Assignment

Jessica Smith is an old friend of yours and contacted you with some questions about possible fraud in her car wash business. Jessica owns several car washes and believes that financial statement fraud for the individual car washes may be occurring. She pays each car wash manager a bonus if they earn a certain level of profits. She is worried that some managers are overstating profits to earn a higher bonus.

If Jessica is worried that the manager at each car wash may be overstating profits to earn higher bonuses, what advice could you give her to prevent this from happening? Do you have any other thoughts about this case or other situations similar to it (other small business owners like Jessica)?

How comfortable are you in using the various methods of financial statement analysis? Are there some methods that you use regularly in your current position?

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