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Essays 211 - 240
in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...
chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...
merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...
Technology advances in mediation software have increased the capability of companies to negotiate within a global business framewo...
the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...
Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...
an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...
not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...
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. ...
(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...
corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...
collapse of the company. One can only conclude that these executives decided that it was worth the risk to take actions that were ...
to less than $1 (Explaining the Enron bankruptcy, 2002). The companys implosion cost thousands of employees their jobs as well as ...
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...
fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...
timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...
as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...
(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...
(Thomas). Employees who didnt do deals to post earnings ended up with higher score. The higher the score, the more likely the empl...
The writer analyses survey results provided by the student. The survey was undertaken to determine whether or not attitudes toward...
because they are in such demand, the owners are able to command a premium price. In an acquisition, the biggest problem both compa...
billions of dollars below expectations, the bottom fell out. The stock was dumped, and it lost value. The stock has lost 99 percen...
is not right. What is the history of this now controversial company? II. History Enron began in 1985 as the combination of two...
except that a certain financier over extended himself and caused several banks to fail that had extended him credit. This particul...
own stock, upon which they are relying for retirement, in a pension fund. This has raised alarm bells, as other companies can also...
With the fall of the company the investments that were in the retirement fund have plummeted due to the high level of investment i...
while the media is referring to what Enron officers did as "off-balance-sheet" partnerships -- "those hundreds of Enron entities t...
sources will be cited using APA style. Chronology of the Enron Collapse Before analyzing what, exactly, caused Enrons coll...