Looking for Publicly Traded Company with Fraud in Past 10 Years
Anyone know of any good publicly traded company fraud cases from the last 10 or so years that might have some irregularities in their 10-K? I’d like to assign to students a “find the fraud” case by having them analyze three companies‘ 10-k’s in an effort to find which one of the three has committed fraud. It doesn’t even need to be obvious or visible in their financials. It’s more about getting them to think about how to search through financials to make an argument.
My original company turns out wasn’t public during their fraudulent years. Trying to use a US company as well so am overlooking Wirecard.
Appreciate any help on this!
edit: Thank You all for your input and perspectives. I got a lot of ideas, not just for this assignment but for my other class I’ll be sticking with in future terms so know you’ve hopefully helped some future accountants with your time. To those that just responded to use ai or that the students can just shortcut it with ai, I would recommend not wasting your efforts trying to explain that to technologically literate people at this point. It’s just an obvious fact that doesn’t need repeating. Not everything is about how efficiently you can do something, which is a big problem in accounting In my opinion. We give up the foundational hard and soft skills in our industry by thinking more about how quickly can this get done rather than what can I or someone below me learn from spending the time to engage with it.