YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Strategic Errors at Enron
Essays 151 - 180
sources will be cited using APA style. Chronology of the Enron Collapse Before analyzing what, exactly, caused Enrons coll...
With the fall of the company the investments that were in the retirement fund have plummeted due to the high level of investment i...
because they are in such demand, the owners are able to command a premium price. In an acquisition, the biggest problem both compa...
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...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
corresponding functional interest in them * The interests of all stakeholders are of intrinsic value (Donaldson et al, 1995, pp. 6...
its current ratio is understandable. WorldComs values in these two ratios reflect its precarious operation position. Neith...
as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real...
as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...
Johnson pulled all Tylenol products off the shelf at great cost in order to ensure the safety of consumers. The Company did this,...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
effect to such things, and these situations are no different. When people lose jobs, families suffer, economies suffer, communiti...
for bankruptcy due to its inability to hide such tremendous losses any longer. It took a matter of three month for the company to...
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...
and employees. So, it becomes imperative that when considering the effective management of ethics structures to pay attention to...
This demand is impacted by information regarding that share as well as market conditions. In the case of Enron and WorldCom the we...
problems were already apparent. In the annual accounts, debts had been understated and profits had been overstated to the amount o...
of philosophy dealing with right and wrong and the morality of motives and ends" (Shaughnessy, 2002, p. 20). But questions of ethi...
these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...
This approach was legal and acceptable under FASB rules at the time. The Enron-specific problem arose when Enron did not consolid...
does believe that: "most SPEs serve valid business purposes, such as isolating assets or activities to protect the interests of c...
the development of the local economy and create jobs (Vachani, 1995). If we look at the situation in India, there is a need for m...
Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...
and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...
processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...
is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...
Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...