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their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...
Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...
this was not a positive culture for building teamwork, collaboration or conflict management skills. Clearly, Enron has pro...
Coffees theory is that the legal climate for investment fraud sharply declined throughout the 1990s (allowing everyone to look the...
behavior incorporates theories from a number of other fields, including psychology, anthropology, sociology, social psychology and...
Innovation and risk taking - willing to experiment, take risks, encourage innovation (Smith, 2004). 2. Attention to detail - payin...
(Fixmer, 2002). Network security. By 2002, there had been few lawsuits in this area, but even then it was recognized as on...
accounting system it may be argued that a collapse in the style of Enron is much more unlikely due to very different accounting en...
may have severe problems, but it is in the interests of all parties for the company to gain some portion from creditors to allow i...
known as the going concern concept1. In looking at the viability of the business the potential creditors are seeking to ensure tha...
in unethical behavior, mostly in the area of accounting (Scharff, 2005). For one thing, the company moved line costs (those...
savvy ways of getting things done. That is, until the fall of 2001. The nation, already shocked and stunned by the tragedy...
There are many statistics about failure or inadequate success experienced by executives in new leadership positions. The estimates...
an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...
corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...
problems were already apparent. In the annual accounts, debts had been understated and profits had been overstated to the amount o...
one responsible for approving purchase orders and adding new personnel to the payroll system, the opportunity for abuse is readily...
2002). The emphasis was on the "us" word, and the author was struck by how the rigorous detail to customer service is so strong at...
This demand is impacted by information regarding that share as well as market conditions. In the case of Enron and WorldCom the we...
as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...
chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...
as a former, but more simple, IT project took 2 years this should have been a warning sign. The two year time scale was only for t...
line of thinking forward, describing how bronze, which is made by combining cooper and tin, replaced stone tools and weapons becau...
five" have been working to impose US accounting convention on other developed nations of the world, Andersen has been committing l...
decided to trade bandwidth as a commodity just as it was trading gas and electricity (Leonard, 2001). The corporations investments...
employees - and even the economy. In the end, no one has benefited from either situation, because the methods were done in secrecy...
Compounding these problems was the work of Jeffrey Skilling. His duties should have included overseeing and regulating various dep...
made available to all of the outside world including Wall Street analysts. The news of its financial problems came as a surprise ...
company that essentially is a member of the walking dead, it paradoxically experienced a rise in revenues for the nine months ende...
between Enrons accounting statements and the fiscal reality of the institutions assets and obligations. One might view the major f...