DAC 611 GROUP WORK ONE AND THREE Alpha Om inc ega Company manufactures pet supplies for dogs and cats. Its top-level staff ludes two accountants, a technology coordinator, a production manager, a warehouse manager, an office manager, two sales managers, two assistants, and the CEO. The company's main offices and manufacturing plant are in Industrial area, Nairobi consisting of an office building, a plant building, and two small warehouses. All buildings are connected via underground fiber optic cable. The servers, hubs, and routers are stored in the main office building The brain behind the IT network includes three server machines and hosts the Accapac accounting system, which processes all internal and external accounting transactions in real time. A recent audit by a regional accounting firm discovered six customer accounts that could not be traced back to real people. The auditors' confirmations had been returned in the mail, marked "Undeliverable" and with "invalid address" stamps. To make things worse, all six accounts had been written off for nonpayment of amounts ranging from Kshs 400,000 to Kshs 700,000. The discovery was a complete surprise to Sandra, the credit manager, because she always reviewed and personally approved all write-offs over Kshs 100,000. She was sure that she had not approved any of these Sandra called in Tom , a local forensic accountant, to investigate. She was sure that fraud was involved, and she strongly suspected that Betty, one of the office m somehow gotten into the accounting system and set up the phony customer accounts and had probably sold the written-off accounts on the gray market. Sandra was furious. going to let her get away with robbing me like that." Betty should be a suspect? Discuss. "I don't care how much it costs," Sandra told Tom. "I want you to catch that woman. I'm not How could Tom apply forensic accounting and other techniques to determine whether or not DAC 611 GROUP WORK ONE AND THREE Alpha Om inc ega Company manufactures pet supplies for dogs and cats. Its top-level staff ludes two accountants, a technology coordinator, a production manager, a warehouse manager, an office manager, two sales managers, two assistants, and the CEO. The company's main offices and manufacturing plant are in Industrial area, Nairobi consisting of an office building, a plant building, and two small warehouses. All buildings are connected via underground fiber optic cable. The servers, hubs, and routers are stored in the main office building The brain behind the IT network includes three server machines and hosts the Accapac accounting system, which processes all internal and external accounting transactions in real time. A recent audit by a regional accounting firm discovered six customer accounts that could not be traced back to real people. The auditors' confirmations had been returned in the mail, marked "Undeliverable" and with "invalid address" stamps. To make things worse, all six accounts had been written off for nonpayment of amounts ranging from Kshs 400,000 to Kshs 700,000. The discovery was a complete surprise to Sandra, the credit manager, because she always reviewed and personally approved all write-offs over Kshs 100,000. She was sure that she had not approved any of these Sandra called in Tom , a local forensic accountant, to investigate. She was sure that fraud was involved, and she strongly suspected that Betty, one of the office m somehow gotten into the accounting system and set up the phony customer accounts and had probably sold the written-off accounts on the gray market. Sandra was furious. going to let her get away with robbing me like that." Betty should be a suspect? Discuss. "I don't care how much it costs," Sandra told Tom. "I want you to catch that woman. I'm not How could Tom apply forensic accounting and other techniques to determine whether or not