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← ACCT 427 - Chapter 5 Test
5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- Computer Fraud
- Spyware
- Commit the Fraud
- Fraudulent Financial Reporting
- 3) Rationalizations
- a •Theft of assets
•Fraudulent financial reporting - b Using a software to monitor computing habits and send that data to someone else, often without the computer user's permission
- c Intentional or reckless conduct, whether by act or omission, that results in materially misleading financial statements
- d Any illegal act for which knowledge of computer technology is essential for its perpetration, investigation, or prosecution
- e ♦The excuse that fraud perpetrators use to justify their illegal behavior
•Justification
•Attitude
•Lack of Personal Integrity
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- The perpetrator conceals a theft of cash by creating cash through the transfer of money between banks
- Assuming someone's identity, usually for economic gain, by illegally obtaining confidential information such as a Social Security number
- •Fraud perpetrators are often referred to as this
•Hard to distinguish between them and the general public - Inflating revenues fictitiously
- Making an e-mail message look as if someone else sent it
5 True/False Questions
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Piggybacking → Tapping into a telecommunications line, latching on to a legitimate user, and accompanying the perpetrator into the system
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Threats to AIS → Entering a system using a back door that bypasses normal system controls
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Pay-And-Return Scheme → •Involve an employee purposely causing an overpayment to a legitimate vendor
•When the vendor returns the overpayment to the company, the employee embezzles the refund -
Logic and Time Bombs → Software that sits idle until a specified circumstance or time triggers it, destroying programs, data, or both
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Lapping Scheme → The perpetrator conceals a theft of cash by creating cash through the transfer of money between banks
Regenerate Test