YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Strategic Errors at Enron
Essays 121 - 150
fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...
(Thomas). Employees who didnt do deals to post earnings ended up with higher score. The higher the score, the more likely the empl...
corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...
timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...
not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...
Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...
as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...
merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...
All managers must control certain things. Finances must be controlled, for example, so that the organization operates both efficie...
explained that controlling has no relationship to authoritarian leadership styles, it is about controlling things such as resource...
in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...
Technology advances in mediation software have increased the capability of companies to negotiate within a global business framewo...
the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...
Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...
chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...
and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...
is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...
share price performance. There are also the wider culture issues that encourage this and place an onerous duty on those who may be...
Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...
principles of accounting in the U.S. (Larson et al, 2001). Since that time, a number of authoritative bodies have been instituted ...
as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...
as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real...
processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...
Johnson pulled all Tylenol products off the shelf at great cost in order to ensure the safety of consumers. The Company did this,...
a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...
those who were relying on the company for pensions, directly or indirectly, those who worked for them, and those who worked for co...
audit functions were in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), hiding debt in dummy corporations, as wel...
At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...