Enron Corporation and Andersen‚ LLP Accounting Fraud and Auditor Legal Liability 1 - What were the business risks Enron faced‚ and how did those risks increase the likelihood of material misstatements in Enron’s financial statements? The business risks that Enron faced included foreign currency risks and price instability‚ which is common for the energy industry. In addition‚ Enron faced pressure to perform well so that the stock price would rise. These risks increased
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The Rampart Scandal When officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Internal Affairs bureau began shadowing Rafael Perez‚ watching their fellow cop steal massive amounts of cocaine from evidence lockers in order to sell it on the street‚ investigators thought they had a major misconduct case on their hands. They didn’t know the half of it. The perception of the Los Angeles Police Department has ranged from being the best police force in the United States to being a blatant racist agency
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The Adelphia Scandal In 1952‚ John Rigas purchased his own cable company. By the late 1990’s‚ he had turned it into the sixth largest cable company in the United States with 5.6 million customers. The business was always run as a family style business which led to fraudulent acts among family members and upper level executives. The family has been accused of stealing $3.1 billion from Adelphia and is now facing criminal charges. Adelphia was forced to file chapter 11 bankruptcy and as of April
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Oct ‘10 Nanyang Technological University[Type the company address] Yi Theng Lim Organization Behavior & Design Case Ethical Analysis NKF Singapore: Anatomy of a Crisis 08 Fall Introduction In July 2005‚ Singapore was shaken by a scandal involving the National Kidney Foundation (NKF)‚ the nation’s largest charity. The scandal had surfaced many ethically controversial practices by NKF. In this paper‚ I will be focusing on the dilemmas surrounding NKF’S operations structure
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QUESTION 1 (B) Evaluate the auditor’s role in the certification of the financial statements and conclude whether its work is effective in preventing major scandals on the lines of Enron and Worldcom. 1.0 ABSTRACT 2.0 ENRON-CORPORATE FIASCOS 3.0 HOW DID THE AUDITORS FAIL TO CATCH PROBLEMS AT ENRON? 4.0 HOW TO PREVENT RECURRENCE OF ENRON? 5.0 NEW RESPONSIBILITIES OF AUDITORS ACCORDING TO SARBANES-OXLEY ACT 2002 6.0 CONCLUSION 7.0 REFERENCES 1.0 ABSTRACT The responsibility of an auditor
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Before getting into the Payola scandal and explaining what happened‚ it is important to know what payola is first. In the music industry‚ payola is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on music radio‚ in which the song is presented as being of the normal day’s broadcast (Neira). A radio station can play a certain song in exchange for money‚ but the radio station must disclose this on the air as being sponsored airtime. The playing
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By: Leigh Overstreet THE WATERGATE SCANDAL Watergate is a hotel in Washington D.C. where the Democratic National Committee held their campaign headquarters. The current president at the time was Richard M. Nixon‚ who was involved in the scandal himself and which lead to the cause of his resignation. The Watergate scandal should not have happened‚ but it did and it caused the American people to judge less of their government system. The scandal began on June 17‚ 1972‚ with the arrest of five men
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Introduction Hallmark is the recent largest banking scam in Bangladesh‚ which occurred due to regulatory inefficiency of commercial banking sectors. It is a pointer to the fact that if you do not tighten the regulatory belt of the banks‚ serious problems could creep in. Source suggests‚ this particular business house is assumed to have resorted to fraudulent loan. A fraudulent loan is one in which the borrower is a business entity controlled by a dishonest bank officer or an accomplice; the “borrower”
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The Olympus Scandal Hot Potatoes and Flying Funds Summary This paper describes the case of Olympus‚ a Japanese manufacturer of optic equipment‚ at which in early 2012 a scandal was uncovered which was soon dubbed to be one of the largest loss-concealment schemes of Japan. In the 1990’s‚ Olympus incurred significant losses on financial investments made. These were subsequently hidden with the aid of investment companies by shifting the investments around. In the 2000’s‚ these losses were
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PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT ASSISSTANCE FUND (PDAF) By: PEREZ‚ Chrysalyka C. I. INTRODUCTION PDAF or Priority Development Assistance Fund is a form of pork barrel which has been a very controversial issue in our country today. These are funds given or allocated to government officials in order to support and be spent on community projects and/or repairs and improvements. G. Luis Igaya of Institute for Popular Democracy defined pork barrel
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