TOPIC Risk management with respect to Oil & Gas Industry INTRODUCTION India is the fifth largest consumer of energy in the world‚ and is likely to surpass Japan and Russia to become the world’s third biggest energy consumer by 2030. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA)‚ hydrocarbons satisfy major energy demand in India wherein coal and oil‚ together‚ represent about two-thirds of total energy use. Natural gas accounts for about 7 per cent share. India has about 5.7 billion barrels
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Skilling is quoted as saying that Enron was ""laser focused on earnings per share". Many of the SPE loan agreements Enron entered into contained price triggers where if Enron’s stock dropped below a designated level‚ Enron was required to provide additional stock to collateralize the loan and make significant cash payments. In the worst case scenario Enron might have been forced to dissolve and SPE and consolidate its assets and liabilities thus revealing losses. Such pressure to continually
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1. The definition of property as it relates to a section 351 transaction includes money. (TRUE) 2. A taxpayer always will have a tax basis in boot received in a section 351 transaction equal to its fair market value. (TRUE) 3. Mandel transferred property to his new corporation in a section 351 transaction. One of the properties transferred was land with a fair market value of $200‚000 and a tax basis of $250‚000. The corporation will always take a tax basis in the land of $200‚000 to prevent the
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Fair value in financial reporting: problems and pitfalls in practice – a case study analysis of the use of fair valuation at Enron David Gwilliam∗ and Richard H G Jackson School of Business and Economics‚ University of Exeter‚ Streatham Court‚ Rennes Drive‚ Exeter EX4 4PU‚ UK This paper has been accepted for publication in Accounting Forum ____________________________________________________________ ____________ Abstract This paper contributes to the debate on the use of mark to market
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their losses through unscrupulous means. They would book hypothetical profits on projects and joint ventures that had not yet launched and on the day a deal was signed. They would hide their debts through the use of complex Special Purpose Entities (SPEs). They would solicit support from top tier investment banks by giving them lucrative deals to work on. All this and more was conducted with one clear objective in mind: to make as much money as possible through manipulation. Everyone was happy as long
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CASE 1.1 Enron Corporation “Think Straight‚ Talk Straight. “ This was the motto of Arthur Edward Andersen. He was the founder of the Arthur & Company‚ which was established to provide accounting‚ auditing and related services. Throughout his professional‚ Arthur E. Andersen career‚ relied on a simple‚ four-word motto to serve as a guiding principle in making important personal and professional decisions: “Think straight‚ Talk straight.” Andersen would prefer fewer clients‚ than having more
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Links: - Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1308 din 11/20/2002 privind aprobarea Normelor metodologice pentru aplicarea Legii 365/2002 privind comerţul electronic - Legea privind clauzele abuzive încheiate între comercianţi şi consumatori‚ nr
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nihil est factum‚ quam ut occideretur. 2 Ex hoc‚ qui sit status totius rei publicae‚ videre potes. 3 16. 4 Nostrae tamen causae non videntur homines defuturi: mirandum in modum profitentur‚ offerunt se‚ pollicentur. 5 Equidem cum spe sum maxima‚ tum maiore etiam animo‚ spe‚ superiores fore nos‚ animo‚ ut in hac re publica ne casum quidem ullum pertimescam. 6 Sed tamen se res sic habet: si diem nobis Clodius dixerit‚ tota Italia concurret‚ ut multiplicata gloria discedamus; sin autem vi agere conabitur
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Experiment‚ which was a psychological experiment that determined the roles of members in a society that became a fiasco (“Philip G. Zimbardo” 1). The experiment left emotional and mental scars on mock-prisoner lives. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) illustrates the way a person changes when a label and power is all of a sudden given to hoax guards in order to control fraud prisoners. The experiment had a unit of people willing to help the study (“On the Ethics of Intervention…”1). Researchers
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Catholic Social Teaching and Gospel Nonviolence (From "THE GOD OF PEACE: TOWARD A THEOLOGY OF NONVIOLENCE) Roman Catholic social teaching on justice and peace dates back over one hundred years. In the past thirty years‚ this "new" tradition has opened the door to a theology of peace. A simple review of the church’s social teachings on justice and peace may shed light on our theology of nonviolence. This new theology can learn from Pacem in Terris‚ the Second Vatican Council’s stand on peace
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