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Performance of the Stock Market and the Effects of WorldCom and Enron Failures

This demand is impacted by information regarding that share as well as market conditions. In the case of Enron and WorldCom the we...

History of the FBI

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

Overstatement of Revenues at the Xerox Corporation

Xerox has become universally to be known as a photocopy (Pratley and Treanor 2002). ELEMENTS OF THE FRAUD While Xerox originally...

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. and Financial Ethics

27, 2001, she sold 3,900 shares (CNN Money, 2002). That was the day before the FDA refused to review ImClones application for Erbi...

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, & the Advent of Gonzo Journalism

The journalist records events as they occur, but also incorporates those details of personal opinion, sensory impressions, and so...

California and Merrill Lynch

suffered from a poor reputation during the early part of the last decade. There were scandals to come from the deals they made in ...

What Could Have Been Done to Save Enron

Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...

Justice and Law According to William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Aquinas, and Oliver Wendell Holmes

actions would have been sanctioned by law forty years ago, the consensus of society at today is that this sort of discrimination i...

Ethics, Objectivity, and Values

business, but it has "confused some employees spiritually -- a side often overlooked by vitally important to an ethical workplace"...

A Computer Associates' Overview

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

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...

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...

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....

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 ...

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...

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...

Steroid Scandal in Major League Baseball and Congress

had used steroids and also claimed that as much as 50% pf the players used them (Schmaltz, 2002; 264). Another big name, Jose Cans...

Integrity: A Key Quality in the U.S. Army

of that abuse to his superiors. As horrific as the problem was, it can be contended that a series of critical decisions spanning ...

Auditing Systems and the Scandal of Lincoln Savings and Loan

in the Garcia-Wescon sham in which Wescon acquired land at nearly twice its appraised value on behalf of E.C. Garcia and Company. ...

Martha Stewart and Insider Trading

only (United States v. Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic: Indictment). Those specifically referring to and including Martha Stew...

Workplace and Loss of Decency

men and women in public places. This increasing informality is also present in the business world and it is straining business re...

Enron Scandal Analysis

books. The charges against Lay are that "he knew his company was failing in 2001 when he sold millions of dollars in stock and ur...

A Sport Scandals History

In 1876 for example, the National League had been created, something done to promote a more businesslike atmosphere for the game (...

Foucault on the Vikings 'Sex Boat Scandal'

a gay rights movement today which accentuates homosexual activity. Yet, through history homosexuality has always been with society...

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...

Corporate Governance

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

The HealthSouth Scandal

value from dropping.5 He was able to get away with it because he was the person who was charged by the SEC with the responsibility...

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...

Baseball History: The 1919 White Sox Fix

begin to see that different stakeholders involved had different concerns. The owners were divided. They realized that money would ...

Ebbers Behind Bars

prosecution witness and is "crucial to the prosecutions case," since he is the only witness who said that "he spoke directly to Mr...