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Essays 421 - 450
the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...
All managers must control certain things. Finances must be controlled, for example, so that the organization operates both efficie...
explained that controlling has no relationship to authoritarian leadership styles, it is about controlling things such as resource...
merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...
as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...
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...
In twelve pages the market impacts of dergulating Duke Energy, Enron, and Southern Company are examined. Fourteen sources are cit...
their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...
corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...
and respect diversity within the corporate environment, but not leveraging it in order to gain commercially at the cost of others....
is the economic reality of a company. This leads to a lack of transparency and deception in the structuring of financial transact...
in how organizations can categorize and classify their financial results, each organization is required to maintain uniform intern...
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...
some time; keeping them off Enrons balance sheet avoided the situation in which Enron would have to list the debt without any prof...
the context of Walkers (2005) statements, the public arena is noted, but this idea can be applied to any organization. Fiscal resp...
rules and audits the accounts. When looking at the failure of Enron it is these accounting standards that appear to fail. In looki...
(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...
to less than $1 (Explaining the Enron bankruptcy, 2002). The companys implosion cost thousands of employees their jobs as well as ...
an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...
In the financial markets are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The principal purpose of the SEC is to "pr...
with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...
Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...
processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
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...
At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...