Focuses on three areas of interaction of internal controls, employee behavior, and incentives. Sellers illegally providing kickbacks to clients this beer distribution company. In turn, the vendors themselves refund by filing fraudulent expense reports. Owner / President of business faces a difficult decision: If he shoots people involved, he runs the risk of total business trip. Closes with the question of how to improve internal controls to prevent this type of occurrence in the future. "Hide
by Robert L. Simons, Robert J. Boxwell Jr. Source: Harvard Business School 15 pages. Publication Date: January 15, 1991. Prod. #: 191118-PDF-ENG
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