3) Roots of the scandal The roots of the fraud and the role of internal auditors As explained above‚ the fraud was implemented by the former CEO Bernard Ebbers and commited by his financial director Scott D. Sullivan. The technique used by Worldcom was pretty simple; indeed‚ he cooked the books by saving pure operating expenses such as maintenance network in capital expenditure instead of expenses in order to hide its decreasing earnings and to maintain the price of Worldcom’s stock. In summary
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ethical behavior in business can be very easily become a disaster in wake of commonsense decisions gone wrong. This research paper is based on decisions being made in unethically manners that in the long run caused three of the largest corporate scandals of Enron‚ Tyco‚ and WorldCom. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2001‚ Enron Corporation was one of the largest integrated natural gas and electricity companies in the world. It marketed natural gas liquids worldwide and operated one of the largest
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Peregrine Financial Group- Case study Last July 2012‚ a new financial fraud came out and hit the news headline‚ déjà vu‚ perhaps of other famous scandals‚ but not. This time a medium size financial institutions‚ name “ Peregrine Financial Group Inc” accused of shortfall of funds for around $200 million‚ where its CEO‚ Russell Wasendorf managed to misstated financial record for over 20 years‚ and finally in July 2012 filed for Bankruptcy. CEO‚ Russell Wasendorf‚ was no different than others high
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of the many scandals of the 2000s. Loosevelt brings up one of the most important repercussions‚ the possible jail time for fraudulent acts and‚ “A requirement that individual audit partners must be rotated at least once every five years…” (Loosevelt). Gary Giroux also shows the prevalence of accounting fraud by discussing “The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in 2002 basically to eliminate future scandals.” (Giroux). Giroux also names “greed and hubris” as reoccurring themes in scandals. I began to
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Ethical decision making: A dilemma Ethical issues have greatly transformed in our lives since the great Enron‚ Xerox and other huge corporations proposed big profits showing earnings of billions of dollars and yet in reality facing bankruptcy. These corporations faced great trouble with the federals and state for manipulating financial statements. But not only corporations can be blamed on this‚ accounting firms were involved in this as much as the corporations were. With the business stand
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secrets‚ and invasions of privacy. The Enron Corporation was listed as the seventh largest company in the U.S. with over $100 billion in gross revenues and more than 20‚000 employees worldwide. The Enron scandal is considered to be one of the most notorious within American history; an Enron scandal summary of events is considered by many historians and economists alike to have been an unofficial blueprint for a case study on White Collar Crime – White Collar Crime is defined as non-violent‚ financially-based
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success story. However‚ the success began to unravel with the accumulation of debt and expenses‚ the fall of the stock market‚ and long distance rates and revenue. It would take 2 years for the extent of these problems to become public‚ and accounting scandals like that of Worldcom would make history in the finance and telecommunication areas. While the intent is to make money to benefit a person or a group of people through illegal acts while disguising their illegal origin‚ a whistleblower may be lurking
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Accounting‚ or accountancy‚ is the measurement‚ processing and communication of financial information about economic entities. Accounting‚ which has been called the "language of business"‚ measures the results of an organization ’s economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users including investors‚ creditors‚ management‚ and regulators. Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. Accounting can be divided into several fields including financial accounting‚ management
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"Corporate Fraud" when you hear those words the first‚ most recent incident‚ many think of is The Enron Scandal. This same scandal produced the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. This much needed act created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board under the Security Exchange Commission ’s supervision. This board sets accounting standards and investigates Certified Public Accountants and companies to ensure they are following the guidelines set forth. This
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journey of Richard Nixon(Frost/Nixon) and Joe Keller(all my sons). Firstly both Joe Keller and Richard Nixon have the tragic characteristic of ’greed’‚ or always wanting something more than they already have‚ Nixon being involved in the watergate scandal and trying to cover up his part in all of it‚’ it’s true‚ I made mistakes. Horrendous ones- ones which are not worthy of a president’. Similarly‚ Keller‚ was greedy when he didn’t want to lose his contract of selling parts of a plane‚ therefore he
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