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Essays 511 - 540
share price performance. There are also the wider culture issues that encourage this and place an onerous duty on those who may be...
the GEC directors took control of the company, and therefore the accounts this ?10 million profit turned into a $4.5 million loss ...
in accountants and the way accounts were prepared was being shaken. The entire financial basis of the stock markets requires tha...
rules and audits the accounts. When looking at the failure of Enron it is these accounting standards that appear to fail. In looki...
books. The charges against Lay are that "he knew his company was failing in 2001 when he sold millions of dollars in stock and ur...
that other entity and realizes the accounting principle shift as discussed by Schmutte and Duncan (2005). The scope of variable i...
an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...
with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...
and diligence and independence at the auditing level" (Anonymous, 2003). From a broader perspective, one of the main reason...
Technology advances in mediation software have increased the capability of companies to negotiate within a global business framewo...
Chicago to suggest to Houstons firm partners that it was fine to shred documents and delete any e-mails related to the Enron case ...
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....
see fit, in spite of how their selfish actions may cause harm or damage to others. Indeed, this is precisely the essence of socia...
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...
days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...
what the literature has to say about accountants and whether or not theyre trained to determine if something might lead to a scand...
some time; keeping them off Enrons balance sheet avoided the situation in which Enron would have to list the debt without any prof...
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...
audit functions were in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), hiding debt in dummy corporations, as wel...
All managers must control certain things. Finances must be controlled, for example, so that the organization operates both efficie...
Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...
to be on a continuing growth streak. Enron did not use proper or prudent caution in their diversification strategies. There did ...
a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...
corresponding functional interest in them * The interests of all stakeholders are of intrinsic value (Donaldson et al, 1995, pp. 6...
its current ratio is understandable. WorldComs values in these two ratios reflect its precarious operation position. Neith...
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...