Pandora Pandora ad terram mittebatur. Sed Pandora erat curiosa*. Pandora operculum (lid‚ acc. sing.) ollae removit. Multa mala (evils‚ nom. pl) erant in olla! Mala (evils) ad terram volaverunt. Eheu! (Alas!) Una anima in olla mansit--Spes (hope‚ nom. sing). Hodie spes remanet cum hominibus (human beings‚ abl. plural). Pandora was let go by the earth. But Pandora was curious. Pandora lid much evils were in the jar! Evils by earth did fly. Alas! One spirit in jar remained --- hope. Today hope remains
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 How it happened? 2 Financial Reporting Issues 3 Trading Business and Mark to Marketing 3 Reporting Issues for Special Purpose Entities 3 Other Accounting Problems 4 Governance and Intermediation Failures at Enron 4 Role of Top Management Compensation 4 Role of Audit Committees 4 Role of External Auditors 4 Role of Fund Managers 5 Role of Accounting Regulations 5 The Sarbanes Oxley Act 5 Did it help? 5 Bibliography 6 Introduction Kenneth
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daughter on top of this mountain‚ the climbing of the mountain was Ike’s long journey‚ to realization. It ends with Ike saying that they can come down off the mountain‚ symbolizing that everyone had finally realized the guilt‚ and the start of everyone on spes working towards a solution to fix what they had
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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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Prepared by: James S. Metcalf and Geoffrey A. Codd‚ UDU Date: 7 July 2005 1 Introduction In order to determine the concentration of cylindrospermopsin in the extracellular fraction of filtered environmental waters‚ solid phase extraction (SPE) is necessary to concentrate the toxin to concentrations capable of being detected by HPLC. 2 Experimental 2.1 Materials Use analytical reagent grade reagents. (a) Polygraphite carbon solid phase extraction cartridges (PGC)‚ e
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DEDICATION This research paper is unconditionally dedicated to my family especially to my mother‚ Sylvia M Co‚ to my friends‚ classmates and last but not the least‚ to God Almighty. The Researcher ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researcher is extremely thankful to the people who provide her with their continous support‚ encouragement and consideration to make this research achievable. Thanks to……… Mrs. Carina S. Villaester‚ Research teacher‚ for her extreme guidance
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unethical atmosphere encouraged Enron’s CFO Andrew Fastow to develop some businesses that existed only on paper which he referred to as Raptors but whose technical term is Special Purpose Entities or the SPEs that received so much notoriety in the press (Zulauf & Grierson‚ 2011). Since these SPEs were essentially off-the-book businesses‚ it was easy for Fastow to keep hiding Enron’s business losses in these shadow companies. This strategy allowed Enron to keep reporting revenues with little to no
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The Enron and World Com Scandals Enron 1. The board directors failed their fiduciary obligation to protect their shareholders‚ employees‚ and business partners by allowing high risk accounting‚ inappropriate conflict of interest‚ expenses undisclosed off the books activity‚ excessive compensation‚ and lack of independence between the company‚ and board members. I feel the segment that got Enron into trouble was the Executive and finance committee (Brooks). 3. I do believe that they
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There were several internal control issues with Arthur Andersen (AA) that contributed to the Enron disaster. Firstly‚ AA gave Enron nonaudit services as well as audit services‚ meaning that AA could advise the structuring of transactions for desired disclosure outcomes and other work and later give an audit opinion on these transactions. This resulted in a blatant conflict of interest issue that many audit professionals did not recognize. Secondly‚ the “tone at the top” of AA did not encourage ethics
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any gas sales were made. There is no doubt that the projection of the long-term income is overly optimistic and inflated. SPE—Special Purpose Entity: Enron also used SPEs and structured financing to conceal their debts off the book and camouflage their existing debts. The officers manipulated the financial analysts to rate the company as ‘the strong buy’. With the SPEs and structured financing‚ Enron was successful to hide losses even when it ventured into other markets which were in reality
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