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COMM 321: Group Project

Winter, 2024

Working in assigned teams, students will prepare several pieces of written business communication and present  to the class a summary of their topic, complete with powerpoint presentation. The purpose of this assignment is twofold: for students to learn about an historical accounting controversy, and for students to practice effective business communication in the forms of e-mail, memo, business letter, business report and verbal presentation.

Situation: Students are to pretend they are working for an accounting/consulting firm. At a networking event, they meet Fred Jones, Chief Financial Officer of Varied Brands, Inc. a large, potential client. He asks about one of the accounting frauds listed below – he’s heard the name but is only partly familiar with what happened. The assignment is to write a report which will explain the fraud in detail (i.e. what they did, why they did it, how they got away with it, when they were caught, consequences to the company, consequences to individuals, etc.).

A cover letter and the full report will be written to impress this potential client. Each group must prepare the following.

1.   E-mailto Instructor with an attached one-page memo outlining the format of the report and the duties assigned to each team member DUE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 2024 by 5:00PM.

2.   Letter to CFO with the business report attached DUE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3rd, 2024 by 5:00PM (an electronic copy submitted via a Learn dropbox.

3.   Powerpoint presentation summarizing their report - a hard copy OR electronic copy must be submitted to the instructor PRIOR to the date of their presentation, bye-mailtopblake@uwaterloo.ca. In-class presentations will occur between MONDAY April 1st  and WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3rd  in a predetermined random order.

In addition, each group member may submit a peer review for all other members of the group, in the format

below. If any group member does not submit a peer review it will be assumed that the peer reviews submitted  by all other group members are accurate. Peer reviews must be submitted via a Learn dropbox by no later than 5:00pm on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3rd, 2024.

Topic Areas:

1.   Worldcom – large telecommunications company that falsified F/S and went bankrupt

2.   Computer Associates – kept books open after quarter end to boost sales

3.   Waste Management Inc. – waste company that falsified F/S

4.   Tyco – conglomerate that falsified F/S

5.   Dynegy – used a complex financing structure that made it appear cash flow had increased

6.  Nortel Networks – huge Canadian telecommunications company that went bankrupt

7.   Adelphia Communications – family run cable company that went public and falsified F/S

8.   Bernard Madoff Investment Securities – famous Ponzi scheme

9.   Satyam Computer Services – Indian company that falsified F/S

10. Sino-Forest Corporation – Chinese forestry company listed on TSE misstated assets

11. Global Crossing – used complex derivatives to manipulate earnings

12. HealthSouth – US healthcare company that hid financial problems

13. AIG (Gen Re) – large American insurance company that used complex reinsurance transaction to respond to analyst criticisms

14. ZZZZ Best – teenager who fooled financial community with a fake company

15. Bre-X Minerals – large Canadian gold miner who faked gold findings

16. Penn West – Canadian oil and gas company manipulated income using reserves (2017)

17. Rite Aid Corp. – limitations of auditors when collusion exists

18. Livent Inc. – Canadian theatre company that falsified F/S

19. Orange County investment losses – government that went bankrupt owing to questionable investments

20. Barings trading losses – rogue trader brings down large British bank

21. National Australia Bank FX Options – 4 traders cause $360 million loss (2004)

22. Washington Mutual subprime mortgage losses – one of largest US bankruptcies

23. Subprime Mortgage Crisis – 2008

24. Lehman Brothers 2008 Bankruptcy – largest US bankruptcy

25. Wirecard – German fintech that falsified F/S

26. Luckin Coffee – Chinese coffee company that falsified F/S

27. 2017 Wells Fargo Cross Selling scandal – employees encouraged to cross sell created accounts without the customer’s knowledge

28. Silicon Valley Bank collapse

29. Collapse ofFTX (the cryptocurrency exchange)

30. IFRS Exposure Draft on Sustainability Disclosure (not a fraud; summarize the exposure draft highlighting areas of interest)

No more than one group may select a topic. Topics will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Email the instructor indicating the group’stop 3 choices and the assigned topic will be confirmed by return email.

Topics different from those listed above maybe chosen, but only with instructor approval.

To assist students, there are 4 documents in Learn: Guidelines for E-mails, Guidelines for Memos, Guidelines for Business Letters and Guidelines for Business Reports. All correspondence for the duration of this course must follow these guidelines as a minimum (including alle-mails sent to the instructor for any purpose).

Writing Resources: The quality of writing will impact the mark awarded for this assignment. Students are encouraged to become familiar with resources available at the UW writing clinic:https://uwaterloo.ca/writing- and-communication-centre/writing-resources

Students also need to be aware that Microsoft’s Word as well as grammar websites such as www.grammarly.comonly catch 0 – 20% of grammatical mistakes. DO NOT RELY on these tools as a final grammar check. Groups are encouraged to proofread other groups’ reports on an exchange basis, to catch English errors.

Note also that various forms of English are being taught around the world. Students who were taught English in a foreign country may not have learned North American English. ONLY North American English is accepted by North American businesses.

References/Citations/Footnotes: All sources must be properly referenced. Include footnotes where applicable. Any style. is acceptable (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.) but it must be consistent throughout the entire report.

Any form. of plagiarism will result in a mark of zero. Advice on how to avoid plagiarism can be found at:

http://subjectguides.uwaterloo.ca/plagiarism

Warning: Poor writing will result in an arbitrary reduction of the assigned grade, to be determined at the sole

discretion of the instructor. A very poorly written report will receive a grade of zero, regardless of content. Examples of poor writing that will cause your grade to be reduced include any of the following.

Evidence that the report has not been proofread at least twice prior to submission

Sentences that don’tmake sense

Run on sentences or paragraphs

Inconsistent writing style. from one section to the next (the report must appear as though one person wrote it; therefore at least one group member must review the finished product for consistency)

More than 2 spelling errors

Absence of subtitles, bullets, tables or charts (i.e. it must look like a business report)

Ludicrous pagination (e.g. a sub-heading at the bottom of a page)

Failure to include an executive summary

A poorly written cover letter and/or opening paragraph (will most likely be awarded zero and the remainder of the report will probably not be read, i.e. exactly the same treatment as one can expect in a business environment)

Failure to follow the guidelines provided to students for writing e-mails, memos, letters and business reports (in Learn)