Introduction By June 2002‚ it had become evident to the SEC that WorldCom had engaged in a significant corporate accounting fraud scheme which had overstated pretax income by about $7 billion since 1999. At the time‚ this was the largest deliberate misstatement in US corporate history. Although there are many interesting elements and players involved with this incident‚ for the purpose of this case study I will focus on the role played by Betty Vinson‚ the Director of Management Reporting and
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This paper will explain the fraudulent accounting practices that led to the collapse of Worldcom. Other objectives of this paper will be to demonstrate how these activities were able to go undetected. Also‚ what motives drove the individuals involved to commit these acts. And finally the ethical accounting issues involved. Worldcom got its start as a small discount long distance provider in Mississippi. Founded by Bernard Ebbers and a number of others the idea for Worldcom was simple‚ buy long
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The MCI’s source of funds has been emission of stocks. Common stocks as IPO of 6M shares and $27.070.000‚00. An issue of 9.600.000‚00 common stock 5 years warrant attached. What have been MCI sources of funds in the past (1972-1983)? What’s your opinion? Around 1972 MCI issued equity and later on time when the company started going well they issued debentures and convertible debentures. The main raison to do that is because equity cost use to be higher. First of all they issued debentures
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p. 2). As a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 permitting long-distance carriers to offer local services‚ WorldCom used its highly valued stock to outbid British Telephone and GTE to acquire MCI for $42 billion in 1997. Ebbers and Sullivan were viewed as industry leaders after the MCI and dozens of other mergers; it was clear they had money on their mind‚ “Our goal is not to capture market share or to be global. Our goal is to be No.1 stock on Wall Street” (Kaplan & Kiron‚ 2007‚ p. 4)
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Devon Daniel Verizon Verizon stars with WorldCom in 1983 when Murray Waldron and William Rector came together to sketch out a plan create a long-distance telephone service. Long Distance Discount service‚ became their new company that began operating as a long-distance reseller in 1984. The new company grew quickly in the next fifteen years‚ over time it change to WorldCom. The company became one of the largest telecommunications corporations in the world. They also became the largest bankruptcy
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Bernie Ebbers should have gone to jail. I disagree with the 25 year length of his sentence but he is at least partially to blame for the WorldCom fiasco. I think the government used the length of the sentence to prove a point and the only prior sentence comparable to this was John J. Rigas from Adelphia Communications earlier in the year . I think the CFO Scott Sullivan got a light sentence and consciously knew what he was doing and could have put a stop to it. He should have been the good advisor
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facilities via digital fiber optic cable networks in and around U.S. and European cities‚ and UUNet technologies‚ an internet access provider for business. • On November 10‚ 1997‚ WorldCom and MCI Communication announced their US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. • In 1998 WorldCom complete three mergers: with MCI Communications ($40 billion)‚ the largest in history at that time‚ Brooks Fiber Properties ($1.2 billion) and CompuServe ($1.3 billion). • Intermedia Communications (2001)‚ a provider of
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Koslowski of Tyco‚ or Gary Winnick of Global Crossing.3 Personally‚ Bernie is a hard guy not to like. In 1998 when Bernie was in the midst of acquiring the telecommunications firm MCI‚ Reverend Jesse Jackson‚ speaking at an all-black college near WorldCom’s Mississippi headquarters‚ asked how Ebbers could afford $35 billion for MCI but hadn’t donated funds to local black students. Businessman LeRoy Walker Jr.‚ was in the audience at Jackson’s speech‚ and afterwards set him straight. Ebbers had given over
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Francis McInerney predicted the failure of WorldCom in 1997 when WorldCom purchased MCI. The MCI venture contributed a great deal of costs to WorldCom in maintaining or replacing its network architecture. The management of WorldCom was mainly interested in the short term financial gain and did not even think about the cost it would take to maintain the MCI structure. Ultimately the combination of high costs with MCI‚ and the financial methods used had a great deal to do with its failure. The behavior
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company embarked on an aggressive acquisition strategy to expand into these markets. The acquisitions included the following telecommunication companies: MFS and UUNET (1996)‚ Brooks Fiber Properties‚ CompuServe Corporation‚ ANS Communications and MCI (1998); Skytel and Sprint (1999). Although the Sprint merger failed‚ Worldcom became the second-largest telecommunications provider in the United States. During this time span year over year revenue growth was 50 percent in 16 of 23 quarters. (Thibodeau
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