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词条 Accounting scandals
释义

  1. Two types of fraud

      Misappropriation of assets    Fraudulent financial reporting  

  2. The Fraud Triangle

  3. Causes

  4. List of reported accounting scandals

  5. Notable outcomes

  6. See also

  7. References

  8. Further reading

  9. External links

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2012}}Accounting scandals are business scandals which arise from intentional manipulation of financial statements with the disclosure of financial misdeeds by trusted executives of corporations or governments. Such misdeeds typically involve complex methods for misusing or misdirecting funds, overstating revenues, understating expenses, overstating[1] the value of corporate assets, or underreporting the existence of liabilities. It involves an employee, account, or corporation itself and is misleading to investors and shareholders.[2]

This type of "creative accounting" can amount to fraud, and investigations are typically launched by government oversight agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States. Employees who commit accounting fraud at the request of their employers are subject to personal criminal prosecution.[3]

Two types of fraud

Misappropriation of assets

Misappropriation of assets — often called defalcation or employee fraud — occurs when an employee steals a company's asset, whether those assets are of monetary or physical nature. Typically, assets stolen are cash, or cash equivalents, and company data or intellectual property.[4] However, misappropriation of assets also includes taking inventory out of a facility or using company assets for personal purpose without authorization. Company assets include everything from office supplies and inventory to intellectual property.

Fraudulent financial reporting

Fraudulent financial reporting is also known as earnings management fraud. In this context, management intentionally manipulates accounting policies or accounting estimates to improve financial statements. Public and private corporations commit fraudulent financial reporting to secure investor interest or obtain bank approvals for financing, as justifications for bonuses or increased salaries or to meet expectations of shareholders.[5] The Securities and Exchange Commission has brought enforcement actions against corporations for many types of fraudulent financial reporting, including improper revenue recognition, period-end stuffing, fraudulent post-closing entries, improper asset valuations, and misleading non-GAAP financial measures.[6]

The Fraud Triangle

The fraud triangle is a model for explaining the factors that cause someone to commit fraudulent behaviors in accounting. It consists of three components, which together, lead to fraudulent behavior:

  • Incentives/ Pressure: Management or other employees have incentives or pressures to commit fraud.
  • Opportunities: Circumstances provide opportunities for management or employees to commit fraud.
  • Attitudes/ Rationalization: An attitude, character, or set of ethical values exists that allows management or employees to commit a dishonest act, or they are in an environment that imposes sufficient pressure that causes them to rationalize committing a dishonest act.[7]
Incentives/ Pressures: A common incentive for companies to manipulate financial statement is a decline in the company's financial prospects. Companies may also manipulate earnings to meet analysts' forecasts or benchmarks such as prior-year earnings to: meet debt covenant restrictions, achieve a bonus target based on earnings, or artificially inflate stock prices. As for misappropriation of assets, financial pressures are a common incentive for employees. Employees with excessive financial obligations, or those with substance abuse or gambling problems may steal to meet their personal needs.[8]Opportunities: Although the financial statements of all companies are potentially subject to manipulation, the risk is greater for companies in industries where significant judgments and accounting estimates are involved. Turnover in accounting personnel or other deficiencies in accounting and information processes can create an opportunity for misstatement. As for misappropriation of assets, opportunities are greater in companies with accessible cash or with inventory or other valuable assets, especially if the assets are small or easily removed. A lack of controls over payments to vendors or payroll systems, can allow employees to create fictitious vendors or employees and bill the company for services or time.[9]Attitudes/ Rationalization: The attitude of top management toward financial reporting is a critical risk factor in assessing the likelihood of fraudulent financial statements. If the CEO or other top managers display a significant disregard for the financial reporting process, such as consistently issuing overly optimistic forecasts, or they are overly concerned about the meeting analysts' earnings forecast, fraudulent financial reporting is more likely. Similarly, for misappropriation of assets, if management cheats customers through overcharging for goods or engaging in high-pressure sales tactics, employees may feel that it is acceptable for them to behave in the same fashion.[10]

