The Said 12 Accounting Irregularities Found At Silver Bird!

Silver Bird released its forensic report on its accounting irregularities last night.

See news report on the Sun Daily: http://www.thesundaily.my/news/391012

Here's the 12 accounting irregularities stated on the pdf file aposted on Bursa Malaysia.

http://announcements.bursamalaysia.com/EDMS/edmsweb.nsf/all/CEDDEAB10131D1DA48257A0C003CC1D1/$File/Announcement-General-forensic%20report-28.05.pdf

• Trade Receivables
  The trade receivables of the SBGB Group have been noted to have included incorrect accounting entries that could create a false audit trail, and included the masquerading of inter-bank transfers as payments from the debtors.

( Hmm.... the trade receivables.... )

• Bread and Supplementary Products
  
  Certain sale of bread and supplementary products were found not to be supported by any physical goods or complete documentation, and hence, may be deemed to exist to increase the sales figures and to possibly serve as a channel for funds as required for working capital to be brought back into the SBGB Group.

( Looks like the sales REVENUE boosted by products that does not exist!)

• Sweetened Creamer
  
  Purchases for sweetened creamer included sales that were not supported by any delivery of physical goods to the premises of the SBGB Group, but appear to have been contracted with back to back sales to companies suspected to be associated with the financial irregularities of the SBGB Group. These companies include those that may have served as a front for the transactions without the knowledge of the companies concerned.

( Purchase of goods that were not supported by delivery og physical goods? Yeah.. purchase of goods that did not even exist! )

• Multicom Sales
  
  The irregularities in respect of the Multicom sales are in respect of credit sales when the business was essentially cash based. Further, various credit sales created in the management accounts appear to have been replaced by two other relatively larger debtors for audit purposes.

( Cash sales being recorded as credit sales! )

• BK Fleet Management Sdn Bhd (“BKFM”)
  Certain of the trucks used by SMSB are registered in the name of SMSB and are subject to
  service agreements with BKFM which allow for BKFM to acquire the trucks for a nominal
  sum at the end of the service tenure. Further, there is evidence that some of the trucks
  were paid for by SMSB via hire purchase and upon the expiry of the initial service
  agreement, the service tenure of the agreement for these trucks was renewed for a higher
  net service fee, with the same option for BKFM to purchase the trucks for a nominal sum at
  the end of the agreement tenure.

• Inventories
  
  There is a lack of documentary evidence for certain motor spare parts, plus approximately RM986,500 of spare parts that cannot be verified by documentary and physical evidence.

( What??? A company like Silver Bird ending up with close of a million ringgit worth of motor spare parts? LOL! And now the said spare parts could not be found! )

• Bank Reconciliations
  
  The bank reconciling items are numerous, including those arising from unrecorded receipts and payments.

• Bankers’ Acceptances
  
  Numerous sales transactions have been made, without any physical goods, for what appears to be for the purposes of refinancing and raising of bankers’ acceptances.
  

( Sales transactions recorded just for the purpose of refinancing and raising bankers' acceptances!! )

• Common Party Relationships
  
  Some of the principal activities of the customers and supplier companies with common party relationships would not include the transactions executed with the SBGB Group. Further, the quantum of their transactions with the SBGB Group does not appear to be reasonable when compared with the figures disclosed in the reported financials of the respective companies.
  

• Destruction of Books and Records
  Upon the financial irregularities coming to light, evidence of destroyed documents were uncovered, as were the evidence of computer file deletion and physical damage to the computer hard drive.
  

( Holy cow!!! The destruction of evidence!!!!! What drama!!!! No wonder they call it 'forensic accounting review!!! )