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    capitalization of operating expenses • management promoted culture fixed on the numbers • board of directors’ failure to scrutinize billion-dollar acquisitions • excessive loans to executives in order protect stock prices Financial Overview of WorldCom (in Billions) Financial Highlights 1994 1999 2001 2004 Revenues $2.2 $37.1 $35.2 $20.7 Total Assets $3.4 $91.1 $103.9 $17.1 Employees $7.5 $97.6 $87.8 $40.4 Market Cap. $3.3 $150.5 $42.8 $6.4 Debt $0.8 $13.1 $30.0 $5.9 Total Capitalization

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    Auditors Role in Enron

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    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 is to express

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    Enron case analysis

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    Enron debacle: Case Report Table of Contents I. Understanding the Entity: Business Risk Assessment 1. Nature of the entity 1.1. Brief introduction: Enron Corporation‚ a Houston based giant company‚ conducted energy trading business and gas pipeline transportation and distribution business in the energy and industrial sectors. 1During the 1990s‚ Enron transferred from a natural gas supplier and to an intermediary midstream company facilitating distributions

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    Could the American Revolutionary war have been avoided? The American Revolutionary war is a war that changed the American history because America was able to gain freedom from England. When looking at this war after many years and analyzing all the conflicts that lead to it‚ it can be concluded that the war could have been avoided. There are several reasons that ignited the war such as the refusal of the Olive Branch Petition by King George III‚ the Pamphlet‚ Common Sense‚ published by Thomas Paine

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    Assignment # 3 WorldCom Accounting Fraud By Mark A. Cowan Strayer University ACC 499- Accounting Capstone May 15‚ 2011 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the aspects of the WorldCom accounting scandal and the effects that this scandal had on the accounting world as we know it. We will discuss the corporate culture at WorldCom and how it contributed to the accounting fraud‚ how the CEO’s desire to be the #1 stock on Wall Street contributed to the fraud‚ pressures on accountants to book

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    sol of enron case

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    Enron Case 10.8.2014 Melissa Becker Boya Du Sidi (Fiona) Chen Wei (David) Yu In June of 2001 Enron’s new CEO‚ Jeff Skilling‚ was heralded as the “No. 1 CEO in the entire country and Enron was saluted as “America’s most innovated company.”1 Just six months later‚ in December‚ Enron filed for bankruptcy. The failure shocked the public and angered investors. How could this have happened? Did no one see this coming? Where were the accountants? Where were the controls? Enron’s public troubles

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    FAR600 CASE STUDY WORLDCOM QUESTION 1 a) Discuss the earnings management technique employed by the management of World Com. WorldCom admitted that the company had classified over $3.8 billion in payments for line costs as capital expenditures rather than current expenses. Line costs are what WorldCom pays other companies for using their communications networks; they consist principally of access fees and transport charges for messages for WorldCom customers. Reportedly‚ $3

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    initiative to seek out opportunities and respond to customers’ needs. But pursuing some opportunities can expose businesses to excessive risk or invite behaviors that can damage a company’s integrity. Consider the spate of management control failures that have made headlines in the past several years: Kidder‚ Peabody&. Company lost $350 million when a trader allegedly booked fictitious profits; Sears‚ Roebuck and Company took a $60 million charge against earnings after admitting that it recommended unnecessary

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    Enrons Business Model

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    A business model of the times The Enron bubble was a prime example of the dominance of speculative finance in business. V. SRIDHAR MORE than two months after Enron‚ the seventh biggest corporation in the United States‚ filed for bankruptcy‚ the stench of scandal refuses to die. Shocking revelations about the company’s modus operandi continue to pour in. Public and media attention was initially focussed on the company’s close ties with the political establishment and the policy-making bureaucracy

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    Enron was once one of the world’s leading electricity‚ natural gas‚ pulp‚ paper and communications companies. However‚ in December 2‚ 2001‚ Enron suddenly filed for bankruptcy. During the ten years before Enron¡¦s went bankrupt‚ Enron¡¦s management had started transferring Enron¡¦s funding to personal accounts and made fake balance sheets‚ which provided investors information about how this company goes. (Gibney‚ 2005) These illegal actions‚ performed by certain individuals‚ finally led Enron to

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