Introduction WorldCom‚ the telecommunications giant‚ once was the largest telecommunications company in the world‚ with more than $30 billion annual revenue‚ $104 billion in assets and more than 20 million customers. John Sidgmore (2002)‚ Ebbers’ successor after the scandal‚ said “WorldCom is a key component of our nation’s economy and communications infrastructure.” However‚ the giant collapsed in 2002. 1. The Main Issue: Earnings Management 1.1 Definition of Earnings Management A commonly acknowledged
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The Bernie Madoff Scandal Introduction: Bernie Madoff‚ an American stockbroker‚ investment advisor chairman of Wall Street firm‚ has operated the largest financial fraud – Ponzi scheme in U.S. history in 2008. Before he was arrested by FBI agents in December 11‚ 2008‚ he was a chairman of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. He founded this Wall Street firm with his family members in 1960. His brother and sons were charge of different and important positions in the company. Before
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Corporate greed leads to unethical employee behavior and down fall. My first reaction was why didn’t he leave MCI like his mentor did? Mr. Pavlo knew that the bad debt was uncollectable‚ financial targets and expectations from his superiors and upper management were unrealistic‚ still he decided not to walk away! This case is a best example of how ethical behavior at top management plays such an importance role in the success or failures of its employees and the organization as a whole. MCI’s
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Nixon: His Cover-up Who would have knew a U.S. President would have done a crime? Unless it was a good reason that is. This incident is called the Watergate scandal. At the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. was where this all started. This led to even more complications. In this paper I hope to prove that even though Nixon had a cover-up plan it failed to succeed. In order to accomplish this several questions come to mind: Was Nixon trying to hide anything? Where there any evidence that Nixon had
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The Failed Corporate Culture of Enron High risk accounting‚ inappropriate conflicts of interest‚ extensive undisclosed off-the-books activity‚ excessive compensation these are some of the headings of the report prepared by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations titled "The Role of the Board of Directors in Enron’s Collapse." (Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations‚ 2002) In February‚ 2002‚ Enron’s former Chief Executive Officer Jeffery Skilling had testified before members
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Accounting Review‚ May 2008 Real and Accrual-Based Earnings Management 787 Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). 1997. Statement of Cash Flows. Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 95. Norwalk‚ CT: FASB. Forbes. 2002. The Corporate Scandal Sheet. Available at: http: / / www.forbes.com / home / 2002 / 07 / 25 / accountingtracker.html. Fuller‚ J.‚ and M. C. Jensen. 2002. Just say no to Wall Street. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 14: 41–46. Graham‚ J. R.‚ C. R. Harvey‚ and S. Rajgopal
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Enron disaster. The formal charges and jail sentence were a result of the obstruction of justice caused by the destruction of the audit papers. 3. What was the prime motivation behind the decisions of Arthur Andersen’s audit partners on the Enron‚ Worldcom‚ Waste Management‚ and Sunbeam audits; the public interest or something else. Cite examples that reveal this motivation.- The prime motivation behind the decisions of Arthur Andersen’s audit partners was revenue generations. They wanted to make
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No. 2005–57 ROYAL AHOLD: A FAILURE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND AN ACCOUNTING SCANDAL By Abe de Jong‚ Douglas V. DeJong‚ Gerard Mertens‚ Peter Roosenboom March 2005 ISSN 0924-7815 Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance and an Accounting Scandal Abe de Jong* Department of Financial Management Erasmus University Rotterdam a.jong@fbk.eur.nl Douglas V. DeJong Tippie College of Business University of Iowa douglas-dejong@uiowa.edu Gerard Mertens Department of Financial Management Erasmus
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Enron Case 10.8.2014 Melissa Becker Boya Du Sidi (Fiona) Chen Wei (David) Yu In June of 2001 Enron’s new CEO‚ Jeff Skilling‚ was heralded as the “No. 1 CEO in the entire country and Enron was saluted as “America’s most innovated company.”1 Just six months later‚ in December‚ Enron filed for bankruptcy. The failure shocked the public and angered investors. How could this have happened? Did no one see this coming? Where were the accountants? Where were the controls? Enron’s public troubles
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1972 and 1976‚ Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein emerged as two of the most famous journalists in America and forever became known as the reporters who broke the biggest story in American politics. When every other newspaper dismissed the Watergate Scandal as nonsense‚ these two men came together and uncovered the true story. Beginning with the investigation of a "third-rate burglary" of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex‚ Woodward and Bernstein uncovered a system
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