🇩🇪 Wirecard Fraud Explained! What went WRONG!

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  • Wirecard collapse was a failure by management, auditors and government. In this video we examine this unique case and likely effect on Ernst & Young in the aftermath.
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  • @shawn8847
    @shawn8847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Netflix should give you your own finance fraud series.

  • @prashan3253
    @prashan3253 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I landed a job at wirecard in June 2020. The day before I was supposed to hand over my resignation, they filed for insolvency. Thank God that was a near miss

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh my goodness, yeah you got lucky there wow

    • @b.f.burton6888
      @b.f.burton6888 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      … So were employees paid of for retrenchment … involuntary dismissal? …. That's the only benefit I see 🤔

  • @himanshujain892
    @himanshujain892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I’m new to your channel and love your videos, especially your presentation and explanation skills. It would be great if you can do a video on basic forensic accounting for individual investors who are analysing stocks. This will be quite useful as most investors don’t trust the auditors anymore due to the recent frauds and scandals. Thank you for this video!

  • @ypyp7442
    @ypyp7442 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent video. Thank you. As their external sales agent in Singapore building the merchant portfolio for them,, our investment of more than 5 years went up in smoke overnight when the Authority ordered them to stop providing merchant services in Singapore. Merchants were left scrambling. We lost everything. No compensation no support nor assistance. Big shame to put our trust on them.

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow sorry to hear Benjy. Many investors suffered great losses from wirecard

  • @loidforger5780
    @loidforger5780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thanks for explaining something quite complex into much simpler terms...

  • @AndreHFrank
    @AndreHFrank 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    As always, well delivered content, thank you. As a German, I admit Bafin is a difficult word to pronounce: Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungen.
    One question: where did this faux account with $2.1bn come from? As a result from of the round tipping or, in general, as the debit account for faux revenue JE? You have a guestimate on that?

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thanks Andre. Generally the round tripping results in a wash, over time. So my guess is the escrow accounts is the debit to the fictitious revenue booking from those overseas partners.

    • @ellenorbjornsdottir1166
      @ellenorbjornsdottir1166 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Federal what for Finance what in the which?

    • @spraffman
      @spraffman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 literally Federal Institute/Office for Financial Services, but they call themselves the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority in English.

  • @melaD333
    @melaD333 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just found your channel and the content is great!

  • @rscott0202
    @rscott0202 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm having an interview for my placement year at University for a forensic analyst so I'm going to mention this case!

  • @vijaykumarsingh1190
    @vijaykumarsingh1190 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for your analysis.
    Great effort to enlighten the common people.
    👍

  • @SvitSvit.
    @SvitSvit. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for the video. Good job. Will you do some topics about working in Big 4? Will you recommend to apply to work there?

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks ST. Yeah will do. A video on that. I highly recommend working for big 4 for a couple of years. My second option would be a couple of years at a smaller cpa firm.

    • @time968
      @time968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheFinancialController I have been researching on biggest scams like Enron etc.. and I see the big4 firms are there every where -- especially EY - Any particular reason? reputed firms are always in the spot.

    • @kunalarora6487
      @kunalarora6487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@time968 because they make more money in helping scam then what they make out of auditing
      their auditors secretly provide financial advices for cash which will never be acknowledged in public or else people wont trust audit ever
      if u do audit of big companies such high level scam can never go unobserved
      as long as auditors get good money in their pockets and company is going to be going concern for next fy they don't care

  • @khaliifr3696
    @khaliifr3696 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Already a fan and I haven't watched the other videos as this is my 1st one. 👍🏾👍🏾

  • @gagans7662
    @gagans7662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very well explained! Is there any new information on this case?

  • @Lindobz17
    @Lindobz17 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was easy to understand....thanks so much.

  • @rosmaryalgarin9292
    @rosmaryalgarin9292 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    very interesting video thanks once again for this one

  • @thatswhatshesaidbro
    @thatswhatshesaidbro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Any books you recommend for forensic accounting ? I would really appreciate it thank tou

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hi. I recommend Financial Shinanigans by Howard Schilit. A great book on financial crimes and forensic accounting

    • @thatswhatshesaidbro
      @thatswhatshesaidbro 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Financial Controller I read that one thank you do you have any more ? it’s a great book that’s why investing in companies with conservative accounting policies is a must for me. How was Wirecard able able to record fcf ? It’s insane fcf is the hardest to fake but they did it !

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Andre Behroozi hey yeah that’s the only book I have on the subject. There are many others good ones on amazon. Wirecard recorded revenue and claimed they “earned it” under revenue recognition rules. Meaning they fulfilled performance obligations, have rights to cash/AR, etc. it was the auditors responsibility to catch the it. That’s why in many audits that I’ve seen the auditor wants to trace every revenue dollar recorded to cash receipts. I wish the auditor did that in this case

    • @thatswhatshesaidbro
      @thatswhatshesaidbro 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Financial Controller wow thanks for the insights just subscribed you clearly have superior knowledge on the subject. You have a good point! aggressive revenue recognition policies can lead to fcf appearing on the CD statement when it should not. it would be awesome if you did a video on lunkin coffee.

