Daisy McMillan Works as the Office Manager for Timball and Lewis

question 8

Multiple Choice

Daisy McMillan works as the office manager for Timball and Lewis, a medium-sized law firm. One afternoon, she went to the hardware store to purchase a few maintenance items for the office. While there, she also bought her husband a hammer as a birthday present. At the register, the items, including the hammer, totaled $63. She paid for all the items together and received both a carbon copy receipt and a separate credit card receipt. Back at the office, she carefully scratched additional numbers on to the carbon copy receipt to increase the total price to $168 and turned in the altered receipt for reimbursement. Several weeks later, she turned in the credit card receipt along with another reimbursement request for the $63. What type of expense reimbursement fraud did she commit?

• A) Overstated expense reimbursement
• B) Multiple reimbursements
• C) Mischaracterized expense reimbursement
• D) All of the above

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Definitions:

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