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Special Purpose Entities and Accounting at Enron

This approach was legal and acceptable under FASB rules at the time. The Enron-specific problem arose when Enron did not consolid...

Appropariate Guidance and Standards for the Consolidation of Special Purpose Entities and FASB

does believe that: "most SPEs serve valid business purposes, such as isolating assets or activities to protect the interests of c...

SPE Accounting and Interpretation

that other entity and realizes the accounting principle shift as discussed by Schmutte and Duncan (2005). The scope of variable i...

SPEs Altering Interpretation

SPE that is not subject to control through voting ownership interests and would require each enterprise involved with such an SPE ...

Questions Concerning Government Accounting

following the financial year end. 5. If we look at property taxes these are levied on a yearly basis and as such may be seen as ea...

Irregularities in Accounting at WorldCom and Enron

savvy ways of getting things done. That is, until the fall of 2001. The nation, already shocked and stunned by the tragedy...

Overview of Special Purpose Entities

while the media is referring to what Enron officers did as "off-balance-sheet" partnerships -- "those hundreds of Enron entities t...

Corporate Governance

not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...

Issues in Accounting and Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Stocks

In eleven pages this paper considers whether or not entity should be considered as equity or debt in an examination of the issues ...

WorldCom, Enron, and Ethics

employees - and even the economy. In the end, no one has benefited from either situation, because the methods were done in secrecy...

Enron's Failure and its Reasons

accounting system it may be argued that a collapse in the style of Enron is much more unlikely due to very different accounting en...

eCommerce Issues

(Fixmer, 2002). Network security. By 2002, there had been few lawsuits in this area, but even then it was recognized as on...

Impact of the New Goodwill Accounting Standards and FASB 74

organizations and their accountants still have a great deal of freedom in how they report results. Organizations have the f...

The Differences Between Financial and Management Accounting

day running of the company and as such can understand that the figures are all historical, and may be out of date by the time they...

The Accounts Created by IIS

not been undertaken in the DCOM component configuration. The identity and the password can be reset with the SyncIWAM.vbs script, ...

Incentive and Retention for Special Education Teachers

a few non-conference meals. Table 1. Conference Attendance Cost per Teacher Item Component Cost Total Cost Conference registrati...

Assessment of an IT Web Site

include a jobs section as well as a section containing white papers across a large number of different areas such as SOX complianc...

Are Accounting Reforms And Legislation Are The Only Means By Which The Accounting Profession Will be Able To Regain Public Trust And Re-Establish Its’ Credibility?

fraud, and it was with this we might argue there was the first loss of confidence in the auditors. This case limited the liability...

Accounting: Principles-Based Or Rules-Based?

and diligence and independence at the auditing level" (Anonymous, 2003). From a broader perspective, one of the main reason...

WorldCom, Enron, and IAS

principles of accounting in the U.S. (Larson et al, 2001). Since that time, a number of authoritative bodies have been instituted ...

Enron's Accounting Practices Assessed

made available to all of the outside world including Wall Street analysts. The news of its financial problems came as a surprise ...

Comparing the Gospels

as actively participating in his fate, rather than demonstrating passive acceptance. In the synoptic gospels, action is, for the m...

Critique of James G. Hollandsworth Jr.’s The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

Construction of Njal's Saga

sections of the saga. For example, an analysis of the section detailing Thangbrands mission and the passages that deal with jurid...

Chen Entity Relationship Notation Conceptual Database Model

a file and receiving it, if the cline t has been dormant. A dormant client is classified as client for whom no work has been condu...

Post WorldCom and Enron International Accounting Standards

a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...

Fundamental Concepts Within Financial Accounting

that revenues are recognized at the time goods are sold and/or services are rendered. Materiality, or the materiality prin...

Creative Accounting Incentives and Maintenance

share price performance. There are also the wider culture issues that encourage this and place an onerous duty on those who may be...

Special Needs' Child Journal Observation Overview

down, squishing them to form a fish face. All the children were participating except for Jack, who was staring at the ceiling, mo...

Deceptive Reporting and Methodologies for Financial Accounting

is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...