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as CEO and Chairman on February 4, 2002; Jeffrey K. Skilling, former CEO and Director; Andrew S. Fastow, former chief financial of...
in how organizations can categorize and classify their financial results, each organization is required to maintain uniform intern...
the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...
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...
to less than $1 (Explaining the Enron bankruptcy, 2002). The companys implosion cost thousands of employees their jobs as well as ...
collapse of the company. One can only conclude that these executives decided that it was worth the risk to take actions that were ...
corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...
fraud, and it was with this we might argue there was the first loss of confidence in the auditors. This case limited the liability...
the GEC directors took control of the company, and therefore the accounts this ?10 million profit turned into a $4.5 million loss ...
and diligence and independence at the auditing level" (Anonymous, 2003). From a broader perspective, one of the main reason...
with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...
an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...
not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...
In the financial markets are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The principal purpose of the SEC is to "pr...
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...
All managers must control certain things. Finances must be controlled, for example, so that the organization operates both efficie...
explained that controlling has no relationship to authoritarian leadership styles, it is about controlling things such as resource...
In twelve pages the market impacts of dergulating Duke Energy, Enron, and Southern Company are examined. Fourteen sources are cit...
in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...
Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...
chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...
(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...
fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...
not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...
timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...