the financial system. The July 2002 enactment of the Sarbanes Oxley Act‚ co-authored by U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland and U.S. Rep. Michael Oxley of Ohio‚ followed a series of large public company failures that included Enron‚ Tyco and WorldCom. Sarbanes-Oxley addressed investor confidence and fraud through reform of the public company reporting standards. However‚ much damage in the market occurred with the collapse of several major companies between 2002 and 2004. (smallbusiness.chron
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Company would have to engage in accounting practices for which there was no legitimate justification‚ and Ebbers replied to Sullivan‚ in words or in substance‚ “We have to hit our numbers.” Scott Sullivan’s position of Chief Financial Officer at WorldCom‚ in conjunction with weak controls‚ presented opportunities for him to commit fraudulent activities. Sullivan’s high position allowed him to dictate his power over his subordinates and often directed them to make large entries to the general ledgers
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Internal Audit and the Relationship with Senior Management Summary: The case study “Internal Audit Reporting Relationships: Serving Two Masters” was a part of a series of research projects being developed by the Institute of Internal Auditors to determine the various relationships‚ specifically reporting relationships between the internal auditor and those charged with governance. To obtain research about the various types of reporting relationships‚ independence‚ conflicts that arise from
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Article Review The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ARTICLE SYNOPSIS In response to the Enron and WorldCom scandals‚ the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted in July 30‚ 2002. This provides a comprehensive power that modifies the compliance of how companies would need to report their financials to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The law’s purpose is to solve precise mechanism failures in accounting approaches and requires greater levels of fiduciary responsibilities especially for those
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References: CNET (2002) Drawing lessons from WorldCom [WWW] CNET. Available from: http://news.cnet.com/Drawing-lessons-from-WorldCom/2009-1022_3-943517.html [Accessed 30/11/2010] BBC (2002) Enron scandal at-a-glance [WWW] CNET. Available from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1780075.stm [Accessed 02/12/2010] SOXLAW (2002) The Sarbanes-Oxley
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1. Adsteam Adonist@gmx.de‚ quigonjinn@hotmail.de was a very model of conglomerate(jujie). In the eyes of the outside‚ it was a successful company. But it’s not true. It’s far from other companies in its complex structure. Adsteam group comprised numerous less-than-majority-owned companies. It acquired major share-holdings in numerous companies throughout the 1980’s. The acquisition strategy resulted in an extremely complicated cross-shareholding-based structure. It was noting that the maximum amount
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legitimate power‚ reward power‚ coercive power‚ expert power‚ referent power. Case Study Bernie Ebbers built WorldCom Inc into one of the largest telecommunication firms. Yet he and CFO Scott Sullivan have become better known for creating a massive corporate accouting fraud that led to the largest bankruptcy in US history. Two investigative reports and subsequent court cases concluded that WorldCom executoves were responsible for billions in fraudulent or unsupported accouting entries. How did this mammoth
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would risk arbitragers take in this deal? How would their positions change if the board appears to favour Quest offer? 4. Consider the Worldcom-MCI merger and the Qwest-US West merger. Trying to avoid hindsight bias‚ should the board of MCI and US West have accepted these offers? What is the obligation to shareholders? Was that obligation fulfilled? What about WorldCom and Qwest? Did their shareholders benefit? 5. Which offer should MCI accept? Why? 6. What approach should Verizon take to win takeover
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federal law‚ which is established in order to set out the some standards for accounting firms‚ public company boards and management. These standards are established in order to overcome the problem of accounting scandals. Companies such as Enron and WorldCom have created major accounting scandals. Sarbanes-Oxley Act protects the investors from the accounting scandals and frauds created by corporations (Vay‚ 2006). It has also introduced provision for the improvement in internal auditing of the firm.
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that arose from the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies. The article illustrates how the different rules and legislature affect different size business‚ and the ramifications that resulted for companies that must follow the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The authors of the article also conducted a study on whether or not fraud of the financial statements was in direct correlation of businesses filing bankruptcy (Nogler & Inwon‚ 2011‚ p. 68) like in the cases of Enron and WorldCom. The results found that the larger
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