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Essays 61 - 90
Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...
merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...
the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...
Technology advances in mediation software have increased the capability of companies to negotiate within a global business framewo...
chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...
in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...
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...
In twelve pages the market impacts of dergulating Duke Energy, Enron, and Southern Company are examined. Fourteen sources are cit...
days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...
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...
rules and audits the accounts. When looking at the failure of Enron it is these accounting standards that appear to fail. In looki...
the context of Walkers (2005) statements, the public arena is noted, but this idea can be applied to any organization. Fiscal resp...
(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...
as CEO and Chairman on February 4, 2002; Jeffrey K. Skilling, former CEO and Director; Andrew S. Fastow, former chief financial of...
the wake of Enron and SOA, however, experts have pointed out that if nothing else, auditing and auditing structures have been incr...
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....
see fit, in spite of how their selfish actions may cause harm or damage to others. Indeed, this is precisely the essence of socia...
what the literature has to say about accountants and whether or not theyre trained to determine if something might lead to a scand...
in how organizations can categorize and classify their financial results, each organization is required to maintain uniform intern...
Chicago to suggest to Houstons firm partners that it was fine to shred documents and delete any e-mails related to the Enron case ...
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...
with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...
the GEC directors took control of the company, and therefore the accounts this ?10 million profit turned into a $4.5 million loss ...
fraud, and it was with this we might argue there was the first loss of confidence in the auditors. This case limited the liability...
and diligence and independence at the auditing level" (Anonymous, 2003). From a broader perspective, one of the main reason...
collapse of the company. One can only conclude that these executives decided that it was worth the risk to take actions that were ...
to less than $1 (Explaining the Enron bankruptcy, 2002). The companys implosion cost thousands of employees their jobs as well as ...