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Enron and Can This Type of Corporate Scandal Happen Again?

the wake of Enron and SOA, however, experts have pointed out that if nothing else, auditing and auditing structures have been incr...

Today's Business and Business Ethics

its only when they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, so to speak, that suddenly there is the desire to become better....

Investors, Scandal Warnings, and the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act

perception of the regulatory environment is one that inspires confidence that the results and basis of the valuation accurate and...

SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS: BRIBERY OR LOBBYING?

of influencing a particular outcome. The main difference is that lobbying, as such, is "persuasion," whereas bribery is an overt e...

Steroid Scandal in Major League Baseball and Congress

had used steroids and also claimed that as much as 50% pf the players used them (Schmaltz, 2002; 264). Another big name, Jose Cans...

Auditing Systems and the Scandal of Lincoln Savings and Loan

in the Garcia-Wescon sham in which Wescon acquired land at nearly twice its appraised value on behalf of E.C. Garcia and Company. ...

The Rampart Scandal, Strip Searches and Police Power

is hiding something under his or her clothing. On the other hand, there is room for abuse. It is possible that strip searches are ...

Workplace and Loss of Decency

men and women in public places. This increasing informality is also present in the business world and it is straining business re...

Marketing in a Post 911 Era

as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...

Economic Environment of Enron

company that essentially is a member of the walking dead, it paradoxically experienced a rise in revenues for the nine months ende...

Justice and Law According to William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Aquinas, and Oliver Wendell Holmes

actions would have been sanctioned by law forty years ago, the consensus of society at today is that this sort of discrimination i...

Ethics, Objectivity, and Values

business, but it has "confused some employees spiritually -- a side often overlooked by vitally important to an ethical workplace"...

What Could Have Been Done to Save Enron

Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...

California and Merrill Lynch

suffered from a poor reputation during the early part of the last decade. There were scandals to come from the deals they made in ...

Controversy Over Abercrombie and Fitch Catalogs

serious campaign. In some way, one could say that the A&F strategy is to attack, then retreat and lie low for awhile and then wage...

A Computer Associates' Overview

Advantage for data management and application development, and CleverPath for portal and business intelligence" (2004). It is like...

LBJ and Clinton More Than Decades Apart

are pervaded with a sense of innocence violated" (pp. 6). In fact, in a pre-release review presented in The New Republic, Lane com...

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. and Financial Ethics

27, 2001, she sold 3,900 shares (CNN Money, 2002). That was the day before the FDA refused to review ImClones application for Erbi...

Overstatement of Revenues at the Xerox Corporation

Xerox has become universally to be known as a photocopy (Pratley and Treanor 2002). ELEMENTS OF THE FRAUD While Xerox originally...

Performance of the Stock Market and the Effects of WorldCom and Enron Failures

This demand is impacted by information regarding that share as well as market conditions. In the case of Enron and WorldCom the we...

History of the FBI

was initiated by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte, who issued an executive order to create this investigative force within the J...

2002 Winter Olympics' Pairs Skating Controversy

In five pages this paper examines the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics of 2002 and discusses the pairs figure skating vote fixing sc...

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...

Eighteenth Century Societal Perspecitves

ignorant -- country heroine. Likewise, Sheridan paints a similar, if more exaggerated picture, of aristocratic arrogance when he s...

3 Works on Women's Social Role

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

Enron Scandal and Business Ethics

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

Watergate

system was in place to prevent revealing "unpleasant" aspects of the administration. "That atmosphere of paranoia and suspicion w...

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...

Public Relations' Role in Handling NCAA Basketball Scandal

his papers for him? Scandals of those types have been highlighted many times over the past two decades. The most important conside...

America's Changing Business Ethics

these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...