Consider each of the following situations.  Is there a potential problem?  Which part of the fraud triangle is involved, if any? A.  Susan is an accounts payable clerk.  She sets up creditors in a financial database and pays invoices as they come in.  Last year, she won employee of the year and is a valued employee.  Through the grapevine, Susan's boss just learned that Susan's brother has a gambling problem.   B.  Now suppose that Susan from situation A is now secretary for the head of the marketing department.  She keeps track of the vice president of marketing's schedule and handles the correspondence.   C.  Keith has been employed for 6 months as a teller at a community bank.  All is going well, and his cash drawer has had shortages only twice (of less than P500).  The shortages were traced and the problems corrected.   D.  At the company Memorial Day picnic and golf outing last week, Nancy noticed that June moved her ball to a better lie when she thought no one was looking.  There were no prizes for a low score, and June did not benefit from the lower score that resulted.

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Consider each of the following situations.  Is there a potential problem?  Which part of the fraud triangle is involved, if any?

A.  Susan is an accounts payable clerk.  She sets up creditors in a financial database and pays invoices as they come in.  Last year, she won employee of the year and is a valued employee.  Through the grapevine, Susan's boss just learned that Susan's brother has a gambling problem.

 

B.  Now suppose that Susan from situation A is now secretary for the head of the marketing department.  She keeps track of the vice president of marketing's schedule and handles the correspondence.

 

C.  Keith has been employed for 6 months as a teller at a community bank.  All is going well, and his cash drawer has had shortages only twice (of less than P500).  The shortages were traced and the problems corrected.

 

D.  At the company Memorial Day picnic and golf outing last week, Nancy noticed that June moved her ball to a better lie when she thought no one was looking.  There were no prizes for a low score, and June did not benefit from the lower score that resulted.

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