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    balance sheet while creating revenue." In 1984‚ Continental became the largest U.S. bank to fail in American history until the seizure ofWashington Mutual in 2008.[citation needed] Based on his work at Continental‚ Fastow was hired in 1990 by Jeffrey Skilling at the Enron Finance Corp. Fastow was named the Chief Financial Officer at Enron in 1998. Deregulation in the US energy markets in the late 1990s provided

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    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 associated risks’ Lay impressed with Skillings brilliance

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    company’s Valhalla‚ NY unit as executives Louis Bourget and Thomas Mastroeni greatly inflated profits while embezzling funds. With this precedent‚ Enron’s corruption arguably received a further boost the following year with the arrival of Jeffrey Skilling. Skilling had a reputation for painting a picture of robust profits without regard to underlying conditions. One of Skilling’s prerogatives as Enron president was an insistence on using “mark-to-market” accounting‚ utilizing both a bevy of off-book

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    nENRON DOCUMENTARY EVALUATION Jeffrey Skilling has joined the company in 1989. Management concept of Jeff‚ the company entered the expansion period. Becoming the CEO of the company has begun to affect his policies and vision. According to Jeff personality‚ the company’s only purpose is to increase the rate of profit and higher return stocks profit margin. According to his teacher who told Forbes in an interview related Jeffrey Skilling; in a class discussion‚if production is harmful to public

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    decisions and actions that were promoted by its corporate culture. Firstly‚ there were many causes that led to the eventual collapse of Enron especially under Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew S. Fastow‚ and other top-level officers. For instance‚ not only the fraudulent or deceitful activities that were orchestrated by Lay‚ Skilling‚ and Fastow‚ but also the company’s criminal and dishonest

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    force than the actual manipulation of accounting rules for the Enron scandal is evident in the development of its securities trading business model introduced by its erstwhile CEO Jeffrey Skilling: “Although Jeff Skilling didn’t single-handedly create it‚ that Wall Street–type scene was unthinkable at Enron...before Skilling came to Enron. He had a large impact on Enron’s business strategy...”(Fox‚ 2003‚ p.77). This high-risk‚ high-reward trading environment was a novel business model for a company

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    worst teams in history. The Team The key members of the Enron scandal team were: Kenneth Lay who was the chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He founded Enron in 1985 when Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth in Omaha‚ Nebraska. Jeffrey Skilling‚ who was the President‚ Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Andrew Fastow‚ Chief Financial Officer‚ Richard A. Causey‚ Chief Accounting Officer. Michael Kopper‚ who was Andrew Fastow’s top aide. Sherron Watkins‚ vice president

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    profits were being made along with several other directors such as Ben F. Glisan‚ Jr.‚ Jeffrey K. Skillings who was on the board of directors. These directors were all part of a financial scheme to continue to gain profit internally without the other board of directors’ knowledge and their shareholders. Almost every transaction that took place within Enron Andrew Fastow would say he had approval from Jeffrey K. Skillings the CEO. Question 5 Ken Lay was not fully made aware of many of these transactions

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    am detailThe ENRON Scandal is considered to be one of the most notorious within American history-White Collar  By misrepresenting earnings reports while continuing to enjoy the revenue provided by the investors not privy to the true financial condition of ENRON‚ the executives of ENRON embezzled funds funneling in from investments while reporting fraudulent earnings to those investors; this not only proliferated more investments from current stockholders‚ but also attracted new investors desiring

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    profits were made of paper. Their huge debts and information about hiding losses gave a big problem to the company and in the late 2001 Enron declared bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Kenneth Lay (Founder and CEO)‚ Jeffrey Skilling (CEO) and Andy Fastow (CFO) found that Enron wasn’t making money so what they did is implemented along with the approval of Arthur Andersen the "future value accounting." This type of accounting was to predict the future profit that Enron was

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