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    Enron

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    Under the common law‚ accountants may be found liable to the clients who hire them under several legal theories‚ including breach of contract‚ fraud‚ and negligence. Accountants owe a duty to use reasonable care‚ knowledge‚ skill‚ and judgment when providing auditing and other accounting services to a client. In other words‚ an accountant’s actions are measured against those of a “reasonable accountant” in similar circumstances. The development of GAAPs‚ GAASs‚ and other uniform accounting standards

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    Enron Case

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    The Enron Accounting Scandal Presented By: Jennifer Buondonno Nirmala David Robert Pufky Matt Rollings ENRON Page 1 of 27 Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………………..3 (I) Introduction to the Enron case and the organizations involved……. 5 Background information & industry…………………………………………….. 5 Organizations and officers involved……………………………………………..6 Accounting firm and partners involved………………………………………….8 Enron’s industry………………………………………………………………….. 9 Enron’s injured parties……………………………………………………………

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    The Fall of Enron

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    Fall of Enron The History Enron began as a pipeline company in Houston in 1985. It profited by promising to deliver so many cubic feet to a particular utility or business on a particular day at a market price. That change with the deregulation of electrical power markets‚ a change due in part to lobbying from senior Enron officials. Under the direction of former Chairman Kenneth L. Lay‚ Enron expanded into an energy broker‚ trading electricity and other commodities. The Business of Enron Enron

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    Enron Scandal

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    Enron Scandal In 1985‚ Enron was formed by Kenneth Lay after the merging of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth. In the 1990s‚ Lay helped to initiate the selling of electricity at market prices. Markets made it easier for Enron to sell energy at higher prices‚ which caused the company to get richer. Enron was the largest merchant of natural gas in 1992. In November 1999‚ the creation of EnronOnline enabled Enron to develop‚ negotiate and manage its trading business. By 2001‚ Enron became a

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    Enron Ethics

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    Introduction Enron was one of America’s leading companies prior to its spectacular collapse in 2001. It was frequently named as one of America’s top 10 most admired corporations and best places to work‚ and its board was acclaimed one of the US’ best five‚ according to Fortune magazine. As America’s seventh largest company‚ Enron experienced explosive growth through the 1990s. It had revenues of US$139 ($184) billion‚ US$62 ($82) billion in assets and employed more than 30‚000 people across 20

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    Enron History

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    Enron History Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) were used and often abused by most large corporations in the late 1990’s. Enron was likely the corporation that abused the accounting treatment the most‚ but certainly not the only one. The Enron SPEs were not hidden from the auditors or the investing public‚ but were so extensive‚ invasive‚ and complex that no one‚ including primary architect‚ Andrew Fastow‚ was able to understand the total implications. The 2000 financial statements for Enron included

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    The collapse of Enron

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    1. What led to the eventual collapse of Enron under Lay and Skilling? The collapse of Enron seems to be rooted in a combination of the failure of top leadership‚ a corporate culture that supported unethical behavior‚ and the complicity of the investment banking community. In the aftermath of Enron’s bankruptcy filing‚ numerous Enron executives were charged with criminal acts‚ including fraud‚ money laundering‚ and insider trading. Ben Glisan‚ Enron’s former treasurer‚ was charged with two-dozen

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    Enron Failure

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    ENRON: A FINANCIAL REPORTING FAILURE? Anthony H. Catanach Jr.1 Associate Professor 610-519-4825 anthony.catanach@villanova.edu and Shelley Rhoades-Catanach Associate Professor Both at Villanova University College of Commerce and Finance Department of Accountancy INTRODUCTION The dramatic collapse of Enron Corporation‚ following a series of disclosures of accounting improprieties‚ has led many to question the soundness of current accounting and financial reporting standards. Within Enron’s reported

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    Analysis of Enron

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    “What Went Wrong at Enron?” Trident University International Phillip M. Cherry Module 5 Case Assignment ETH 501: Business Ethics Dr. Michael Garmon March 1‚ 2012 3/1/2012 Introduction In this paper I will provide a critical evaluation of the Corporate Culture at Enron‚ explain how the business ethics and operations were influenced by the corporate culture‚ and what went wrong. In addition

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    Enron - Ethics

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    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room / Lack of Ethics Enron at one time was a Fortune 500 company‚ but in truth it was just a fallacy and a lie for what it truly was‚ an ethically bankrupt company that eventually became a bankrupt company. Henry Taylor‚ a 19th century statesman wrote “Falsehood ceases to be falsehood‚ when the truth is not expected to be spoken”. Enron senior management gets a failing grade on truth and disclosure. The purpose of ethics is to enable recognition of how a particular

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