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    Enron and WorldCom Case Study This report is based on the demise of Enron Corporation and WorldCom. Both the firms are demised due to the ethical lapses. These ethical lapses come into existence when managements of the firm‚ uses unethical practices to accomplish the goals of the firm. Maintaining financial and accounting standards in the business practices are necessary. The profession of accounting has become a mockery due to the accounting scandals that took place all over the world in the

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    Case Study: Slavery in the Chocolate Industry This case is about the slavery of young men in the Chocolate industry. Chocolate is made from the highly prized top quality cocoa beans that are grown on farms in West Africa‚ especially the Ivory Coast and Ghana‚ which make up close to half of the world’s chocolate. Slavery in the chocolate industry raises many issues including systematic‚ corporate and individual ethical issue. Here I’m going to discuss the issue I observed in this case

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    1 Auditing issues in Enron case Independent Needed for the Houston office of Andersen‚ an audit partner that understands the role of being a "public watchdog" with "ultimate allegiance to the creditors and shareholders" . Arthur Anderson abandoned its roles as independent auditor by turning a blind eye to improper accounting‚ including the failure to consolidate‚ failure of Enron to make $51million in proposed adjustments in 1997‚ and failure to adequately disclose the nature of transactions with

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    UVA-F-1299 Rev. Feb. 8‚ 2011 This document is authorized for use only by Mattia Tenaglia at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Please do not copy or redistribute. Contact permissions@dardenbusinesspublishing.com for questions or additional permissions. ENRON CORPORATION’S WEATHER DERIVATIVES (A) Everybody talks about the weather‚ but nobody does anything about it.1 In October 2000‚ Mary Watts‚ the chief financial officer of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW)‚ a utility servicing the Pacific Northwest

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    Running head: CASE STUDIES: ENRON’S FALL AND TYCO INTERNATIONAL’S LEADERSHIP CRISIS Case Studies: Enron’s Fall and Tyco International’s Leadership Crisis Grand Canyon University BUS 604 November 4‚ 2009 Case Study: Enron’s Fall and Tyco International’s Leadership Crisis The tight Federal regulations now governing businesses and their accounting practices came about because one corporation‚ Enron‚ took risks their company could not withstand without taking some rather extreme measures in

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    Running head: Enron and Ethics Enron: An Ethics Case StudyEnron: An Introduction The previous decades have seen the birth and meteoric rise of several corporate giants such as Microsoft and Apple‚ both of which have all but become household names in this day and age. Neither achieved their level of success overnight‚ especially not since they have long been known to be in direct competition with each other. On the contrary‚ both of them have had their share of scandals and controversies

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    www.ccsenet.org/ijbm International Journal of Business and Management Vol. 5‚ No. 10; October 2010 The Case Analysis of the Scandal of Enron Yuhao Li Huntsman School of Business‚ Utah State University‚ Logan city‚ U.S.A E-mail: wyl_2001_ren@126.com‚ carolee1989@gmail.com Abstract The Enron scandal‚ revealed in October 2001‚ eventually led to the bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation‚ an American energy company based in Houston‚ Texas‚ and the dissolution of Arthur Andersen‚ which was one of the

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    Enron and How it Affected the Accounting Industry Enron once was one the United States largest energy company and was ranked Fortune’s seventh richest corporation in the United States. When Enron had a filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 it unraveled to be one the biggest accounting scandals in United States history. There are many factors that contributed to Enron’s demise but their aggressive and unethical accounting practices were the key component. As a result‚ the accounting industry

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    Nakayama: What do you think are the most important lessons to be learned from the Enron scandal? Hanson: 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 governance in the United States‚ as well as for a close look at the ethical quality of the culture of business generally and of business corporations in the United

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    CASE STUDY – UNIT 1 1. Andrew Fastow is a key person responsible for the downfall of Enron. When he became the CFO in 1998‚ he came up with the plan to make the company appear in great shape by using the mark-to-market accounting practice. The company would build an asset‚ such as a power plant‚ and immediately claim the projected profit on its books‚ even though it hadn’t made one dime from it. If the revenue from the power plant was less than the projected amount‚ instead of taking the loss‚ the

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