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corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...
(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...
fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...
(Thomas). Employees who didnt do deals to post earnings ended up with higher score. The higher the score, the more likely the empl...
merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...
as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...
Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...
the wake of Enron and SOA, however, experts have pointed out that if nothing else, auditing and auditing structures have been incr...
its only when they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, so to speak, that suddenly there is the desire to become better....
see fit, in spite of how their selfish actions may cause harm or damage to others. Indeed, this is precisely the essence of socia...
Chicago to suggest to Houstons firm partners that it was fine to shred documents and delete any e-mails related to the Enron case ...
what the literature has to say about accountants and whether or not theyre trained to determine if something might lead to a scand...
some time; keeping them off Enrons balance sheet avoided the situation in which Enron would have to list the debt without any prof...
the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...
audit functions were in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), hiding debt in dummy corporations, as wel...
a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
the financial statements. This sent investors scrambling. Nancy Temple was viewed as the culprit (by both the courts and observers...
business, but it has "confused some employees spiritually -- a side often overlooked by vitally important to an ethical workplace"...
aside through Enron stocks. The question here is, could an Enron have been avoided? What would a financial consultant (one...
effect to such things, and these situations are no different. When people lose jobs, families suffer, economies suffer, communiti...
corresponding functional interest in them * The interests of all stakeholders are of intrinsic value (Donaldson et al, 1995, pp. 6...
these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...
At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...
Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...
the development of the local economy and create jobs (Vachani, 1995). If we look at the situation in India, there is a need for m...
(CNN Money, 2002). Further, David B. Duncan, the lead partner who was in charge of the Enron account, was fired (CNN, 2002). 6. An...
This approach was legal and acceptable under FASB rules at the time. The Enron-specific problem arose when Enron did not consolid...
does believe that: "most SPEs serve valid business purposes, such as isolating assets or activities to protect the interests of c...
may have severe problems, but it is in the interests of all parties for the company to gain some portion from creditors to allow i...