After having received an email from Shannon McDonald (regarding the need to receive a statement of his perspective on recent performance and ideas)‚ Thomas Green is left with several options to choose from to solve the issue at hand. Before discussing these options it is important to describe his first step in taking any one of these decisions. Green must first email McDonald to find out the best time they could meet. For any decision Green decides upon at this point‚ it is important that he communicate
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of ethical issues raised in the movie “Enron-the Smartest Guys in the Room” but the four I am going to focus on are listed below. Art Anderson‚ Ken Lay and all of the other executives did a number of unethical things which ultimately brought down Enron and affected thousands of employees and their futures. The bottom line was that each and every one of them acted out of greed for the almighty dollar. 1- Encouraging employees to invest and buy stock in Enron when they knew the truth about the lack
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of Enron were the large number of highly complex accounting entries. For example energy traders were required to book all the projected profits from a supply contract in the quarter in which the deal is made. Such accounting procedures are inherently risky as they make assumptions about price forecasts which can drastically affect earnings. Another inherent risk factor is the frequency of related party transactions. The special purpose entities Enron was trading with were created by Enron and
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Role of Internal Audit Function Nano Circuits Inc‚ is a publicly traded company that produces electronic control circuits‚ which are used in many products. In an effort to comply with SOX‚ Nano is in the process of establishing an in-house internal audit function‚ which previously had been outsourced. The company began this process by hiring a Director of Internal Audits. Nano Circuits’ CEO recently called a planning meeting to discuss the roles of key corporate participants regarding the implementation
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Assignment: The Enron and World Com Scandals ACC/260 September 17‚ 2010 Pp 106-107 1. Which segment of its operations got Enron into difficulties? The segment of operations that started the difficulties with Enron went back to the guarantee of loans in order to bridge financing with investments of an outside investor that was never found. Documents were later forced to be restated with activities of other companies that had to be consolidated into Enron’s accounts. 3. Did Enron’s directors
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Enron‚ the Smartest Guys in the Room. Enron was involved in American’s largest corporate bankruptcy. It is a story about people‚ and in reality it is a tragedy. Enron made their stock sky rocket through unethical means‚ and in reality this company kept losing money. The primary value operating among the traders was greed‚ money‚ and how to make profits under any circumstance. The traders thought that a good trader is a creative trader and the creative trader can find any arbitrage opportunity
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this paper is consider three possible rationales for why Enron collapsed—that key individuals were flawed‚ that the organization was flawed‚ and that some factors larger than the organization (e.g.‚ a trend toward deregulation) led to Enron’s collapse. In viewing “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” it was clear that all three of these flaws contributed to the demise of Enron‚ but it was the synergy of their combination that truly let Enron to its ultimate path of destruction. As in any organization
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ECO204: Solutions to Homework 5 1. True‚ False‚ Uncertain a. False. Methods to eliminating moral hazard include writing efficient contracts between principals and agents‚ bonding and deferred payments. The methods to eliminate adverse selection include sending signals and relying on 3rd parties to verify quality. b. True. When there is asymmetric information‚ it drives out high-quality goods because consumers have a difficult time differentiating between high- and low-quality goods. As a result‚
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Wk2 Assignment: The Enron and WorldCom Scandals Student Name ACC/260 Date Instructors Name[Page Break] 1. Which segment of its operations got Enron into difficulties? The guaranteed loans that were intended to bridge the financing for investments from outside investors that could not be found would be the segment of operations that caused Enron difficulties. 2. Did Enron’s directors understand how profits were being made in this segment
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Running head: LEADERSHIP CASE STUDY Leadership Case Study Susan Walters Grand Canyon University Enron’s corporate culture and unethical leadership led to its demise. Schuler (2002) writes that individuals are responsible for their actions regardless if they are symptoms of a systematic problem. He goes on to describe Enron’s corporate leadership and culture exemplified values of risk taking‚ aggressive growth‚ and entrepreneurial creativity‚ all good traits but then Enron became arrogant. Schuler
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