1. What is Forensic Accounting? The integration of accounting‚ auditing and investigative skills yields the speciality known as Forensic Accounting. "Forensic"‚ according to the Webster’s Dictionary means‚ "Belonging to‚ used in or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate." "Forensic Accounting"‚ provides an accounting analysis that is suitable to the court which will form the basis for discussion‚ debate and ultimately dispute resolution. Forensic Accounting encompasses
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Journal of Finance and Accountancy Arthur Anderson Auditors and Enron: What happened to their Texas CPA licenses? Daniel Edelman Texas A&M University-Commerce Ashley Nicholson Texas A&M University-Commerce ABSTRACT This article examines Arthur Andersen‚ its role with Enron‚ and what happened to some of its key players. The demise of Arthur Andersen and Enron was significant. Thousands of people lost their jobs and investments. As a result‚ new laws for publicly traded companies and auditing firms
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it was the "Greed Factor" which drives Enron employees to increase the profits through unethical methods‚ and ultimately causing its downfall. But could it be the opposite? I mean‚ could it be that it was Enron ’s culture and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)‚ which is to increase the profits and share price that "forced" Enron employees behave in an unethical manner? What circumstances caused them to be unethical‚ really? At first‚ the leader of Enron Finance Corp‚ Jeffrey Skilling recruited
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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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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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At one time Enron was one of the world’s largest producers of natural gas‚ oil‚ and electricity. It also appeared to be one of the most profitable companies‚ taking shareholders from $19.10 in 1999 to $90.80 by the end of 2000. Enron’s top management answered to a Board of Directors whose responsibility was to question and challenge new partnerships‚ ventures‚ and decisions within the company. On several occasions‚ Andrew Fastow‚ the company’s Chief Financial Officer approached the board of
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Enron Case The internal controls that were ignored when LJM1 was created were one‚ LJM’s books were kept separate from Enron’s. LJM1 ignored some of Enron’s entries in the books that were missing. Outsiders owned less than 3% of the Special Purpose Entities equities. There was an error made by Arthur Andersen to let LJM’s financial statement to remain unconsolidated. If the financial statements had been consolidated‚ some of the errors could have been found. They may have even had some time to correct
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Enron Case 10.8.2014 Melissa Becker Boya Du Sidi (Fiona) Chen Wei (David) Yu In June of 2001 Enron’s new CEO‚ Jeff Skilling‚ was heralded as the “No. 1 CEO in the entire country and Enron was saluted as “America’s most innovated company.”1 Just six months later‚ in December‚ Enron filed for bankruptcy. The failure shocked the public and angered investors. How could this have happened? Did no one see this coming? Where were the accountants? Where were the controls? Enron’s public troubles
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while he’s not around for business trip and outstation. 2. The participants of the governors are rarely active in managing the direction and strategy of the business compared to other organization. 3. Justin’s’ brother‚ Freddy which is the chief accountant held majority of a local amateur sports team‚ which struggled to sell tickets and is facing bankruptcy. 4. Meanwhile Justin’s auntie‚ Mary Ann the Senior Manager in Human Resource Department always made her own decision without prior opinion and
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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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