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Negative Aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...

ENRON: ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, CULTURES AND IRREGULARITIES

corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...

Unethical Executives

timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...

A Memo Involving Ethics

Johnson pulled all Tylenol products off the shelf at great cost in order to ensure the safety of consumers. The Company did this,...

THE ENRON IMPLOSION AND ORGANIZATIONAL FAILURES

their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...

SPE Accounting and Interpretation

that other entity and realizes the accounting principle shift as discussed by Schmutte and Duncan (2005). The scope of variable i...

Marketing in a Post 911 Era

as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...

An Analysis of One Market Under God by Thomas Frank

done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...

An Organization and Adding Value

as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real...

Enron and WorldCom Financial Statement Manipulation

processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...

Leadership and Business Ethics

Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...

Individual Character and Ethics

and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...

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...

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...

Performance of the Stock Market and the Effects of WorldCom and Enron Failures

This demand is impacted by information regarding that share as well as market conditions. In the case of Enron and WorldCom the we...

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...

Values and Business Ethics

of philosophy dealing with right and wrong and the morality of motives and ends" (Shaughnessy, 2002, p. 20). But questions of ethi...

Corporate Governance Issue Examined

effect to such things, and these situations are no different. When people lose jobs, families suffer, economies suffer, communiti...

Businesses and Individuals Confront Dishonesty

corresponding functional interest in them * The interests of all stakeholders are of intrinsic value (Donaldson et al, 1995, pp. 6...

America's Changing Business Ethics

these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...

Increased Corporate Governance and Auditor Independence

At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...

Fraudulent Accounting Procedures at WorldCom and Enron

as CEO and Chairman on February 4, 2002; Jeffrey K. Skilling, former CEO and Director; Andrew S. Fastow, former chief financial of...

Value of Conventional Methods of Accounting

in how organizations can categorize and classify their financial results, each organization is required to maintain uniform intern...

An Evaluation of Sarbanes-Oxley

(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...

Accounting Standards; Will Enron Happen Again?

the GEC directors took control of the company, and therefore the accounts this ?10 million profit turned into a $4.5 million loss ...

Are Accounting Reforms And Legislation Are The Only Means By Which The Accounting Profession Will be Able To Regain Public Trust And Re-Establish Its’ Credibility?

fraud, and it was with this we might argue there was the first loss of confidence in the auditors. This case limited the liability...

Accounting: Principles-Based Or Rules-Based?

and diligence and independence at the auditing level" (Anonymous, 2003). From a broader perspective, one of the main reason...

Industrial Psychology; Explaining Enron

with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...

Is the Criticism Against Auditors Justified in the Light of Business Collapses such as Enron?

an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...

Corporate Governance

not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...