Financial Statement Fraud Find a company (or other public entity) that has been the subject of a financial statement fraud in the last 3-5 years. Pull that company’s financial statements (and public announcements) for 3-5 years before the fraudulent financial statement. Perform an analysis (potentially a ratio analysis) as well as reading the notes, MD&A and announcements. Write a paper describing the fraud, the red flags for the fraud, and how you would approach the fraud examination. The paper specifications are for this writing assignment are: Minimum of five pages (not including the bibliography, cover page, table of contents, and supplemental documents), double-spaced, Times New Roman font and 12 font size, standard-sized paper (8 ½ inches by 11 inches), one-inch for all margins. You must include all of the financial statements, annual reports etc. you have worked off in your submission. You must also cite all sources used and include a bibliography at the end of your paper. This term paper is due at the end of the course and must be submitted via Blackboard’s ‘Assignments’ tab. [NOTE: You may not use Toshiba for your case study.]

Anewspaper boy is trying to perfect his business in order to maximize the money he can save for a new car. daily paper sales are normally distributed, with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 10. he sells papers for $0.50 and pays $0.30 for them. unsold papers are trashed with no salvage value. how many papers should he order each day and what % of the time will he experience a stockout? are there any drawbacks to the order size proposed and how could the boy address such issues?

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?

Match each definition in column 1 with a vocabulary word from column 2." some of the entries in column 2 do not apply costs which do not change with the level of output costs which change with the level of output the change in total costs resulting from an increase in output by one unit function showing the quantities of a particular good demanded at a range of price when the quantity supplied of a good is greater than the quantity demanded when the quantity demanded for a particular good is greater than the quantity supplied the price and quantity determined in a market when the supply equals the demand when revenue exceeds costs when costs exceeds revenue output where revenue = costs