Enron Corporation Question 1‚ In my point of view‚ the parties are most responsible for the “crisis of confidence” on the part of the public in the accounting profession as following. • The parties who create these auditing standard rules‚ such as SEC‚ Auditing Standard Board. They should publish the Sarbanes-Oxley Act earlier. They should be considered the non-auditing services for auditing clients is a serious issue earlier. • The auditors of the Andersen firm. They didn’t do their
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E. Boos – Week 2 – Assignment February 17‚ 2013 The Enron and WoldCom Scandals ENRON 1. The segment of Enron’s operations that got them into difficulties had several parts. They published misleading financial reports. They could not meet their bridge financing commitment with Barclay Bank because outside investors were not found. Because of this‚ they restated activities of JEDI and Chewco SPEs so they could be retroactively consolidated into Enron’s accounts. The SPEs
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market maker in natural gas and other commodities. Enron successfully influenced policymakers to exempt the company from various regulatory rules‚ for example in the field of energy derivatives. This allowed Enron to enter various trading markets with virtually no government oversight. Arguably‚ regulation might have prevented Enron from taking some of the risks and making some of the mistakes which it did. While deregulation may initially have helped Enron‚ by allowing it to create and enter new markets
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Enron The affect of the unethical behavior of the profitability of Enron was that the third party “outside” independent auditors was not able to backup and have accounting financial statements‚ some of those auditors and financial institutions may have been misled by the corporation’s net income. If I was an accountant for this company I would have followed regulated federal security laws‚ and if failed to provide prove of documents or financial statements‚ I would admit to my mistakes but also
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Enron is frequently given as an example of creative accounting. It is also given as a good example of accounting fraud and insider trading. This is a good example of creative accounting taken too far - not many would disagree that it was accounting fraud‚ although some would say they were just unlucky to get caught. after all‚ the auditors were Arthur Anderson‚ at the time one of the most respected auditing firms. Creative Accounting – Example 1 – Creating multiple trading entities The creative
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1. The Enron debacle created what one public official reported was a “crisis of confidence” on the part of the public in the accounting profession. List the parties who you believe are most responsible for that crisis. Briefly justify each of your choices. Following parties are believed to be the most responsible for the crisis. With any big organization going so bad‚ the blame starts with the top level executives‚ there was no different in this case. For Enron the blame started with Enron’s
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Lesson 08.11 Exponential and Logarithmic Functions Activity Materials: Bowl 100 dimes Laptop Geogebra Microsoft word Pencil Paper Procedure: Count the total number of pieces of candy‚ coins‚ or whatever object you have chosen and record this number in the chart shown below. Total Number of Objects Spill this object on the flat surface and count the number of objects which land face up and the number of objects which land face down. Record each number in the chart above in the row
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The Enron scandal Tobias Pavel Mylene Encontro 910422 850224 Chalmers University of Technology Finacial Risk‚ MVE220 Examiner: Holger Rootzén 2012-12-02 Göteborg This report has been written and analyzed by both group members jointly. Abstract From the 1990 ’s until the fall of 2001‚ Enron was famous throughout the business world and was known as an innovator‚ technology powerhouse‚ and a corporation with no fear. The sudden fall of Enron in the end of 2001 shattered not just the business
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1. Both forward and futures contracts are traded on exchanges. : False 2. Futures contracts are standardized; forward contracts are not. : True 3. The S&P500 index futures contract is a physical delivery contract. The pork bellies futures contract is a cash-settled contract. : False 4. An American option can be exercised at any time during its life. : True 5. A put option will always be exercised at maturity if the strike price is greater than the underlying asset price. : True
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FINM3405 Derivatives & Risk Management Tutorial 6 Reference Material Lecture 8 (class notes and lecture slides) Tutorial Questions Question 1 A stock is currently priced at $20. In any given 4-month period‚ stock price will either go up by 18.91% or down by 15.9%.1 The riskless rate of interest is 4% per annum continuously compounded. A European-style call option is written on this stock with a $12 strike price and 8 months to expiry. a) b) c) d) Use the delta-hedging approach to price this
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