SENECA COLLEGE, TORONTO

BUS 106 ,   Intro to Business As taught by Prof. Tim Richardson      BUS 106 Assignment 2008 Assignment Details

GROUP PROJECT – FRAUD ANALYSIS
- part of Chpt 3 on "Ethics"
- working with the students that you will be assigned, in class

This project is worth 10% of your term mark and will included the following

Using the newspapers and the internet, Research what happened in the case and answer the questions.

Cases are

• Livent Entertainment - 2002, fraud affecting the public market, pertain to alleged accounting irregularities
• Royal Plastics - building materials and plastic parts
• Enron Energy - 2001, energy company
• Bre X Minerals - 1997, inaccurate assessment of the gold deposit
• Hollinger International (newspapers) - 2003-2007,  Conrad Black using corporate money for personal purposes
• Nortel Networks (I.T.) - 2003, accounting irregularities involving billions of dollars
• Tycos International - scandal involving management behaviour and excesses

Type up the answers on 2 or 3 sheets, hand in next week
Your report must have an appropriate cover sheet with the name of the company and full names of all group members.
Do NOT cut and paste sentences off the web, use “ “ quotes.
if you "quote" material, note where it came from - do NOT plagarize.
You should, as much as possible, discuss the points in your own words.
 
 

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