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their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...
In twelve pages the market impacts of dergulating Duke Energy, Enron, and Southern Company are examined. Fourteen sources are cit...
explained that controlling has no relationship to authoritarian leadership styles, it is about controlling things such as resource...
All managers must control certain things. Finances must be controlled, for example, so that the organization operates both efficie...
in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...
chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...
merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...
Technology advances in mediation software have increased the capability of companies to negotiate within a global business framewo...
the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...
Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...
business, but it has "confused some employees spiritually -- a side often overlooked by vitally important to an ethical workplace"...
Enron but when speculation about shady accounting practices hit the media, stock prices plummeted and Dynegy quashed the deal (200...
one responsible for approving purchase orders and adding new personnel to the payroll system, the opportunity for abuse is readily...
point forward was the beginning of the end for Enron. Indeed, the history of Enrons empire is nothing if not prolific. The...
Timeline, 2004). Jeffrey Skilling took over as CEO but resigned six months later; Lay returned to the post of CEO (FOX News Networ...
perception of the regulatory environment is one that inspires confidence that the results and basis of the valuation accurate and...
as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...
as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real...
processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...
Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...
and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...
not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...
corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...
fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...
timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...
as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...
(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...
(Thomas). Employees who didnt do deals to post earnings ended up with higher score. The higher the score, the more likely the empl...