political system with concepts of citizenship‚ law‚ and property that included ordinary Russians. This lead to the numerous riots and strikes all over Russia in 1905. At first‚ it was still somewhat peaceful‚ but when the Tsar’s men massacred peaceful demonstrators who had come to the Tsar’s palace with a reasonable petition asking for
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Ayusarita Satriani 311368 – IUP BUSINESS UGM Financial Management ENRON Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal ; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1780075.stm; http://finance.laws.com/enron-scandal-summary Enron is an energy company that successfully grew from nowhere to be America’s seventh largest company‚ which has 21‚000 staff in more than 40 countries in 15 years. It was one of the world’s leading electricity‚ natural gas‚ communications‚ and pulp and paper companies
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The Collapse of Lehman Brothers – Lessons Learned: Corporate Governance and Ethics. Posted by erictse2 on February 11‚ 2012 The Collapse of Lehman Brothers – Lessons Learned: Corporate Governance and Ethics. Executive summary This essay discusses about the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008‚ from the perspective of corporate governance and ethics. It first gives some background about the collapse and analyze financial situation of the company before the incident happened. It reveals unethical
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CASE STUDY – UNIT 1 1. Andrew Fastow is a key person responsible for the downfall of Enron. When he became the CFO in 1998‚ he came up with the plan to make the company appear in great shape by using the mark-to-market accounting practice. The company would build an asset‚ such as a power plant‚ and immediately claim the projected profit on its books‚ even though it hadn’t made one dime from it. If the revenue from the power plant was less than the projected amount‚ instead of taking the loss‚ the
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Enron was a company in the energy industry founded in 1985 by Kenneth Lay. Enron was based in Huston‚ Texas and employed approximately 20‚000 people. In 2001‚ Enron filed for bankruptcy after many years of lying‚ fraud‚ and dishonesty with their financial books. Enron was pretending to be a huge‚ successful company when in reality‚ it was in a financial hole so deep there was no way of getting out. Discuss and analyze the culture at Enron. In what way was it effective? In what ways was it the catalyst
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Question 1: How did the Corporate Culture at Enron contribute to its bankruptcy? The corporate Culture at Enron could have contributed to its bankruptcy in many ways. Its corporate culture supported unethical behavior without question for as long as the behavior resulted in monetary gain for the company. It was describe as having a culture of arrogance that led people to believe that they could handle increasingly greater risk without encountering any danger. Its culture did little to promote
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1. The “crisis of confidence” on the public accounting profession was not something that happened overnight and it is not the fault of one group of people or individuals. The accounting profession is partly to blame for this crisis‚ as the necessary rules‚ regulations and guidelines were not in place to hold companies and accounting firms responsible for their actions. The lack of regulations also allowed companies to partake in misleading transactions. These transactions were perfectly legal
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Importance of Accounting Accounting is important because it manages the checkbooks of company which are important to analyses and determine the success of the business by looking through the different account statements and translating the company documents. An accountant or accounting firm starts and maintains auditing of a company. Accounting is also important because it offers a great assistance in planning the future investments as well as being able
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Case 12.4 1. Mark can ask George for his plans on continuing the company for over a year. The plans must be shared in the form of a financial statement and assuming the plans are adequate‚ Mark can provide feedback through notes on the mitigating factors. If the disclosed information does not meet the criteria Mark was looking for‚ then he should ask George to provide the notes for the shared financial statements which identify the doubts that he has about the growing concern assumption. Assuming
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particularly in this case: how did Enron lose both its economical and ethical status? This question makes the Enron case interesting to us as business ethicists. Enron ethics means that business ethics is a question of organizational "deep" culture rather than of cultural artifacts like ethics codes‚ ethics officers and the like. BackgroundAt the beginning Enron faced a number of financially difficulty years. In 1988‚ the deregulation of the electrical power market took effect and Enron redefined its business
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