Causes

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A weak internal control is an opportunity for a fraudster. Fraud is not an accounting problem; it is a social phenomenon. If you strip economic crime of its multitudinous variations, there are but three ways a victim can be unlawfully separated from money: by force, stealth or trickery.[11] Lack of transparency in financial transactions is an ideal method to hide a fraud. Poor management information where a company's management system does not produce results that are timely, accurate, sufficiently detailed and relevant. In such case, the warning signal of fraud such as ongoing theft from bank account can be obscured. Lack of an independent audit department within the company is also a sign of weak internal control. Poor accounting practice is also part of a weak internal control. An example of poor accounting practice is failure to make monthly reconciliation of bank account.[12]

A top executive can reduce the price of his/her company's stock easily due to information asymmetry. The executive can accelerate accounting of expected expenses, delay accounting of expected revenue, engage in off balance sheet transactions to make the company's profitability appear temporarily poorer, or simply promote and report severely conservative (e.g. pessimistic) estimates of future earnings. Such seemingly adverse earnings news will be likely to (at least temporarily) reduce share price. (This is again due to information asymmetries since it is more common for top executives to do everything they can to window dress their company's earnings forecasts.

Top managers tend to share price to make a company an easier takeover target. When the company gets bought out (or taken private) – at a dramatically lower price – the takeover artist gains a windfall from the former top executive's actions to surreptitiously reduce share price. This can represent tens of billions of dollars (questionably) transferred from previous shareholders to the takeover artist. The former top executive is then rewarded with a golden handshake for presiding over the firesale that can sometimes be in the hundreds of millions of dollars for one or two years of work.[13]

Similar issues occur when a publicly held asset or non-profit organization undergoes privatization. Top executives often reap tremendous monetary benefits when a government-owned or non-profit entity is sold to private hands. Just as in the example above, they can facilitate this process by making the entity appear to be in financial crisis – this reduces the sale price (to the profit of the purchaser), and makes non-profits and governments more likely to sell. It can also contribute to a public perception that private entities are more efficiently run, thereby reinforcing the political will to sell off public assets. Again, due to asymmetric information, policy makers and the general public see a government-owned firm that was a financial 'disaster' – miraculously turned around by the private sector (and typically resold) within a few years. Under the Special Plea in Fraud statute, “the government must ‘establish by clear and convincing evidence that the contractor knew that its submitted claims were false, and that it intended to defraud the government by submitting those claims.’” Mere negligence, inconsistency, or discrepancies are not actionable under the Special Plea in Fraud statute.[14]

Not all accounting scandals are caused by top executives. The proceedings can take so long to come to trial that one executive saw the charges against him dismissed.[15] Often managers and employees are pressured or willingly alter financial statements for the personal benefit of the individuals over the company. Managerial opportunism plays a large role in these scandals. For example, managers who would be compensated more for short-term results would report inaccurate information, since short-term benefits outweigh the long-term ones such as pension obligations.[16]

