Discussion
- Who Is Lying Now?
This case focuses on the following student learning objectives as it relates to the course objectives (CO) described under the Getting Started - About This Course page:
- provide an explanation of fraud risk assessment, fraud detection, and the fraud investigation. (CO1, CO2, CO3, CO4)
- understand and assess the interviewing process.(CO1, CO2, CO3, CO4)
- apply critical thinking skills to consider and evaluate cases to effectively formulate meaningful, relevant written communications to forensic accounting issues. (CO1, CO2, CO3, CO4)
General Instructions:
The flow of an interview is very important in determining honesty and lying interviewee's responses. With knowledge of signs and the basics, a forensic accountant can become quite skilled on interviewing techniques. For your initial response, review the website provided below and listen to the radio message provided at the upper right of the website. Research the text and websites to respond to the questions listed. For your second response, you will be responsible for providing techniques on assessing honesty while conducting interviews. Complete and submit the assignment by 23:59 ESTWednesday. Then review the second post instructions. Post your final response by 23:59 ESTSunday.
Detailed Instructions:
Visit the following website:How Can You Tell When A CEO Is Lying?(Links to an external site.)
- In review of the website and radio message, what advice is given on how to tell when a CEO is lying?
- Based on your research of the text and other websites, what other tips are provided on how to tell when an interviewee is lying?
- What information can you provide on body language, the types of questions, and other techniques?
Please be sure to include website addresses and other references for your post.
You will be graded based on following instructions, critical thinking, well-developed response, clear and concise, and mechanics such as grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. Please see the enclosed rubric for more details.
Submission Instructions:
To avoid plagiarism, please be sure to follow APA format and cite the reference. If your comments are in your own words, it is not necessary to quote or cite the reference.
To assist you with grammatical concerns, you may find the following link helpful
https://www.englishgrammar.org/(Links to an external site.)
Submit your assignment here by the due date indicated above.Late assignments will not be accepted.You will receive rubric feedback within the next module after the assignment due date.
SECOND POST
For your second post, read the initial comments of your fellow students in the course. Based on their comments, reply back with three or four questions that you would ask a CEO in a fraud case. Please feel free to be creative on this post. You can find a CEO fraud case on the Internet to tell us about, provide your questions, or you can create your own fraud scenario to provide your questions on. Be sure to cover the following:
- What is the background of the CEO fraud case?
- During the interview process to uncover the fraud, what are three to four questions that you would ask the CEO? Be sure to use effective techniques learned from the text and this post.
- How might the responses give away an honest or lying CEO?
Please be sure to include website addresses and other references for your post.