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Enron and WorldCom Financial Statement Manipulation

processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...

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 ...

Capital Costs and How to Calculate Them

calculations the best course of action may be projected by looking at the changes any change in the capital base will create it is...

Assessing a Business for Its’ Growth Potential

for the last two years, growing at about 4% - 5% per annum, pressures have increased to reduce costs and the profit margin has dec...

Leadership and Business Ethics

Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...

An Analysis of the Stock Market Crash of 1987

The humor seemed to be endless during those hard times but not everyone was laughing. There was still some panic. One unfortunate...

Affirmative Action Application in Military and Business Settings

In paper consisting of four pages the writer compares Affirmative Action applications in contemporary business with the American ...

The Impact of Enron on the View of Whistle Blowers in the Corporate Environment

the market to the scope and scale of the scandal, but the way in which it impacted on individuals personally and received a great ...

The McKinsey 7 S's Framework and Harvard Model of HRM

issues within an organization (Rasiel and Frigam 2001). The 7 factors identified are shared values, strategy, structure, systems, ...

Bureaucratic Structures in the Modern Business Environment

However, it we look at the ideas of Weber, he argued that this was an structure that sought to find an efficient way of...

IT and Business Models

practical outcomes (Thompson, 2007; Wiseman, 1988). The concept of IT as a key part of strategy and the need for models to recogn...

Models for eBusiness

purchase also includes a range of added extras, such as extended warranties and on site maintenance agreements as well as training...

Failure of eToys.com

instances for larger items, selling goods that were then dispatched straight from a manufacturer, in effect the company was acting...

Internet Commerce Best Business Model

In a paper consisting of six pages the future of dot com ventures in light of recent failures and the impact of globalization are ...

Mistakes Build Character

There are many statistics about failure or inadequate success experienced by executives in new leadership positions. The estimates...

Enron & WorldCom: Who Blew The Whistle?

agreement -- why should the whistle blowers? This is precisely how the handful of individuals felt when they learned their corpor...

Bank Failures Determinants and Causes

In a paper consisting of ten pages what causes banks to fail is discussed along with the economic impact that results when this ha...

Post Enron and WorldCom and Investor Confidence Strengthening

The companys auditor employed by Andersen allowed the misrepresentations to go uncorrected. Hamilton and Leeds charged: "Andersen ...

Intranet Business Intelligence Applications

isolating server system that effectively keeps the populace from entering. Creating the web site on an internal network is one wa...

Could the UK Realize a Similar Enron Disaster?

problems were already apparent. In the annual accounts, debts had been understated and profits had been overstated to the amount o...

Management Models of Baumol, Marris and Williamson

Williamson developed an agency model, the basis of the model was economic theory, markets were seen as medium where efficient exch...

Why Dot-Coms Failed in E-Commerce

A paper addressing various reasons why dot-com businesses failed for a period of time. The author presents data about the number ...

Comparing Models of Clinical Supervision

In twenty papers the Discrimination Model and Integrated Developmental Model are compared, contrasted with each other and the Skov...

THE ENRON IMPLOSION AND ORGANIZATIONAL FAILURES

their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...

THE ENRON IMPLOSION AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR THEORY

Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...

Comparing Porter with the Resource Based View

The Five Forces model may be argued as a tool that helps a firm to understand the way that it needs to compete and how to develop ...

ENRON: ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, CULTURES AND IRREGULARITIES

corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...

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 ...

Overview of Roy Adaptation Model

This research paper presents a comprehensive discussion of Roy's Adaptation Model of nursing. The writer discusses the principles ...

4 Questions Pertaining to Nursing

large perspective world view. Summing up, three differences between paradigms and models are that paradigms take a broader view of...