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collapse of the company. One can only conclude that these executives decided that it was worth the risk to take actions that were ...
not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...
corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...
merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...
Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...
timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...
(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...
fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...
The writer analyses survey results provided by the student. The survey was undertaken to determine whether or not attitudes toward...
(Thomas). Employees who didnt do deals to post earnings ended up with higher score. The higher the score, the more likely the empl...
its current ratio is understandable. WorldComs values in these two ratios reflect its precarious operation position. Neith...
effect to such things, and these situations are no different. When people lose jobs, families suffer, economies suffer, communiti...
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...
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 ...
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...
as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real...
Johnson pulled all Tylenol products off the shelf at great cost in order to ensure the safety of consumers. The Company did this,...
as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
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...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...
At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...