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Essays 421 - 450
see fit, in spite of how their selfish actions may cause harm or damage to others. Indeed, this is precisely the essence of socia...
in how organizations can categorize and classify their financial results, each organization is required to maintain uniform intern...
some time; keeping them off Enrons balance sheet avoided the situation in which Enron would have to list the debt without any prof...
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...
the context of Walkers (2005) statements, the public arena is noted, but this idea can be applied to any organization. Fiscal resp...
rules and audits the accounts. When looking at the failure of Enron it is these accounting standards that appear to fail. In looki...
not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...
not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...
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. ...
(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...
corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...
timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...
fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...
At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...
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...
these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...
sort through the shards of Enrons collapse, the concept of corporate governance can make a difference in many areas as it enhances...
the Enron candidate bought Baileys campaign manager (How Enron Did Texas). Although Bailey did win, it was by an exceptionally na...
With the fall of the company the investments that were in the retirement fund have plummeted due to the high level of investment i...
as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...
Johnson pulled all Tylenol products off the shelf at great cost in order to ensure the safety of consumers. The Company did this,...
those who were relying on the company for pensions, directly or indirectly, those who worked for them, and those who worked for co...
audit functions were in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), hiding debt in dummy corporations, as wel...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
In twelve pages the market impacts of dergulating Duke Energy, Enron, and Southern Company are examined. Fourteen sources are cit...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
explained that controlling has no relationship to authoritarian leadership styles, it is about controlling things such as resource...
All managers must control certain things. Finances must be controlled, for example, so that the organization operates both efficie...
(CNN Money, 2002). Further, David B. Duncan, the lead partner who was in charge of the Enron account, was fired (CNN, 2002). 6. An...