No. 2005–57 ROYAL AHOLD: A FAILURE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND AN ACCOUNTING SCANDAL By Abe de Jong‚ Douglas V. DeJong‚ Gerard Mertens‚ Peter Roosenboom March 2005 ISSN 0924-7815 Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance and an Accounting Scandal Abe de Jong* Department of Financial Management Erasmus University Rotterdam a.jong@fbk.eur.nl Douglas V. DeJong Tippie College of Business University of Iowa douglas-dejong@uiowa.edu Gerard Mertens Department of Financial Management Erasmus
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Investor relations‚ reputational bonding‚ and corporate governance: The case of Royal Ahold Abe de Jong a‚ Douglas V. DeJong b‚*‚ Gerard Mertens a‚ Peter Roosenboom a b a Department of Financial Management‚ RSM Erasmus University‚ Netherlands Tippie College of Business‚ University of Iowa‚ Iowa City‚ IA 52242‚ United States Abstract Royal Ahold (Koninklijke Ahold NV) was one of the major success stories in the 1990s and is one of the major failures‚ suffering a complete meltdown‚ in 2003.
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EDUCATION Vol. 22‚ No. 4 November 2007 pp. 641–660 Europe’s Enron: Royal Ahold‚ N.V. Michael C. Knapp and Carol A. Knapp ABSTRACT: Royal Ahold‚ N.V.‚ is a large multinational company based in The Netherlands that was founded in 1887 by Albert Heijn. Three generations of the Heijn family oversaw the company’s retail grocery business. In 1989‚ the company hired a professional management team. The new management team expanded Royal Ahold’s operations by purchasing grocery chains around the globe‚
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Ahold: Royal Dutch Disaster Session 7 Management Accounting & Controls Date 24-Feb-03 Issue: $500 million fraud What: Global food retailer with over 9‚000 stores and 278‚000 employees in 4 continents 2002 Sales -72 billion Euros up from 66 billion in 2001 Current outstanding loans of 13 billion euros due to 7 years of acquisitions People: Cees Van der Hoeven – CEO since 1993 (joined Ahold’s executive boar as CFO in 1985) Michiel Muers 1997 – CFO graduated in business studies and economics Jim
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decades there have been a number of cases of high profile corporate collapses and fraud scandals. In essence‚ the unethical behaviour of corporations affects us all‚ such as shareholders’ lost financial investments‚ employees who lost their jobs‚ other companies that provided goods and services to the company‚ as well as the economic impact on domestic and international communities. In this paper I will focus on the case study of Royal Ahold and the large accounting fraud that took place within the
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amongst the financial analysts‚ the rating agencies and the banks (as creditors‚ brokers‚ dealers‚ etc.)‚ allowed Callisto Tanzi‚ the founder and the chairman of the group‚ and the other managers to perpetrate the fraud which eventually resulted in Corporate Collapse of Parmalat. The paper will not discuss on those areas. 1. INTRODUCTION Parmalat was the largest Italian food company and the fourth largest in Europe‚ controlling 50% of the Italian market in milk and milk-derivative products. Suddenly
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true for the San Francisco based company. The company was largely build on social media‚ since the users engaged with the page through Facebook and Twitter. AirBnB had a social crisis management issue in the summer of 2011‚ caused by a lack of corporate culture and values. AirBnB has become a classical example‚ showing the importance of social media in reputation management‚ especially in a crisis. AirBnB was caught off-guard by a social media storm after clients had their property vandalized.
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Roberto Benabid 2E10 Contents Part I: Rationale statement The stocks of Colruyt and Ahold were chosen for several reasons. In terms of collecting determinants of shares ‚ the stocks of Colruyt in combination with Ahold’s shares were chosen because they are both located in the same sector however active in different countries. With this
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Organizational culture can be defined as the system of attitudes‚ beliefs and values that are collectively expressed in support of organizational structure. Organizational culture is a pattern of shared basic assumptions that dictate the behavior of individuals within an organization. Culture determines which practices are appropriate and which are not‚ effectively developing standards‚ guidelines‚ and expectations for individuals within an organization. Although they work hand in hand‚ there
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Ahold vs. Tesco Case Analysis Group 5: Rayan Alqubaysi‚ Yuchen (Jason) Jin‚ Laura Payne‚ Lei Wang Introduction of Case ● Alpha Plus Asset Management- investment decision ● Analyzed history‚ business strategy‚ recent performance and future goals ○ ○ Differences in stock prices with similar ROEs How should cash position be taken into account when assessing performance? Porter’s Five Forces of Competitive Position Ahold Threat of new entrants (Market) Bargaining power of customers (Products) Bargaining
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