Title: Creative Accounting & Ethics: Arguments For and Against Creative Accounting Introduction The accounting process consists of dealing with many matters which includes judgment and resolving conflicts between challenging approaches to the presentation of the results of financial transactions. This flexibility provides opportunities for manipulation‚ deceit and misrepresentation and is widely known as creative accounting (Harris n.d.). Creative accounting can be defined as a process which involves
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ENRON: The Idiocy and the Irony Introduction Red flags were blinding as Enron learned about possible corruption with Enron Oil Trading in Valhalla‚ New York. After the merger between HNG and InterNorth‚ the Valhalla office‚ originally established by InterNorth seemed all but forgotten until quarterly and annual reports were due. Supervisors Tom Harding and Steve Sulentic were rarely on-site‚ preferring the comfort of offices in Houston. Louis Borget who established and operated the trading
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Business Ethics Enron Case 1. Using the options market more for gambling purposes to cover loss rather than insurance. The culture was if one of their employees was making a lot of money they didn’t ask questions they didn’t look too deep into where the money was going they eventually gave these people more money to spend and use‚ what they realized later on was that that employee wasn’t very good. They were just lucky one time. They made some losses and had to get that loss back so they put
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The Enron Kaiwing Ho Ethics‚ Governance & Accountability BU.135.301.U2.FA12 Professor Crain November 21‚ 2012 Enron Since Enron Corporation has been bankrupt there were 20‚000 employees lost their jobs‚ medical insurance and average severance pay was only $4500. However‚ the top executives were paid bonuses totaling $55 million. In 2001‚ employees lost $1.2 billion in retirement funds and retirees lost $2 billion in pension funds. Yet‚ Enron’s top executives cashed in $116 million
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contract‚ fraud‚ and negligence. Accountants owe a duty to use reasonable care‚ knowledge‚ skill‚ and judgment when providing auditing and other accounting services to a client. In other words‚ an accountant’s actions are measured against those of a “reasonable accountant” in similar circumstances. The development of GAAPs‚ GAASs‚ and other uniform accounting standards has generally made this a national standard. An accountant who does not comply with GAASs when conducting an audit and thereby fails
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Enron‚ Ethics And Today’s Corporate Values Enron’s heyday has long ended. But its lessons will long endure. The global business community is now watching a painful new chapter is this saga — one where its former high-riding chief executive officer‚ Jeff Skilling‚ is getting a decade shaved off of his prison term that should now end in 2017. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The company’s failure in 2001 represents the biggest business bankruptcy ever while also spotlighting
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ENRON Principles of Accounting Enron Key Players KENNETH LAY Former Enron chairman JEFFREY SKILLING Former Enron CEO DAVID DUNCAN Former Andersen partner NANCY TEMPLE Andersen lawyer THOMAS WHITE Secretary of the Army SHERRON WATKINS Enron vice president Enron started about 29 years ago in July 1985 in Houston‚ Texas.. A energy economist named Kenneth Lay became the CEO of Enron. Mr. Lay was a very optimistic
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could have prevented the fall of Enron. First of all‚ if the board of directors made the right strategies for Enron rather than created hundreds of SPEs to remove assets and debts off balance sheet‚ the picture of Enron could have made a difference. Secondly‚ if the audit committee of Enron could point out all those aggressive and risky accounting treatment and propose solutions‚ then the afterward damages could be eliminate or at least minimized. c. The BOD of Enron should have known about the risks
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Temuujin Enkhbold Enron Fraud Once the seventh largest company in America‚ Enron was formed in 1985 when InterNorth acquired Houston Natural Gas. The company branched into many non-energy-related fields over the next several years‚ including such areas as Internet bandwidth‚ risk management‚ and weather derivatives (a type of weather insurance for seasonal businesses). The Enron fraud case is extremely complex. Some say Enron’s demise is rooted in the fact that in 1992‚ Jeff Skilling‚ then president
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Enron: The Fall from Grace/ The World’s Biggest Fraud Outline A. Enron’s History B. Overview of Enron’s Operations 1. Wholesale Services 2. Energy Services 3. Global Services C. Enron’s Timeline D. Enron’s Role in The Energy Crisis in California E. The Fall of Enron F. Why Enron Fell from Grace? G. The Crash of Enron 1. Key Management at Enron 2. Enron’s Auditor 3. Credit Rating Agencies 4. Investment Banks 5. Links with The Government (Bush Administration) 6. The Link of Enron with The British
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