Cynthia Cooper Presentation — Transcript

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1. 0:01hello my name is Sean fer from Southern
2. 0:04Utah University the department of the
3. 0:06accounting ethics seminar course I'll be
4. 0:09giving a presentation on Cynthia Cooper
5. 0:12and how she blew the whistle at War
6. 0:17Worldcom Miss Cooper was the vice
7. 0:19president of the internal audit staff
8. 0:22through the course of her work her and
9. 0:24her team came across improper accounting
10. 0:27entries and improper evaluation
11. 0:31that amounted in the around $3.8
12. 0:36billion the misallocated funds in fake
13. 0:39entries ultimately grew over the time of
14. 0:42her investigation over7
15. 0:44billion and led to the bankruptcy of
16. 0:48Worldcom which resulted in the loss of
17. 0:51many
18. 0:54jobs Miss Cooper followed steps that
19. 0:57were outlined by the authors of the text
20. 1:00tro and Nelson to help her know how to
21. 1:03blow the whistle the first step that the
22. 1:05authors outlined was to approach her
23. 1:08immediate managers first when Cynthia
24. 1:11Cooper learned about
25. 1:13the the fake accounting entry she
26. 1:16approached her direct boss Mr
27. 1:19solivan and asked asked him about what
28. 1:22he what she should
29. 1:24do oh my God