Enron Corporation: THE RISE AND FALL; ACCOUNTING SCANDAL Submitted To: Professor Bill Bristol Submitted By: Kenneth Rhodes‚ Jr. Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) TABLE OF CONTENTS I. ABSTRACT...............................................................................................................................2 II. purpose and service....................................................................................................3 III. HistorY.............
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Introduction Transactions are the routine day-to-day activities performed by most organisations. · some are commercial transactions (buying‚ selling products and services‚ paying bills etc) · others involve recording or retrieving data (making a booking‚ enrolling a student at university looking up results etc) Most individual transactions are relatively simple‚ but in most organisations‚ there are very large numbers of them - so speed and efficiency are important considerations. What is a TPS
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What is an OLTP System? Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems are one of the most common data processing systems in today’s enterprises. Classical examples of OLTP systems are order entry‚ retail sales‚ and financial transaction systems. OLTP systems are primarily characterized through a specific data usage that is different from data warehousing environments‚ yet some of the characteristics‚ such as having large volumes of data and lifecycle-related data usage and importance‚ are identical
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This case study is extracted mainly from two major novels titled “What went wrong at Enron” by Fusaro P.C. and Miller R.M. and “The unshredded truth from an Enron insider” by Brian Cruver. The Vision Called Enron The history of Enron goes back to the 1920’s‚ when a pair of Houston pipeline companies was incorporated to carry gas along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In 1956 these companies merged under the name of Houston natural Gas (HNG). While these companies were working along the coast
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the forge sales volume‚ the profit and the expenditure. Under its partner discrete sampling’s premise‚ Andersen had still approved the sunlight company to have the questionable point financial reporting. Finally‚ Sunlight Company suspends pay. Claim request which proposed regarding the American negotiable securities and the transaction committee‚ Andersen strong against. Finally‚ to accuse in the situation which shows neither approval nor disapproval‚ Andersen and the shareholder out of court settlement
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Papazian Accounting for Enron Introduction In the case of Accounting for Enron‚ the case concerned one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in the US history at the turn of the 21st century. It was Enron Corporation‚ a one time seventh largest most successful US company‚ sixth largest energy company in the world‚ valued at over $70 Billion; they filed for chapter 11 on December 2‚ 2001. Just the year before‚ Enron posted a 57% increase in sales between 1996 and 2000. And Enron shares hit a 52-week
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ENRON AND THE FREE MARKET SYSTEM 1. ABSTRACT The Enron scandal was a financial scandal that was revealed in late 2001. After a series of revelations involving irregular accounting procedures bordering on fraud‚ perpetrated throughout the 1990s‚ involving Enron and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen‚ it stood at the verge of undergoing the largest bankruptcy in history by mid-November 2001. Enron filed for Bankruptcy on December 2‚ 2001. 2. FREE MARKET SYSTEM A free market describes a theoretical
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The Accounting Scandal Enron Corp. Collapse and WorldCom Accounting Scandal 11/18/2020 The Enron Corp. collapse Formed in 1985 from a merger of Houston Natural Gas and Inter-north‚ Enron Corp. was the first nationwide natural gas pipeline network. Over time‚ the firm’s business focus shifted from the regulated transportation of natural gas to unregulated energy trading markets. The guiding principle seems to have been that there was more money to be made in buying and selling financial
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Case 8 RE: Melvin Corporation and Vivian Company Nonmonetary Transaction Facts: Melvin Corporation and Vivian Company entered into an agreement on January 1‚ Year 1‚ to unconditionally exchange assets. Melvin agreed to transfer‚ on January 1 of Year 2‚ a building that cost $100‚000‚ but had an appraised value of $300‚000‚ while Vivian agreed to transfer a boat that had originally cost $250‚000. As of December 31‚ Year 2‚ Melvin had received title to the boat but had not transferred title to
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implements different ways to hedge. Commercial (operating) exposure‚ GM would calculate the implied risk which equals to regional notional exposure times annual volatility of relevant currency pair. If the implied risk is more than 10 million‚ G M s h o u l d h e d g e 5 0 % exposures. At the same time‚ at least 25% exposures should be hedged by options in order to assure flexibility. On top of that‚ all financial exposures should be hedged while GM did not take translation (balance sheet) exposures
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