Enrons Fall Kenneth Lay – CEO Auditors – Arthur Anderson Jeffrey Skilling – Consultant‚ Hired as a young consultant‚ as due to deregulation‚ Enron incurred massive debts. Jeffrey skilling was hired to come up with innovative new ideas. His revolutionary idea for Enron was to ‘create a gas bank in which Enron would buy gas from a network of suppliers and sell to a network of consumers‚ contractually guaranteeing both the supply and the price‚ charging fees for the transactions and assuming the
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Beaman‚ and Roger T. Kelem (1976)‚ researchers found that children either in a costume‚ concealing their identity‚ or within a group were more likely to steal when left alone with a bowl of candy‚ than those who went trick-or-treating alone. In the SPE guards were given reflective sunglasses to wear throughout the experiment‚ which‚ according to the aforementioned study‚ increases their sense of anonymity. This may form an explanation for their abusive and facist actions towards the prisoners. Furthermore
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drive to maintain reported earnings growth‚ however‚ had led Enron to aggressive accounting policies to accelerate earnings. In particular‚ the ‘special purpose entities’ (SPEs) Enron used to move assets and liabilities off the balance sheet attracted most attention. The financial involvement of Enron officers and employees in the SPEs led to further questions. Enron executives regarded themselves as an elite. The company had largely left behind the Texan ‘good ol’ boy’ culture – and certainly the
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management kept finding ways to go around the system. Finally‚ the collapse can also be attributed to management integrity and Andersen’s failure to detect accounting irregularities. Auditors should have looked closer at the complex and complicated SPEs transactions in whish the company was venturing. What is the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF)? Is it the same as FASB? Does a Consensus of the EIFT have the same power of GAAP as an FASB Statement? No they are not the same. The EITF was formed
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employees‚ but also the shareholders‚ U.S Citizens and also the impact that it had on other countries that Enron was affiliated with. The focus of this paper is on the creation of Enron’s business model that resulted in the fall of Enron. Also‚ how the SPEs and the Raptors come to play in assisting Enron. After the Enron scandal broke out‚ a new legislation was introduced and passed to prevent similar scandals from erupting again. In investigating Enron on their deregulatory schemes‚ it will help other
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The Enron Collapse By: Jeff Porter Kevin Clark Jared Sabelhaus February 18‚ 2005 Introduction Companies have mission statements that often read like inspirational leaflets. Enron’s mission was at first to be the world’s greatest energy company then later revised in early 2001 to be the “world’s greatest company”. In the late 1990’s‚ Enron seemed to have accomplished their mission accumulating vast amounts of assets‚ had the intellectually elite at the helm‚ a political climate in their
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investors‚ Enron needed to find a way to hide those debts. Andrew Fastow‚ CFO of Enron‚ turned to Special Purpose Entity (SPE). Several legal entities such as LJM and raptors were created and the poorly performing stocks were transferred to these entities. Then‚ the SPE were used to borrow large sum of money from investors with Enron’s overpriced stock as collateral. These SPEs were not reported on the financial statements. In this way‚ the debts were hidden from the stakeholders. Also‚ the borrowed
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the Stanford Prison Experiment July 15‚ 2008 The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) by Phil Zimbardo has been for me an example of the astonishing things that we humans are capable of. I guess as an example of human gullibility‚ I had not been skeptical about the experiment‚ which lacks quite a few scientific markers (aside from its ethical problems). During a talk by Barbara Oakley‚ she was asked to comment about the SPE because it showed the influence the situation and roles could have on human behavior
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the management perspective. The three examples of Enron behaving badly that I am going to study are the incidents in Valhalla‚ the electricity trading in California and the conflict of interest between Andy Fastow and his special purpose entities (SPE). These are just a few cases that led to the failure of the "World’s Leading Company." In 1985 Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth‚ of Omaha‚ Neb.‚ to form Enron and Ken Lay was named chief executive officer. The company was basically a
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United Parcel Service Executive Summary UPS has announced that after more than 90 years as a private company‚ it was planning an initial public offering to become a publicly traded company. In response to this‚ we will first analyze UPS¡¦s business strategy and it¡¦s sustainability of its current performance. Then we will look at key factors to estimate the UPS¡¦s market capitalization value using FedEx¡¦s multiples as well as ¡§best in breed¡¨ company premiums. From this‚ we concluded that
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