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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The Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf Post-script – What actually happened? The following material is excerpted from the original article and provides some overview of the actual evaluation that took place. * In terms of “hard” financial results‚ SNI produced its first profitable year in 1994-95‚ the first year of the CCP. Until Siemens intervened‚ it remained mildly profitable‚ with reported sales of almost DM18bn and net income of DM500m in 1998. This performance was insufficient
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and many aspects of corporate governance in America. As a result of the scandal‚ thousands of people lost their jobs‚ some people lost their entire pensions‚ and all of the shareholders lost the money that they had invested in the corporation after it went bankrupt. 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
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The Watergate Scandal The Watergate Affair‚ is the worst political scandal in U.S. history. It led to the resignation of the president‚ Richard M. Nixon‚ after he became implicated in an attempt to cover up the scandal. "The Watergate Affair" refers to the break-in and electronic bugging in 1972‚ of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment‚ and office building complex in Washington D.C. The term was applied to several related scandals. More than thirty
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1. What explains the high level of corruption at Siemens? How did managers engaged in corruption rationalize it? In Germany‚ bribery was legal before 1999‚ now was illegal. However‚ Siemens continued bribery‚ they sent the money to the bank in Switzerland that was difficult to trace. Also‚ they hired a lot of “consultant” to help them accomplish corrupt business. Managers rationalized that bribes were looked like a “cost of doing business” and “useful money”. They believed this way could keep the
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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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What exactly was the "mensalao" scandal? It was an alleged scheme that embezzled public funds to buy political support for the then Lula government and to pay off debts from election campaigns. The central accusation was that politicians from coalition parties were given large payments each month to support the minority government led by the Workers’ Party. The scandal nearly caused the Lula administration to collapse. How did the affair come to light? The scandal broke in 2005 when a congressman
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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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Protecting Sensitive Labels in Social Network Data Anonymization ABSTRACT: Privacy is one of the major concerns when publishing or sharing social network data for social science research and business analysis. Recently‚ researchers have developed privacy models similar to k-anonymity to prevent node reidentification through structure information. However‚ even when these privacy models are enforced‚ an attacker may still be able to infer one’s private information if a group of nodes largely share
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The term “police corruption” brings shame and public skepticism about our front line of defense against the criminal element. While the corrupt may be only a small number of officers‚ the idea or actions of the few effect the entire institution of law enforcement throughout the country. Police corruption is not a new concept. We start to see corruption from the modern police force. Corruption is not something that used to happen. Today throughout the United States police departments have been hit
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