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Overview of Special Purpose Entities

while the media is referring to what Enron officers did as "off-balance-sheet" partnerships -- "those hundreds of Enron entities t...

Eighteenth Century Societal Perspecitves

ignorant -- country heroine. Likewise, Sheridan paints a similar, if more exaggerated picture, of aristocratic arrogance when he s...

Current Thinking and Management Issues Regarding Corporate Governance

sort through the shards of Enrons collapse, the concept of corporate governance can make a difference in many areas as it enhances...

Scandals and Corruption in World Cup Soccer

for the World Cup quarter-final between Brazil and Czechoslovakia. At the time, it was one of only a few stadiums in Europe that h...

Tutorial on the Enron Scandal

sources will be cited using APA style. Chronology of the Enron Collapse Before analyzing what, exactly, caused Enrons coll...

2002 Winter Olympics' Pairs Skating Controversy

In five pages this paper examines the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics of 2002 and discusses the pairs figure skating vote fixing sc...

TAINTED MILK AND THE PROACTIVE APPROACH

without coercion. Though its not outlined here, Mengniu and other dairies didnt agree to pull the tainted products until the media...

The Phar-Mor Scandal

of internal control and in fact, three major weaknesses was a lack of care in selecting an auditing firm, not questioning figures ...

ANTIGUA, GLOBAL RECESSION AND STANFORD SCANDAL

Allen Stanford last February, the islands Bank of Antigua has also gone through its own struggles. Though the Stanford scandal in ...

Applications of Corporate Governance Issues to McBride Financial Services

in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...

Corporate Culture at Enron

chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...

Kurt Eichenwald/The Informant

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

Corporate Transparency - McBride Financial

and Weisbach (2007) commented that most of the reforms in corporate governance over the last several years have been directed at i...

Shell and Corporate Social Responsiblity

it to the intentions of an organization. If an organization would want to make things right, and hone CSR, the stool analogy can w...

The Ethical Challenges at Tyco, Inc.

This 4 page paper looks at the scandals Tyco has been plagued with. How new management made a difference is highlighted. Bibliogra...

Children Working

to whom they outsource have young children working in the factories. Many people may remember the Kathie Lee Gifford sweat shop co...

An Objective Look at Global Warming

in carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbon emissions that have accumulated in the atmosphere over time and ...

Nixon and Watergate

is used to indicate a political scandal, such as Travelgate, when the Clinton White House fired a number of workers from its Trave...

The Rampart Scandal, Strip Searches and Police Power

is hiding something under his or her clothing. On the other hand, there is room for abuse. It is possible that strip searches are ...

Negative Aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...

SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS: BRIBERY OR LOBBYING?

of influencing a particular outcome. The main difference is that lobbying, as such, is "persuasion," whereas bribery is an overt e...

Corporate Governance

not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...

The HealthSouth Scandal

value from dropping.5 He was able to get away with it because he was the person who was charged by the SEC with the responsibility...

Investment Questions; Regulation, Bonds and Risk

In the financial markets are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The principal purpose of the SEC is to "pr...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

Ebbers Behind Bars

prosecution witness and is "crucial to the prosecutions case," since he is the only witness who said that "he spoke directly to Mr...

An Evaluation of Sarbanes-Oxley

(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...

Baseball History: The 1919 White Sox Fix

begin to see that different stakeholders involved had different concerns. The owners were divided. They realized that money would ...

Enron Scandal Analysis

books. The charges against Lay are that "he knew his company was failing in 2001 when he sold millions of dollars in stock and ur...

A Sport Scandals History

In 1876 for example, the National League had been created, something done to promote a more businesslike atmosphere for the game (...