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    Enron was a company in the energy industry founded in 1985 by Kenneth Lay. Enron was based in Huston‚ Texas and employed approximately 20‚000 people. In 2001‚ Enron filed for bankruptcy after many years of lying‚ fraud‚ and dishonesty with their financial books. Enron was pretending to be a huge‚ successful company when in reality‚ it was in a financial hole so deep there was no way of getting out.   Discuss and analyze the culture at Enron. In what way was it effective? In what ways was it the catalyst

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    Enron Questions

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    Enron Questions 1. How did Enron’s corporate culture contribute to its bankruptcy? Enron’s corporate culture was greedy and arrogant. Arrogance and pride are what mostly contributed to the downfall of Enron. Employees made money for the executives. The company was thought of as a leading company‚ and imagined to be invincible. Once funds were gambled away‚ and the whole got deeper‚ more funds were gambled to attempt to create liquid assets to pay off debt. Eventually‚ it all ran out.

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    Case Study The Rise and Fall of WorldcomThis case study is about Bernard Ebbers CEO of Worldcom‚ Inc. and Scott Sullivan CFO of Worldcom‚ Inc. once they were boosted the company growth and they got awards. Later on they made frauds by using their influential tactics on employees and company’s board. Those are Assertiveness: it involves applying legitimate and coercive power to influence others by threatening or giving punishment. This tactic was used by sullivans office where they berated and intimidated

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    The Fall of Enron

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    auditors and Enron and the existence of conflicts of interest. From 1993‚ Enron started to outsource its internal audit functions to Anderson. Besides‚ conflicts of interest gets aggravated when the cross-selling of consulting services by auditors increases a lot. And consulting fees to auditors are much lucrative than the audit fees. As a result‚ Enron could easily threaten Anderson to give a favorable opinions to the public and otherwise Anderson couldn’t maintain a good relationship with Enron. Most

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    Fall of Enron

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    Q1- Who were the key stakeholders involved in‚ or affected by the collapse of Enron? How and to what degree were they hurt or helped by the actions of Enron management? Ans- The key stakeholders affected by the collapse of Enron were its employees and retirees. Stakeholders and mutual funds investors lost $ 70billion market value. Banks were also affected by the meltdown of the company. They included big banks like J P Morgan Chase and Citigroup. Not only the stakeholder and bondholder lose out

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    The Collapse of Enron

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    or affected by‚ the collapse of Enron? All stakeholders were‚ obviously‚ affected by the collapse of Enron. However‚ several of them were critical‚ especially those being considered as market stakeholders such as suppliers‚ creditors‚ employees‚ and stockholders. These mentioned stakeholders seem to be Enron’s most recognizable as the essential contributors to its organization. They dared of giving up an available alternative in order to take a risk with Enron in hoping of some benefits in return

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    The Enron Collapse

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    At one time Enron was one of the world’s largest producers of natural gas‚ oil‚ and electricity. It also appeared to be one of the most profitable companies‚ taking shareholders from $19.10 in 1999 to $90.80 by the end of 2000. Enron’s top management answered to a Board of Directors whose responsibility was to question and challenge new partnerships‚ ventures‚ and decisions within the company. On several occasions‚ Andrew Fastow‚ the company’s Chief Financial Officer approached the board of

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    Ethics and Enron

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    to do with the meltdown at Enron had no ethical standards. Enron had a lack of accounting transparency‚ which enabled the company’s managers to make their financials look much better than they actually were. I believe that Kenneth Lay got rid of several million shares of Enron stock and made over a billion dollars. While the Enron employees lost their jobs‚ the money in their pension funds as well as any money they invested into the company. Not only did Enron damage the lives of their employees

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    1919 Black Sox Scandal

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    The Impact of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal The 1919 Black Sox Scandal is one of the most skeptical topics in Major League Baseball history. The 1919 World Series was battled out between the Chicago White-Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. In fact‚ this particular match-up was picked to be the most competitive world series yet‚ but it most certainly was not. After the Cincinnati Reds clinched the World Series title‚ the story behind the scenes began to unfold. This shocking and quite shameful story would

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    Enron Case

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    1. The Enron debacle created what one public official reported was a “crisis of confidence” on the part of the public in the accounting profession. List the parties who you believe are most responsible for that crisis. Briefly justify each of your choices. a. Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ and Andrew Fastow. A common theme of the allegations leveled at the three executives was that they had created a corporate culture that fostered‚ if not encouraged‚ “rule breaking”. b. Andersen

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