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Accounting and Corporate Effects of Business Failures

in accountants and the way accounts were prepared was being shaken. The entire financial basis of the stock markets requires tha...

Accounting Questions

rules and audits the accounts. When looking at the failure of Enron it is these accounting standards that appear to fail. In looki...

America's Changing Business Ethics

these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...

WorldCom, Enron, and IAS

principles of accounting in the U.S. (Larson et al, 2001). Since that time, a number of authoritative bodies have been instituted ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reasons for International Accounting Standards' Usage

them to obtain international investment, not only de to increased understanding of the accounts, but also as a result of the creat...

Investors, Scandal Warnings, and the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act

perception of the regulatory environment is one that inspires confidence that the results and basis of the valuation accurate and...

UK's House of Fraser Dividend Policy

retail chain that many other companies have seen as an easy target. The take-overs have been resisted with the support of many exi...

Investing in the Stock Market

growth, but they also have the luxury of taking on additional risk and therefore additional return potential. Generally, the high...

Answering Economic Questions

(Nellis and Parkler, 1998). Therefore once more or less than the optimal number of units are produced the average total cost will ...

RISK, ARBITRAGE AND COMMON STOCK

State the formula for the arbitrage pricing theory. What are the three steps involved in estimating expected returns using this fo...

Enron & WorldCom: Who Blew The Whistle?

agreement -- why should the whistle blowers? This is precisely how the handful of individuals felt when they learned their corpor...

Funder's Guide for NPO Strengthening

to capacity building as well as techniques to achieve the goal. For example, Cynthia Massarsky, who is the co-author of Enterprisi...

Company Profile of Worldcom

million in order to settle claims when it defrauded the General Services Administration (GSA) (2004). That occurred between 1999 ...

Overview of Confidence Interval Estimate

Confidence Interval Estimates are the focus of this five page paper which includes sections on a study on the number of students w...

WORLDCOM IMPLOSION, ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP

in unethical behavior, mostly in the area of accounting (Scharff, 2005). For one thing, the company moved line costs (those...

WORLDCOM AND FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTING

2005). The result would be an increase in the current years EBIDTA (Scharff, 2005). The line costs, in fact, were the main ...

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 Impact of Enron on the View of Whistle Blowers in the Corporate Environment

the market to the scope and scale of the scandal, but the way in which it impacted on individuals personally and received a great ...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Investors' Perceptions of Vietnam's Construction Infrastructure

also important in understanding a citys development, for example which lands were traditionally used for the production of food, w...

Investors' Choices and 'Extraordinary Items'

of financial reporting. He states in his conference address, "No market has divine right to investors capital." In the mid...

Analysis of the Merger Between WorldCom and MCI WorldCom

In six pages a SWOT analysis is performed on this telecommunications merger. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliography....

WorldCom's Bankruptcy

to find that the market was quickly glutted and could not sustain itself; the infamous "dot com boom" around the turn of the mille...

Valuing a Corporate Bond

believes that the projection of a 3% interest rate is accurate then they may be prepared to pay $970.87 for the $1,000 bond. How...

CORPORATE PAYOUT POLICIES AND PAYOUT CLIENTELE

price will decline (Clientele Effect n.d.). The clientele effect tends to be temporal (i.e., based on timing) and theyre b...

Why Invest in International Markets?

the spread of investment some investments may perform poorly, but others may compensate for this with growth. This is the concept ...