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    Enron - Ask Why?

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    Enron – Ask Why? How Unethical and Illegal Behavior Ruined Lives Brief History of Enron Enron was an energy company based in Houston‚ Texas that dealt with the energy trade on an international and domestic basis. Enron formed in 1985 when Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth. After several years of international and domestic expansion involving complicated deals and contracts‚ Enron became billions of dollars in debt. All of this debt was concealed from shareholders through partnerships

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    Enron Scandal

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    The Enron Scandal One of the most popular business bankruptcies and collapses known to date is that of the Enron Corporation. Enron‚ once known as "America ’s Most Innovative Company" by Fortune Magazine six straight years from 1996 to 2001. Enron seemed to be doing very well until the summer of 2001 generating a lot of cash and new businesses‚ but in October of 2001 Enron was forced to disclose that their accounting practices had been very creative‚ and failed to follow generally accepted accounting

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    Enron Case Study

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    Government and Business February 13‚ 2013 The Collapse of Enron This case is about the collapse of Enron Corporation who at the height of their career was named by Fortune magazine as the most innovative company in America and was ranked seventh on the Fortune 500. At the topmost point of the company Enron employed 19‚000 people and retained annual revenues in surplus of $100 billion dollars. Enron was formed in 1985 through a merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth of Omaha‚ Nebraska;

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    Enron Hidden Debt

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    one of the biggest companies in the world went bankrupt. Enron was a world leader in natural gas and oil‚ or so the investors thought. What seemed to be a booming company in a booming economy turned out to be one of the biggest financial scandals in the history of the world. Executives at Enron misled investors into thinking they were continuously growing‚ when the real numbers insured that they were losing money every quarter. Enron‚ founded by Kenneth Lay in 1985‚ became popular based on

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    Enron Ethics

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    in this case: how did Enron lose both its economical and ethical status? This question makes the Enron case interesting to us as business ethicists. Enron ethics means that business ethics is a question of organizational "deep" culture rather than of cultural artifacts like ethics codes‚ ethics officers and the like. BackgroundAt the beginning Enron faced a number of financially difficulty years. In 1988‚ the deregulation of the electrical power market took effect and Enron redefined its business

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    Enron Scandal

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    1. Enron was valued at $2.3 billion when it was formed in July 1985. On August 23‚ 2000‚ its stock was at $90 per share and it had a market capitalization of $65.9 billion. Explain the major business practices that created such dynamic growth in the price of the stock. Enron used many different tactics to inflate their stock prices. The one that sticks out to me is when they signed a 20-year contract with Blockbuster. Early in the contract Blockbuster and Enron parted ways with a null and void

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    Enron Collapse

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    1.What are the main reasons that Enron collapsed? I think the reasons for the collapse are three fold. Firstly Enron’s accounting practices(mark to market accounting- companies estimate how much revenue a deal is going to bring in and state that number in their earnings the moment the contract is signed) Its managements goal was to maintain the appearance of value by always having rising stock prices rather than focus on creating real value for the company. Secondly its reliance on Special

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    Rise and Fall of Enron

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    The rise and fall of Enron is a company that was lead to its own demise by it’s own leadership and ill business decisions. The motivational theories explained from the readings of Organization Behavior can correlate with the failure of Enron’s internal organization. Even though a company may appear to display successful business practices‚ the influence of leadership through management can ultimately lead the company to fail. Enron’s code of ethics prided itself on four key values; respect‚ integrity

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    Business Ethics - Enron

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    When Jeff Skilling took the major energy company Enron over‚ he contributed to the hiring and development of an entire corporation with a crooked staff whom were corrupt all the way from the bottom employees to the top executives. Top executives “cooked the books” through a certain structured finance including accounting ambiguities‚ special purpose entities‚ and poor financial reporting. They were able to hide billions of dollars in debt from failed deals and projects. CFO‚ Andrew Fastow and other

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    Enron Case 1.1

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    management of Enron including Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow. These managers created a tone at the top of Enron that allowed and encouraged accounting that mislead investors. The audit team at Anderson and especially David Duncan the lead partner for Enron’s audit holds responsibility. Anderson was negligent in finding problematic accounting used by Enron. In addition‚ Anderson made millions on consulting services provide to Enron which makes their independence for Enron come into

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