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Essays 181 - 210
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. ...
days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...
the wake of Enron and SOA, however, experts have pointed out that if nothing else, auditing and auditing structures have been incr...
see fit, in spite of how their selfish actions may cause harm or damage to others. Indeed, this is precisely the essence of socia...
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....
Chicago to suggest to Houstons firm partners that it was fine to shred documents and delete any e-mails related to the Enron case ...
one responsible for approving purchase orders and adding new personnel to the payroll system, the opportunity for abuse is readily...
the GEC directors took control of the company, and therefore the accounts this ?10 million profit turned into a $4.5 million loss ...
(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...
the context of Walkers (2005) statements, the public arena is noted, but this idea can be applied to any organization. Fiscal resp...
collapse of the company. One can only conclude that these executives decided that it was worth the risk to take actions that were ...
some time; keeping them off Enrons balance sheet avoided the situation in which Enron would have to list the debt without any prof...
in accountants and the way accounts were prepared was being shaken. The entire financial basis of the stock markets requires tha...
to less than $1 (Explaining the Enron bankruptcy, 2002). The companys implosion cost thousands of employees their jobs as well as ...
share price performance. There are also the wider culture issues that encourage this and place an onerous duty on those who may be...
principles of accounting in the U.S. (Larson et al, 2001). Since that time, a number of authoritative bodies have been instituted ...
Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...
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...
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...
fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...
(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...
corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...
not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...
merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...
as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...
Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...
corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...
those codified into law ...and creating societal pressures for reform" (p. 167). Indeed, the world is changing and more attention...