The fallout that accompanied the accounting scandals of the early 2000’s had an immediate impact on corporate business and accounting practices which is still being felt today. The collapse of Enron and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen‚ as well as the subsequent collapses of Worldcom and others have left a permanent mark on how corporate businesses and accounting firms are perceived and how they are regulated. It has also altered the experiences of students who are pursuing‚ or are considering
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Abstract - The Enron scandal is one of the biggest financial scams ever to take place and its root’s lie in the desire of the senior members of Enron to earn as much for themselves as possible and were assisted in this greatly by the negligence shown by their auditor’s and consultants‚ Arthur Andersen. Most of the debts and tangible assets of Enron were on the balance sheet of partnerships that were run by high-ranking officials within the corporation and these partnerships were recorded as related
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The Watergate Scandal The Watergate Affair‚ is the worst political scandal in U.S. history. It led to the resignation of the president‚ Richard M. Nixon‚ after he became implicated in an attempt to cover up the scandal. "The Watergate Affair" refers to the break-in and electronic bugging in 1972‚ of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment‚ and office building complex in Washington D.C. The term was applied to several related scandals. More than thirty
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Notable outcomesThe Enron scandal turned in the indictment and criminal conviction of one of the Big Five auditor Arthur Andersen on June 15‚ 2002. Although the conviction was overturned on May 31‚ 2005 by the Supreme Court of the United States‚ the firm ceased performing audits and is currently unwinding its business operations. On July 9‚ 2002 George W. Bush gave a speech about recent accounting scandals that had been uncovered. In spite of its stern tone‚ the speech did not focus on establishing
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The Enron Scandal One of the most popular business bankruptcies and collapses known to date is that of the Enron Corporation. Enron‚ once known as "America ’s Most Innovative Company" by Fortune Magazine six straight years from 1996 to 2001. Enron seemed to be doing very well until the summer of 2001 generating a lot of cash and new businesses‚ but in October of 2001 Enron was forced to disclose that their accounting practices had been very creative‚ and failed to follow generally accepted accounting
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obligation to bring to the attention of Enron ’s Board (or the Audit and Compliance Committee) concerns about Enron ’s internal contracts over the related-party transactions" (“Enron Scandal”). After reading about the scandal it seems as if Arthur Andersen was being pressured by Enron’s executive management
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Rampart Scandal By: Cindy Medina Cindy Medina CJCU 403 John Strain April 15‚ 2012 Rampart Scandal in the LAPD Department Growing up everyone has been told stories of cops and how they represent being hero’s. Cops are supposed to save peoples lives and stand up against crime and violence but the stores we have been told are not exactly one hundred percent correct. The LAPD was involved in one of the most talked about scandals known as the Rampart Scandal
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In this essay I am going to look at the significance of the Watergate scandal and the effects that it had on America. I will also discuss what the importance of investigative journalism is and the role that it has in society. The chain of events known as Watergate was an American political scandal in the 1970’s which ultimately led Richard Nixon to resign as president of the United States. The effects of the Watergate scandal did not end with the resignation of President Nixon‚ the general public
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Lewinsky scandal * The Lewinsky scandal was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998‚ from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a 22-year-old White House intern‚ Monica Lewinsky. The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate
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definitions‚ such as: bribery‚ conspiracy‚ obstruction of justice‚ phone tapping‚ tax fraud‚ etc. However the above all watergate is synonymous with abuse of power. The exact reasoning a distraught economy four years two years after this scandal took place. The watergate scandal is one of the most infamous crimes to date in U.S history. The break-in took place early in the Watergate building in Washington D.C. one morning on June 17‚ 1972. There were several burglars arrested who allegedly
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