What is Cybercrime? At this point of time there is no commonly agreed definition of ‘Cybercrime’. The area of Cybercrime is very broad and the technical nature of the subject has made extremely difficult for authorities to come up with a precise definition of Cybercrime. The British police have defined Cybercrime as ‘use of any […]
Critical Research Analysis On The Effectiveness Of IT Auditing For Corporate Governance Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Introduction Auditing is one of the essential elements for the successful functioning of the business and helps an organization to face the external world with precise information on its business and issues related to accountability. Also, it is […]
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Get startedCorporate Scandal of Enron A corporate scandal is a major financial defraument done to a company, a legal entity, by the creations of the law. The scandal in most cases is perpetuated by the insiders of the company, sometimes with the help of outsiders or experts in a specific field. It could be as […]
Ethics in The Modern Business World INDEX: Page 1: front page Page 2: index Page 3: introduction Page 4: internal controls Page 5: internal control systems Page 6: conclusion Page 7: bibliography Leisure Net In October 2000 the company Leisure Net, lifestyle and health Fitness Company, was provisionally liquidated, having been listed only five years […]
The Financial Impact of Illegal Corporate Behaviour – Summary Summary: The illegal corporate behaviour at company-level or at the corporate agent level has direct or indirect financial impact. The direct impact effects on the firm’s profits or intrinsic value and the indirect impact is on the shareholders trust. It is the unlawful activities that consist […]
In October 2008, as the impact of the global financial crisis, three largest commercial banks in Iceland, namely Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupthing successively placed into receivership by the government (Lyall, 2008), and forced to seek the International Monetary Fund bailout. However, the three banks represented 85% of total assets in the country’s banking system, along […]
In the last decade, international financial system has been hit several times by many different gigantic occurrences. The soonest was the subprime mortgage crisis, but the situation this dissertation will be concentrating is the failure of Enron. Mainly because the aim of this paper is to present financial audit as a fraud prevention mechanism, not […]
The Law addresses computer fraud in different ways. The law is aimed at protecting illegal access to a computer system or exceeding authorized access. It protects access to and mishandling of or misusing protected information ending up in causing harm and or monetary loss to the victim of such activities. Congress amended the act in […]
Frauds using erroneous financial information have straight association with accounting standards. False information is moreover made-up information with no support from authentic projects or relates to accounting standards and codes. Given that the commencement of modification, China has made growth in improving accounting codes. Actually, the designing and accomplishment of accounting codes can manipulate information […]
Peregrine Financial Group inc. known as PFGBest. This company is investing for a long term probability of success for customers, it offering different group of products, technologies and services including futures, forex, futures options, full-service brokerage, precious metals, trader education, and, of course, direct online trading with emphasis the opportunities of lower barrier to entry. […]
The potential impact of fraud and corruption represents a significant risk to the assets of every organization. According to Abiola (2010) Fraud is currently the most expensive category of crime in the world (p.12). Recent corporate accounting and financial scandals have led to increased legal and regulatory requirements, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 […]
‘The Fraud Act 2006 has as a central requirement the concept of Dishonesty. This simple legal concept has made the law clear.’ Critically Discuss. The Fraud Act 2006 was brought in to replace the Theft Act 1978, as offences created under the act after caused difficulty proving in court. In 2002, the Law Commission produced […]
The Royal Bank of Canada experienced some fundamental managerial errors in May 2003. It was reported as a major “glitch” that had been caused by wrong configuration during the installation process. A simple problem had severely affected the lives of millions of people. In this essay I will discuss the security and control problems such […]
Business Ethics Law extends over several different spheres in the normal everyday life. Whether it is torts, criminal, administrative, business or just the common law, it applies to every corner of the society. The observance of these laws guarantees a smooth sailing and dealings in the society, ensuring that equality is held and maintained by […]
Online Identity Theft: What It Is and How It Happens written by Alison Grace Johansen is an article that provides a definition of identity theft and how it occurs. According to Johansen, identity theft occurs when a fraudster steals your identity through access to your personally identifiable information (PII) with the intent to commit fraud. […]
There are countless illegal activities that affect our lives. Most of them we can protect ourselves against more because it is easier for us to become aware that something is missing. I believe it is easier to protect ourselves against Illegal activities such as robbery, burglary than against scams and identity theft. I believe that […]
While the advancement of technology has??”for the most part??”changed modern society for the better, it has also changed several aspects of it for the worse. How? Crime. Of particular note is identity theft, which has become significantly more rampant than it has ever been due to the advent of the Internet in the modern age. […]
The internet has helped to improve the performance factor, the term Internet is defined as the collection of computers that provides a network of electronic connections between different computers. There are lots of computers connected to the internet. With the benefits of the use of Internet comes with cyber-crime which is associated with the use […]
The Financial sector totally depends on information in order to function. The clients in the banks are not only provided financial services but also security services. Giving clients the assurance of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of their financial information is a key function of financial information. Information systems and technology are critical for the financial […]
Introduction Thieves are currently turning into cybercrimes with a lot of anonymity because they think they are easier, more profitable and less dangerous. They prefer these cyber-attacks and particularly now engaging with online groups to execute more crimes especially on credit card frauds. The online criminal groups employ more sophisticated means of criminal activities using […]
