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    Comprehensive Case 1.1 Enron 1. There were several parties responsible for the "crisis of confidence" created by the Enron debacle. Enron’s executives were responsible for their behavior in trying to adjust their financial statements. Andersen’s auditors were responsible for not doing their jobs with integrity and not keeping their independence in from Enron. Regulatory groups were responsible for making

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    Chap 8 – INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUDITING STANDARDS‚ GUIDELINES‚ BEST PRACTICES ___________________________________________________________________________ Introduction BS 7799 CMM - Capability Maturity Model COBIT – IT Governance Model CoCo ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) Systrust and Webtrust HIPAA SAS 70 – Statement of Auditing Standards for Service Organisations ___________________________________________________________________________ Introduction Growing business requires computers

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    Enron Case ACC 304 1. What led to the collapse of Enron under Lay and Skilling? There were various reasons as to why Enron collapsed under Lay and Skilling. One reason Enron collapsed under Lay is because Lay simply did not practice what he preached. Lay did not live by his code of ethics and neither did his corporation. Not only that‚ but Lay and top management gave Andrew Fastow an exemption to the code of ethics to continue doing business. Another reason that Enron collapsed‚ under Skilling

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    Enron Summery of Enron case The Enron scandal has far-reaching political and financial implications. In just 15 years‚ Enron grew from nowhere to be America’s seventh largest company‚ employing 21‚000 staff in more than 40 countries. But the firm’s success turned out to have involved an elaborate scam. Enron lied about its profits and stands accused of a range of shady dealings‚ including concealing debts so they didn’t show up in the company’s accounts. As the depth of the deception

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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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    Overview Enron Corporation‚ once the 7th largest company in US and a global leader of electricity and natural gas industries‚ filed for bankruptcy protection in late 2001. It was revealed that the company had been hiding investment losses and created fictitious revenue through several complicated accounting gimmicks. Besides Enron’s senior management who created the whole fiasco‚ many people believed that several other parties‚ such as the Board of Directors and the external auditors should also

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    Importance of Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) Miriam Manjarres November 18‚ 2012 Abstract The Generally Accepted Auditing Standards are standards that were developed through the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants as a foundation in conducting an audit in its reasonable accuracy. There is a need for auditors to follow the standards provided to be able to render a report of the financial statements audited stating that it is free from any misstatement. GAAS are

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    disclose certain items in financial statements. Full Disclosure Paper Ch. 24 – Question 2 “What is the full disclosure principle in accounting?” According to our text‚ “the full disclosure principle calls for the financial reporting of any financial facts significant enough to influence the judgment of an informed reader” (Intermediate Accounting‚ 2010). “Why has disclosure increased substantially in the last 10 years?” There is no one reason why disclosures have increased substantially

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    of corruption that existed at Lehman’s and the lack of controls that ultimately resulted in their downfall. An interesting finding was the acceptance of a rule‚ Repo 105‚ that allowed the company to write off and hide bad decisions. Even those unfamiliar with financial decisions will see the danger in the overuse of such a policy – something that was later denied by the CEO of Lehman’s. 2. What was the culture at Lehman Brothers like? How did this culture contribute to the company’s downfall? The

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    Reaction Paper on Enron Case September 9‚ 2013 Summary: Enron’s origins date back to 1985 when it began life as an interstate pipeline company through the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Omaha-based InterNorth. Kenneth Lay‚ the former chief executive officer of Houston Natural Gas‚ became CEO‚ and the next year won the post of chairman. From the pipeline sector‚ Enron began moving into new fields. In 1999‚ the company launched its broadband services unit and Enron Online‚ the company’s website

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