The Unexpected Collapse of Enron Colleen Long LDR/531 April 3‚ 2010 Kemit Grafton The Unexpected Collapse of Enron Beginning in 1985‚ Enron was formed through a merger of Houston Natural Gas and Internorth‚ Enron Corporation. It was the first nationwide natural gas pipeline network‚ which shifted its focus from regulate transportation of natural gas to unregulated energy trading markets. Enron was a huge company that traded electricity‚ oil‚ gas‚ plastics‚ and other variables
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Running Head: ENRON ETHICAL ANALYSIS Enron Ethical Analysis Gordon C. Shaw III Grand Canyon University Abstract This is a survey of business policies and procedures implemented by the Enron corporate policy committee headed by the chairman Ken Lay. The enigma of corporate responsibilities and ethics of the Houston based energy giant Enron are mapped out in a simple easy to read memorandum circulated throughout the several levels of management and to all employees
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Bibliographic Reference Author: Osama Shaban‚ Accounting Department‚ AlZaytoonah University of Jordan Title: Auditing Human Resources as a Method to Evaluate the Efficiency of Human Resources Functions and to Control Quality Check on Human Resource Activities International Business Research Journal‚ Vol. 5‚ No. 3 PP.122-129 © Canadian Center of Science and Education Introduction Objectives of the article include: • To evaluate the efficiency of human resources at all
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Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 INTRODUCTION 3 CHANGES IN REGULATIONS 3 CHALLENGES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 4 RESPONDING TO THE CHANGES 4 Research Studies 4 Response to Surbanes-Oxley Act 5 Response to the European Commission’s proposals 6 Enron Failure 6 Arthur Andersen failure 6 Lehman Brothers failure 6 Ernst & Young failure 7 Detection of fraud 7 Going Concern 7 MINIMISING LITIGATION RISK 7 Obstruction of Justice 8 Consultancy service 8 Conservative Audit 8 Conclusion
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am detailThe ENRON Scandal is considered to be one of the most notorious within American history-White Collar By misrepresenting earnings reports while continuing to enjoy the revenue provided by the investors not privy to the true financial condition of ENRON‚ the executives of ENRON embezzled funds funneling in from investments while reporting fraudulent earnings to those investors; this not only proliferated more investments from current stockholders‚ but also attracted new investors desiring
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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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Employee Involvement The direct participation of staff to help an organization fulfill its mission and meet its objectives by applying their own ideas‚ expertise‚ and efforts towards solving problems and making decisions. From this definition‚ participation can include representative participation‚ direct communication‚ and upward problem solving. We will focus on the latter two categories because this article is more about understanding outcomes‚ tools‚ and methods. \The direct participation of
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25. The Code of Professional Conduct derives its authority from the A) Securities and Exchange Commission. B) Bylaws of the American Institute of CPAs. C) Financial Accounting Standards Board. D) Auditing Standards Board. 26. The chief (internal) audit executive should have direct reporting access to the audit committee‚ and the committee should oversee the activities and budget of the internal audit function. A) True B) False 27. The AICPA Principles of Professional Conduct include which
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When Jeff Skilling took the major energy company Enron over‚ he contributed to the hiring and development of an entire corporation with a crooked staff whom were corrupt all the way from the bottom employees to the top executives. Top executives “cooked the books” through a certain structured finance including accounting ambiguities‚ special purpose entities‚ and poor financial reporting. They were able to hide billions of dollars in debt from failed deals and projects. CFO‚ Andrew Fastow and other
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a) In your opinion‚ why do standard setters require measurement methods other than traditional historical cost accounting? At the beginning‚ traditional historical cost accounting practice were designed to allocate financial results across reporting periods and record the outcome of transactions. Under this approach‚ revenue is recorded when it is realized while expenses are matched in the same reporting period as revenue. However‚ in 1980s accounting standard setters began to shift away from this
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