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    Fall of Enron

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    Q1- Who were the key stakeholders involved in‚ or affected by the collapse of Enron? How and to what degree were they hurt or helped by the actions of Enron management? Ans- The key stakeholders affected by the collapse of Enron were its employees and retirees. Stakeholders and mutual funds investors lost $ 70billion market value. Banks were also affected by the meltdown of the company. They included big banks like J P Morgan Chase and Citigroup. Not only the stakeholder and bondholder lose out

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    Enron Case

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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. a) With Enron‚ the responsibility and blame started with Enron’s executives‚ Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ and Andrew Fastow. Their goal was to make Enron into the world’s greatest company. To make this goal a reality‚ they created a company

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    Enron Scandal

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    Kovaleva Mary Assignment 3. Enron scandal Rise of the company Enron was an American energy company based in Houston‚ Texas. It was formed in 1985 by Kenneth Lay after merging Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth. In 1985‚ Kenneth Lay merged the natural gas pipeline companies of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth to form Enron. In the early 1990s‚ he helped to initiate the selling of electricity at market prices and‚ soon after‚ the United States Congress passed legislation deregulating the

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    The Enron Scandal

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    Trip Winkel Finance 303 May‚ 27 2005 Dr. Namorato The Enron Scandal Enron was established in 1930 as Northern Natural Gas Company and joined with three other companies to undertake this industry. The four companies eventually began to break apart between 1941 and 1947 as a result of a public stock offering. In 1979‚ Northern Natural Gas was placed under new management when it was bought by InterNorth Inc. In 1985‚ Kenneth Lay‚ CEO of Houston Natural Gas Company devised a transaction

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    Enrons Fall

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    Enrons Fall Kenneth Lay – CEO Auditors – Arthur Anderson Jeffrey Skilling – Consultant‚ Hired as a young consultant‚ as due to deregulation‚ Enron incurred massive debts. Jeffrey skilling was hired to come up with innovative new ideas. His revolutionary idea for Enron was to ‘create a gas bank in which Enron would buy gas from a network of suppliers and sell to a network of consumers‚ contractually guaranteeing both the supply and the price‚ charging fees for the transactions and assuming the

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    ENRON CASE

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    Synopsis Enron was believed to be the company to take over the world in the 1990’s. The company was growing at exponential rates that were unheard of at the time. It was ranked among the 7 top corporations in the world peaking at a net worth of $70 billion. The company’s overwhelming wealth and success gave birth to some overconfident and ultimately greedy people within the company. In the end‚ Enron fell due to falsification of financial records‚ reporting profits well in excess of the actual. “On

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    Enron Background

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    ENRON Background and Overview: Enron was famous in the business world. Known as the innovator‚ technology powerhouse and a corporation. It was named the America’s most innovative company for six years by Fortune’s Most Admired Companies survey. The fall of Enron in 2001 shattered not just the business world‚ but also the lives of the employees and the people who believed that their soar to greatness was genuine. It turns out to be the America’s biggest corporate bankruptcy. Before the

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    The Enron and World Com Scandals Enron 1. The board directors failed their fiduciary obligation to protect their shareholders‚ employees‚ and business partners by allowing high risk accounting‚ inappropriate conflict of interest‚ expenses undisclosed off the books activity‚ excessive compensation‚ and lack of independence between the company‚ and board members. I feel the segment that got Enron into trouble was the Executive and finance committee (Brooks). 3. I do believe that they

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    The Enron Disaster

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    1. What did Arthur Andersen contribute to the Enron disaster? Arthur Andersen (AA) contributed to the Enron disaster when AA consulting became its own separate entity‚ named Accenture. Revenues from consulting services surpassed revenue from auditing services. A natural competitiveness grew between the two rivals and this is where the problems began to start. Management held maximinizing revenues as their primary focus of success and promotions/bonuses were based on this factor. The CEO of AA‚ Joe

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    enron

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    “A white paper is a government report outlining policy or authoritative report on a major issue. White papers discuss a specific business issue‚ product‚ or competitive situation.” The Aftermath Affects On December 2‚ 2001‚ Enron filled for bankruptcy under chapter 11 of the US banking code. This sudden collapse of one of Fortune 500 largest companies shocked the world. Once the world’s largest energy company‚ Enron’s scandal became the largest bankruptcy recognition and was attributed as the

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