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    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room A white-collar crime by definition is a crime that is committed by individuals of higher status. It is not necessarily a violent crime‚ but could be depending on the situation. An individual who works in a professional environment‚ such as the government or corporation tend to take advantage of employees and manipulate them into thinking their practices are legitimate. Some examples‚ of white-collar crimes include fraud‚ embezzlement‚ insider trading‚ and other

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    The Downfall of Enron

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    The Downfall of Enron Valerie Glushkov Enron Company was once one of the biggest energy company in the U.S. Fortune magazine ranked Enron as #7 in April 2001 in Fortunes ranking by market capitalization of the five hundred largest corporations in the United States. On December 2‚ 2001‚ Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The unexpected and rapid collapse in the market value of this corporate giant has had immense consequences for nearly all of its stakeholders

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    Enron Company

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    Enron Corporation Before filing for bankruptcy in 2001‚ Enron Corporation was one of the largest natural gas and electricity companies in the world. In addition to being one of the largest bankruptcies in American history‚ Enron undoubtedly was the biggest audit failure. It was one of the most famous company in the world‚ but also one that fell down too fast. In 1985‚ Enron was created by a merge between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth by Houston’s Natural Gas’s CEO Kenneth Lay. It was

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    Enron was a company in the energy industry founded in 1985 by Kenneth Lay. Enron was based in Huston‚ Texas and employed approximately 20‚000 people. In 2001‚ Enron filed for bankruptcy after many years of lying‚ fraud‚ and dishonesty with their financial books. Enron was pretending to be a huge‚ successful company when in reality‚ it was in a financial hole so deep there was no way of getting out.   Discuss and analyze the culture at Enron. In what way was it effective? In what ways was it the catalyst

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    Enron Questions

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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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    The Fall of Enron

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    auditors and Enron and the existence of conflicts of interest. From 1993‚ Enron started to outsource its internal audit functions to Anderson. Besides‚ conflicts of interest gets aggravated when the cross-selling of consulting services by auditors increases a lot. And consulting fees to auditors are much lucrative than the audit fees. As a result‚ Enron could easily threaten Anderson to give a favorable opinions to the public and otherwise Anderson couldn’t maintain a good relationship with Enron. Most

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    Ethics and Enron

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    to do with the meltdown at Enron had no ethical standards. Enron had a lack of accounting transparency‚ which enabled the company’s managers to make their financials look much better than they actually were. I believe that Kenneth Lay got rid of several million shares of Enron stock and made over a billion dollars. While the Enron employees lost their jobs‚ the money in their pension funds as well as any money they invested into the company. Not only did Enron damage the lives of their employees

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    MGMT 3512 Corporate Governance Exam 1 Prepared by: Can Işıl Volkswagen Diesel Scandal – Dieselgate Summary Volkswagen is a German Automotive giant established back in ‘30s which has over hundred production facilities across 27 countries around the world. In 2016 VW became the largest automaker by overtaking long leading Toyota with 10.3 million vehicles. It currently controls many other brands such as Audi‚ Bentley‚ Bugatti‚ Lamborghini‚ Porsche‚ Seat‚ Skoda

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    1. The Enron debacle created what one public official reported was a “crisis of confidence” on the part of the public in the accounting profession. List the parties who you believe are most responsible for that crisis. Briefly justify each of your choices. a. Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ and Andrew Fastow. A common theme of the allegations leveled at the three executives was that they had created a corporate culture that fostered‚ if not encouraged‚ “rule breaking”. b. Andersen

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    1. The Enron debacle created what one public official reported was a “crisis of confidence” on the part of the public in the accounting profession. List the parties who you believe are most responsible for that crisis. Briefly justify each of your choices. a) With Enron‚ the responsibility and blame started with Enron’s executives‚ Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ and Andrew Fastow. Their goal was to make Enron into the world’s greatest company. To make this goal a reality‚ they created a company

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