List of reported accounting scandals

Company Year Audit Firm Country Notes
Fred Stern & Company1925Touche, Niven & Co.United States
Hatry Group1929United Kingdom
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company1931United Kingdom
Interstate Hosiery Mills1937Homes and DavisUnited States
McKesson & Robbins, Inc.1938Price, Waterhouse & Co.United States
Yale Express System1965[17]Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.United StatesOverstated net worth and failed to indicate net operating loss
Atlantic Acceptance Corporation1965[18]Wagman, Fruitman & LandoCanadaCPA conflicts of interest
Continental Vending Machine Corp.1969[19]Lybrand, Ross Brothers, & MontgomeryUnited StatesCPA partners convicted and fined
National Student Marketing Corporation1970[20]Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.United StatesOverstatement of earnings
Four Seasons Nursing Centers of America1970[21]Arthur AndersenUnited StatesOverstatement of earnings; CPA partners indicted
Equity Funding1973[22]Wolfson Weiner; Ratoff & LapinUnited StatesCreated fictitious insurance policies
Fund of Funds – Investors Overseas Services1973[23]Arthur AndersenCanadaMutual fund that inflated value of assets
Lockheed Corporation1976[24]United States
Nugan Hand Bank1980[25]Australia
O.P.M. Leasing Services1981[26]Fox & CompanyUnited StatesCreated fictitious leases
ZZZZ Best1986[27]United StatesPonzi scheme run by Barry Minkow
Northguard Acceptance Ltd.1980 to 1982 [28]Ernst & YoungCanada
ESM Government Securities1986[29]Alexander Grant & CompanyUnited StatesBribery of CPA partner.
Bankers Trust1988[30]Arthur Young & CoUnited StatesHid a $80 million mis-pricing of derivatives contributing to profits by cutting bonuses.
Barlow Clowes1988[31]United KingdomGilts management service. £110 million missing
Crazy Eddie1989[32]United States
MiniScribe1989[33]United States
Livent1989 to 1998Deloitte & Touche [34][35]CanadaFraud and forgery
Polly Peck1990[36]United Kingdom
Bank of Credit and Commerce International1991[37]United Kingdom
Phar-Mor1992[38]Coopers & LybrandUnited StatesMail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, and transportation of funds obtained by theft or fraud
Informix Corporation1996[39]Ernst & Young[40]United States
Sybase1997[41][42][43]Ernst & Young[44]United States
Cendant1998[45]Ernst & YoungUnited States
Cinar1998 [46]Ernst & YoungCanadaMisuse of corporate funds
Waste Management, Inc.1999[47]Arthur AndersenUnited StatesFinancial misstatements
MicroStrategy2000[48]PWCUnited StatesMichael Saylor
Unify Corporation2000[49]Deloitte & ToucheUnited States
Computer Associates2000[50]KPMGUnited StatesSanjay Kumar, Stephen Richards
Lernout & Hauspiedate=May 2013}}KPMGBelgiumFictitious transactions in Korea and improper accounting methodologies elsewhere
Xerox2000[51]KPMGUnited StatesFalsifying financial results
One.Tel2001[52]Ernst & YoungAustralia
Enron2001[53]Arthur AndersenUnited StatesJeffrey Skilling, Kenneth Lay, Andrew Fastow
Swissair2001PricewaterhouseCoopersSwitzerland
Adelphia2002[54]Deloitte & ToucheUnited StatesJohn Rigas
AOL2002[51]Ernst & YoungUnited StatesInflated sales
Bristol-Myers Squibb2002[51][55]PricewaterhouseCoopersUnited StatesInflated revenues
CMS Energy2002[51][56]Arthur AndersenUnited StatesRound trip trades
Duke Energy2002[51]Deloitte & ToucheUnited StatesRound trip trades
Vivendi Universal2002[51]Arthur AndersenFranceFinancial reshuffling
Dynegy2002[51]Arthur AndersenUnited StatesRound trip trades
El Paso Corporation2002[51]Deloitte & ToucheUnited StatesRound trip trades
Freddie Mac2002[57]PricewaterhouseCoopersUnited StatesUnderstated earnings
