Can corporate fraud ever be eliminated from the workplace? Abstract Corporate fraud has been a growing issue since Enron bankruptcy. The factors that contribute to the occurrence of corporate fraud are hard to control and methods used to prevent and detect fraud both by internal control and outside auditing have unavoidable weaknesses. Despite all the effort being made‚ it is highly unlikely that corporate fraud can be eliminated from the workplace. Introduction After Enron scandal got
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Enrons Fall Kenneth Lay – CEO Auditors – Arthur Anderson Jeffrey Skilling – Consultant‚ Hired as a young consultant‚ as due to deregulation‚ Enron incurred massive debts. Jeffrey skilling was hired to come up with innovative new ideas. His revolutionary idea for Enron was to ‘create a gas bank in which Enron would buy gas from a network of suppliers and sell to a network of consumers‚ contractually guaranteeing both the supply and the price‚ charging fees for the transactions and assuming the
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Effective Executive - Peter F Drucker If you are ever stranded on that mythical deserted island‚ and can only have one management book‚ make this the book. Peter Drucker died on November 11‚ 2005 at the age of 95. His life and work spanned sixty years and he left behind a body of knowledge and ideas that continue to influence all “knowledge workers” (a term Drucker coined back in the 60s) today. Drucker starts the book by stating that this book is about managing oneself and that executives who do
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The Enron scandal‚ revealed in October 2001‚ eventually led to the bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation‚ an American energy company based in Houston‚ Texas‚ and the de facto dissolution of Arthur Andersen‚ which was one of the five largest audit and accountancy partnerships in the world. In addition to being the largest bankruptcy reorganization in American history at that time‚ Enron was attributed as the biggest audit failure.[1] Enron was formed in 1985 by Kenneth Lay after merging Houston Natural
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Enron Case Study A company’s leadership and culture influences its business ethics. A company’s culture is known as the organizational culture. It is the actions and beliefs of individuals that work at the company. All the shared values and enforced policies contribute to organizational culture. “The leadership culture appears as an integral part of the organizational culture and it can have a positive or negative influence upon the latter.” (Popa‚ 2013‚ p. 179). The organizational culture
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June 2007 pp. 165–187 Auditor Communications with the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors: Policy Recommendations and Opportunities for Future Research Jeffrey Cohen‚ Lisa Milici Gaynor‚ Ganesh Krishnamoorthy‚ and Arnold M. Wright SYNOPSIS: To contribute to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) project on auditor communications with audit committees and boards of directors‚ we present in this paper a review of relevant academic literature. We also identify promising future
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Enron’s Company Enron’s origins date back to 1985 when it began life as an interstate pipeline company through the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Omaha-based InterNorth. Kenneth Lay‚ the former chief executive officer of Houston Natural Gas‚ became CEO‚ and the next year won the post of chairman. From the pipeline sector‚ Enron began moving into new fields. In 1999‚ the company launched its broadband services unit and Enron Online‚ the company’s website for trading commodities‚ which soon
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Andrew Fastow ’s wife and children‚ was a company created in 1998 by Enron ’s CFO‚ Andrew Fastow‚ to buy Enron ’s poorly performing stocks and stakes and bolster Enron ’s financial statements. Fastow proposed in October 1999 to Enron ’s finance Board the creation of LJM2 Co-Investment L.P. Fastow would act as general director of a much larger private equity fund that would be funded with $200 million of institutional funds. The question of Fastow’s dual role as Enron ’s CFO and LJM2 ’s general director
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successful business. Many companies have been forced to suffer losses or even forced to enter bankruptcy. Enron is one of the biggest examples of when making business ethical decisions go wrong. An American energy‚ commodities‚ and services company based in Houston‚ Texas Enron was a big deal. Employing approximately 20‚000 staff and was being one of the world’s leading electricity‚ natural gas‚ communications‚ and pulp and paper companies. Enron was a company on top on of the reason the
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT-1 EXECUTIVE SHIRT COMPANY Group Members: Introduction The executive shirt company is a well known brand in apparel industry having varieties of high quality standard size readymade shirts which were competitively priced also. Foreseeing the tremendous opportunity in custom shirt market‚ the general manager Mr. Dwight Collier decides to venture in to this new product segment. As the existing custom sized dress shirt market commanded a substantial high price of 75% more
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