4.1 Enron Corporation and Anderson‚ LLP ----Analyzing the fall of two Giants This case results in the publishing of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and relevant to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Also‚ it is related to SAS 103: Auditing‚ Quality Control‚ and Independence Standards and Rules. [1] What were the business risk Enron faced‚ and how did those risks increase the likelihood if material misstatements in Enron’s financial statements? The business risks Enron faced are as following:
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University of Edinburgh Trading Silver and Copper FRM Assignment Lina LU ( s1111757) Yufei PANG ( s1145790) Jinsheng HU ( s1121232) Qi GAO ( s1150771) 2012-3-13 Contents 1. 2. 3. Introduction ................................................................................................................... 1 Market Analysis .............................................................................................................. 2 Forward curve .....................................
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1 Auditing issues in Enron case Independent Needed for the Houston office of Andersen‚ an audit partner that understands the role of being a "public watchdog" with "ultimate allegiance to the creditors and shareholders" . Arthur Anderson abandoned its roles as independent auditor by turning a blind eye to improper accounting‚ including the failure to consolidate‚ failure of Enron to make $51million in proposed adjustments in 1997‚ and failure to adequately disclose the nature of transactions with
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1. The Enron executive team including Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow and other executives‚ were the key players in the crisis. The business practices they used when creating hundreds of SPE’s and diverting large amounts of liabilities to those off-balance sheet entities. Enron was aware of the minimal accounting guidelines for SPE’s and used them to their advantage. To create such a complex “paper” structure‚ the executives had to have coordinate their plans with the accountants
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Case 1.1 - Enron Corporation ------------------------------------------------- Discussion 1 The parties we believe to be most at fault for the crisis in this case are a) the Audit Firm engaged in the Enron audit (Arthur Andersen); b) Enron Management (Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow; and c) the SEC. The Public Accounting Firm: Arthur Andersen The auditor has the responsibility to evaluate the risk of material fraud‚ including: * Incentives and motives for fraud : Enron was a fast
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DERIVATIVES FOR MANAGING FINANCIAL RISK Q-1 What are derivatives? Why do companies hedge risk using derivatives? A-1 A derivative is a financial instrument whose pay-offs is derived from some other asset which is called an underlying asset. Option‚ an example of a derivative security‚ is a more complicated derivative. There are a large number of simple derivatives like futures or forward contracts or swaps. Derivatives are tools to reduce a firm’s risk exposure. A firm can do away with unnecessary
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IBM 530 RISK IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. GROUP ASSIGNMENT. PREPARED BY : NURUL SYAZWANI BINTI BADIOZAMAN SYAMIMI BINTI MOHAMMAD NAWAWI SHAKIRAH BINTI MD YUSOFF SITI SARAH BINTI KHALID NOOR KHALIDA BINTI ISMAIL ( BM224 – OPERATION MANAGEMENT ) PREPARED FOR : TN HJ MOHD SUKOR BIN MD YUSOFF Risks In International Business . International business manager must be fully aware of all the risk involved by conducting due diligence and risk assessment before venturing into international
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How is risk priced in the financial markets? What are the shortcomings of the explanations that finance theory offers for this? Introduction The valuation of assets in the financial market is no doubt a challenging task as it is closely correlated with risks and uncertainties embodied in the assets which provide the possibility that the investment outcomes would differ from the expected value (Grundy and Malkiel‚ 1995). In other words‚ the valuation of assets is actually linked to the qualification
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Viktoria Martirosyan Case 1.1 Qt.1 Several parties were responsible for Enron crisis‚ including independent auditor‚ key executive officers‚ internal auditors‚ SEC and FASB. The hypocrisy‚ dishonorable actions and unethical behavior of Kenney Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow led to bankruptcy. This and many other problems‚ such as loss in transactions involving the swaps stocks‚ SPE related issues and est.‚ finally contributed to crisis. As Enron executives‚ all of their concerns should
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The Unethical Behavior of Enron Enron‚ once the countries seventh-largest company according to the Fortune 500‚ is a good example of how greed and the desire for success can transform into unethical behavior. Good ethics in business would be to compete fairly and honestly‚ to communicate truthfully and to not cause harm to others. These are things that Enron did not seem to display‚ which led to Enron’s operations file for bankruptcy in 2001. Enron’s scandal has become one of the most talked
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