1.

Greed - Good old fashioned human nature intervenes when an individual, or group of
individuals, sees a chance to make a fast buck. A good example being those cases where
people adjust their expense claims upwards.

CEO Michael Mendes implemented phrase bigger is better.

The acquisition of the Pringles brand from Procter & Gamble would have raised
Diamond Foods to become the second largest distributor of snack foods in the US,
second only to Pepsi Co. The significant pressure to increase market share and become
one of the largest snack food distributors encourage this company to do unethical
behavior.

2. Lack of transparency complex financial transactions that are difficult to understand

are an ideal method to hide a fraud. The Barings fraud was perpetrated by use of an
accounting dump account that no one understood.
This company was issuing momentum payment to the growers.

3. Poor management information where a companys management information system

does not produce results that are timely, accurate, sufficiently detailed and relevant; the
warning signals of a fraud, such as ongoing theft from the bank account, can be obscured.
This company did not explain about the momentum payments to the walnut grower,