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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Enron Corporation (former NYSE ticker symbol ENE) was an American energy‚ commodities‚ and services company based in Houston‚ Texas. Before its bankruptcy on December 2‚ 2001‚ Enron employed approximately 20‚000 staff and was one of the world’s major electricity‚ natural gas‚ communications‚ and pulp and paper companies‚ with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion during 2000.[1] Fortune named Enron "America’s Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years. At the end of 2001‚ it was revealed
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Natural Gas‚ became CEO‚ and the next year won the post of chairman. From the pipeline sector‚ Enron began moving into new fields. In 1999‚ the company launched its broadband services unit and Enron Online‚ the company’s website for trading commodities‚ which soon became the largest business site in the world. About 90 per cent of its income eventually came from trades over Enron Online. Growth for Enron was rapid. In 2000‚ the company’s annual revenue reached $100 billion US. It ranked as the seventh-largest
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Enron: Shaping The Future of Ethics In Business “Give me the story– please‚ the story. If I can finally understand the case in simple terms‚ I can‚ in turn‚ tell the same story to the jury and make them understand it as well. I go about my life confused most of the time‚ but when I get something clear I usually can communicate it. Getting it clear is not the work of huge minds‚ which often are baffled by themselves‚ but the labor of ordinary minds that understand simplest of stories… most of all
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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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Enron 1. How did the corporate culture of Enron contribute to its bankruptcy? There was an overwhelming aura of pride‚ carrying with it the deep-seated belief that Enron¡¦s people could handle increasing risk without danger. The culture also was about a focus on how much money could be made for executives. For‚ example Enron¡¦s compensation plans seemed less concerned with generating profits for shareholders than with enriching officer wealth. Enron¡¦s corporate
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A small business is a business that is privately owned and operated‚ with a small number of employees and relatively low volume of sales. Small businesses are normally privately owned corporations‚ partnerships‚ or sole proprietorships. Business failure is the last stage of an organization ’s life cycle. Organizational decline‚ leading to failure is characterized by management who has become reactionary. The result is inadequate or nonexistent planning and inefficient decision-making. Characteristics
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Examining a Business Failure: Atarti Inc LDR/531 August 2‚ 2010 Examining a Business Failure: Atari Inc The world of technology continues to change for the better. One piece of technology that has made some interesting changes is video games. We’ve come from simple “plug-and-play” video games to systems with motion sensors. One of the first video game systems‚ the Atari‚ was introduced in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell‚ a University of Utah Engineering major. Bushnell’s idea came from working in
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Mistakes and failures of a business Jesse L. Pulley Man104 May 21‚2013 Mistakes and failures of a business Small and large business fails because they take risk to many risks in what they do. Lots of times it is the employees that make or break a business or the owner of the business‚ which makes a business fail. The way they fix the problem is to ask the employees what they are looking to get out of the business and what they like to see done with the business these way owners and employees
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Based in Houston‚ Texas an American energy‚ commodities‚ and services company named ENRON CORPORATION was Ranked number 7 on the fortune 500 list in 2000‚ it was one of the most famous and largest integrated natural gas and electricity companies in the world. The company went bankruptcy on December 2‚ 2001. But before that it marketed natural gas liquids around the world and was working as one of the biggest natural gas transmission systems in the world‚ with transmissions over a massive area of
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