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    hindsight‚ what advice would you have given the Enron Board to avoid the 2001 disaster? GROUP MEMBERS 1. Augustine Kupara R082559R 2. Tonderai Nyamadzawo R082987G 3. Simbarashe Chaka R089613J 4 Brighton Nzvuvu R089824H 5. Walter Danger R082990X 6. Simon Chigwanda R075968L 7. Ashley Murisa R082991Y 8. Frank Garatsa R082988H 9. Presely Nheweyembwa R076037L 10. Peter Donald R055241G 11. Shingirayi Gwete R089773H BACKGROUND Enron Corporation was formed in 1985 from a merger

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    Knowledge is the Ultimate power by jayaram Dear friends‚ have you ever gazed at the night sky and wondered “What is this Universe? Why is the universe the way it is? Where did we come from? How long our Earth and human race last for?” I think everybody has these questions at least once in their life and we may have a little bit answers. If you want to get better answers‚ you must read an awesome book called “A brief history of time” written by Stephen William Hawking mainly for a layman. Stephen

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    The fallout that accompanied the accounting scandals of the early 2000’s had an immediate impact on corporate business and accounting practices which is still being felt today. The collapse of Enron and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen‚ as well as the subsequent collapses of Worldcom and others have left a permanent mark on how corporate businesses and accounting firms are perceived and how they are regulated. It has also altered the experiences of students who are pursuing‚ or are considering

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    my decision to return to school. Education is very empowering aspect of someone’s life‚ especially mine. College is much more than just a degree. In college you also learn how to learn‚ perhaps one of the most important things you can get out of college. Returning to school is and will be the best decision I have made. 2 1 1. is very Please carefully edit your writing. Try reading it out loud. You missed a word here. [Rebecca Heckman] 2. made. You have shifted your point of view. This paper

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    .................4 3. Firm Size…………………………………………………………………………7 4. Legal Status of a Small Firm…………………………………………………..8 5. The Qualitative Features of Entrepreneurship in Small Enterprise………..9 6. The Place of the Small Firm in the Russian Economy……………………..10 7. A List of Problems That Private Enterprise Faces in Russia (Conclusion).11 8. Reference Page………………………………………………………………...13 1. Introduction Before we can analyze what the small firm sector is and how it homogenously

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    of ethical issues raised in the movie “Enron-the Smartest Guys in the Room” but the four I am going to focus on are listed below. Art Anderson‚ Ken Lay and all of the other executives did a number of unethical things which ultimately brought down Enron and affected thousands of employees and their futures. The bottom line was that each and every one of them acted out of greed for the almighty dollar. 1- Encouraging employees to invest and buy stock in Enron when they knew the truth about the lack

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    Ayusarita Satriani 311368 – IUP BUSINESS UGM Financial Management ENRON Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal ; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1780075.stm; http://finance.laws.com/enron-scandal-summary Enron is an energy company that successfully grew from nowhere to be America’s seventh largest company‚ which has 21‚000 staff in more than 40 countries in 15 years. It was one of the world’s leading electricity‚ natural gas‚ communications‚ and pulp and paper companies

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    Purpose Entity Enron had high levels of debt. To attract new 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

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    people must believe that democracy works. If everyone believes in the process of democracy‚ then the people will gather in the assembly and use their diverse ideas to debate‚ challenge one another‚ and create innovative solutions to real problems. This is the strength of Athens. But beliefs are fickle and interesting things. What happens when the belief in democracy itself is eroded? What happens when the diverse citizens of Athens believe that only the elite few have worthwhile ideas? Then the majority

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    After the incidents involving Arthur Anderson‚ Enron‚ and WorldCom‚ the role of a professional accountant was changed. Brooks (2007) stated‚ “Professional accountants owe their primary loyalty to the public interest‚ not just to their own financial interests‚ company directors or management‚ or current shareholders at the expense of future shareholders.” (Chap. 1‚ p. 22). Decisions made by executives should reflect their corporation’s ethical values. In knowing this information‚ the case of Daniel

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