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Fraudulent Accounting Procedures at WorldCom and Enron

as CEO and Chairman on February 4, 2002; Jeffrey K. Skilling, former CEO and Director; Andrew S. Fastow, former chief financial of...

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 ...

Irregularities in Accounting at WorldCom and Enron

savvy ways of getting things done. That is, until the fall of 2001. The nation, already shocked and stunned by the tragedy...

Automobile Repair Racket Targeting of Women

1992 that of every dollar women spent on automotive repairs, fifty cents of that dollar were not necessary expenditures and at tim...

Employee Fraud Worker's Compensation

This paper discuses different issues. What kind of fraud is being committed at a hotel. What kinds of fraudulent activities to sus...

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 ...

Accounting: Principles-Based Or Rules-Based?

and diligence and independence at the auditing level" (Anonymous, 2003). From a broader perspective, one of the main reason...

The WorldCom Meltdown

thousands of businesses around the world" (Moberg and Romar, 2002). It also carried "more international voice traffic than any oth...

Fraudulent Financial Statements and Detection Through Techniques of Data Mining

In seventeen pages the ways in which data mining can detect fraudulent financial statements in auditing and accounting businesses ...

Accounting Standards and External Auditing

businesses subtract the fair value of those stock options from revenue, considering them as proper expenses, others are content to...

ENRON, FRAUD AND CONSEQUENCES

Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...

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...

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 Techniques Used inWorldCom's Acquisitions and Mergers

international services as part of WorldCom Inc which operates over countless seamless networks. In regards to revenues and traffic...

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...

Corporate Governance Issue Examined

effect to such things, and these situations are no different. When people lose jobs, families suffer, economies suffer, communiti...

Post WorldCom and Enron International Accounting Standards

a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...

Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002: Intent And Drawbacks

is the economic reality of a company. This leads to a lack of transparency and deception in the structuring of financial transact...

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...

Corporate Ethics and the WorldCom Example

Romar, 2007). During this time, it acquired 65 firms and spent close to $60 billion for the firms (Moberg & Romar, 2007). Unfortun...

Company Profile of Worldcom

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

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...

Defining International Accounting Terms and Looking At Regime Differences

Standards Board (IASB). The board is made up of representatives from the accounting professions in many countries, and the standar...

Darka Case Study

17.20). The payments on the finance he should be apportioned between the charge for finance, and the outstanding liability (seen u...

John and Mary Farmer Case Study

some drawbacks, to implement the system there will need to be an assessment of costs that will take place for the cost centers in ...

The Major Shifts in Practices in Management Accounting

among those as highly cognizant of precision in values as accountants by nature and by training tend to be. Instead, activity-bas...

4 Types of Accounting Dissertation Proposals

some difference. The major difference is the culture and the economy. It is hypothesised that there will be major difference in en...

Accrual and Accounting and the Historical Cost Approach; Do They Lead to Increased Reliability?

is where expenses and income are matched to the period in which they occur not the period in which they are paid or received. The ...

Accounting; Definition, Impacts on Business and Its Ability to Help Businesses Improve Results

value to managers who need to control business expenses over much shorter periods. With the different needs of very stakeholders a...