Case: The Fall of Enron Enron was so admired prior until 2000; they grew to a powerful company. In 1985‚ Internorth acquired Houston Natural Gas to form HNG/Internorth‚ a natural gas pipeline company. This company was renamed to Enron. At the time of Enron’s creation‚ the U.S. gas market was in the middle of deregulation. In 1985‚ rules were established that allowed gas users to realize the cost savings by purchasing gas at spot prices and separately contracting with pipeline firms for delivery
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Trip Winkel Finance 303 May‚ 27 2005 Dr. Namorato The Enron Scandal Enron was established in 1930 as Northern Natural Gas Company and joined with three other companies to undertake this industry. The four companies eventually began to break apart between 1941 and 1947 as a result of a public stock offering. In 1979‚ Northern Natural Gas was placed under new management when it was bought by InterNorth Inc. In 1985‚ Kenneth Lay‚ CEO of Houston Natural Gas Company devised a transaction
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college through scholarship programs‚ allow kids to have fun‚ and bring money to the economy. People have a great time watching the game‚ and it brings the community closer. If you take away sports at younger ages‚ nobody will be as talented at higher levels. Everybody will be afraid to join the sport. People don’t start sports when they are already done with college‚ they go get a job. If they start when in college‚ how is anyone supposed to know if they are a top athlete? Another reason this is a
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AUD610 SUMMARY OF CASE “ENRON” Prepared for: DR NOOR MARINI Prepared by: AFNANIN BT ABD AZIZ 2012212966 NOR IDAYU BT ISA 2012485132 SITI NORFAZILAH BT HAMIRUDDIN 2012670652 NOOR PARIHA AMIN NUDIN 2012660688 NURFARAHANIM BT MOHD SABRI 2009449842 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Without the assistance‚ cooperation and guidance of several parties‚ this assignment would not be achievable. We
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The atmosphere at Enron was highly competitive. Enron rewarded cleverness and pushing the envelope. Enron’s former president and CEO Jeffery Skilling encouraged employees to be "independent‚ innovative‚ and aggressive.") The aggressiveness of the culture at Enron was increased by a rigorous and threatening evaluation process for all employees that became known as "rank and yank." "Enron’s employees annually ranked their fellow employees on a 1 (best) to 5 (worst) scale. Each of the company’s divisions
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The collapse of Enron is perhaps one of this century’s biggest and memorable scandals of this century so far. Created in 1985 through the merger of two natural gas companies‚ the Houston-based company was considered one of the most successful and powerful companies throughout the 90s. In 2001‚ Enron’s world came crashing down as the company was forced to reveal that it had defrauded people out of millions of dollars. Those hurt mostly by the collapse of Enron were the workers‚ whose loyalty and hard
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Parmalat It has been named as “Europe’s Enron” – the legend that took down Italy’s milk selling company Parmalat and its controlling executives‚ American banks‚ audit firms‚ even politicians and 130‚000 of its helpless small shareholders after the discovery in the year 2003 of the $14 Billion black hole in the company’s finances. The company’s fraud was uncovered when the company failed to pay the cash to the bondholders. Summary: This discovery led to eight years of court cases in Europe
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Since the United States entered the war late‚ it did not accrue loans‚ and it did not suffer from any physical destruction. During the war‚ the United States provided loans to the allies‚ which the allies then used to buy supplies from America. World War I shifted world economic dominance from Britain to America. While the rest of the world was rebuilding from the devastation of the war‚ the American economy flourished. The 1920s were economically prosperous because of the growth of new industries
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Special Purpose Entity Enron had high levels of debt. To attract new investors‚ Enron needed to find a way to hide those debts. Andrew Fastow‚ CFO of Enron‚ turned to Special Purpose Entity (SPE). Several legal entities such as LJM and raptors were created and the poorly performing stocks were transferred to these entities. Then‚ the SPE were used to borrow large sum of money from investors with Enron’s overpriced stock as collateral. These SPEs were not reported on the financial statements. In
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Japan is under struggle since its early days of its rise as industrial power. The one of the most important reasons of its sufferings are the scarcity of natural resources which influence the economy badly as well as national security. In agriculture sector also Japan have not a satisfactory because yearly per production of the crops were increasing which is not good for the land and land mass are in unrest and second important thing is international environment which is not stable. There are some
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