misconducts‚ such as accounting irregularities and fraud. More seriously‚ it developed a number of lawsuits from1997 to 2005‚ which impelled the SEC to keep a close watch on‚ from its client such as Baptist Foundation of Arizona‚ Sunbeam‚ Waste Management‚ Enron‚ WorldCom‚ Global Crossing‚ and Qwest Communications. Especially Enron’s bankruptcy was a deadly strike of Andersen. Andersen’s collapses made an effect on the regulation on accounting ethics‚ for instance‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed by the congress
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Enron Corporation‚ once the seventh largest publicly traded corporation in the United States‚ declared its bankruptcy on December 2‚ 2001 (Senate‚ U. S.‚ 2002). Its failure represented the biggest business bankruptcy in the U.S. ever while also spotlighting the moral failings of corporate America’s. Enron has shaken the business world and become a symbol of modern corporate crime. It led to the ultimate dissolution of Arthur Anderson‚ one of the top Audit and accounting firms and drove the formation
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind‚ a study of one of the largest business scandals in American history. McLean and Elkind are credited as writers of the film alongside the director‚ Alex Gibney. The film examines the 2001 collapse of the Enron Corporation‚ which resulted in criminal trials for several of the company’s top executives; it also shows the involvement
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have made adjustments in effort to better prevent the unethical practices. The company‚ Enron‚ was a leading reason for some of the changes because it was one of the largest scandals and fastest collapse of an entire corporation. Most individuals that were involved in the fall of Enron have been tried and convicted for their unethical business research conduct. The article‚ “The Case Analysis of the Scandal of Enron” by Li Yuhao‚ describes the unethical behavior involved‚ the injured parties‚ the affect
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Unethical Business Practices at Enron LDR/531 Organizational Leadership August 11‚ 2011 Unethical Business Practices at Enron Enron Corporation came into existance in 1985 as the result of a merger between InterNorth and Houston Natural Gas. This merger produced the longest natural-gas pipeline network in the United States. Under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Jeffery Skilling‚ Enron changed from a gas-pipeline business into a natural-gas and electricity company during the
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The Enron Scandal can not be simply regarded as the normal bankruptcy; not because it is the seventh largest corporation in America‚ or the large amount shareholders and investors lose massive money. The reason is that the unethical practices of Enron threaten people’s fundamental trust in economic system. Meanwhile‚ the unethical management practices at Enron‚ which are against the ethical principles of the Global Business Standard Codex result in the collapse of the company‚ and bring the massive
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why was its enactment necessary? The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted on July 2012 under the administration of President George W. Bush. The passage of this law was a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals that included Enron‚ Tyco International‚ WorldCom and Adelphia. What the myriads of corporate scandals have in common was skewed and questionable reporting of financial transactions that cost investors billions of dollars. Stock prices of these companies collapsed and
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1. Describe the situation at Lehman Brothers from an ethics perspective. What’s your opinion of what happened here? To attribute Lehman’s failure to “unprecedented adverse events in the financial markets” completely overlooks the irresponsible ethical behavior of employees and managers. Students should mention the culture of corruption that existed at Lehman’s and the lack of controls that ultimately resulted in their downfall. An interesting finding was the acceptance of a rule‚ Repo 105‚ that
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Modern accounting systems have become the foundation from which the modern organization can rely and depend upon to maintain a strong efficient strategy that will help the organization grow. The modern accounting systems embraces the old accounting practices that have been used for hundreds of years and builds upon that platform to give modern organizations control over the finances. There must be set in place internal controls to keep the company assets from being stolen and that is why modern
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general public as well as generate continued interest in what actually happened. The Fall of Enron In a way‚ Enron went bankrupt for the same general reason that all companies go bankrupt: they invested in projects that proved too risky and‚ in turn‚ they were unable to keep up with the debt obligations of the firm (Niskanen‚ 2005‚ p. 2). This does little‚ however‚ to explain the specific reasons why Enron became the largest company to file for bankruptcy in U.S. history. Although many will point
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