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Industry Implications of the Merger Between Sprint and MCI WorldCom

it to become final, the outlook for the industry in the new century is that for the first ten years, it "will probably be dominate...

Effects of Acquisitions and Mergers on Workers

because they are in such demand, the owners are able to command a premium price. In an acquisition, the biggest problem both compa...

Case Study of the Enron Corporation

billions of dollars below expectations, the bottom fell out. The stock was dumped, and it lost value. The stock has lost 99 percen...

The Collapse of Enron

is not right. What is the history of this now controversial company? II. History Enron began in 1985 as the combination of two...

Arthur Andesen and the Enron Debacle

Company Description Active in the Utilities sector of the economy, Enrons industry officially is Natural Gas Utilities. Th...

Stock Market and the Influence of Technology

except that a certain financier over extended himself and caused several banks to fail that had extended him credit. This particul...

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...

Tutorial on the Enron Scandal

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

Pensions of Employees and the Enron Corporation Scandal

With the fall of the company the investments that were in the retirement fund have plummeted due to the high level of investment i...

Failure of Enron

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...

Aftermath of the Enron Fallout

own stock, upon which they are relying for retirement, in a pension fund. This has raised alarm bells, as other companies can also...

Dabhol, India Enron Project

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...

Hannah Arendt's The Banality of Evil and Modern Bureaucracy

and employees. So, it becomes imperative that when considering the effective management of ethics structures to pay attention to...

Examination of Enron

for the scandal that ultimately occurred. "The contributions dwarfed what was at stake for Enron. In its energy trading in Calif...

The Relationship Between Andersen and Enron

(CNN Money, 2002). Further, David B. Duncan, the lead partner who was in charge of the Enron account, was fired (CNN, 2002). 6. An...

Special Purpose Entities and Accounting at Enron

This approach was legal and acceptable under FASB rules at the time. The Enron-specific problem arose when Enron did not consolid...

Appropariate Guidance and Standards for the Consolidation of Special Purpose Entities and FASB

does believe that: "most SPEs serve valid business purposes, such as isolating assets or activities to protect the interests of c...

Corporate Greed and its Psychosocial Effects

life savings and retirement plans of countless employees who had worked hard to save their funds - but because of corporate greed,...

Enron Corporation's Collapse

the Enron candidate bought Baileys campaign manager (How Enron Did Texas). Although Bailey did win, it was by an exceptionally na...

Corporate America and Manipulation of Revenue

evident that much fraud can be discovered before it is too late. While this was not true in the case of Enron, the evidence has 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...

Harmonization and IAS

of international standards. It is only if there are international standards that international stakeholders may be able to see acc...

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...

A Memo Involving Ethics

Johnson pulled all Tylenol products off the shelf at great cost in order to ensure the safety of consumers. The Company did this,...

Enron Scandal and Business Ethics

benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...

Royal Dutch Shell, Enron, and Business Ethics

those who were relying on the company for pensions, directly or indirectly, those who worked for them, and those who worked for co...

Enron and the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act

audit functions were in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), hiding debt in dummy corporations, as wel...

Increased Corporate Governance and Auditor Independence

At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...

Strategic Errors at Enron

to be on a continuing growth streak. Enron did not use proper or prudent caution in their diversification strategies. There did ...

Relationship of Ethics and Management Functions

explained that controlling has no relationship to authoritarian leadership styles, it is about controlling things such as resource...