of the Enron Scandal The main problem of the Enron scandal was that they committed business fraud. This is what the root problem of the company was. The sad thing about the Enron scandal was that approximately 22‚000 men and women lost their jobs. Not only did it affect the people who worked for the company but the problem was that it also affected other accounting firms that worked directly with Enron‚ for example the company Arthur Anderson went under because of the Enron scandal and this also
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Is it greed or simply ignorance which caused the Enron Scandal? Enron once was known as "America’s Most Innovative Company" and as of today‚ known as one of the most popular business bankruptcies and failures. Enron appeared to be doing really well‚ producing a lot of cash and new businesses‚ in October of 2001 that all changed. Enron reported a $618 million third-quarter loss and declares a $1.01 billion non-recurring charge against its balance sheet. Partially related to "structured finance" operations
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Oscar Romero was a brave Catholic Bishop in El Salvador in an environment where public religious celebrations were considered rebellious‚ and speaking your mind meant defying the government and risking execution. Romero saw nothing but to defend his clergy and he greatly disagreed with acts done by the government. However‚ after he had seen so many of his fellow pastor brothers murdered because they preached of the injustices within El Salvador to the people in states of poverty‚ who had been continually
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reality for many Americans. This devastating loss left many taxpayers with misappropriated assets along with a burden to pay the “bill” for the bailout of AIG. PART I: HOUSING MARKET SCANDAL: VIOLATIONS IN BUSINESS OPERATIONS To understand the accounting scandal of AIG‚ one must first understand its business transactions and operations leading up to the SEC investigations. In 1993‚ President Bill Clinton signed into law the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act‚ commonly
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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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failure is also a key factor contributing to the Wedtech scandal. It is presented as a result of independence of auditing reporting and confirmation.On the one hand‚ even if auditors complied with auditing process on the surface (Berg and barbanel‚ 1987)‚ they are not independent since they were bribed to forge auditing reports.In 1982‚ Wedtech employed the Main Hurdman to financially audit its financial statementswhen it went to Initial Public Offerings. One of the auditing partners‚ Richard Bluestinefound
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in the scandal‚ including the then senior Xerox management‚ the Board of Directors and external auditor KPMG LLP. The failure of those parties in discharging their duties induces the further thought of trust and accountability among them and shareholders. Furthermore‚ the external environment in 1990s‚ including economic bubble boom‚ irrational investors‚ fierce industrial competition and ineffective regulations on audit‚ provided a hotbed for the scandal. Lessons learnt from Xerox scandal indicate
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The Enron Scandal One of the most popular business bankruptcies and collapses known to date is that of the Enron Corporation. Enron‚ once known as "America ’s Most Innovative Company" by Fortune Magazine six straight years from 1996 to 2001. Enron seemed to be doing very well until the summer of 2001 generating a lot of cash and new businesses‚ but in October of 2001 Enron was forced to disclose that their accounting practices had been very creative‚ and failed to follow generally accepted accounting
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Abstract - The Enron scandal is one of the biggest financial scams ever to take place and its root’s lie in the desire of the senior members of Enron to earn as much for themselves as possible and were assisted in this greatly by the negligence shown by their auditor’s and consultants‚ Arthur Andersen. Most of the debts and tangible assets of Enron were on the balance sheet of partnerships that were run by high-ranking officials within the corporation and these partnerships were recorded as related
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isn’t enough evidence to prove the conspiracies are real‚ but that doesn’t sway the belief that there is truth behind them. Real conspiracies‚ on the other hand‚ have evidence of proven facts to support the belief. The Watergate conspiracy‚ for example‚ was a real political scandal during Richard Nixon’s Presidential term. Such real conspiracies help feed the belief in other conspiracy theories (Jewett‚ Olmsted). The need to feel important can be so great that the creation of a conspiracy theory
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