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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...
timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...
Johnson pulled all Tylenol products off the shelf at great cost in order to ensure the safety of consumers. The Company did this,...
their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...
that other entity and realizes the accounting principle shift as discussed by Schmutte and Duncan (2005). The scope of variable i...
as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
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...
and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...
is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...
share price performance. There are also the wider culture issues that encourage this and place an onerous duty on those who may be...
This demand is impacted by information regarding that share as well as market conditions. In the case of Enron and WorldCom the we...
problems were already apparent. In the annual accounts, debts had been understated and profits had been overstated to the amount o...
of philosophy dealing with right and wrong and the morality of motives and ends" (Shaughnessy, 2002, p. 20). But questions of ethi...
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...
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...
(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...
the GEC directors took control of the company, and therefore the accounts this ?10 million profit turned into a $4.5 million loss ...
fraud, and it was with this we might argue there was the first loss of confidence in the auditors. This case limited the liability...
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...