Global Crossing2002[51]Arthur AndersenBermudaNetwork capacity swaps to inflate revenues
Halliburton2002[51]Arthur AndersenUnited StatesImproper booking of cost overruns
Homestore.com2002[51][58]PricewaterhouseCoopersUnited StatesImproper booking of sales
ImClone Systems2002[59]KPMGUnited StatesSamuel D. Waksal
Kmart2002[51][60]PricewaterhouseCoopersUnited StatesMisleading accounting practices
Merck & Co.2002[51]PricewaterhouseCoopersUnited StatesRecorded co-payments that were not collected
Merrill Lynch2002[61]Deloitte & ToucheUnited StatesConflict of interest
Mirant2002[51]KPMGUnited StatesOverstated assets and liabilities
Nicor2002[51]Arthur AndersenUnited StatesOverstated assets, understated liabilities
Peregrine Systems2002[51]Arthur AndersenUnited StatesOverstated sales
Qwest Communications2002[51]1999, 2000, 2001 Arthur Andersen 2002 October KPMGUnited StatesInflated revenues
Reliant Energy2002[51]Deloitte & ToucheUnited StatesRound trip trades
Sunbeam2002[62]Arthur AndersenUnited StatesOverstated sales and revenues
Symbol Technologies2002[63][64]United StatesOverstated sales and revenues
Tyco International2002[51]PricewaterhouseCoopersBermudaImproper accounting, Dennis Kozlowski
WorldCom2002[51][65]Arthur AndersenUnited StatesFraudulent expense capitalization, Bernard Ebbers
Royal Ahold2003[66]Deloitte & ToucheUnited StatesInflating promotional allowances
Parmalat2003[67][68]Grant Thornton SpAItalyFalsified accounting documents, Calisto Tanzi
HealthSouth Corporation2003[69]Ernst & YoungUnited StatesRichard M. Scrushy
Nortel2003[70]Deloitte & ToucheCanadaDistributed ill-advised corporate bonuses to top 43 managers
Chiquita Brands International2004[71]Ernst & YoungUnited StatesIllegal payments
AIG2004[72]PricewaterhouseCoopersUnited StatesAccounting of structured financial deals
Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC2008[73]Friehling & HorowitzUnited StatesMassive Ponzi scheme.[74]
Anglo Irish Bank2008[75]Ernst & YoungIrelandAnglo Irish Bank hidden loans controversy
Satyam Computer Services2009[76]PricewaterhouseCoopersIndiaFalsified accounts
Biovail2009 [77]CanadaFalse Statements
Taylor, Bean & Whitaker2009 [78]PricewaterhouseCoopersUnited StatesFraudulent spending
Monsanto2009 to 2011 [79]DeloitteUnited StatesImproper accounting for incentive rebates
Kinross Gold2010 [80]KPMGCanadaOverstated asset values
Lehman Brothers2010[81]Ernst & YoungUnited StatesFailure to disclose Repo 105 transactions to investors
Amir-Mansour Aria2011IAO (Audit organization) and other Audit firmsIranBusiness loans without putting any collateral and financial system
Bank Saderat Iran2011IAO (Audit organization) and other Audit firmsIranFinancial transactions among banks and getting a lot of business loans without putting any collateral
Sino-Forest Corporation2011[82]Ernst & YoungCanada-ChinaPonzi scheme, falsifying assets
Olympus Corporation2011[83]Ernst & YoungJapanTobashi using acquisitions
Autonomy Corporation2012[84]Deloitte & ToucheUnited StatesSubsidiary of HP.
Penn West Exploration2012 to 2014 [85]KPMGCanadaOverstated profits
Pescanova2013BDO SpainSpainUnderstated debt, Fraudulent invoices, Falsified accounts
Petrobras2014 [86]PricewaterhouseCoopersBrazilGovernment bribes, Misappropriation, Money laundering
Toshiba2015[87]Ernst & YoungJapanOverstated profits
Valeant Pharmaceuticals2015 [88]PricewaterhouseCoopersCanadaOverstated revenues
Alberta Motor Association2016 [89][90]CanadaFraudulent invoices
Odebrecht2016 [91]BrazilGovernment bribes
1Malaysia Development Berhad2018 Ernst & Young, Deloitte, KPMG [92]MalaysiaFraud, money laundering, abuse of political power, government bribes

