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Essays 421 - 450
In the financial markets are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The principal purpose of the SEC is to "pr...
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...
to less than $1 (Explaining the Enron bankruptcy, 2002). The companys implosion cost thousands of employees their jobs as well as ...
collapse of the company. One can only conclude that these executives decided that it was worth the risk to take actions that were ...
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...
Technology advances in mediation software have increased the capability of companies to negotiate within a global business framewo...
the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...
Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...
chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...
(Thomas). Employees who didnt do deals to post earnings ended up with higher score. The higher the score, the more likely the empl...
The writer analyses survey results provided by the student. The survey was undertaken to determine whether or not attitudes toward...
(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...
their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...
own stock, upon which they are relying for retirement, in a pension fund. This has raised alarm bells, as other companies can also...
is not right. What is the history of this now controversial company? II. History Enron began in 1985 as the combination of two...
except that a certain financier over extended himself and caused several banks to fail that had extended him credit. This particul...
because they are in such demand, the owners are able to command a premium price. In an acquisition, the biggest problem both compa...
billions of dollars below expectations, the bottom fell out. The stock was dumped, and it lost value. The stock has lost 99 percen...
and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...
Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...
processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...
Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...
as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real...
This demand is impacted by information regarding that share as well as market conditions. In the case of Enron and WorldCom the we...
of philosophy dealing with right and wrong and the morality of motives and ends" (Shaughnessy, 2002, p. 20). But questions of ethi...
corresponding functional interest in them * The interests of all stakeholders are of intrinsic value (Donaldson et al, 1995, pp. 6...