Quarter-End Revenue Spike
Choose a revenue-fraud response that tests cutoff, authorization, and evidence of performance without jumping to intent.
$3.8m manual revenue posted after 11 p.m. 6 entries outside normal workflow 4 customers involved What is the strongest forensic accounting response to the March 31 revenue spike? Define the late manual-entry population and test each entry against contract terms, acceptance, fulfillment, approvals, and post-close reversal evidence. Ask the sales vice president to confirm which deals were real because Sales owns the customer relationship. Book a proposed adjustment for the full $3.8 million because manual entries near close are presumptively fraudulent. Test only the largest contract because it explains most of the dollar impact and will be fastest. The strongest…
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