Objectives • Ask Why‚ Asshole? • Identify the types of threats professional accountants encounter and identify ways of minimising these. • Outline the disciplinary procedures for accountants. • Discuss the role of ethics in a global environment Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room? Threats to Accountants • Code of Ethical Conduct • Compliance with these principles may be undermined by the following 5 threats from APES 110: • Self-Interest Threat ▫ may occur as a result of the financial or
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Enron Case Study The case of Enron is a fascinating one. United States is a country where auditing and accounting principles are so strong. How can something take place on such high level in the United States? The Enron case demonstrates the need to reform the accounting and corporate governance practices in the United States. Moreover‚ the Enron case made government officials to pay close attention to deregulated energy market. Some of the aspects that struck me are discussed below. One of the
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film products‚ and now its two major markets are digital photography and digital printing. Kodak is also known for being the leading producer of silver halide paper used for printing from film and digital images. Kodak also manufactures photo kiosks‚ which is something that prints in minutes from digital sources. There is about 80‚000 Picture Kiosks in retail locations worldwide. Kodak also markets Picture CDs and other photo related products such as calendars‚ photo books‚ photo albums and photo enlargements
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Enron “The Smartest Guys in the Room” The Enron: The smartest guys in the room it’s a documentary film based in an important and huge company that was involved in a huge scandal in the American history. The Enron Corporation when they first start was a successful company. In its beginning‚ Enron was a small company from Texas‚ after years Enron became in the seven largest business in the U.S. with a smarts an experts employees working for Enron. The founder was Ken Lay a smart executive. The company
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The Accounting Scandal Enron Corp. Collapse and WorldCom Accounting Scandal 11/18/2020 The Enron Corp. collapse Formed in 1985 from a merger of Houston Natural Gas and Inter-north‚ Enron Corp. was the first nationwide natural gas pipeline network. Over time‚ the firm’s business focus shifted from the regulated transportation of natural gas to unregulated energy trading markets. The guiding principle seems to have been that there was more money to be made in buying and selling financial
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Shaffer Directed by Marc Shaffer Correspondent Hedrick Smith ANNOUNCER: It was a meteoric rise. VOICE: We will become the world’s leading company. ANNOUNCER: And a devastating collapse. VOICE: Enron is a corporate Chernobyl. VOICE: You had the entire system playing fast and loose. VOICE: It is not just Enron‚ it’s an industry problem. LYNN TURNER‚ SEC Chief Accountant (1998-2001): It is real‚ real damage to the country. ANNOUNCER: Why didn’t anyone sound an alarm? VOICE: The watchdogs work for executives
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In October of 2001 the Enron scandal was revealed‚ which led to their bankruptcy. It was the biggest bankruptcy reorganization in American history at that time. In the movie Jeff Skilling suggest that money is the only thing that motivates people‚ and I agree with him. Money might not directly motivate everybody but it plays a part in everybody’s motivation. Money is the reason people stay in school longer than required‚ the reason people work‚ and the reason why people get out of bed in the morning
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Top-Down Approach‚ 6th ed.‚ J.F. Kurose and K.W. Ross © 2005-21012‚ J.F Kurose and K.W. Ross‚ All Rights Reserved The answers below are based on the trace file tcp-ethereal-trace-1 in in http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/wireshark-labs/wireshark-traces.zip TCP Basics Answer the following questions for the TCP segments: 1. What is the IP address and TCP port number used by your client computer (source) to transfer the file to gaia.cs.umass.edu? 2. What is the IP address and port number used by gaia
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OBJECTIVE: 3 METHODOLOGY 3 THE ENRON STORY: BRIEF 4 HOW AND WHAT TYPE OF FRAUDS WERE COMMITTED? 5 THE ROLE OF STOCK OPTIONS 5 THE USE OF OFF-BALANCE SHEET PARTNERSHIPS 5 Example: LJM 5 Chewco 6 LOBBYING 6 ACCOUNTING PRACTICES 6 DIFFERENT ETHICAL DIMENSIONS 7 SOCIAL DIMENSION 8 AFFECTS ON EMPLOYEES AND SHAREHOLDERS 8 ENRON INDIA 8 AGGRESSIVE NATURE OF ENRON: PERSONAL ETHICS 8 ENRON’S ARROGANCE: PERSONAL ETHICS 9 EXECUTIVES ABANDON ENRON 9 POLITICAL DIMENSION: SYSTEMATIC
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1. Based on the three customer personas‚ which customer segment should Ontela target? Ontela should targe the teen segment. The size of the segment is big and wide‚ they are usually early adapters of technology (lots are tech savvy) their purchasing power is huge‚. Moreover‚ the segment is substantial‚ and can make ontela increase its revenues. This segment uses the internet alot and the social network‚ e.g. facebook‚. There can be the domino effect and more friends may join this service. As youth
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