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The Impact of Enron on the View of Whistle Blowers in the Corporate Environment

the market to the scope and scale of the scandal, but the way in which it impacted on individuals personally and received a great ...

Moral Decision Making

the consequences. Gender role was also explored. Gender role refers to the degree of femininity men have and the degree of masculi...

ENRON QUESTIONS

(Thomas). Employees who didnt do deals to post earnings ended up with higher score. The higher the score, the more likely the empl...

SOX Audits

(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...

Research Results: Have Attitudes Towards Whistle Blowing Change since Enron?

The writer analyses survey results provided by the student. The survey was undertaken to determine whether or not attitudes toward...

Fraud - The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...

Unethical Executives

timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...

Reasoning, Intelligence, Culture

always taken risks, just not with money so the experiment is flawed. Also, I am likely to risk amounts less than $100 dollars depe...

Unethical Practices

merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...

ENRON, FRAUD AND CONSEQUENCES

Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...

The Failings at Enron from an OB Perspective

as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...

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 ...

Main Points of Barberis' Article Concerning Psychological Influences on the Causes and Continuation of the Financial Crisis

The salient points from an article by Nicholas Barberis titled Psychology and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 are summarized. Th...

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...

Happiness as found in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

make rash judgments. Also, there could very well be exceptions to this happiness rule. Why did Aristotle believe that reason is eq...

Airport Security, Long Lines And Solutions

arrivals at all major airports in the U.S. is between 70 and 75 percent (Howarth and OToole, 2005). And, there are other reasons....

Electric Utility Industry Deregulation

In twelve pages the market impacts of dergulating Duke Energy, Enron, and Southern Company are examined. Fourteen sources are cit...

Fallacious, Informal Proof Argument Defending A Grade

a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....

Accounting and Corporate Effects of Business Failures

in accountants and the way accounts were prepared was being shaken. The entire financial basis of the stock markets requires tha...

The Importance of Corporate Governance

the context of Walkers (2005) statements, the public arena is noted, but this idea can be applied to any organization. Fiscal resp...

Accounting Questions

rules and audits the accounts. When looking at the failure of Enron it is these accounting standards that appear to fail. In looki...

U.S. Bombing of Japan

politically expedient to do so; Russia was about to enter the war, and Truman felt that dropping the bomb would show the Russians ...

Enron Scandal and Ethics

some time; keeping them off Enrons balance sheet avoided the situation in which Enron would have to list the debt without any prof...

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...

Corporate Culture at Enron

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

International Trade Theory in the Real World

1 using the SITC categories. All figures given are in $ millions unless otherwise stated. Figure 1 Imports and Exports of chemica...

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...

The Issue of Change and Reistance to It

stakeholders in a government department and assessed their views of change, especially in terms of how they perceived the impacts ...

Relationship of Ethics and Management Functions

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

Management Functions

All managers must control certain things. Finances must be controlled, for example, so that the organization operates both efficie...