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Andre Behroozi thanks. Yeah check out my vid on Luckin, it’s on the channel. I will do a follow up on Luckin when more details come out

  • @emmettgriner6345
    @emmettgriner6345 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You do great work.

  • @johnwilliamson9161
    @johnwilliamson9161 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi can you look into Exela technology

  • @jasonbrody6959
    @jasonbrody6959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You said the company is trying to find his way to continue but, realistically, which are the possible path to come back on track? Recapitalisation from government? Success in investigations, thus finding the lost money?

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Parts of their business are actually quite lucrative, so I am hoping they can spin off or be bought

    • @jasonbrody6959
      @jasonbrody6959 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheFinancialController so they are still doing business? I can’t find much related to this. Only about insolvency proceedings.

  • @Drunkman82
    @Drunkman82 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are you allowed to state your opinion on Tesla’s audits since PwC is in charge of them?

  • @ABDULQADEER-fr4qq
    @ABDULQADEER-fr4qq ปีที่แล้ว

    why you left pwc to become a financial controller? was it worth it?

  • @msfl54
    @msfl54 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. Isn’t true that these national big 4 firms are separate and distinct organizations from there counterpart firms in other countries? Therefore, if EY in Germany would be forced to break up, that would have little or no effect on EY in the US?

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks. That might be true, depending on the exact set up of the org chart. But I would suspect even if that's the case that the cultural impact of one locale break-up can lead to an org-wide split.

  • @50alexrod
    @50alexrod ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting that your video didn't say anything on Marsalek

  • @TheTruthFadeswithTime28
    @TheTruthFadeswithTime28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Do you think new rules will be put into place? I’ve been reading that some people want 2 different auditors to work on large clients. A big 4 auditor and a non big 4 auditor.

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s an interesting idea. But not sure it’s practical. This could have been avoided if BaFin did their job and the auditor insisted on confirming bank balances independently

  • @johnwilliamson9161
    @johnwilliamson9161 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi I can yo in look into Exela technology

  • @DaDaDummy
    @DaDaDummy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why is your intro music louder than the video?

  • @user-or7ji5hv8y
    @user-or7ji5hv8y 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think providing your opinion on where the money disappeared to would have been useful.

  • @iwian64
    @iwian64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So ... can you say that banks new this already in 2019?

  • @fitoordigitalhouse-zl6ee
    @fitoordigitalhouse-zl6ee 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Best part of video is board , must be you are artist in note making ..

  • @easytrading1250
    @easytrading1250 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wirecard processed payments for CenturionBet back in 2017 which was laundering money for Ndrangeta...

  • @Thorin632
    @Thorin632 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why haven’t you mentioned Jan Marsalek? He was a key character

  • @gexpe2003
    @gexpe2003 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry for the retail investors

  • @perrofalderodeisabel
    @perrofalderodeisabel 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why is wire card still operating? Who is was the owner and who is the owner now? Did someone bought the company? I don’t get it.

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi Susana, it'a public company so owned by stock holders. It's trying to recover, let's hope it can do that.

    • @perrofalderodeisabel
      @perrofalderodeisabel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheFinancialController thank you!!

  • @amirtamang1488
    @amirtamang1488 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    will this stock recover??😰

    • @TheFinancialController
      @TheFinancialController  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hard to tell. Sorry but just difficult to tell right now. It’s possible though

  • @curiousgeorge6921
    @curiousgeorge6921 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Subscribed

  • @duggysduggys5505
    @duggysduggys5505 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Video actually starts at 3:07. You’re welcome

  • @scottkirby5016
    @scottkirby5016 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    nothing will happen. If KMPG and Carillion didn't cause a change this certainly will not.

  • @kelamullah1999
    @kelamullah1999 ปีที่แล้ว

    I read this as, "Sigmund Freud explained!" Wonder what that means.

  • @errolenerio02
    @errolenerio02 ปีที่แล้ว

    EY kekw so corrupt.

  • @tivoatheos
    @tivoatheos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dislike because of ErnEst.

  • @F_JoeBiden-tu6cl
    @F_JoeBiden-tu6cl หลายเดือนก่อน

    Government created Enron crisis. Then they to solve the problem with more government. 😂 This never works.

    • @thebagelsproductions
      @thebagelsproductions หลายเดือนก่อน

      It worked remarkably well after the Wall Street crash of 1929 when regulations were introduced to avoid this happening again. Until the 1980s when deregulation removed the safety checks - and financial bubbles returned with alarming regularity