The effects of Internal/External Factors on WorldCom Learning Team A MGT330 November 9‚ 2010 The Effects of Internal/External Factors on WorldCom Over the years the world has seen many corporate disasters pertaining to management. One of these disasters has been the rise and fall of WorldCom. From the beginning of WorldCom in 1983 as an obscure long distance company‚ the world watched as the company executed an aggressive
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that were received from a customer and planned to steal the money to buy a new cell phone for himself. This action is an example of error. a. True b. False 2. What key piece of legislation was passed in response to corporate accounting scandals by Enron‚ WorldCom‚ and others? a. Sarbanes-Oxley Act. b. 1933 Securities Act. c. 1934 Securities Exchange Act. d. Regulation Fair Disclosure. 3. Internal controls represent plans to: a. Safeguard the assets b. Continually improve the efficiency of operation
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RECOMMENDATION 1) CORPORATE CULTURE Corporate culture and ethics are very important source to sustain positive working environment in an organization. Based on the pattern that caused the fraud‚ the management style of HealthSouth is clearly practice very authoritative which the reason for Richard orders fulfilled dutifully in order to partake in the fraudulent schemes. It’s clearly stated that the company not practicing a strong code of ethics. It has been proved that an effective antifraud
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the main issue at hand: The company has paid £8.6m in corporation tax in its 14 years of trading in the UK and nothing in the last three years‚ despite UK sales of nearly £400m in 2011. only paid £8.5m in corporation tax since it launched in Britain in 1998 despite sales of £3bn‚ starbucks has reported a taxable profit only once in its 15 years of operating in the UK‚ often posting losses‚but on the other hand it reported profitability and good perfomance to its investors. corporation tax in the
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Andersen‚ LLP Abstract Enron was a natural gas company that was formed in 1985 by Kenneth Lay. By 1992‚ Enron was the largest selling company of natural gas in North America. In October 2001 a scandal involving Enron was emerging. This scandal led to the fall of the company. The Enron case and many others cases led to the collapse of other companies that did business with them which included one of the largest accounting firms in Chicago; the accounting firm of
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international accounting profession to an extent that confidence has been corroded. There is a long list of historical cases that document a series of financial scandals that are as a result of deliberate misguidance instigated by the international financial professional in order to fulfil ill financial ambitions. The famous Enron‚ WorldCom‚ HIH Insurance‚ Barrings Bank etc. Apparently‚ this is why I am totally agreeing to the fact that the international accounting profession has lost its way and is
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have raised questions about whether the current business and regulatory environment is conducive to ethical behavior. Cases leading to regulatory changes through scandalous financial reporting include Enron‚ Worldcom‚ Tyco‚ HealthSouth and others (Enofe‚ 2010‚ p.54). Since the barrage of scandals in the early 2000’s‚ regulatory bodies like the Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB)‚ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)‚ and law reform like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 have worked to improve the
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Accounting Fraud: A White Collar Crime Accounting Fraud: A White Collar Crime The CEO and CFO of a Swiss security systems company named Tyco‚ stole 150 million dollars from their company before being caught in 2002. At the height of the scandal‚ the CEO threw a 2 million dollar birthday party for his wife on a private island with guest performer Jimmy Buffet. After being caught‚ the CEO and CFO were sentenced to 8-25 years in prison and Tyco had to repay its investors 2.92 billion dollars (The
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Adelphia Cable Bruce Dawson Principles of Management Mgmt.230 "Adelphia is one of the nation’s leading cable companies with more than 5.3 million residential customers nationwide. In addition to cable entertainment Adelphia offers digital cable‚ high-speed internet access‚ long distance telephone service‚ and home security" (Adelphia). The leadership of this company currently consists of 18 officers. One officer for each of the five regions Adelphia covers. One officer in each of the
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29 October 2013 Benghazi As our priorities lie with pulling forces and weakening American influence in the Middle East‚ our precedence should still be with investigating the attacks in Benghazi on September 11th‚ 2012. This current administration has swept this issue under the rug‚ claiming that the reason for the government’s lack of involvement was simply that they did not know. These policies of foreign involvement are becoming more transparent to the eyes of the American citizens‚ and creating
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