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An Organization and Adding Value

as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real...

Corporate Debacle of Enron

Enron but when speculation about shady accounting practices hit the media, stock prices plummeted and Dynegy quashed the deal (200...

Enron and Ethics

point forward was the beginning of the end for Enron. Indeed, the history of Enrons empire is nothing if not prolific. The...

A Computer Associates' Overview

Advantage for data management and application development, and CleverPath for portal and business intelligence" (2004). It is like...

Post Arthur Anderson and Enron Accounting Implications

the financial statements. This sent investors scrambling. Nancy Temple was viewed as the culprit (by both the courts and observers...

Improper Accounting Practices

derivative, why its typically used and how its typically used. Following that, we can go in depth into both Enron and Worldcom, an...

Accounting at Enron

aside through Enron stocks. The question here is, could an Enron have been avoided? What would a financial consultant (one...

A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE MADOFF SCANDAL

Discusses the issues behind the Bernie Madoff scandal of 2008. There are 2 sources listed in the bibliography of this 3-page paper...

An Attempt to Stope Corruption in one City

In 2013 New York passed the 'Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013' to tighten governance and financial accountability rules and re...

The IRS and Other Cheaters

Ariely and his team conducted a number of experiments at three universities to investigate the likelihood of cheating if the stude...

Failure of Internal Controls and The Impact on Stockholders

one responsible for approving purchase orders and adding new personnel to the payroll system, the opportunity for abuse is readily...

Irrational Acts in Law Enforcement

There were major scandals at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's laboratory. False, inaccurate, and misinformation were all part...

The Relationship Between Andersen and Enron

(CNN Money, 2002). Further, David B. Duncan, the lead partner who was in charge of the Enron account, was fired (CNN, 2002). 6. An...

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...

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...

Corporate Scandals and Business Ethics

as to any changes which need to be made, where the profits are most likely to occur and how to correct any financial infallibility...

Failure of Enron

may have severe problems, but it is in the interests of all parties for the company to gain some portion from creditors to allow i...

WorldCom and Enron

for bankruptcy due to its inability to hide such tremendous losses any longer. It took a matter of three month for the company to...

LBJ and Clinton More Than Decades Apart

are pervaded with a sense of innocence violated" (pp. 6). In fact, in a pre-release review presented in The New Republic, Lane com...

Hannah Arendt's The Banality of Evil and Modern Bureaucracy

and employees. So, it becomes imperative that when considering the effective management of ethics structures to pay attention to...

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...

Values and Business Ethics

of philosophy dealing with right and wrong and the morality of motives and ends" (Shaughnessy, 2002, p. 20). But questions of ethi...

History of the FBI

was initiated by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte, who issued an executive order to create this investigative force within the J...

Harmonization and IAS

of international standards. It is only if there are international standards that international stakeholders may be able to see acc...

Corporate America and Manipulation of Revenue

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...

Corporate Greed and its Psychosocial Effects

life savings and retirement plans of countless employees who had worked hard to save their funds - but because of corporate greed,...

Eighteenth Century Societal Perspecitves

ignorant -- country heroine. Likewise, Sheridan paints a similar, if more exaggerated picture, of aristocratic arrogance when he s...

Examination of Enron

for the scandal that ultimately occurred. "The contributions dwarfed what was at stake for Enron. In its energy trading in Calif...

WorldCom, Enron, and the Application of Business Failure Prediction Models

known as the going concern concept1. In looking at the viability of the business the potential creditors are seeking to ensure tha...

Corporate Governance Issue Examined

effect to such things, and these situations are no different. When people lose jobs, families suffer, economies suffer, communiti...