The Downfall of Enron Valerie Glushkov Enron Company was once one of the biggest energy company in the U.S. Fortune magazine ranked Enron as #7 in April 2001 in Fortunes ranking by market capitalization of the five hundred largest corporations in the United States. On December 2‚ 2001‚ Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The unexpected and rapid collapse in the market value of this corporate giant has had immense consequences for nearly all of its stakeholders
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CONFLICT ON A TRADING FLOOR (A) CASE SUMMARY Brief background and context: Junior salesperson ("Seth")‚ an assistant on the non-dollar derivative desk of FirstAmerica (“FA”)‚ finds himself in a difficult situation and has to decide what course of action to take as relates to going along with misrepresenting material facts to a key client‚ Poseidon‚ in conjunction with their hedging of French Franks relating to the $700 million equivalent cost of the five year construction of a new cruise
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Fall of Enron The History Enron began as a pipeline company in Houston in 1985. It profited by promising to deliver so many cubic feet to a particular utility or business on a particular day at a market price. That change with the deregulation of electrical power markets‚ a change due in part to lobbying from senior Enron officials. Under the direction of former Chairman Kenneth L. Lay‚ Enron expanded into an energy broker‚ trading electricity and other commodities. The Business of Enron Enron
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MFIN6003 Derivative Securities Dr. Huiyan Qiu End-of-chapter Questions for Practice (with Answers) Following is a list of selected end-of-chapter questions for practice from McDonald’s Derivatives Markets. For students who do not have a copy of the McDonald’s book‚ be aware that a copy of the book is reserved at the main library of the University of Hong Kong for you to borrow for short period of time. Answers provided are for your reference only. It is complied directly from the solution
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October 18‚ 2012 Dear Mr. Allen‚ Hello‚ I’m Joanmarie Swanson and I am a part of Marin School of Environmental Leadership (MSEL) at Terra Linda High School. MSEL is a school within a school‚ which focuses on environmental issues and situations‚ as well as project-based learning and building leadership skills in students. Our class attended and listened to you speak at the sustainability debate. I support your ideas about shaping the United States. I agree with you that we should have
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1. Adsteam Adonist@gmx.de‚ quigonjinn@hotmail.de was a very model of conglomerate(jujie). In the eyes of the outside‚ it was a successful company. But it’s not true. It’s far from other companies in its complex structure. Adsteam group comprised numerous less-than-majority-owned companies. It acquired major share-holdings in numerous companies throughout the 1980’s. The acquisition strategy resulted in an extremely complicated cross-shareholding-based structure. It was noting that the maximum amount
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Procedural irregularity – “substantial injustice” Bell v Turnbridge Chew Inv v General Corp of Australia :invalid S1322 -Ratification? Fraud on the minority Cook v Deeks -Refusal by company to initiate legal action against directors Derivative action : s236 :s236 (1)- Asset is a shareholder‚ has status to apply to the court :must obtain leave of the court to take action on
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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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Case: The Fall of Enron Enron was so admired prior until 2000; they grew to a powerful company. In 1985‚ Internorth acquired Houston Natural Gas to form HNG/Internorth‚ a natural gas pipeline company. This company was renamed to Enron. At the time of Enron’s creation‚ the U.S. gas market was in the middle of deregulation. In 1985‚ rules were established that allowed gas users to realize the cost savings by purchasing gas at spot prices and separately contracting with pipeline firms for delivery
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very rotten in the state of Enron.” This quote by Michigan Senator Carl Levin is a twist of words from a famous playwright‚ Shakespeare’s Hamlet; “Something was very rotten in the state of Denmark.” From the play‚ this was recited because there was a lot of corruption in Denmark from the betrayal in royalty. In comparison to Levin’s quote‚ there was betrayal of Enron leaders to their employees‚ as well as the company itself. Between the years of 1979 and 2001‚ Enron was known for the largest market
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