Instructions                

1. Choose one specific Institution (JPM CHASE)

2. Choose a recent fraud activity (past 5 years), a major fraud ($100 million or above)

3. Choose an activity for one where financial information or data is publicly available

 4. Identify and analyses the metric and framework for fraud using past / historical pattern

 5. Take a financial and analytical approach; not a descriptive, historical, or psychological approach

 6. Do extensive research by going to scholar.google.com or other internet sites and identify ten major, relevant, and focused articles on this fraud

7. Do analysis and explain in your own words why it happened, how it happened, and what is being done to prevent such a fraud recurrence.

Format

  • The paper should be o professionally written
  • bibliography is required.
  • be approximately TEN-pages long
  • typed (1.5 spacing)
  • Font size 11
  • excluding references and appendices).
  • Only “0%-25%” of plagiarism

Appropriate Sources

Wall Street Journal

• Business Week

• Fortune

 • Forbes

• The Economist

 • Financial Times

 • International Finance Corporation’s publications

 • Numerous Online publications

• Numerous Academic Publications

 • The Banker • Annual Reports.

 • IMF/World Bank publications.

 • Online Data Bases

  1. Data-stream
  2. Bloomberg
  3. Yahoo
  4. Google Scholar 

Thinking Points (PARAGRAPHS)

  1. Identify Research Problem

How has the Fraud Affected Finances, A Line of Business or a major company or a financial instrument?

  • Justification of the Research
  •  Why is this issue important to look at?
  • What is the severity and consequence of the problem?
  •  How does a better understanding of the problem (issue) help us?
  •  Who has benefitted, how much?
  • Research articles: Anyone addressed this problem, or a similar one? How did they do it?
  • Collect Financial Data
  • What data do you need to research the problem?
  •  What kind of data analysis to employ? A large amount of financial data, that is directly downloadable into excel is available in numerous places. For example, banking data from FDIC.GOV; Company data: finance. yahoo.com or Bloomberg.com
  • Results, Discussion

Conclusion and Policy Implication

  • Interpret and discuss the results you obtained from your financial and or quantitative analysis.
  • What conclusion can you make from your study?
  • Do your findings lead you to make any policy recommendations?