Potential fraud case at AJB, Inc.
Examine the following table and respond to the problems according to the instructions at the end:
Assume you are the lead forensic investigator for a potential fraud case at AJB, Inc. After searching public records and other Internet sources, you accumulate the following financial information for the suspected fraud perpetrator, Jaleesa P. Crimin.
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
YEAR 3
Assets:
Residence #1
$243,000
$243,000
$243,000
Residence #2
138,000
Stocks and bonds
15,000
30,000
57,000
Automobiles
27,000
52,500
52,500
Boat
34,500
34,500
CD
12,000
42,000
81,000
Cash
5,670
12,150
29,160
Liabilities:
Mortgage balance #1
136,080
68,040
16,200
Mortgage balance #2
138,000
Auto loans
18,000
57,000
Boat loan
34,500
9,000
Income:
Salary
78,750
82,650
Interest/other
8,730
17,790
Expenses:
Mortgage payments
24,300
42,120
Auto loan payments
9,720
9,720
Boat loan payments
5,670
8,100
Other living expenses
35,640
42,060
Problems:
Determine whether there is a likelihood of fraudulent income based on the review of information you were able to obtain from your Internet search. If there is a likelihood of fraudulent income, calculate the amount. (Hint: calculate potential income from unknown sources based on the unexplained increase/decrease in Jaleesa's assets and liabilities.) You must show how you calculated the amount.
As the lead forensic investigator, discuss the process that you would take during your interview with Jaleesa to get her to confess. Include specific questions that you would ask, considering the order they should be asked.
Sample Solution
The second cinematic element that portrays a rhetorical meaning is the camera angle. While walking through the Dinsmoor mansion, the camera seems to shift and hit every angle of the house. This camera shifting puts major emphasis on the size of the house, and the amount of wealth that Miss Dinsmoor and Estella really have. This switch of the camera angles also put an emphasis on how small Finn is in the mansion. You can see during this scene that as Finn looks around, the camera makes him look as if he is so much smaller than the home. By using the strategy of warping the proportions of Finn in the house, it almost seems as if he is out of his element. He has never experienced such a materialistic environment and such an embodiment of wealth. By panning around the set it gives the illusion that he was less than them and not worthy of being in their home. The angles also shift the lighting throughout the house and gives the house a mysterious vibe. I think that the mysteriousness is very underlying, and not many would take the camera angle shift for that theme, but I think that Estella actually has a lot hidden characteristics in herself. She is a pretty mysterious character herself, so this scenic element adds to the foreshadowing of her character development.
The third cinematic element that includes an underlying rhetorical meaning is the element of dialogue. Throughout this scene, you can hear Estella bragging about her home and the expensive qualities and decorations in her home. She talks about the interior decorative details from foreign places and how exquisite everything in her home was. She also begins to talk to him in French and obviously Finn is not as culturally inclined to understand French. She also brings up the fact that she has a gardener working at her house doing all of the outdoor work. Finn comes from a family where they do not have money to just waste on a gardener. This shows how she talks without regard to others, and she doesn’t take into account the fact that Finn probably does not understand what she is saying, nor can he relate to things like having people working in the home. She is in her own little privileged world, and does not understand that not everyone is as privileged as she is. Estella also talks to Finn as if she is talking down to him. She does not talk to him with the same regard that she might regard other wealthy individuals with.
The last, and most important, cinematic element that was prevalent throughout the movie and this scene sequence is the color green. The color green is such a prominent color in symbolizing wealth, as money is green. In this sequence Miss Dinsmoor is dressed in green head to toe, symbolizing her excessive wealth