ADELPHIA COMMUNICATIONS SCANDAL REVEALED ________________________________________ The Adelphia Communications Scandal Created Controversy. The Fraudster Got Sympathy From the Judge and Received a Light Sentence for Stealing From Old Folks. ________________________________________ The Adelphia Communications scandal broke in 2002 when a footnote in a routine quarterly earnings statement revealed that the Rigas family had borrowed more than $2 billion from the company. But they didn’t pay it back
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The Accounting Scandal Enron Corp. Collapse and WorldCom Accounting Scandal 11/18/2020 The Enron Corp. collapse Formed in 1985 from a merger of Houston Natural Gas and Inter-north‚ Enron Corp. was the first nationwide natural gas pipeline network. Over time‚ the firm’s business focus shifted from the regulated transportation of natural gas to unregulated energy trading markets. The guiding principle seems to have been that there was more money to be made in buying and selling financial
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Nakayama: What do you think are the most important lessons to be learned from the Enron scandal? Hanson: The Enron scandal is the most significant corporate collapse in the United States since the failure of many savings and loan banks during the 1980s. This scandal demonstrates the need for significant reforms in accounting and corporate governance in the United States‚ as well as for a close look at the ethical quality of the culture of business generally and of business corporations in the United
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Ramalinga Raju The man behind the rise and fall of SATYAM’s success Presented By: 11/18/2014 Students of MSc. Financial and Managerial Accounting • Sonia Saher • Mohammad Waqas • Lu Tran Diem Trinh • Xin Wang 2 Roadmap: Introduction to Satyam and agency conflict overview Stakeholders at Satyam (presenter M. Waqas) Inadequacy in Satyam’s Corporate Governance (Presenter Trinh) Suggestions to save Satyam ship (Presenter Xin) Questions will be entertained at the end 11/18/2014
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Name Instructor Course Date Watergate Scandal There are several events in the American history that indicate the restriction of knowledge and information to the public and the reactions that are experienced due to their exposure. One of the historic events apart from the black American slavery is the Watergate scandal. Watergate scandal is a major event that occurred in the history of the United States that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon who was the then US president. Watergate is considered
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Trident University Case 1- The Adelphia Scandal ETH501: Business Ethics Dr. Bonnie Adams 4/13/2014 Introduction Aldelphia Communications Corporation was founded in 1952 by John Rigas and two partners. Rigas began to grow the business and by July 1‚ 1986 Adelphia was ready to go public. The company quickly grew into the sixth largest cable company in the United States. Its annual revenue exceeded $2.9 billion with offices located in 32 states and Puerto Rico (Barlup‚ Hanne & Stuart‚ 2009). With
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Management Scandal in 1998. They reported 1.7 billion in fake earnings by increasing the length of depreciation time for property‚ plant and equipment on the balance Page 2 sheets. The fraud was detected when a new CEO was brought in and the new management team went through the books. Motivation seems to be that this publicly traded company needed to keep stock prices up to keep investors and shareholders happy. Incentive‚ opportunity and rationalization are all at play here. The Enron Scandal in 2001
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What is Law? We need to be specific when refer to ’the law’ as there are two types of law in Australia: LEGISLATION‚ and CASES‚ also called ‘judge-made law’ or ‘common law’. These are also known as authoritative sources of law. Each type of law has a different origin. LEGISLATION is created by parliament. It’s also called ‘Acts’ or ‘statutes’. Legislation may also be changed or removed by parliament. Legislation may be made about any subject for which the parliament has power to make laws
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one of them‚ James McCord charged that Nixon’s administration officials were tied to the scandal; consequently‚ the Senate conducted further investigation and televised hearings where numerous sources implied that the scandal was connected to the white house. When
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Assignment Content 1. Introduction Page 1~3 2. The corporate scandal Page 4~5 3. The scandal methodology Page 6~7 4. The firm hide their accounting scandal Page 8~9 5. The scandal effected Page 9~10 6. How the scandal has affected Page10~12 the accounting profession Page 7. Summary Page 12 8. Recommendations
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