[Case/Article Name]: The Enron Wars – Vanity Fair | The Watkins Memo | Questions: 1. Why do you think the whistleblowers we’ve encountered have all been women? The first reason I guess is women are more considering about emotions not about objective facts. Maybe a man won’t do anything he thinks it is wrong. He will refuse wrong things immediately. But women judge things by their own standards. For instance‚ if a woman likes the person who tells a woman to do something wrong based
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After hearing bits and pieces about the “Enron scandal” over the years‚ it was interesting to learn about what specifically happened to the global giant company and how it reached its demise in the early 2000s. It seems as though Enron’s downfall had largely to do with the corporate culture instilled within the company from its inception in 1984. The idea of “get big fast” encouraged employees to do whatever they deemed necessary to drive earnings‚ even if it meant leaving ethics at the door. The
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This case study is extracted mainly from two major novels titled “What went wrong at Enron” by Fusaro P.C. and Miller R.M. and “The unshredded truth from an Enron insider” by Brian Cruver. The Vision Called Enron The history of Enron goes back to the 1920’s‚ when a pair of Houston pipeline companies was incorporated to carry gas along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In 1956 these companies merged under the name of Houston natural Gas (HNG). While these companies were working along the coast
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` Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room The movie‚ Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room‚ is a classic story about corporate America’s greed an deceit that was discovered after the demise of Enron. The collapse of Enron was one of the largest bankruptcy in history and the movie captures the culture of money and politics involved in big American corporations. The film did a very good job portraying the culture that allowed Enron to become one of the largest corporations in America while
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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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In October of 2001 the Enron scandal was revealed‚ which led to their bankruptcy. It was the biggest bankruptcy reorganization in American history at that time. In the movie Jeff Skilling suggest that money is the only thing that motivates people‚ and I agree with him. Money might not directly motivate everybody but it plays a part in everybody’s motivation. Money is the reason people stay in school longer than required‚ the reason people work‚ and the reason why people get out of bed in the morning
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of the Enron Scandal The Enron scandal is one that left a deep and ugly scar on the face of modern business. As a result of the scandal‚ thousands of people lost their jobs‚ some people lost their entire pensions‚ and all of the shareholders lost the money that they had invested in the corporation after it went bankrupt. I believe that Kenneth Lay‚ former Enron CEO‚ and Jeffrey Skilling behaved in an unethical manner without any form of justification‚ but the whistleblower‚ former Enron vice president
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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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Problem: What can Enron do to salvage the Dabhol project and its ties to India? After nine years of an obvious debacle‚ it seems that Enron and the Indian government have reached a state of impasse‚ where a sustainable long term relationship cannot be achieved. Enron has chosen to terminate the agreement by offering to the Indian Prime Minister Enron’s 65% equity in DPC for US$1.2 billion and offshore debt for US$1.1 billion. o Various political parties have consistently used Enron as an issue to
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CASE 4-1: Bessrawl Corporation Reconciliation of net income from U.S. GAAP to IFRS 2011 Net Income according to U.S. GAAP attributable to equity holders of Bessrawl Corporation ………… $1‚000‚000.00 IFRS adjustments: Add: Reversal of inventory cost written down to replacement cost….. 10‚000.00 Less: Additional depreciation of building after 2011 revaluation……..
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