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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...

WorldCom, Enron, and the Application of Business Failure Prediction Models

known as the going concern concept1. In looking at the viability of the business the potential creditors are seeking to ensure tha...

Improper Accounting Practices

derivative, why its typically used and how its typically used. Following that, we can go in depth into both Enron and Worldcom, an...

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 ...

Enron and WorldCom Financial Statement Manipulation

processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...

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...

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...

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...

Accounting Questions

rules and audits the accounts. When looking at the failure of Enron it is these accounting standards that appear to fail. In looki...

Fraudulent Accounting Procedures at WorldCom and Enron

as CEO and Chairman on February 4, 2002; Jeffrey K. Skilling, former CEO and Director; Andrew S. Fastow, former chief financial of...

Fraud - The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...

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 ...

Applications of Corporate Governance Issues to McBride Financial Services

in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...

Post Enron and WorldCom and Investor Confidence Strengthening

The companys auditor employed by Andersen allowed the misrepresentations to go uncorrected. Hamilton and Leeds charged: "Andersen ...

Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002: Intent And Drawbacks

is the economic reality of a company. This leads to a lack of transparency and deception in the structuring of financial transact...

WORLDCOM IMPLOSION, ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP

in unethical behavior, mostly in the area of accounting (Scharff, 2005). For one thing, the company moved line costs (those...

WORLDCOM AND FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTING

2005). The result would be an increase in the current years EBIDTA (Scharff, 2005). The line costs, in fact, were the main ...

Corporate Ethics and the WorldCom Example

Romar, 2007). During this time, it acquired 65 firms and spent close to $60 billion for the firms (Moberg & Romar, 2007). Unfortun...

Company Profile of Worldcom

million in order to settle claims when it defrauded the General Services Administration (GSA) (2004). That occurred between 1999 ...

Analysis of the Merger Between WorldCom and MCI WorldCom

In six pages a SWOT analysis is performed on this telecommunications merger. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliography....

WorldCom's Bankruptcy

to find that the market was quickly glutted and could not sustain itself; the infamous "dot com boom" around the turn of the mille...

The Bankruptcy of Enron and Auditing

between Enrons accounting statements and the fiscal reality of the institutions assets and obligations. One might view the major f...

ARTHUR ANDERSEN, CORPORATE ENVIRONMENT AND STRATEGIC CHANGE

quality audits and staff - the company valued the quality audits more than short-term profits (Brickley et al, 2006). During the e...

Organizational Behavior at One Failed Company

behavior incorporates theories from a number of other fields, including psychology, anthropology, sociology, social psychology and...

ETHICAL ANALYSIS -- ENRON

as was dishonesty and shady deals (Thomas, 2002). Out of fear for being shown the door because of the PRC, in other words,...

Enron And Corporate Culture

Innovation and risk taking - willing to experiment, take risks, encourage innovation (Smith, 2004). 2. Attention to detail - payin...

HOW TEAM COLLABORATION AND EFFECTIVENESS COULD HAVE SAVED ENRON

this was not a positive culture for building teamwork, collaboration or conflict management skills. Clearly, Enron has pro...

ENRON AND THE GATEKEEPERS, AN ARTICLE ANALYSIS

Coffees theory is that the legal climate for investment fraud sharply declined throughout the 1990s (allowing everyone to look the...

White Collar Scandal

White collar fraud continues to be committed. Most people are well-aware of some of the huge corporate scandals, like Enron, the t...

Auditor Independence and the Enron Case

five" have been working to impose US accounting convention on other developed nations of the world, Andersen has been committing l...