Which of the Following Is an Example of Output Fraud

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of output 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:

Rank Sums

A statistic used in non-parametric tests that involves summing the ranks of observations in samples.

Standardized Test Statistic

A calculated value from sample data that has been transformed to conform to a standard scale, used in hypothesis testing to determine how far a sample statistic differs from what is expected under the null hypothesis.

Matched Pairs

An experimental design where pairs of subjects are matched based on certain criteria to compare effects of different treatments.

Population of Differences

Refers to the set of differences obtained by subtracting one set of values from another, often used in paired samples analysis.