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SOX Audits

(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...

ENRON QUESTIONS

(Thomas). Employees who didnt do deals to post earnings ended up with higher score. The higher the score, the more likely the empl...

Pensions of Employees and the Enron Corporation Scandal

With the fall of the company the investments that were in the retirement fund have plummeted due to the high level of investment i...

Accounting Techniques Used inWorldCom's Acquisitions and Mergers

international services as part of WorldCom Inc which operates over countless seamless networks. In regards to revenues and traffic...

Company Profile of Worldcom

million in order to settle claims when it defrauded the General Services Administration (GSA) (2004). That occurred between 1999 ...

Enron Scandal and Ethics

some time; keeping them off Enrons balance sheet avoided the situation in which Enron would have to list the debt without any prof...

WORLDCOM IMPLOSION, ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP

in unethical behavior, mostly in the area of accounting (Scharff, 2005). For one thing, the company moved line costs (those...

Corporate Ethics and the WorldCom Example

Romar, 2007). During this time, it acquired 65 firms and spent close to $60 billion for the firms (Moberg & Romar, 2007). Unfortun...

Xerox's Eureka

In ten pages Eureka's information systems at Xerox are examined in terms of how it increases social capital, productivity, and dec...

Xerox's Transformation

Apple has stolen its technology (Funding Universe). Other copy machines began flooding the market I the 1970s and 1980s. IBM wa...

WorldCom's Bankruptcy

to find that the market was quickly glutted and could not sustain itself; the infamous "dot com boom" around the turn of the mille...

Analysis of the Merger Between WorldCom and MCI WorldCom

In six pages a SWOT analysis is performed on this telecommunications merger. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Evaluation Theory in Academia

This 25 page paper discusses the field of evaluation with regard to academic programs. The paper includes a literature review of p...

Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002: Intent And Drawbacks

is the economic reality of a company. This leads to a lack of transparency and deception in the structuring of financial transact...

Kurt Eichenwald/The Informant

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

Accounting at Enron

aside through Enron stocks. The question here is, could an Enron have been avoided? What would a financial consultant (one...

Post Arthur Anderson and Enron Accounting Implications

the financial statements. This sent investors scrambling. Nancy Temple was viewed as the culprit (by both the courts and observers...

Harmonization and IAS

of international standards. It is only if there are international standards that international stakeholders may be able to see acc...

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, & the Advent of Gonzo Journalism

The journalist records events as they occur, but also incorporates those details of personal opinion, sensory impressions, and so...

Creative Accounting Incentives and Maintenance

share price performance. There are also the wider culture issues that encourage this and place an onerous duty on those who may be...

Deceptive Reporting and Methodologies for Financial Accounting

is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...

Special Purpose Entities and Accounting at Enron

This approach was legal and acceptable under FASB rules at the time. The Enron-specific problem arose when Enron did not consolid...

Appropariate Guidance and Standards for the Consolidation of Special Purpose Entities and FASB

does believe that: "most SPEs serve valid business purposes, such as isolating assets or activities to protect the interests of c...

Could the UK Realize a Similar Enron Disaster?

problems were already apparent. In the annual accounts, debts had been understated and profits had been overstated to the amount o...

ENRON, FRAUD AND CONSEQUENCES

Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...

Defining International Accounting Terms and Looking At Regime Differences

Standards Board (IASB). The board is made up of representatives from the accounting professions in many countries, and the standar...

4 Types of Accounting Dissertation Proposals

some difference. The major difference is the culture and the economy. It is hypothesised that there will be major difference in en...

The Major Shifts in Practices in Management Accounting

among those as highly cognizant of precision in values as accountants by nature and by training tend to be. Instead, activity-bas...

Accrual and Accounting and the Historical Cost Approach; Do They Lead to Increased Reliability?

is where expenses and income are matched to the period in which they occur not the period in which they are paid or received. The ...

Darka Case Study

17.20). The payments on the finance he should be apportioned between the charge for finance, and the outstanding liability (seen u...