Enron The collapse of Enron Corporation an American energy‚ commodities and services based Company in Houston‚ Texas reinforces why unethical business practices are not the foundation for an enduring and sustainable enterprise. Good business practices is rewarding because it builds sustainable company‚ trust‚ integrity and organizational growth. In the article Enron ethics: Culture matters more than codes‚ reminded us that before the scandal‚ Enron appeared to have the best organization
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Enron and How it Affected the Accounting Industry Enron once was one the United States largest energy company and was ranked Fortune’s seventh richest corporation in the United States. When Enron had a filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 it unraveled to be one the biggest accounting scandals in United States history. There are many factors that contributed to Enron’s demise but their aggressive and unethical accounting practices were the key component. As a result‚ the accounting industry
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collapse of Enron had substantial and far-reaching ramifications throughout the financial investment field‚ tax compliance professions and the accounting profession. Intense Congressional scrutiny resulted in a new era of transparency in financial reporting‚ stricter reporting standards as provided in Sarbanes-Oxley and substantial penalties for failure to comply with new financial reporting and tax compliance standards in the Internal Revenue Code (Bottiglieri et. al.‚ 2009) Enron Assignment
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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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UVA-F-1299 Rev. Feb. 8‚ 2011 This document is authorized for use only by Mattia Tenaglia at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Please do not copy or redistribute. Contact permissions@dardenbusinesspublishing.com for questions or additional permissions. ENRON CORPORATION’S WEATHER DERIVATIVES (A) Everybody talks about the weather‚ but nobody does anything about it.1 In October 2000‚ Mary Watts‚ the chief financial officer of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW)‚ a utility servicing the Pacific Northwest
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Importance of Accounting Accounting is important because it manages the checkbooks of company which are important to analyses and determine the success of the business by looking through the different account statements and translating the company documents. An accountant or accounting firm starts and maintains auditing of a company. Accounting is also important because it offers a great assistance in planning the future investments as well as being able
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The Blue Jar The Blue Jar contains a variety of important elements in terms of prose fiction. With a unique plot structure‚ manner of symbolism‚ theme‚ and depiction of characters‚ Dinesen develops an interesting work of fiction that seeks to instill certain ideals in the reader. The point of view is that of an omniscient narrator. The Blue Jar’s plot follows the track of exposition‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling action in a unique manner with a “double plot” mechanism. Also‚ it isn’t solely
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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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sandwiches‚ cookie parts‚ and crème parts of both the Oreo and Market Pantry products‚ as well as their percent compositions. Brand Mass of Whole Sandwich (g) Mass of Cookie Part (g) Mass of Crème Part (g) Oreo 12.22 8.66 3.56 Market Pantry 12.05 8.83 3.22 Table 2. This table shows the percent compositions of the store-bought cookies. Brand Percent Cookie Percent Crème Oreo 12.22 8.66 Market Pantry 12.05 8.83 Calculations: mass of creme= total mass of sandwich cookie-mass of cookie part mass
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THE LANGUAGE-BASED MODEL Literary Texts : The Jar of Tassai and The Big Day Grammar Lessons/Points : a. Prepositions/Prepositional Phrases b. Tenses of Verbs (Simple Past Tense) A. Prepositions/Prepositional Phrase * A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence. Rule : A preposition always introduces a phrase. The noun or pronoun that ends a prepositional phrase is the object of the preposition which introduces
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