although acceptable in the industry, makes them unsuitable for use in certain types of projects, such as those that may be subject to sudden, severe stress. The new bridge will be located near the New Madrid Fault line, the source of the United States’ greatest earthquake in 1811. The epicenter of that earthquake, which caused extensive damage and altered the flow of the Mississippi, is less than 200 miles from the new bridge site. Earthquake experts believe there is a 50 percent chance that an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 7 will occur somewhere along the New Madrid Fault by the year 2030. Bridge construction in the area is not regulated by earthquake codes, however. If Jeremy gets the sale, he will earn a commission of $35,000 on top of his regular salary. But if he tells the contractor about the defect rate, Champion may lose the sale to a competitor that markets bolts with a lower defect rate. Jeremy’s ethical issue is whether to point out to the bridge contractor that, in the event of an earthquake, some Champion bolts could fail, possibly resulting in the collapse of the bridge.

 

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Compose a 3000 words essay on International business strategies. Needs to be plagiarism free!

Either the author of the statement is unbelievably naive, or it is merely an attempt to be provocative with didactic intent. Take the classic example of Mark & Spencer plc, which began in 1894 as a single high street store owned by two men, selling all items said to be costing no more than a penny to the customer. Over the years it conquered the retail sector with branches in prime locations all over the UK, and in overseas territories, totalling more than 885 stores. Not only did Marks & Spencer evolve into the giant corporation which it is today by reading the changes in the environment well, and meeting the growing needs of more and more affluent consumers, it also influenced the shopping habits of its clients. The business firm is not a faceless entity. at best, it can be an icon of social and economic progress, and at worst become vanquished by its inability to read the environment, Woolworths and MFI being two recent examples of such failure.

How the environment impacts on the fortunes of the business firm is nowhere more evident than in the collapse of many business enterprises including financial institutions (banks) in the current worldwide economic downturn. Even starker is the effect of continuing bad weather either in the form of floods or snow on the viability of a whole range of firms in the UK. Had the environment represented by the UK government not provided a lifeline to some of the major banks in the form of taxpayer subsidies, or buy-outs, they would not have survived. Different political ideologies at different times affect the business enterprise in different ways. The collapse of communism and the breaking down of the Berlin wall in 1989, coupled with the Internet phenomenon resulted in the abolition of legislation preventing global communication and industrialisation. Since then there has been a plethora of international mergers, acquisitions

 

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Need an argumentative essay on Referee Report on Published Paper: Williams, Heidi, 2009, Intellectual property rights and innovation: Evidence from the human genome. Needs to be 3 pages. Please no plagiarism.

It does so by analysing human genome sequencing that was done by the public Human Genome Project and Celera, a private entity. It also estimates the effects of Celeras gene-level IP on outcomes of successive research and product development. The result of the analysis was that:

This paper tackles a pertinent topic with the use of empirical evidence in shading light on intellectual property. The fact that the author uses a scenario with two key players (Public Human Genome Project and the private firm Celera) is an exemplary way of showing what works and what does not work. Taking this topic from an empirical point of view brings out IP variations across a rather large group of ex ante similar technologies. In addition, the author has shown how it traces out the impacts of IP on subsequent scientific research investments and product development outcomes. However, even though I agree that the author has done an admirable job, there are some concerns observed that I should be addressed before the paper is ready for publication.

The main issue that needs to be addressed is that although you have clearly stated your intention of analyzing the human genome sequencing by both public Human Genome Project and Celera, a private organization, and estimating the effect of Celera’s gene-level IP on the ensuing scientific research and product development outcomes, I can see that you have only focused on genetic sequencing of the human genome. You need to give equal weight to all the objectives of your study and only after that can you be able to decide on a more significant objective.

Be more specific about the historical accounts you refer to when you mention the relevance of selective DNA sequencing of the early years of the public effort. It is advisable to use known references when referring to time so as to give credibility to the information you are presenting.

You have not had not clearly stated whether

 

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