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Schilit Founder and CEO Financial Shenanigans Detection Group, LLC Key Biscayne, Florida Good companies financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download well as bad can turn to financial shenanigans if management sets the wrong example. Most companies leave telltale signs of their fraudulent behavior, but auditors and analysts must be independent, imaginative, financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download, and skeptical in their examination of company accounts if they expect to find these signs, financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download.
Such behavior occurs in both ings can be organized into seven categories: reputable and disreputable companies, financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download. In fact, 1. Recording revenue too soon, many of the companies that I cite in my examples 2. Recording bogus revenue, are highly regarded companies, so I am not pointing fingers at any particular type of company.
But all of 3. Boosting income by using one-time or unsus- the companies I cite have at least one thing in com- tainable activities, mon: Their management sets a tone that encourages 4. Shifting current expenses to a later period, the use of tricked-up accounting. For example, con- 5. Employing other techniques to hide expenses sider the words spoken at an employee meeting at or losses, Qwest Communications International by Joseph 6. Shifting current income to a later period, and Nacchio, the CEO at the time: 7.
Shifting future expenses to an earlier period. The most important thing we do is meet our numbers. ing revenue or by hiding expenses. Sometimes, the numbers. revenue and inflating expenses. Lower income and The intention of this presentation, therefore, is higher expenses lead to lower taxes.
not only to share insights about the accounting I will discuss several, but not all seven, of these tricks used by management to manipulate corpora- techniques. In this EM identify some of the telltale signs and behaviors that technique, a company does not fabricate revenue can indicate such shenanigans are happening.
out of thin air; it simply reports revenue sooner than This presentation comes from the CFA Institute Annual Confer- it should. For example, if a company is having ence held in Boston on 16—19 May SEC complaint March tional revenue booked in the current period. Computer Associates was particularly per- revenue on the sale. The customer must not only sistent at recording revenue before any obligations order the product but also take possession of it, test were complete.
Its specific technique was to keep it, and approve it as acceptable for its needs. Cus- open the last month of any given quarter until it was tomer acceptance is an important step in the process, able to produce enough revenue to satisfy Wall yet some suppliers try to maneuver around this final Street. Computer Associates was infamous for its step. Sunbeam Products was notorious for acceler- day months. Generally, a receivable is recorded at the cleaning products.
The retailers would not pay for same time as the revenue, and one would expect the the products, and Sunbeam would not ship the customer to pay within 30—60 days, not days products. In fact, Sunbeam did not even bill for the later. When a company shows long-term receiv- products, so the name of the strategy is a misnomer.
ables, auditors and analysts should scrutinize the Yet it allowed Sunbeam to book revenue that was data and determine when financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download revenue for the receiv- anticipated, not received, financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download.
ables was recorded. For example, if a software com- The warning sign that Sunbeam was playing pany signs a five-year licensing deal, the company fast and loose with its revenue recognition was will receive payment over that month period and detectable in its gross margins, which were initially should not be picking up all of the revenue in the low and fairly stable.
The margins hardly fluctu- first month. But that is exactly what Computer ated, financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download, yet Sunbeam was not the manufacturer. It Associates was doing. Companies can use this tech- Mart Stores. Soft- financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download was wrong. Because Sunbeam was using the ware companies often use this kind of contract.
For bill-and-hold strategy, however, it continued to example, when Apple sells an iPhone, part of its hold the product. Inventory was not being con- revenue is from selling hardware and part is from verted to cost of goods sold, which resulted in a the two-year contract for iPhone service.
Certainly, misleadingly high gross margin. Therefore, beware this is a legitimate way of doing business, but it can of gross margins that skyrocket or fluctuate wildly also lead to accounting shenanigans.
without a reasonable explanation. Kendall Square Research was aggressive at picking up ever larger portions of its notorious for recording revenue even when its cus- revenue at the front end and smaller portions at the tomers were unable to pay.
Such sales are simply back end. One sign that helped me discover this bogus. Therefore, when analysts are trying to deter- behavior was that financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download accounts began appearing on mine whether a company is overly aggressive in the balance sheet.
When I see a new account, only recording its sales, they should examine not only the two explanations seem logical: The company is cre- ating a new business, or it has decided to account for practices of the company that is making the sale but things in a different way. not a good sign.
Such accounts as unbilled receiv- Another way of carrying out this same trick is ables and receivables in excess of billing began to to make sales based on extended payment terms. show up on the balance sheet of Transaction Sys- System Software was a company that made a habit tems Architects, a telltale sign of accounting tricks.
of letting customers take possession of a product Two more brief examples are Xerox Corpora- without making payment until 14 months later. tance of the product. A business typically takes cer- One indicator of such behavior is a big increase tain steps—such as developing a product, shipping in receivables.
Companies typ- skeletons are buried. From transactions lacking economic substance, attention. On receipts from nonrevenue producing trans- 75 days. From appropriate transactions but at inflated calls with management, and the stock price came amounts. under increasing pressure. Then the DSO suddenly Some examples of this type of shenanigan dropped from 70 days to 37 days.
The company include AIG American International Group opened its next press release with a passage reporting bogus insurance reserves on receipts from emphasizing the dramatic improvement in its Gen Re General Re CorporationGlobal Crossing DSO.
I took this message as a cue to immediately reporting bogus revenue on round-trip sales, and look for accounting shenanigans. I examined the Overstock. It simply reclassified some of those receiv- bank borrowing as if it were a sales, not a borrow- ables as prepaid expenses. ing, transaction. Finally, consider the behav- end of a quarter to cover normal operating ior of software company MicroStrategy. During the expenses—to meet payroll, financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download, perhaps, or to pay height of the Internet bubble in earlyI began down some of its debt.
Such repos, or repurchase following MicroStrategy, and on 5 Octoberjust agreements, are normal business transactions in five days after the end of the quarter, I noticed that which the lender expects collateral.
But Lehman it had financial shenanigans 3rd edition pdf download a press release containing two oddities. Brothers did not treat these transactions as loans First, the timing was too early to include earnings but rather as sales of assets. It took the assets that numbers; they usually appear about three weeks were used as the collateral in the repos off its books after a quarter ends. Second, the press release and never reported the debt side of the transaction.
was recorded on the balance sheet as an investment. An important It had no effect on the income statement. It struck lesson I have learned is to be very critical of any press me, and should strike any analyst, as unusual that release a company issues. In fact, whenever I receive MicroStrategy was engaging in investment-related a press release, I first ask myself, What message is activity with the same party that was becoming a this company trying to sell?
The intent of the release customer. This sort of activity muddies the waters is not necessarily devious, but most press releases and almost always indicates that something bad is are crafted to sell a message.
It is up to the reader to about to happen. determine what that message is and to what degree I called an executive at MicroStrategy and asked it can be trusted.
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