Which of the Following Is an Example of Data Fraud

question 5

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of data fraud?

• A)A man used desktop publishing to prepare bills for office supplies that were never ordered or delivered and mailed them to local companies.The invoices were for less than $300,an amount that often does not require purchase orders or approvals.A high percentage of the companies paid the bills.
• B)Two accountants without the appropriate access rights hacked into Cisco''s stock option system,transferred over $6.3 million of Cisco stock to their brokerage accounts,and sold the stock.They used part of the funds to support an extravagant lifestyle,including a $52,000 Mercedes-Benz,a $44,000 diamond ring,and a $20,000 Rolex watch.
• C)The office manager of a Wall Street law firm sold information to friends and relatives about prospective mergers and acquisitions found in Word files.They made several million dollars trading the securities.
• D)A fraud perpetrator scanned a company paycheck,used desktop publishing software to erase
• The payee and amount,and printed fictitious paychecks.

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Definitions:

Independent Variable

A variable in a study or experiment that is manipulated or changed to observe its effect on a dependent variable.

Residual Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation in a set of observed values that is not explained by a statistical model, representing the standard deviation of the differences between predicted and observed values.

Regression Model

A mathematical representation used to estimate the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables.

Normally Distributed Residuals

Residuals (the differences between observed and predicted values) that are distributed according to a normal distribution, indicating a good fit for a linear model.