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A Guide to ACC-667 Written Assignments

Documentation of Sources

This is a resource to help you prepare responses to the case study assignment. Case Study assignments are not simply a review of the article but required outside resources to support your conclusions.

The assignment includes five components:

1. A summary of the facts of the article. This would be similar to a book report where you provide the details in the article in summary format. Be sure to properly cite your sources.

2. Discussion of the individuals involved.

3. A discussion about what went wrong.

4. How the issues were discovered.

5. Recommendations for the internal controls that may have prevented or detected the fraud had they been in place.

For the last item, you must use outside resources to support your recommendations or support for how internal controls would have detected the fraud. You will need to utilize the GCU library to find sources to support your recommendations and evidence your understanding of the application to the case.

Before you start writing:

• Read the article and take notes, highlight facts, and determine key issues

• Focus on the fraud, how did it happen, who was involved, what controls were already in place

• Research using the library to find relevant articles based on internal controls that may apply to your facts and circumstances or similar articles

The Topic 4 assignment is an investigation and is similar in approach to the Topic 1 case study. You will need to locate external resources to support your points and recommendations.

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