Sally Lauren is the external auditor for Modus Industries, a…

Sally Lauren is the external auditor for Modus Industries, a public company that manufactures disk drives. As she analyzes the numbers, she finds that the quick ratio, which has typically remained consistent, increased from 1.7 to 2.3 over the previous year. What type of financial statement fraud scheme could be occurring?

James Turner, CFE, was called in to investigate a sales skim…

James Turner, CFE, was called in to investigate a sales skimming case at Durant Hardware. During an admission-seeking interview of Nadia Brown, the primary suspect, James asked, “Did you just want some extra money, or did you do this because you had financial problems?” Nadia began crying and nodded yes. This small admission as a response to James’ question is called a: