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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Research Results: Have Attitudes Towards Whistle Blowing Change since Enron?

The writer analyses survey results provided by the student. The survey was undertaken to determine whether or not attitudes toward...

The Impact of Enron on the View of Whistle Blowers in the Corporate Environment

the market to the scope and scale of the scandal, but the way in which it impacted on individuals personally and received a great ...

Corporate America and Manipulation of Revenue

evident that much fraud can be discovered before it is too late. While this was not true in the case of Enron, the evidence has s...

Accounting Standards; Will Enron Happen Again?

the GEC directors took control of the company, and therefore the accounts this ?10 million profit turned into a $4.5 million loss ...

The Performance of Yahoo! 2007 - 2008

by January 2008 this had reduced to 19%. Bu feburary there was an even bigger falls as Yahoo! market share fell to 17.6%, they ar...

Enron & WorldCom: Who Blew The Whistle?

agreement -- why should the whistle blowers? This is precisely how the handful of individuals felt when they learned their corpor...

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 ...

External Financial Reporting and Inadequacies

this is an external statement. The problem with the perception of the auditors is that the duties of the audit as reaching...

Video Store Start Up Business Plan

In ten pages a proposed video store in a small town in Ohio is examined through a business plan that includes objectives, mission ...

Louisvill Slugger Baseball Bats Manufacturers Hillerich and Bradsby

that Hillerich and Bradsby recognized long ago. Important to note, however, is the fact that numerous studies have been conducted...

Sand Box, Inc. Financial Statements

In seven pages a case study examines this toy company's financial statement prepreations and includes a sheet featuring a budgeted...

ACCOUNTING INFORMATION AND STAKEHOLDERS

as a comparison to their own. As such, it goes without saying that different stakeholders have different uses for the information ...

Activities Statement for Lee College

Using data provided by the student the writer creates an activities statement and uses the statement to assess the financial condi...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Caribbean Restaurant Business Plan

prior to deciding to open his own Caribbean restaurant. The owner began as a waiter and worked his way up to manager. The owner al...

Fiinancial Statements Assessment

gain on the sale, but there is no information why it overestimated potential gain from the sale of the asset. Market conditions m...

Functions of Financial Statements

In seven pages financial statements are examined in terms of conceptual definitions, financial accounting assumptions, entry adjus...

Home Depot's 5 Year Marketing Plan

products but that has grown to the point where the average Home Depot store has approximately 130,000 square feet and stocks betwe...

Average Investor and the Significance of Financial Statements

In 6 pages this paper discusses financial decision making and the importance of financial statements to a typical investor. Four ...

Pfizer and Merck Financial Comparison

A quick comparison of the financials shows some interesting differences between these two companies. Sales of Merck were noticeabl...

Financial Projections for the Airbus A3XX Project

price of the A3XX was 12% more than the cost of a 747, but the 35% greater capacity meant that there was an increased level of eff...