Overview Enron Corporation‚ once the 7th largest company in US and a global leader of electricity and natural gas industries‚ filed for bankruptcy protection in late 2001. It was revealed that the company had been hiding investment losses and created fictitious revenue through several complicated accounting gimmicks. Besides Enron’s senior management who created the whole fiasco‚ many people believed that several other parties‚ such as the Board of Directors and the external auditors should also
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Enron and WorldCom Scandals Matthew Morrison ACC/260 8/18/12 Enron and WorldCom Scandals Question number one of the Enron case focuses on the corporations that got Enron into its difficulties these were the special purpose entities for joint partnerships including Chewco‚ LJM1‚ LMJ2 and the Raptors. Number three of the Enron case shows us that the board was divided into five divisions‚ all of which were full of well-educated financial employees who
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Consulting Club Case Interview Guide Cases contributed by Management Consulting Club and consulting companies. Note: Case guide is strictly for the use of current HBS Management Consulting Club members. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise—without the permission of HBS Management Consulting Club. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: OVERVIEW OF THE CASE..............................
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CHAPTER –6 Credit creation by commercial Bank Demand deposits as money Bank deposits are two types. 1. Demand Deposit 2. Time deposit The demand deposits on which cheques are issued are also called as cash deposits or current deposits. D.D are therefore‚ almost as good as cash money the depositor can convert a part or the whole of the current account in currency notes at any time. According to T.T Sethi “A demand deposit is the obligation of a bank to pay a certain sum of money to a specified
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discuss the child’s sensitive period for order. I will explain how it is catered for in the classroom‚ referring to materials and activities. Sensitive Periods The Sensitive Periods are the best times for a child to learn a specific skill and are critical to the child’s self development. The child has this inner urge to undertake the task in order to live. Although‚ once this period passes it is possible for the child to learn the new skill but with much more difficulty. A sensitive period that is prevented
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RISKS IN BANKING: CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT Industry Best Practices BANGLADESH BANK CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT Industry Best Practices PREPARED FOR: BANGLADESH BANK PREPARED BY: FOCUS GROUP ON CREDIT & RISK MANAGEMENT Team Co-ordinator: Team Members: Sudhir Chandra Das Ali Reza Iftekhar Niaz Habib A.G. Sarwar Brian J. McGuire Naser Ezaz Bijoy Page 2 INTRODUCTION: Risk is inherent in all aspects of a commercial operation‚ however for Banks and financial institutions‚ credit risk is an essential
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1. The Enron executive team including Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow and other executives‚ were the key players in the crisis. The business practices they used when creating hundreds of SPE’s and diverting large amounts of liabilities to those off-balance sheet entities. Enron was aware of the minimal accounting guidelines for SPE’s and used them to their advantage. To create such a complex “paper” structure‚ the executives had to have coordinate their plans with the accountants
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The accounting scandal at Enron which occurred early during the last decade involved the manipulation of accounting rules in order to enrich the company’s executive leadership. Hence‚ while accounting techniques facilitated the Enron scandal it is more of a tale that is related to the hubris of the firm’s top executives and their deep-seated greed. Evidence that hubris and greed was more of the driving force than the actual manipulation of accounting rules for the Enron scandal is evident in the
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The Unethical Behavior of Enron Enron‚ once the countries seventh-largest company according to the Fortune 500‚ is a good example of how greed and the desire for success can transform into unethical behavior. Good ethics in business would be to compete fairly and honestly‚ to communicate truthfully and to not cause harm to others. These are things that Enron did not seem to display‚ which led to Enron’s operations file for bankruptcy in 2001. Enron’s scandal has become one of the most talked
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What is sensitive period and the environment required for sensitive period At birth the child ’s physical development is more or less complete while psychologically it is still in the embryonic state. For this reason Dr. Maria Montessori called that the human being is still a "spiritual embryo" when it is born. "Man seems to have two embryonic periods‚ one is prenatal like that of the animals; the other is postnatal and only man has this." -The Absorbent Mind‚ p55‚ Chapter 7. “A child possesses
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