WorldCom Scandal Formerly known as WorldCom‚ now known as MCI‚ this U.S.-based telecommunications company was at one time the second-largest long distance phone company in the U.S. Today‚ it is perhaps best known for a massive accounting scandal that led to the company filing for bankruptcy protection in 2002. In 1998‚ the telecommunications industry began to slow down and WorldCom’s stock was declining. CEO Bernard Ebbers came under increasing pressure from banks to cover margin calls on
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Current issue: Scandals in auditing Enron Scandal 1. Introduction Accounting scandals are political or business scandals which arise with the disclosure of financial misdeeds by trusted executives of corporations or governments. These days‚ not too often‚ these scandals are splashed as headlines across media. Why? Because there are complex groups of stakeholders who might be seriously affected by the scandals. Enron scam was the most remarkable scandal in 20 centuries by their institutionalized
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in the scandal‚ including the then senior Xerox management‚ the Board of Directors and external auditor KPMG LLP. The failure of those parties in discharging their duties induces the further thought of trust and accountability among them and shareholders. Furthermore‚ the external environment in 1990s‚ including economic bubble boom‚ irrational investors‚ fierce industrial competition and ineffective regulations on audit‚ provided a hotbed for the scandal. Lessons learnt from Xerox scandal indicate
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The Bofors scandal was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India’s 155 mm field howitzer. The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before‚ and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi’s ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections. It has been speculated that the scale of the scandal was to the
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affiliated with. The focus of this paper is on the creation of Enron’s business model that resulted in the fall of Enron. Also‚ how the SPEs and the Raptors come to play in assisting Enron. After the Enron scandal broke out‚ a new legislation was introduced and passed to prevent similar scandals from erupting again. In investigating Enron on their deregulatory schemes‚ it will help other companies in realising the consequences that can result from such accounting manipulation. An overview of the
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obligation to bring to the attention of Enron ’s Board (or the Audit and Compliance Committee) concerns about Enron ’s internal contracts over the related-party transactions" (“Enron Scandal”). After reading about the scandal it seems as if Arthur Andersen was being pressured by Enron’s executive management
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The City of Bell Scandal The story of the City of Bell scandal is one of corruption and deceit where top city council officials are the perpetrators and the residents‚ their victims. The city of Bell was a prime and easy target for Robert Rizzo‚ Bell city manager‚ and several other city officials‚ including some within the Bell police force. This small town in the County of Los Angeles has a population of less than 40‚000‚ and over the past decade there has been a substantial decrease in public
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The Fannie Scandal: The ’Financiopaths ’ Did It Article Analysis Jami L. Harris University of Phoenix ACC 363/ Financial Accounting II Facilitator: Eduard Delacruz November 5‚ 2006 Abstract When most people hear the word "Enron‚" they the first thought that comes to mind is watching the news with the executives being taken by handcuffs to a police car due to the scandal. Though it remains very familiar in the minds of the American people‚ Fannie Mae had also lead a scandalous act to
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Trip Winkel Finance 303 May‚ 27 2005 Dr. Namorato The Enron Scandal Enron was established in 1930 as Northern Natural Gas Company and joined with three other companies to undertake this industry. The four companies eventually began to break apart between 1941 and 1947 as a result of a public stock offering. In 1979‚ Northern Natural Gas was placed under new management when it was bought by InterNorth Inc. In 1985‚ Kenneth Lay‚ CEO of Houston Natural Gas Company devised a transaction
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WorldCom Scandal A summary of WorldCom fraud would include having to describe the greed that would eventually destroy one of the largest communications companies in the United States and world. A humble motel owner‚ Bernard Ebbers took a small long distance company in 1983 and turned it into one of the most successful businesses in the country. It was not so much the business operations that caused the company to grow but the aggressive acquisitions that made the company grow. In its day‚ CEO Bernard
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