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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...

Unethical Executives

timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...

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...

SOX Audits

(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...

Unethical Practices

merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...

The Failings at Enron from an OB Perspective

as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...

Electric Utility Industry Deregulation

In twelve pages the market impacts of dergulating Duke Energy, Enron, and Southern Company are examined. Fourteen sources are cit...

Relationship of Ethics and Management Functions

explained that controlling has no relationship to authoritarian leadership styles, it is about controlling things such as resource...

Management Functions

All managers must control certain things. Finances must be controlled, for example, so that the organization operates both efficie...

Corporate Governance

corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...

SPE Accounting and Interpretation

that other entity and realizes the accounting principle shift as discussed by Schmutte and Duncan (2005). The scope of variable i...

THE ENRON IMPLOSION AND ORGANIZATIONAL FAILURES

their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...

ENRON, FRAUD AND CONSEQUENCES

Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...

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 ...

ENRON: ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, CULTURES AND IRREGULARITIES

corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...

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...

THE ENRON IMPLOSION AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR THEORY

Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...

Corporate Culture at Enron

chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...

Enron, the Contribution of Masculine Culture to its Downfall

the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...

Analysis of the Enron Dabhol Power Project

Technology advances in mediation software have increased the capability of companies to negotiate within a global business framewo...

Enron and Can This Type of Corporate Scandal Happen Again?

the wake of Enron and SOA, however, experts have pointed out that if nothing else, auditing and auditing structures have been incr...

Today's Business and Business Ethics

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....

Enron and Ethics of the Media

see fit, in spite of how their selfish actions may cause harm or damage to others. Indeed, this is precisely the essence of socia...

The Aftermath of the Arthur Andersen Scandal

Chicago to suggest to Houstons firm partners that it was fine to shred documents and delete any e-mails related to the Enron case ...

Accounting Essays and Theories

what the literature has to say about accountants and whether or not theyre trained to determine if something might lead to a scand...

Analysis of Enron

days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...

Industrial Psychology; Explaining Enron

with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...

Is the Criticism Against Auditors Justified in the Light of Business Collapses such as Enron?

an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...

Corporate Governance

not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...

Investment Questions; Regulation, Bonds and Risk

In the financial markets are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The principal purpose of the SEC is to "pr...