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WorldCom, Enron, and Ethics

employees - and even the economy. In the end, no one has benefited from either situation, because the methods were done in secrecy...

Americans of the Nineteenth Century and Western Conquest

Her life journey coupled her with a man who became her husband and took her with him on his expedition to Chihuahua, Mexico. What...

Could the UK Realize a Similar Enron Disaster?

problems were already apparent. In the annual accounts, debts had been understated and profits had been overstated to the amount o...

2000 Financial Analysis of Hilton Group PLC

there are changes within the company and the actual performance need to be measured against these changes. The UK casino division ...

A Life Cycle Systems Development

The scope fop the project can then be defined in terms of the number of people that this will effect and the departments...

Issues Permeating the 2004 Presidential Candidates

prescription drugs, I would choose Grandma every time" (Wise, 2002). Howard Dean mirrors Sharptons opinion that President is doin...

Analysis of the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act

included in this Act is criminal provisions that aimed at preserving evidence of fraud (Leahy, 2003). This means that CPAs and aud...

Employers and Employees and Financial Accounting Information

private company there may be a high level of power but this may also act against the company if the figures or performance is not ...

Asian Economic Crisis of the 1990s and its Causes

in the way it was controlled. The actual value was pegged to a basket of currencies. However, in reality there was a closer link t...

Allocation of Expenses in Not For Profit Organizations (NPOs)

activities are operations such as administration, fundraisings, the development of memberships and operations that are not the del...

Proposed Acquisitions Accounting

appears this has been assessed at 1.2 million, if the figures give above are in thousands, which appears to be the case (the stud...

Post WorldCom and Enron International Accounting Standards

a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...

Special Purpose Entities and Accounting at Enron

This approach was legal and acceptable under FASB rules at the time. The Enron-specific problem arose when Enron did not consolid...

How Contemporaries Depicted Hernan Cortes and Christopher Columbus

The first impression that we get is that Cortes is a determined and logical man. He attempts this journey, and has to overcome...

Freire's 'Banking Concept of Education' Analyzed

a bank customer "fills" his or her bank "container" or account with money. Much like bank accounts, students are able to receive, ...

SMEs and AIS' Impact

it seems that the climate for small businesses is better than ever. With the advent of the Internet, small and medium sized compan...

Shakespeare's Comedy No Error

for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...

Appropariate Guidance and Standards for the Consolidation of Special Purpose Entities and FASB

does believe that: "most SPEs serve valid business purposes, such as isolating assets or activities to protect the interests of c...

Cost Structure and the Airline Industry

In this way the more operating leverage an airline has, the greater its business risk will be. Despite the fact that many analyst...

Last Supper Accounts

Jesus was both human and Divine as is reflected in many parts of the New Testament. This paper discusses the account of the Last S...

Questions Pertaining to Accounting

to ?68,599 in 19X7. This is an increase of ?53,537, or 76% (calculated by taking 53,537 which is the increase between 19X7...

Career Opportunities in Accounting and Auditing

and tax senior (AICPA (b), 2002). Corporate accounting, in the meantime, includes management accounting, financial accounting and ...

Corporate Spying and Accounting Issues

This paper will discuss what corporate spying is, how it is conducted, and how accounting departments can be targets of corporate ...

Offshore Pension Plan Investment

The Dow nearly crossed into 3,000 territory long enough to close there on several occasions prior to the Gulf War in 1991 and fina...

John Hope Franklin's "The Train from Hate"

This essay is on "The Train from Hate" by John Hope Franklin, which is an autobiographical account of an childhood incident that a...

Accounting Practices and the Income Statement

statement. II. The Purpose & the Construction of the Income Statement According to Kenneth A. Koerber, author of College Account...

Accounting Depreciation

far as business and finance are concerned. One of these areas is accounting standards (Bloomer, 1997). The Financial Accounting ...

Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac

of Raymond and other fighters. Among those that Lucie also rescued was Jean Moulin, General De Gaulles representative in France, a...

An Analysis of How I Got That Name

This 5 page essay analyzes the poem by Marilyn Chin. Chin presents an account of the immigrant experience as she experienced it ...

Enron's Failure and its Reasons

accounting system it may be argued that a collapse in the style of Enron is much more unlikely due to very different accounting en...