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    Enron Scandal

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    Enron Scandal In 1985‚ Enron was formed by Kenneth Lay after the merging of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth. In the 1990s‚ Lay helped to initiate the selling of electricity at market prices. Markets made it easier for Enron to sell energy at higher prices‚ which caused the company to get richer. Enron was the largest merchant of natural gas in 1992. In November 1999‚ the creation of EnronOnline enabled Enron to develop‚ negotiate and manage its trading business. By 2001‚ Enron became a

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    Enron Scandal

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    Abstract - The Enron scandal is one of the biggest financial scams ever to take place and its root’s lie in the desire of the senior members of Enron to earn as much for themselves as possible and were assisted in this greatly by the negligence shown by their auditor’s and consultants‚ Arthur Andersen. Most of the debts and tangible assets of Enron were on the balance sheet of partnerships that were run by high-ranking officials within the corporation and these partnerships were recorded as related

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    What were the business risks enron faced‚ and how did those risks increase the likelihood of material misstatements in enron’s financial statement Enron faces most of the risk ordinarily faced by any energy company‚ including price instability and foreign currency risks. Enron operated in many different areas of the world with different regulatory and political risks. Enron faced business risks such as a complex business model‚ extensive use of derivatives and special purpose entities‚ aggressive

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    The overall cause for Enron’s bankruptcy should be blamed on former chairman and CEO‚ Kenneth Lay. As an Enron executive‚ all of Lay’s concerns should have been focused on Enron’s profits‚ but all he cared about was his property. When he noticed Enron’s financial problem‚ he did not attempt to fix it‚ but made effort to maintain his own benefit and ignored the whole company’s and investors’ loss. His selfish and unethical behavior not only deceived the investors but also finally resulted in Enron’s

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    Enron Ethics

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    Introduction Enron was one of America’s leading companies prior to its spectacular collapse in 2001. It was frequently named as one of America’s top 10 most admired corporations and best places to work‚ and its board was acclaimed one of the US’ best five‚ according to Fortune magazine. As America’s seventh largest company‚ Enron experienced explosive growth through the 1990s. It had revenues of US$139 ($184) billion‚ US$62 ($82) billion in assets and employed more than 30‚000 people across 20

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    Enron History

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    Enron History Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) were used and often abused by most large corporations in the late 1990’s. Enron was likely the corporation that abused the accounting treatment the most‚ but certainly not the only one. The Enron SPEs were not hidden from the auditors or the investing public‚ but were so extensive‚ invasive‚ and complex that no one‚ including primary architect‚ Andrew Fastow‚ was able to understand the total implications. The 2000 financial statements for Enron included

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    Enron and Parmalat

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    Managua‚ Nicaragua Sept 28th‚ 2013 ENRON Background In 1985 Kenneth Lay merged his company‚ Houston Natural Gas‚ with Nebraska’s InterNorth to create the Enron; a company to be the biggest natural gass corporation to exist in the U.S. During the 1980’s‚ under the presidency of Ronald Raegan‚ there was a considerable lack of regulations regarding the energy markets‚ thus allowing the company to buy and sell contracts for a delivery at some time in the future. By 1990 Jeffery Skilling joined as

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    The collapse of Enron

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    1. What led to the eventual collapse of Enron under Lay and Skilling? The collapse of Enron seems to be rooted in a combination of the failure of top leadership‚ a corporate culture that supported unethical behavior‚ and the complicity of the investment banking community. In the aftermath of Enron’s bankruptcy filing‚ numerous Enron executives were charged with criminal acts‚ including fraud‚ money laundering‚ and insider trading. Ben Glisan‚ Enron’s former treasurer‚ was charged with two-dozen

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    Enron Failure

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    ENRON: A FINANCIAL REPORTING FAILURE? Anthony H. Catanach Jr.1 Associate Professor 610-519-4825 anthony.catanach@villanova.edu and Shelley Rhoades-Catanach Associate Professor Both at Villanova University College of Commerce and Finance Department of Accountancy INTRODUCTION The dramatic collapse of Enron Corporation‚ following a series of disclosures of accounting improprieties‚ has led many to question the soundness of current accounting and financial reporting standards. Within Enron’s reported

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    Analysis of Enron

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    “What Went Wrong at Enron?” Trident University International Phillip M. Cherry Module 5 Case Assignment ETH 501: Business Ethics Dr. Michael Garmon March 1‚ 2012 3/1/2012 Introduction In this paper I will provide a critical evaluation of the Corporate Culture at Enron‚ explain how the business ethics and operations were influenced by the corporate culture‚ and what went wrong. In addition

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