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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...

Millennium Dome's Downfall

In eight pages this paper applies a PEST analysis to support the argument that the Millennium Dome mistakenly positioned its targe...

Analysis of Enron

days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...

King Lear, Beowulf, the Concepts of Kingship and Hero's Downfall

In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...

Mayan Civilization Downfall

In ten pages the causes of the collapse of the Mayan civilization is examined in terms of causes with drought and warfare receivin...

Self Destructive Downfall of Czarist Russia

In five pages this paper argues that in 1917 the Russian Empire disintegration was the result of its own collapse rather than an o...

Dabhol, India Enron Project

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...

Failure of Enron

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...

WorldCom and Enron

for bankruptcy due to its inability to hide such tremendous losses any longer. It took a matter of three month for the company to...

Hannah Arendt's The Banality of Evil and Modern Bureaucracy

and employees. So, it becomes imperative that when considering the effective management of ethics structures to pay attention to...

Examination of Enron

for the scandal that ultimately occurred. "The contributions dwarfed what was at stake for Enron. In its energy trading in Calif...

The Relationship Between Andersen and Enron

(CNN Money, 2002). Further, David B. Duncan, the lead partner who was in charge of the Enron account, was fired (CNN, 2002). 6. An...

Special Purpose Entities and Accounting at Enron

This approach was legal and acceptable under FASB rules at the time. The Enron-specific problem arose when Enron did not consolid...

Appropariate Guidance and Standards for the Consolidation of Special Purpose Entities and FASB

does believe that: "most SPEs serve valid business purposes, such as isolating assets or activities to protect the interests of c...

Corporate Governance Issue Examined

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

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...

WorldCom and Enron Comparison

its current ratio is understandable. WorldComs values in these two ratios reflect its precarious operation position. Neith...

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...

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...

Royal Dutch Shell, Enron, and Business Ethics

those who were relying on the company for pensions, directly or indirectly, those who worked for them, and those who worked for co...

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...

Tragic Downfall of Othello

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

Enron Scandal and Business Ethics

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

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...

Strategic Errors at Enron

to be on a continuing growth streak. Enron did not use proper or prudent caution in their diversification strategies. There did ...

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,...

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...