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principles of accounting in the U.S. (Larson et al, 2001). Since that time, a number of authoritative bodies have been instituted ...
Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...
Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...
chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...
in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...
the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...
explained that controlling has no relationship to authoritarian leadership styles, it is about controlling things such as resource...
All managers must control certain things. Finances must be controlled, for example, so that the organization operates both efficie...
share price performance. There are also the wider culture issues that encourage this and place an onerous duty on those who may be...
is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...
and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...
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...
as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real...
done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...
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...
a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...
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...
their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...
that other entity and realizes the accounting principle shift as discussed by Schmutte and Duncan (2005). The scope of variable i...
corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...
effect to such things, and these situations are no different. When people lose jobs, families suffer, economies suffer, communiti...
its current ratio is understandable. WorldComs values in these two ratios reflect its precarious operation position. Neith...
and employees. So, it becomes imperative that when considering the effective management of ethics structures to pay attention to...
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...