Day Five and Six: Trial of Socrates A. What is the current state? (Stability: What the majority believe) Athens has long prided itself and itself as a hub for stimulating intellectual conversations‚ spurring philosophy‚ mathematics‚ and the arts. The reason that new and exciting ideas come from Athens‚ the democrats argue‚ is that merchants and sailors are permitted to travel to far off countries and expose themselves to new ideas‚ and bring them home; foreigners are likewise permitted
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Enron debacle: Case Report Table of Contents I. Understanding the Entity: Business Risk Assessment 1. Nature of the entity 1.1. Brief introduction: Enron Corporation‚ a Houston based giant company‚ conducted energy trading business and gas pipeline transportation and distribution business in the energy and industrial sectors. 1During the 1990s‚ Enron transferred from a natural gas supplier and to an intermediary midstream company facilitating distributions
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The Enron Collapse By: Jeff Porter Kevin Clark Jared Sabelhaus February 18‚ 2005 Introduction Companies have mission statements that often read like inspirational leaflets. Enron’s mission was at first to be the world’s greatest energy company then later revised in early 2001 to be the “world’s greatest company”. In the late 1990’s‚ Enron seemed to have accomplished their mission accumulating vast amounts of assets‚ had the intellectually elite at the helm‚ a political climate in their
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Enron case 1. What activities and practices of Enron’s management team do you believe were unethical and/ or illegal? Concealing debt By using SPEs‚ Enron’s balance sheet understated its liabilities and overstated its equity and earnings. Enron disclosed to its shareholders that it had hedged downside risk in its illiquid investments using special purpose entities which were lies. Enormous spending Extravagant expenses were rampant in the company which included enormous salary expenses
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Enron a Case Study Enron‚ once known as the worldwide leader in energy trading‚ began as a natural gas pipeline company. “At its peak‚ Enron brokered up to 20 percent of America’s energy transactions. These included basic contracts to deliver natural gas from wells to pipelines for distribution to homes‚ contracts for the purchase of electrical power facility out port‚ and more complex financial contracts‚ which allowed power companies to manage price and market risk” (Ackman)
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Question I Give definition of earning management. Discuss in what instances is earnings managementacceptable and in what instances is it not acceptable. Before defining what earnings management is‚ it is important to understand the meaningof earnings first. Earnings are the profits of a company. Investors and analysts look to earningsto determine the attractiveness of a particular share. Companies with poor earnings prospectswill typically have lower share prices than those with good prospects
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Business Environment Business Environment TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 RATIONALE OF THE PROJECT 3 MAIN OBJECTIVE: 3 METHODOLOGY 3 THE ENRON STORY: BRIEF 4 HOW AND WHAT TYPE OF FRAUDS WERE COMMITTED? 5 THE ROLE OF STOCK OPTIONS 5 THE USE OF OFF-BALANCE SHEET PARTNERSHIPS 5 Example: LJM 5 Chewco 6 LOBBYING 6 ACCOUNTING PRACTICES 6 DIFFERENT ETHICAL DIMENSIONS 7 SOCIAL DIMENSION 8 AFFECTS ON EMPLOYEES AND SHAREHOLDERS 8 ENRON INDIA 8 AGGRESSIVE
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CASE STUDY: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE FALL OF ENRON Introduction to the Enron Case Enron was one of the world’s leading energy traders born from deregulation of these markets in certain US states. It rapidly grew and the world followed suit. It was nominated ‘World’s Most Innovative Large Corporation’ six years in row and valued at 64 times its earnings and 6 times its book value. It had one of the highest paid CEOs in the world in 2000. It led an aggressive and apparently effective expansion
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over many years. BCCI was paying its auditors $5 million per year to conduct audits which each year took nearly five months. if properly done‚ these audits should have uncovered the problems and forced action long before April‚ 1990 4. In the case of BCCI‚ there can be no question that the auditing process failed to work. As the Bank of England stated in determining that BCCI be closed 5. Given the demonstrable failure of the auditing process‚ serious questions have been raised about
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Enron Case Answer 1. Who were the key stakeholders involved in‚ or affected by‚ the collapse of Enron? How and to what degree were they hurt or helped by the actions of Enron management? Outline: Key stakeholders involved or affected by the collapse of Enron How were the key stakeholders hurt or helped by the actions of Enron management The degree of Enron management actions’ hurt or helps to the key stakeholders The key stakeholders involved or affected by the collapse of Enron were thousands
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