Chapter 9 Questions 1. How should a corporation attempt to achieve synergy among functions and business units? Synergy exits for a divisional corporation if the return on investment is greater than what if the return would be if each division were an independent business. 2. How should an owner-manager prepare a company for its movement from Stage I to Stage II? 3. How can a corporation keep from sliding into the Decline stage of the organizational life cycle? 4. Is reengineering just
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Adelphia Communications was the nation’s 6th largest cable company and became yet another corporation involved in a scandal that resulted in their downfall. Adelphia’s services included high speed cable internet service‚ cable TV service‚ and long distance phone service. Adelphia had more than five million subscribers to these services. The scandal consisted of the Rigas family‚ the family that founded the company‚ and two other executives fraudulently excluding over two billion dollars in liabilities
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Business and Society Review 110:1 59– 76 Applying the Agency and Stakeholder Theories to the Enron Debacle: An Ethical Perspective Blackwell Oxford‚ Business BASR © 0045-3609 O 1 110 BUSINESS CULPAN riginal 2004 Center UK Article and and Publishing‚ and TRUSSEL Society for SOCIETY Business Ltd. Review REVIEW Ethics at Bentley College REFIK CULPAN AND JOHN TRUSSEL INTRODUCTION W e examine the infamous Enron debacle from an ethical perspective by defining its theoretical underpinnings and analyzing
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Lkc5074@psu.edu; INART 005 Section 3 No Place to Be Somebody Review You are in a New York City bar. It’s dark‚ but muffled voices and conversations can be heard around you. The year is 1970. Welcome to the setting of Charles Gordone’s No Place to Be Somebody. One might think that capturing this dark and shabby bar scene would be a challenging feat to accomplish in Penn State University’s quaint Pavilion Theatre. One might also wonder how a group of students could possibly portray the attitudes and
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Labor Contract Law of PRC (English version) The Labor Contract Law of the People’s Republic of China was adopted at the 28th Session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China on June 29‚ 2007 and is hereby promulgated and effective as of January 1‚ 2008. President of the People’s Republic of China: Hu Jin-tao Labor Contract Law of the People’s Republic of China (adopted at the 28th Session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National
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Enron case 1. What activities and practices of Enron’s management team do you believe were unethical and/ or illegal? Concealing debt By using SPEs‚ Enron’s balance sheet understated its liabilities and overstated its equity and earnings. Enron disclosed to its shareholders that it had hedged downside risk in its illiquid investments using special purpose entities which were lies. Enormous spending Extravagant expenses were rampant in the company which included enormous salary expenses
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2 Capital Mean? A term used to describe the capital adequacy of a bank. Tier II capital is secondary bank capital that includes items such as undisclosed reserves‚ general loss reserves‚ subordinated term debt‚ and more. operating Ratio - A performance measurement for insurers which shows the sum of expenses and losses expressed as a percentage of premium. Operating Ratio [pic] What Does Operating Ratio Mean? A ratio that shows the efficiency of a company’s management by comparing operating
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management of Enron including Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow. These managers created a tone at the top of Enron that allowed and encouraged accounting that mislead investors. The audit team at Anderson and especially David Duncan the lead partner for Enron’s audit holds responsibility. Anderson was negligent in finding problematic accounting used by Enron. In addition‚ Anderson made millions on consulting services provide to Enron which makes their independence for Enron come into
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Papazian Accounting for Enron Introduction In the case of Accounting for Enron‚ the case concerned one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in the US history at the turn of the 21st century. It was Enron Corporation‚ a one time seventh largest most successful US company‚ sixth largest energy company in the world‚ valued at over $70 Billion; they filed for chapter 11 on December 2‚ 2001. Just the year before‚ Enron posted a 57% increase in sales between 1996 and 2000. And Enron shares hit a 52-week
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` Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room The movie‚ Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room‚ is a classic story about corporate America’s greed an deceit that was discovered after the demise of Enron. The collapse of Enron was one of the largest bankruptcy in history and the movie captures the culture of money and politics involved in big American corporations. The film did a very good job portraying the culture that allowed Enron to become one of the largest corporations in America while
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