The Enron Kaiwing Ho Ethics‚ Governance & Accountability BU.135.301.U2.FA12 Professor Crain November 21‚ 2012 Enron Since Enron Corporation has been bankrupt there were 20‚000 employees lost their jobs‚ medical insurance and average severance pay was only $4500. However‚ the top executives were paid bonuses totaling $55 million. In 2001‚ employees lost $1.2 billion in retirement funds and retirees lost $2 billion in pension funds. Yet‚ Enron’s top executives cashed in $116 million
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1. What did Arthur Anderson contribute to the Enron disaster? Arthur Andersen (AA) contributed to the Enron disaster when AA consulting became its own separate entity‚ named Accenture. Revenues from consulting services surpassed revenue from auditing services. A natural competitiveness grew between the two rivals and this is where the problems began to start. Management held maximinizing revenues as their primary focus of success and promotions/bonuses were based on this factor. The CEO of AA‚ Joe
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Current issue: Scandals in auditing Enron Scandal 1. Introduction Accounting scandals are political or business scandals which arise with the disclosure of financial misdeeds by trusted executives of corporations or governments. These days‚ not too often‚ these scandals are splashed as headlines across media. Why? Because there are complex groups of stakeholders who might be seriously affected by the scandals. Enron scam was the most remarkable scandal in 20 centuries by their institutionalized
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Arthur Andersen LLP was found in Chicago‚ developed to become one of the “big five” largest accounting firm in the US. In 2003‚ after 90 years of business‚ the Chicago-based accounting firm was forced to close its doors because of accounting scandal I. The advent of consulting In the 1950s‚ Andersen began providing consulting services and over the next 30 years‚ Andersen’s consulting business became more profitable. With quick development of consulting sector‚ in 1999‚ Andersen separated
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Based in Houston‚ Texas an American energy‚ commodities‚ and services company named ENRON CORPORATION was Ranked number 7 on the fortune 500 list in 2000‚ it was one of the most famous and largest integrated natural gas and electricity companies in the world. The company went bankruptcy on December 2‚ 2001. But before that it marketed natural gas liquids around the world and was working as one of the biggest natural gas transmission systems in the world‚ with transmissions over a massive area of
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Enron Case Study XXXXX XXXXXXXXX State College Enron Case Study Enron was a corporation founded in 1985‚ when a merger combined Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth (Thomas‚ 2002). Throughout the first five years of Enron’s existence‚ they had many struggles. According to Salter (2005)‚ the first years had many “near death” experiences. Eventually Enron was able to prevail over their many “near death” experiences. In 1989‚ “Enron locked in its first fixed price contract to supply natural
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wife and children‚ was a company created in 1998 by Enron ’s CFO‚ Andrew Fastow‚ to buy Enron ’s poorly performing stocks and stakes and bolster Enron ’s financial statements. Fastow proposed in October 1999 to Enron ’s finance Board the creation of LJM2 Co-Investment L.P. Fastow would act as general director of a much larger private equity fund that would be funded with $200 million of institutional funds. The question of Fastow’s dual role as Enron ’s CFO and LJM2 ’s general director was not viewed
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The Enron Accounting Scandal Presented By: Jennifer Buondonno Nirmala David Robert Pufky Matt Rollings ENRON Page 1 of 27 Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………………..3 (I) Introduction to the Enron case and the organizations involved……. 5 Background information & industry…………………………………………….. 5 Organizations and officers involved……………………………………………..6 Accounting firm and partners involved………………………………………….8 Enron’s industry………………………………………………………………….. 9 Enron’s injured parties……………………………………………………………
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The Illusion That Took the World by Surprise Enron: The Smartest Guys In the Room is a movie about Enron and how it fooled the world into believing it was one of the most stable and profitable companies in the U.S. This is very sad because many people believed in the figures Enron was producing and entrusted their life saving in Enron stock. The scandal didn’t just affect a small group of people but 10’s of thousands of people lost everything‚ due to an illusion. Kenneth Lay earning a Ph
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The Enron Controversy: Techno-Economic Analysis and Policy Implications Girish Sant and Shantanu Dixit PRAYAS Subodh Wagle CEEP‚ University of Delaware‚ USA The Enron Controversy‚ Prayas‚ Sept. 1995 4 Ÿ The Enron Controversy Contents Summary 1. Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) Between Dabhol Power Company and Maharashtra State Electricity Board: Structure and Implications 2. The Enron Deal: Why the First Stage Should Be Cancelled 3. The Enron Controversy: Alternative Options For
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