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    Arthur Anderson LLP

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    Corporate Culture and its Role in the Downfall Of Arthur Anderson LLC and Sunbeam Corporation Darrell V. Davis Grand Canyon University Bus 604 Business Ethics July 5‚ 2009 Abstract Corporate culture plays an extremely important role in the development of a company. Whether explicitly stated or not‚ the culture of a company reveals its attitude‚ motivation‚ and intentions. Arthur Andersen’s and Sunbeam’s cultures revealed that they were on the hunt for huge profits at the expense of independence

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    Enron Scandal

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    hurt the economy? The Enron scandal is an example of a historical exposure of unethical behaviors within a company and it is also one of the largest corporate scandals in America. Enron started as a gas pipeline company. It soon expanded into the world’s largest and dominant corporation focusing on trading gas‚ electricity and water – the most essential needs of a citizen living in North America. In December of 2001 Enron filed for bankruptcy. The moral concern from this scandal was the immoral

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    Enron

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    Dennie Brown‚ Chief Accounting Officer Walter Richardson‚ Vice President of Data Processing Steven Bedowitz‚ Chief Executive Officer Mac Martirossian‚ Chief Financial Officer Edward Smith‚ audit engagement partner Joel Reed‚ senior audit manager My experience has been that students differ markedly in their assessments of the ethics of these individuals. In particular‚ students generally have difficulty arriving at a consensus assessment of Martirossian’s conduct in this case. I believe that

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    Enron - Ask Why?

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    Enron – Ask Why? How Unethical and Illegal Behavior Ruined Lives Brief History of Enron Enron was an energy company based in Houston‚ Texas that dealt with the energy trade on an international and domestic basis. Enron formed in 1985 when Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth. After several years of international and domestic expansion involving complicated deals and contracts‚ Enron became billions of dollars in debt. All of this debt was concealed from shareholders through partnerships

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    Enron Scandal

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    Is it greed or simply ignorance which caused the Enron Scandal? Enron once was known as "America’s Most Innovative Company" and as of today‚ known as one of the most popular business bankruptcies and failures. Enron appeared to be doing really well‚ producing a lot of cash and new businesses‚ in October of 2001 that all changed. Enron reported a $618 million third-quarter loss and declares a $1.01 billion non-recurring charge against its balance sheet. Partially related to "structured finance" operations

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    #1: Moss and McAdams Accounting Firm Strayer University Bus 517 Bruce Palmer was a good guy looking to make a difference. He was lead to believe that Zeke Olds was going to be available to him throughout the project and that was not the case. He was led astray and betrayed by Ken Crosby‚ a new guy to M&M. Crosby knew if he made the case to Sands early‚ that he would get his way. The client was one that M&M was competing to get with two other big 5 accounting firms and since Crosby came

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    Case 1.1 - Enron Corporation ------------------------------------------------- Discussion 1 The parties we believe to be most at fault for the crisis in this case are a) the Audit Firm engaged in the Enron audit (Arthur Andersen); b) Enron Management (Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ Andrew Fastow; and c) the SEC. The Public Accounting Firm: Arthur Andersen The auditor has the responsibility to evaluate the risk of material fraud‚ including: * Incentives and motives for fraud : Enron was a fast

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    Enron case analysis

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    Enron debacle: Case Report Table of Contents I. Understanding the Entity: Business Risk Assessment 1. Nature of the entity 1.1. Brief introduction: Enron Corporation‚ a Houston based giant company‚ conducted energy trading business and gas pipeline transportation and distribution business in the energy and industrial sectors. 1During the 1990s‚ Enron transferred from a natural gas supplier and to an intermediary midstream company facilitating distributions

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    According to Burger (2008) “Accounting is the language of business. A lot of people think it ’s just numbers‚ but it ’s really a lot more than that. There are a lot of areas outside of numbers that need to be looked at‚ processes and procedures‚ what the tone of the company is. Accounting will take you in just about any direction in a company." ~ Wade Becker‚ CPA‚ Beard‚ Miller Co. The job description of many professions is changing nowadays. The skills to perform a certain job require more skills

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    Management Accounting‚ Cdn. 6e (Horngren/Sundem/Stratton/Beaulieu) Chapter 1 Management Accounting and Management Decisions 1) Both internal managers and external parties use accounting information. Answer: TRUE Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 16 Objective: 8 2) Internal accounting reports must follow generally accepted accounting principles and account for assets at historical cost. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Type: TF Page Ref: 16 Objective: 8 3) Organizations that

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