Investigative Project Design Two-Part Assignment ABout The case AMP Manufacturing

Investigative Project Design

Two-Part Assignment

Two activities identified in our ACCT 320 classroom relate: 

(1) Investigative Project Design                                    100 Possible Points
(2) Deterrence Measure Design                                    100 Possible Points

Each is a separate activity but interrelates to form a complete analysis. This assignment draws on your overall and detailed learning during this class. You have learned about various types of fraud, written about recent cases consistent with one or more of those types of fraud, and engaged in discussion with colleagues during our class activity.

Investigative Project Design: Part 1

This aspect of the two-part assignment will relate to the AMP Manufacturing Case attached. Assume you are a fraud examiner available for hire.

Approach:

Provide a discussion of the approach you, as an investigator, would use to investigate a lead received about the possible fraud. The discussion should include several steps and indicate what documents you anticipate will be available and essential during your investigation, whether interviews of individuals will be involved, who those individuals might be, and how you might analyze the collected information.

Actions:

• Think through what actions may have occurred or might be taking place during your investigation.
• What records might be an excellent source to investigate the situation?
• Oral evidence through interviews of individuals can be helpful, but documents are necessary to confirm oral evidence.
• How can you relate oral evidence to documents you expect to find?

Investigative Design:

This investigative design can be provided in prose or narrative writing or a clearly defined numbered list. For those with an audit background, this list would be much like an audit program–a sequential list showing a supervisor the expected path you anticipate the investigation to take.

The Investigative Design is posted to the Investigative Project Design assignment folder in LEO

This must be at least one-half to one page of narrative. Although not limited, a step-by-step list would probably include no more than ten steps for most cases.  

TAKE NOTE!

A word of caution here! If a list of steps is provided, there needs to be enough wording so that a reader can understand what actions you plan to take during the investigation. This explains how you plan to pursue this fraud to a supervisor. If approving your plan, a supervisor would be committing your organization to spend the funds to support your efforts and the related expenses. Professionalism in this submission is essential.

References:

References and in-text citations are appropriate for this part of the two-part assignment. These sources fortify the merit of your approach to the case and often provide insights into the suitability of your approach to a specific case.