The Portfolio Project for ACT450 will be a research report that identifies and analyzes a company

The Portfolio Project for ACT450 will be a research report that
identifies and analyzes a company that has been indicted for fraud, and
evaluates the auditor’s role in relation to the fraud.

To conduct your research, choose as a case study one of the companies
listed below or obtain approval from your instructor to use a public company
not on the list.

Please do this project on Jamaica
Water Properties

1.Write a research paper describing the issues surrounding the
company and describe any company policy or policies in relationship to their
impact on public audits/accounting.

2.Provide the following elements in your paper:

3. An executive summary
identifying the company, the fraud, the affected stakeholders, and the ultimate
resolution
4. A brief history of the
company
An analysis of the
auditor’s role in the fraud, including any auditing standards that the auditors
did not follow
5. Identification of internal controls that were circumvented or
lacking that could have prevented the fraud
6. Identify accounting policies currently in effect that are
designed to prevent similar problems from occurring again, or, if no policy
exists, propose a solution that would prevent a recurrence.

Your research report should be 8-12 pages in length. Students should
discuss and cite at least two sources other than the textbook. One of those
sources can be the SEC Enforcement Action that was related to the fraud under
examination.

Papers should be written in proper CSU-Global APA format.

Submission of your case study topic was due at the end of Module 2.
The research report that comprises the final Portfolio Paper is due at the end
of Module 8.