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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....

Enron and Ethics of the Media

see fit, in spite of how their selfish actions may cause harm or damage to others. Indeed, this is precisely the essence of socia...

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...

Structure and Culture

the internal structures. There are a number of different organisational structures which will determine not only how thing are don...

Wal-Mart : Organizational Behavior

are" (MMR, 2005, p. 40). This is one of the controls the company uses with their top managers to constantly improve. It is essent...

Managing Organizational Change: The Future

this growing bandwagon is up for dispute, however. U.S. Labor Department statistics cited the loss of more than forty-six hundred...

The Enron and Martha Stewart Cases Compared

those codified into law ...and creating societal pressures for reform" (p. 167). Indeed, the world is changing and more attention...

Enron & WorldCom: Who Blew The Whistle?

agreement -- why should the whistle blowers? This is precisely how the handful of individuals felt when they learned their corpor...

Protecting the Public Following Enron and Arthur Andersen Corporate Debacles

who led others astray" (Booth and Fowler 52). Enron spiraled into bankruptcy because Arthur Anderson notified Enrons offic...

Downfall of Enron and Its Reasons

At the crux of the issue is the fact that $3.85 billion in expenses was hidden from the companys financial statements in 2001...

Review of C. William Thomas' April 2002 Article 'The Rise and Fall of Enron'

starts out by indicating that the reason was simple enough - terming it "collective greed born in an atmosphere of corporate arrog...

The Work of Nations by Robert Reich and the PBS Frontline Telecast Bigger Than Enron

in 1993, which allowed corporations to avoid recording stock options on their balance sheets. According to a Merrill Lynch study, ...

Post Enron and WorldCom and Investor Confidence Strengthening

The companys auditor employed by Andersen allowed the misrepresentations to go uncorrected. Hamilton and Leeds charged: "Andersen ...

Organizational Behavior Problem in Hospitals

A study by the Joint Commission revealed that communication failures were implicated at the root of over 70 percent of sentinel ev...

Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies

he perceives to be worthwhile causes. He is currently a sophomore at a large university, with majors in philosophy and literature....

Freud's "Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria"

(1963) is Freuds account of the case of Ida Bauer, whose father brought to Freud seeking "cure" for her willful refusal to assist ...

Patient Compliance & CHF Nursing Care

While CHF has a mortality rate that ten times that of AIDS and is also responsible for far more hospitalizations than cancer, even...

Failures at the Passport Office; The Summer of 1999

to identify these, taking an approach where factors are classified in terms of the materials, the location, the technicians and th...

Information Systems Technology Projects Fail

all projects falls between 66 percent and 90 percent depending on which survey data one relies on. Engle (2007) reported that 90 ...

Medication Administration, Study Critique

airline research, which indicates how errors occur. Additional subtopic include the standard hospital protocol and how the "five r...

Writing a HRM Case Study

of potential concern in order to first identify the relevant factors which can be used to identify the issues that need attention ...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

A Good Customer Service Model

to use preventative measures to thwart competition and also to see that the firm stays on course. In order to create a viable an...

GAP: Where Paul Pressler Went Wrong and Advice for the New CEO

cost cutting, but it should not be indiscriminate. The cost cutting may be argued as taking the cuts too far and impacting on the ...

Status of American Education

of the many areas of education that has suffered due to overburdening public schools (Croddy 30). In a research study that involve...

The Bankruptcy of New Century Financial

The problem within the sub prime market is the level of potential default which are taking place due to the way in which sub...

Virtual Multi-Cultural Teams

multi-cultural work teams can easily fail and when it is a virtual team, even more problems may emerge. Virtual multi-cultural ...

What is the Intent/Problem with Failure to Report Accidents?

expense. They might opt to try and save their money and avoid going to jail by not reporting the accident. There is also the probl...

How Employee And Industrial Relation Issues Are Related To Strategic HRM

simpler task of overseeing independent functions, and operational effectiveness determines a companys relative performance (Porter...