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    Nowadays‚ accounting scandal or financial statement fraud has increasingly become a serious issue and it threatens to undermine the profession of accountants and auditing companies. Therefore‚ I think that this has affected the way future accountants view the importance of accounting principles‚ future accountants will tend to neglect and disregard accounting principles even more regarding the present accounting scandals. I plan to start my introduction by explaining briefly what accounting is and

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    The Watergate Scandal

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    The Watergate Scandal The Watergate Affair‚ is the worst political scandal in U.S. history. It led to the resignation of the president‚ Richard M. Nixon‚ after he became implicated in an attempt to cover up the scandal. "The Watergate Affair" refers to the break-in and electronic bugging in 1972‚ of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment‚ and office building complex in Washington D.C. The term was applied to several related scandals. More than thirty

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    mensalao scandal

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    What exactly was the "mensalao" scandal? It was an alleged scheme that embezzled public funds to buy political support for the then Lula government and to pay off debts from election campaigns. The central accusation was that politicians from coalition parties were given large payments each month to support the minority government led by the Workers’ Party. The scandal nearly caused the Lula administration to collapse. How did the affair come to light? The scandal broke in 2005 when a congressman

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    Watergate Scandal

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    In this essay I am going to look at the significance of the Watergate scandal and the effects that it had on America. I will also discuss what the importance of investigative journalism is and the role that it has in society. The chain of events known as Watergate was an American political scandal in the 1970’s which ultimately led Richard Nixon to resign as president of the United States. The effects of the Watergate scandal did not end with the resignation of President Nixon‚ the general public

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    Sandusky Scandal

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    Pennsylvania State University Scandal 1 Pennsylvania State University Scandal Contribution and Cover-up of Sexual Abuse OL-500 Human Behavior in Organization Southern New Hampshire University C. LaMour Romine October 2‚ 2014 Pennsylvania State University Scandal 2 Abstract This research paper will discuss the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) Sexual Child Abuse Scandal‚ involving perpetrator Jerry Sandusky; and its cover up by university officials. This research

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    Rampart Scandal

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    Rampart Scandal By: Cindy Medina Cindy Medina CJCU 403 John Strain April 15‚ 2012 Rampart Scandal in the LAPD Department Growing up everyone has been told stories of cops and how they represent being hero’s. Cops are supposed to save peoples lives and stand up against crime and violence but the stores we have been told are not exactly one hundred percent correct. The LAPD was involved in one of the most talked about scandals known as the Rampart Scandal

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    Baseball Scandal

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    The commissioner position in major league professional sports arose in the 1920’s in Major League Baseball. The position was created to help prevent scandals following the 1919 World Series‚ in which the Chicago “Black-Sox” purposefully threw games for money. Ever since the creation of the position‚ the power to act in the “best interests” of the sport‚ regarding conduct detrimental to the league‚ has been entrusted to the commissioner. Currently all four major professional sports leagues in the

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    Enron Case Study

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    CASE STUDY: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE FALL OF ENRON Introduction to the Enron Case Enron was one of the world’s leading energy traders born from deregulation of these markets in certain US states. It rapidly grew and the world followed suit. It was nominated ‘World’s Most Innovative Large Corporation’ six years in row and valued at 64 times its earnings and 6 times its book value. It had one of the highest paid CEOs in the world in 2000. It led an aggressive and apparently effective expansion

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    Watergate Scandal

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    definitions‚ such as: bribery‚ conspiracy‚ obstruction of justice‚ phone tapping‚ tax fraud‚ etc. However the above all watergate is synonymous with abuse of power. The exact reasoning a distraught economy four years two years after this scandal took place. The watergate scandal is one of the most infamous crimes to date in U.S history. The break-in took place early in the Watergate building in Washington D.C. one morning on June 17‚ 1972. There were several burglars arrested who allegedly

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    Lewinsky Scandal

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    Lewinsky scandal * The Lewinsky scandal was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998‚ from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a 22-year-old White House intern‚ Monica Lewinsky. The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate

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