2) You recently took over as the warehouse worker for a large Walmart store. You are not happy with the job because you felt you were qualified to be a supervisor. You want to rip off the store to get even and to give you some extra cash to buy a new car you have been wanting for a while. However, to conceal your thefts you will need to help of the store bookkeeper. The bookkeeper reconciles receiving paperwork to include purchase orders, receiving reports, and shipping documents with invoices and oversees the maintenance of the store's perpetual inventory system. The store periodically compares the perpetual inventory to the physical inventory. The bookkeeper reports directly to the store manager while you report to the assistant management in charge of the warehouse.
Review each of the five sources of power from the text and the six methods of persuasion covered in the article you reviewed and discuss whether or not each of these possible tools to influence the bookkeeper might be useful to you. If you don't think they would be useful, explain why. If you think they would be useful, explain how you would use them. Clearly label each tool so you are clear which one you are covering.


3) Frauds can be perpetrated in a rich variety of ways. Some frauds may involve a few, large transactions (i.e., infrequent or a needle in a haystack) and other may involve many small transactions over time (i.e., ongoing). Thus, there isn't one best analytical tool for detecting fraud. For each of the following analytical techniques, discuss which basic type of fraud, infrequent or ongoing) that technique it would do the best job of detecting and explain why.
a) Benford's law -

b) Outlier Analysis


c) Financial statement analysis to include vertical and horizontal analysis of financial statement line items and ratios.