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    Case Analysis

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    Some argue Enron’s record-breaking bankruptcy and eventual demise was the result of a lack of ethical corporate behavior attributed‚ more generally‚ to capitalism’s inability to check the unmitigated growth of corporate greed. Others believe Enron’s collapse can be traced back to questionable accounting practices such as mark-to-market accounting and the utilization of Special Purpose Entities (SPE’s) to hide financial debt. In other instances‚ people point toward Enron’s mismanagement of risk and

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    White Collar Crime

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    Cited: Fraud." West ’s Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale‚ 2005. 487-489. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 8 Aug. 2010.

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    The Enron Accounting Scandal Presented By: Jennifer Buondonno Nirmala David Robert Pufky Matt Rollings ENRON Page 1 of 27 Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………………..3 (I) Introduction to the Enron case and the organizations involved……. 5 Background information & industry…………………………………………….. 5 Organizations and officers involved……………………………………………..6 Accounting firm and partners involved………………………………………….8 Enron’s industry………………………………………………………………….. 9 Enron’s injured parties……………………………………………………………

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    How Enron Do Fraud Ken 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 going to make and list it as part of there future profit to the shareholders. “Outside companies” This creative accounting lead to Fastow to create "outside companies" that were directly involved

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    The Downfall of Enron

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    just a few years‚ Enron became the largest natural gas merchant in North America and the United Kingdom. Steered by the strategic advice provided by world-renowned business consultants McKinsey and Company‚ and the leadership of its former CEO‚ Jeffrey Skilling (a former employee of McKinsey)‚ Enron transformed itself from an energy company to a risk management firm that traded everything from commodities to derivatives. The use of special purpose entities (SPEs) allowed Enron to operate wide-ranging

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    The particular causes of Enron ’s failure are complex. There are lots of issues that have to do with the Enron collapse. Enron is a company that was called as Houston Natural Gas and then Enteron. It becomes politically connected player in the new deregulated market of energy. At one time Enron appears to have been a successful and innovative enterprise‚ principally engaged in trading and dealing in energy-related contracts. At some point it expanded by making substantial investments in a variety

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    Corporation ------------------------------------------------- Discussion 1 The parties we believe to be most at fault for the crisis in this case are a) the Audit Firm engaged in the Enron audit (Arthur Andersen); b) Enron Management (Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow; and c) the SEC. The Public Accounting Firm: Arthur Andersen The auditor has the responsibility to evaluate the risk of material fraud‚ including: * Incentives and motives for fraud : Enron was a fast growing company with many

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    Enron Research Paper

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    a gas based pipeline company from Nebraska in 1985. In the final analysis‚ the conspiracy of Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffery Skilling‚ and others‚ including the accounting firm of Authur Anderson‚ led to the collapse of Enron due to fraud‚ shady accounting practices‚ false reporting revenue‚ and general disregard of virtually every principle of business ethics. Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling and Richard Causey went on trial for their part in the Enron scandal in January 2006. The 53-count‚ 65-page indictment covers

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    UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA PERLIS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS INNOVATION & TECHNOPRENEURSHIP BFT 503 businesss ethics & csr NAME : NUR AINUL MARDHIAH BINTI MD. ZULKIPLI MATRIC NO : 1333430136 Dr. Abdullah bin osman Enron : Questionable Accounting Leads To Collapse History ENRON CORPORATION. Enron‚ a corporation headquartered in Houston‚ operated one of the largest natural gas transmission networks in North America‚ totaling over 36‚000 miles‚ in addition to being the largest

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    having any knowledge of wrongdoing. Lay hires new CEO Jeffrey Skilling‚ a visionary who joins Enron on the condition that they utilize mark-to-model accounting‚ allowing the company to book potential profits on certain projects immediately after the deals are signed...whether or not those projects turn out to be successful. This gives Enron the ability to subjectively give the appearance of being a profitable company even if it isn’t. Skilling imposes his Darwinian worldview on

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