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Corporate Governance

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

Security and Secrecy Issues Following the Cases of Wen Ho Lee and Robert Hanssen

on both morale and confidence (Meek, 2001). Mole hunting measure need to be in place. These measures can include the use of random...

An Evaluation of Sarbanes-Oxley

(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...

The Importance of Corporate Governance

the context of Walkers (2005) statements, the public arena is noted, but this idea can be applied to any organization. Fiscal resp...

Contributing Factors to Enron's Downfall

a great deal to do with the number of external factors and affiliations which many say reveal a weakness in the competitive and ri...

Rise and Fall of Enron

Timeline, 2004). Jeffrey Skilling took over as CEO but resigned six months later; Lay returned to the post of CEO (FOX News Networ...

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 ...

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...

Unethical Executives

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

A Security Plan for a White Supremacist

Insuring defendant security is often a concern in high profile criminal cases. Public law enforcement agencies may or may not be ...

The Bankruptcy of Enron and Auditing

between Enrons accounting statements and the fiscal reality of the institutions assets and obligations. One might view the major f...

Organizational Behavior at One Failed Company

behavior incorporates theories from a number of other fields, including psychology, anthropology, sociology, social psychology and...

ETHICAL ANALYSIS -- ENRON

as was dishonesty and shady deals (Thomas, 2002). Out of fear for being shown the door because of the PRC, in other words,...

ENRON AND THE GATEKEEPERS, AN ARTICLE ANALYSIS

Coffees theory is that the legal climate for investment fraud sharply declined throughout the 1990s (allowing everyone to look the...

HOW TEAM COLLABORATION AND EFFECTIVENESS COULD HAVE SAVED ENRON

this was not a positive culture for building teamwork, collaboration or conflict management skills. Clearly, Enron has pro...

eCommerce Issues

(Fixmer, 2002). Network security. By 2002, there had been few lawsuits in this area, but even then it was recognized as on...

Economic Environment of Enron

company that essentially is a member of the walking dead, it paradoxically experienced a rise in revenues for the nine months ende...

Mismanagement of Enron

Compounding these problems was the work of Jeffrey Skilling. His duties should have included overseeing and regulating various dep...

Enron's Accounting Practices Assessed

made available to all of the outside world including Wall Street analysts. The news of its financial problems came as a surprise ...

Are Accounting Reforms And Legislation Are The Only Means By Which The Accounting Profession Will be Able To Regain Public Trust And Re-Establish Its’ Credibility?

fraud, and it was with this we might argue there was the first loss of confidence in the auditors. This case limited the liability...

Ethics and Accountability in Public Administration

construction, use and maintenance. Smiths point was that the structure itself may not be too costly in terms of initial outlay, b...

Auditor Independence and the Enron Case

five" have been working to impose US accounting convention on other developed nations of the world, Andersen has been committing l...

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...

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...

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 ...

Fraud Company Protection

to be some form of detection, as the most determined fraudster will find a way into the systems, especially if there is the abilit...

Congress Lack of Action on Smog Problems

of the problem coupled with pressure from big business to remain quiet. The United States was forced to take a good, long l...

Upcoming Changes in Facility Management

In six pages this paper considers the changes that will take place in facility management within the next decade in an examination...