Notable outcomes

The Enron scandal turned in the indictment and criminal conviction of Big Five auditor Arthur Andersen on June 15, 2002. Although the conviction was overturned on May 31, 2005, by the Supreme Court of the United States, the firm ceased performing audits and split into multiple entities.[93] The Enron scandal was defined as being one of the biggest audit failures of all time. The scandal included utilizing loopholes that were found within the GAAP (General Accepted Accounting Principles). For auditing a large-sized company such as Enron, the auditors were criticized for having brief meetings a few times a year that covered large amounts of material. By January 17, 2002, Enron decided to discontinue its business with Arthur Andersen, claiming they had failed in accounting advice and related documents. Arthur Andersen was judged guilty of obstruction of justice for disposing of many emails and documents that were related to auditing Enron. Since the SEC is not allowed to accept audits from convicted felons, the firm was forced to give up its CPA licenses later in 2002, costing over 113,000 employees their jobs. Although the ruling was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the once-proud firm's image was tarnished beyond repair, and it has not returned as a viable business even on a limited scale.

On July 9, 2002 George W. Bush gave a speech about recent accounting scandals that had been uncovered. In spite of its stern tone, the speech did not focus on establishing new policy, but instead focused on actually enforcing current laws, which include holding CEOs and directors personally responsible for accountancy fraud.[94]

In July 2002, WorldCom filed for bankruptcy protection in what was considered at the time as the largest corporate insolvency ever.[95]

These scandals reignited the debate over the relative merits of US GAAP, which takes a "rules-based" approach to accounting, versus International Accounting Standards and UK GAAP, which takes a "principles-based" approach.[96][97] The Financial Accounting Standards Board announced that it intends to introduce more principles-based standards. More radical means of accounting reform have been proposed, but so far have very little support. The debate itself, however, overlooks the difficulties of classifying any system of knowledge, including accounting, as rules-based or principles-based. This also led to the establishment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

On a lighter note, the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics went to the CEOs of those companies involved in the corporate accounting scandals of that year for "...adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world."

In 2003, Nortel made a big contribution to this list of scandals by incorrectly reporting a one cent per share earnings directly after their massive layoff period. They used this money to pay the top 43 managers of the company. The SEC and the Ontario securities commission eventually settled civil action with Nortel. However, a separate civil action will be taken up against top Nortel executives including former CEO Frank A. Dunn, Douglas C. Beatty, Michael J. Gollogly, and MaryAnne E. Pahapill and Hamilton. These proceedings have been postponed pending criminal proceedings in Canada, which opened in Toronto on January 12, 2012.[98] Crown lawyers at this fraud trial of three former Nortel Networks executives say the men defrauded the shareholders of Nortel of more than $5 million. According to the prosecutor this was accomplished by engineering a financial loss in 2002, and a profit in 2003 thereby triggering Return to Profit bonuses of $70 million for top executives.[99][100][101][102][103] In 2007, Dunn, Beatty, Gollogly, Pahapill, Hamilton, Craig A. Johnson, James B. Kinney, and Kenneth R.W. Taylor were charged with engaging in accounting fraud by "...manipulating reserves to manage Nortel's earnings."[104]

In 2005, after a scandal on insurance and mutual funds the year before, AIG was investigated for accounting fraud. The company already lost over $45 billion worth of market capitalization because of the scandal. Investigations also discovered over a $1 billion worth of errors in accounting transactions. The New York Attorney General's investigation led to a $1.6 billion fine for AIG and criminal charges for some of its executives.[105] CEO Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg was forced to step down and fought fraud charges until 2017, when the 91-year-old reached a $9.9 million settlement.[106][107] Howard Smith, AIG's chief financial officer, also reached a settlement.

Well before Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme came to light, observers doubted whether his listed accounting firm — an unknown two-person firm in a rural area north of New York City — was competent to service a multimillion-dollar operation, especially since it had only one active accountant, David G. Friehling.[108] Indeed, Friehling's practice was so small that for years, he operated out of his house; he only moved into an office when Madoff customers wanted to know more about who was auditing his accounts.[109] Ultimately, Friehling admitted to simply rubber-stamping at least 18 years' worth of Madoff's filings with the SEC. He also revealed that he continued to audit Madoff even though he had invested a substantial amount of money with him (Accountants aren't allowed to audit broker-dealers with whom they're investing). He agreed to forfeit $3.18 million in accounting fees and withdrawals from his account with Madoff. His involvement makes the Madoff scheme the largest accounting fraud in world history.[110]

See also

  • Accounting ethics
  • Dot-com bubble
  • Financial crisis of 2007–2008
  • Forensic accounting
  • List of corporate collapses and scandals
  • Microcap stock fraud
  • Philosophy of accounting
  • Sarbanes–Oxley Act
  • Savings and loan crisis
  • Securities fraud
  • Tobashi scheme
  • Vivien v. WorldCom
  • White-collar crime

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Further reading

  • John R. Emshwiller and Rebecca Smith, 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America or Infectious Greed, HarperInformation, 2003, {{ISBN|0-06-052073-6}}
  • Lawrence A. Cunningham, The Sarbanes-Oxley Yawn: Heavy Rhetoric, Light Reform (And It Might Just Work)
  • Zabihollah Rezaee, Financial Statement Fraud: Prevention and Detection, Wiley 2002.

External links

  • [https://www.sec.gov/ U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website]
  • [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1146373 U.S. President Bush's speech, 2002-07-09] NPR report (audio recording)
  • "GMI Warns of Accounting Risks at 40 Companies", Accounting Today, November 27, 2012
  • "The Impact of Fraud on Shareholder Value", Business Insider, June 18, 2013
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