The overall cause for Enron’s bankruptcy should be blamed on former chairman and CEO‚ Kenneth Lay. As an Enron executive‚ all of Lay’s concerns should have been focused on Enron’s profits‚ but all he cared about was his property. When he noticed Enron’s financial problem‚ he did not attempt to fix it‚ but made effort to maintain his own benefit and ignored the whole company’s and investors’ loss. His selfish and unethical behavior not only deceived the investors but also finally resulted in Enron’s
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The Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Auditing Practice In business‚ there should have various rules and regulation governing in order to avoid mismanagement and frauds associated. In the United States‚ several bodies have been put in place to oversee‚ create registration‚ reporting and‚ providing transparency. Such bodies include‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) which eventually resulted in the creation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight
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Enron Questions 1. How did Enron’s corporate culture contribute to its bankruptcy? Enron’s corporate culture was greedy and arrogant. Arrogance and pride are what mostly contributed to the downfall of Enron. Employees made money for the executives. The company was thought of as a leading company‚ and imagined to be invincible. Once funds were gambled away‚ and the whole got deeper‚ more funds were gambled to attempt to create liquid assets to pay off debt. Eventually‚ it all ran out.
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In the present day world‚ business is a necessary part in our lives. It is everywhere. Accounting is the most basic framework of business. The objective of most businesses is to earn a profit. Business owners use accounting to record and report various pieces of their companies’ financial information. Internal control is broadly defined as the procedures and processes used by a company to safeguard its assets‚ process information accurately‚ and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. What
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Enron Corporation began as a small natural gas distributor and‚ over the course of 15 years‚ grew to become the seventh largest company in the United States. Soon after the federal deregulation of natural gas pipelines in 1985‚ Enron was born by the merging of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth‚ a Nebraska pipeline company. Initially‚ Enron was merely involved in the distribution of gas‚ but it later became a market maker in facilitating the buying and selling of futures of natural gas‚ electricity
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Happened at Enron What is the purpose to run a company? How to shape the enterprise culture and values directly affects the strategic management decision makers. If enterprise culture management is ultimately determined by enterprise strategy management‚ the decision makers of Enron obviously ignored the rationality of corporate culture management. When talking about the bankruptcy of Enron Corp‚ Welch‚ the former CEO of GM pointed out the Enron’s despise on corporate culture: " Enron is a first-class
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Enron‚ once one of the fastest growing‚ innovative‚ and well managed business in the United States filed bankruptcy in December 2001. Shareholders‚ including Enron employees lost billions of dollars. The main question in everyone’s mind‚ is what truly happened to Enron? One act of Enron that contributed to the collapse was the Performance Bonus’s that were given to employees. Enron was a company that knew exactly what they wanted‚ and how to achieve every goal. The company needed strong‚ outgoing
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AUD610 SUMMARY OF CASE “ENRON” Prepared for: DR NOOR MARINI Prepared by: AFNANIN BT ABD AZIZ 2012212966 NOR IDAYU BT ISA 2012485132 SITI NORFAZILAH BT HAMIRUDDIN 2012670652 NOOR PARIHA AMIN NUDIN 2012660688 NURFARAHANIM BT MOHD SABRI 2009449842 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Without the assistance‚ cooperation and guidance of several parties‚ this assignment would not be achievable. We
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1. Adsteam Adonist@gmx.de‚ quigonjinn@hotmail.de was a very model of conglomerate(jujie). In the eyes of the outside‚ it was a successful company. But it’s not true. It’s far from other companies in its complex structure. Adsteam group comprised numerous less-than-majority-owned companies. It acquired major share-holdings in numerous companies throughout the 1980’s. The acquisition strategy resulted in an extremely complicated cross-shareholding-based structure. It was noting that the maximum amount
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Week 2 Case Study Case 9: Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse 1. How did the corporate culture of Enron contribute to its bankruptcy? Effective leaders are good at attaining common goals and objectives in effective and efficient ways; unfortunately for Enron‚ this was not the case. In the beginnings of the company‚ Chairman Ken Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling were efficient in growing their company from a small oil and gas pipeline firm into one of the largest entities in its industry
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