Case 9 Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse How did the corporate culture of Enron contribute to its bankruptcy? The corporate culture at Enron was centered on a twisted lack of ethical behavior based on greed and profit seeking. Top management set a tone in the workplace that encouraged risk and rule breaking in the name of revenue. Employees were compensated for unethical behavior that brought money into the company and terminated if they did not reach the monetary levels of
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Day Five and Six: Trial of Socrates A. What is the current state? (Stability: What the majority believe) Athens has long prided itself and itself as a hub for stimulating intellectual conversations‚ spurring philosophy‚ mathematics‚ and the arts. The reason that new and exciting ideas come from Athens‚ the democrats argue‚ is that merchants and sailors are permitted to travel to far off countries and expose themselves to new ideas‚ and bring them home; foreigners are likewise permitted
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN FAMILY BUSINESSES IN SERBIA PhD Katarina Djulic‚ Faculty of Economics‚ Finance and Administration‚ kdjulic@fefa.edu.rs MSc Tanja Kuzman‚ Faculty of Economics‚ Finance and Administration PhD Katarina Djulic is Assistant Professor at FEFA on subjects of Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance. She also works as Senior Consultant in KPMG Serbia. She worked as an Associate Operations Officer at the International Finance Corporation‚ World Bank Group‚ on the Corporate Governance
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economic competitiveness in many areas to satisfy the demands required by the IMF‚ of which corporate governance was of utmost importance. Many studies has scrutinized poor management practice of corporate governance‚ specifically in the chaebol firms as one of the main drives behind the collapse of Korean economy (Chang‚ 2006‚ Lee‚ 2002‚ Nam‚ 2001‚ Kim‚ 2004)‚ some even set it as case study of how corporate governance could relate to firm values and company performance (Black‚ Jang and Kim‚ 2005‚ Baek
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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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Corporate Governance in Banking: A Conceptual Framework Penny Ciancanelli E-mail: p.ciancanelli@strath.ac.uk And Jose Antonio Reyes Gonzalez E-mail: areyes@eh.quik.co.uk Department of Accounting and Finance Strathclyde University Glasgow‚ G4 0LN Tel: (44) (0) 141 548-3896 Fax: (44) (0) 141 548-3547 This paper can be downloaded from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=253714 Paper submitted for presentation at the
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Question I Give definition of earning management. Discuss in what instances is earnings managementacceptable and in what instances is it not acceptable. Before defining what earnings management is‚ it is important to understand the meaningof earnings first. Earnings are the profits of a company. Investors and analysts look to earningsto determine the attractiveness of a particular share. Companies with poor earnings prospectswill typically have lower share prices than those with good prospects
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collapse of Enron had substantial and far-reaching ramifications throughout the financial investment field‚ tax compliance professions and the accounting profession. Intense Congressional scrutiny resulted in a new era of transparency in financial reporting‚ stricter reporting standards as provided in Sarbanes-Oxley and substantial penalties for failure to comply with new financial reporting and tax compliance standards in the Internal Revenue Code (Bottiglieri et. al.‚ 2009) Enron Assignment
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Case Study One: Enron Corporation Richa Chopra Kaplan University Case Study One: Enron Corporation The Enron debacle created what one public official reported was a "crisis of confidence" on the part of the public in the accounting profession. Lists the parties who you believe are most responsible for the crisis. Briefly justify each of your choices. Enron proves to be a classic example of all that glitters is not gold. In 2001‚ Enron was hailed as America’s most innovative company and its
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1. The Enron executive team including Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow and other executives‚ were the key players in the crisis. The business practices they used when creating hundreds of SPE’s and diverting large amounts of liabilities to those off-balance sheet entities. Enron was aware of the minimal accounting guidelines for SPE’s and used them to their advantage. To create such a complex “paper” structure‚ the executives had to have coordinate their plans with the accountants
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