1. The Enron debacle created what one public official reported was a “crisis of confidence” on the part of the public in the accounting profession. List the parties who you believe are most responsible for that crisis. Briefly justify each of your choices. a. Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ and Andrew Fastow. A common theme of the allegations leveled at the three executives was that they had created a corporate culture that fostered‚ if not encouraged‚ “rule breaking”. b. Andersen
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be sure about a company ’s real fundamentals and true risk” (McClure‚ 2010). Transparency has even become more of a necessity since companies like Enron and many others showed the world that complex business structures and unclear financials just hide bad news. It is very helpful to imagine your customer as a member of your family. In most cases people would never want anything bad to happen to their family. No one wants their family to have a bad service experience‚ or get a product that
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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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Bulacan State University City of Malolos College of Business Administration “Reaction and Case Study in Business Ethics” A paper private to the college of Business Administration of the Bulacan State University City of Malolos Bulacan In partial fulfillment of the Requirements in Business Ethics Under Mr. Eliseo S. dela Cruz By: Efraim Hazel C. Reyes Case Study Outline Title Page Table of Contents Part
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CASE 1.1 Enron Corporation “Think Straight‚ Talk Straight. “ This was the motto of Arthur Edward Andersen. He was the founder of the Arthur & Company‚ which was established to provide accounting‚ auditing and related services. Throughout his professional‚ Arthur E. Andersen career‚ relied on a simple‚ four-word motto to serve as a guiding principle in making important personal and professional decisions: “Think straight‚ Talk straight.” Andersen would prefer fewer clients‚ than having more
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Enron entered the year 2001 as the seventh largest public company in the U.S‚ only to exit the year as the largest company to ever declare bankruptcy in U.S history. a) What were the business risks Enron faced and how did those risks increase the likelihood of material misstatements in the Enron’s financial statements? Enron faces most of the risk ordinarily faced by any energy company‚ including price instability and foreign currency risks. Enron operated in many different areas of the
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The Smartest Guys in the Room It was a profound story happened between two giant companies‚ both of which once marked as one of the greatest companies for decades in the American History. Enron‚ started as Northern natural Gas Company in 1930‚ creatively making its way through the Great Depression by opening up the natural gas market with its lower cost and developing extensive pipeline network with the unlimited low-cost labor resource‚ fell apart due to its creative use of the SPEs and related
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1.0 Case Study Summary Ice-T(Tracy Morrow) a black rap artist signed under the Time Warner label‚ released an album called “Body Count” in 1992 that contained a controversial song‚ "Cop Killer”. The lyrics included‚ "I’ve got my twelve-gauge sawed-off…I’m about to dust some crops off…die‚ pig‚ die.” The American society hold fidel on immoral against theft‚rape enslavement‚ murder‚ child abuse‚ assault‚ slander‚ fraud‚ law-breaking and so on. Time warner record
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1. Describe the situation at Lehman Brothers from an ethics perspective. What’s your opinion of what happened here? To attribute Lehman’s failure to “unprecedented adverse events in the financial markets” completely overlooks the irresponsible ethical behavior of employees and managers. Students should mention the culture 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
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Case study on the topic of Business Ethics: Key employee (Based on real facts‚ names of people and name of the company are changed) “Mirax” is a well-known constructional company in Vilnius‚ Lithuania. The firm is made up of 100 unskilled workmen‚ 12 first line supervisors and 6 higher level managers‚ stuff of 20 office personnel and the president Evaldas Vanagas‚ who established “Mirax” company 7 years ago. Juozas Marcinkenas came to the company 5 years ago‚ when he was the third year
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