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Essays 151 - 180
their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...
to less than $1 (Explaining the Enron bankruptcy, 2002). The companys implosion cost thousands of employees their jobs as well as ...
corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...
that other entity and realizes the accounting principle shift as discussed by Schmutte and Duncan (2005). The scope of variable i...
merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...
as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...
Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...
chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...
the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...
Technology advances in mediation software have increased the capability of companies to negotiate within a global business framewo...
collapse of the company. One can only conclude that these executives decided that it was worth the risk to take actions that were ...
not the least of which includes employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, interest groups, legal and regulatory...
an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...
with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...
(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...
some time; keeping them off Enrons balance sheet avoided the situation in which Enron would have to list the debt without any prof...
the GEC directors took control of the company, and therefore the accounts this ?10 million profit turned into a $4.5 million loss ...
fraud, and it was with this we might argue there was the first loss of confidence in the auditors. This case limited the liability...
Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...
those codified into law ...and creating societal pressures for reform" (p. 167). Indeed, the world is changing and more attention...
in 1993, which allowed corporations to avoid recording stock options on their balance sheets. According to a Merrill Lynch study, ...
starts out by indicating that the reason was simple enough - terming it "collective greed born in an atmosphere of corporate arrog...
who led others astray" (Booth and Fowler 52). Enron spiraled into bankruptcy because Arthur Anderson notified Enrons offic...
At the crux of the issue is the fact that $3.85 billion in expenses was hidden from the companys financial statements in 2001...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...
For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...
long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...
opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...
also exerted a profound influence upon paste and present Spanish culture. Author Peter Pierson (1999) noted in his text The Histo...
Therefore, the field of personality assessment can be conceptualized as "consisting of several different communities of psychologi...