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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...

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...

The Impact of the Enron Bankruptcy

to less than $1 (Explaining the Enron bankruptcy, 2002). The companys implosion cost thousands of employees their jobs as well as ...

Enron Management Planning And Ethics

collapse of the company. One can only conclude that these executives decided that it was worth the risk to take actions that were ...

WorldCom, Enron, and IAS

principles of accounting in the U.S. (Larson et al, 2001). Since that time, a number of authoritative bodies have been instituted ...

Investment Questions; Regulation, Bonds and Risk

In the financial markets are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The principal purpose of the SEC is to "pr...

Enron, the Contribution of Masculine Culture to its Downfall

the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...

Unethical Practices

merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...

The Failings at Enron from an OB Perspective

as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...

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...

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...

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...

Unethical Executives

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

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...

Enron and the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act

audit functions were in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), hiding debt in dummy corporations, as wel...

Enron Scandal and Business Ethics

benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...

Post WorldCom and Enron International Accounting Standards

a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...

Enron and Can This Type of Corporate Scandal Happen Again?

the wake of Enron and SOA, however, experts have pointed out that if nothing else, auditing and auditing structures have been incr...

Today's Business and Business Ethics

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....

Enron and Ethics of the Media

see fit, in spite of how their selfish actions may cause harm or damage to others. Indeed, this is precisely the essence of socia...

The Aftermath of the Arthur Andersen Scandal

Chicago to suggest to Houstons firm partners that it was fine to shred documents and delete any e-mails related to the Enron case ...

Accounting Essays and Theories

what the literature has to say about accountants and whether or not theyre trained to determine if something might lead to a scand...

Value of Conventional Methods of Accounting

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

Accounting and Corporate Effects of Business Failures

in accountants and the way accounts were prepared was being shaken. The entire financial basis of the stock markets requires tha...