Question 1: How did the Corporate Culture at Enron contribute to its bankruptcy? The corporate Culture at Enron could have contributed to its bankruptcy in many ways. Its corporate culture supported unethical behavior without question for as long as the behavior resulted in monetary gain for the company. It was describe as having a culture of arrogance that led people to believe that they could handle increasingly greater risk without encountering any danger. Its culture did little to promote
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Financial performances Carrefour’s financial performances can be analysed and assessed by looking at the balance sheet‚ the Profit & Loss account and its global ratios. The first aspect that can be observed is that the Company is huge as it has a large amount of total assets - more than 62 billion dollars at the end of 2011. However‚ the total assets owned by Carrefour decreased over the last five years and this sudden decrease can be attributed to the change of strategy adopted by the Company‚
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CORPORATE GOVRERNANCE AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE CASE STUDY: ROOFINGS GROUP 1.0 INTRODUCTION Corporate governance is concerned with ways in which all parties interested in the well-being of the firm (the stakeholders) attempt to ensure that managers and other insiders take measures or adopt mechanisms that safeguard the interests of the stakeholders. Such measures are necessitated by the separation of ownership from management‚ an increasingly vital feature of the modern firm. A typical firm
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CHRISCHER L. ALANES FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING REACTION PAPER – THE ENRON SCANDAL FACTS OF THE CASE Enron Corporation was formed in 1985‚ led by Kenneth Lay‚ as a result from the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Internorth that specializes in natural gases and commodities. In 1990‚ the company hires Jeffrey Skilling to lead the trading of commodities under deregulated market and Andrew Fastow later that year (USA Today‚ 2002). Deregulation of the energy markets allowed companies to place bets
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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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REVIEW……………………………… 13 2.1 Introduction..…………………………………………………………………....13 2.2 theoretical framework…………………………………………………………..13 2.3 Good corporate governance and operating costs…………………………….…18 2.4 Correlation between good corporate governance and performance ratios……...20 2.5 Chapter summary……………………………………………………………… 24 3.0 CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLGY………………...……25 3.1 Introduction …………………………………………………………………… 25 3.2 Research design…………………………………………………………………25 3.3 Population ……………………………………………………
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Enron and Ethics Failure is the best teacher not only for those who fail‚ but also for those who observe the failure. Thus‚ for many businesses the Enron scandal proved to be the greatest teacher. Since the fall of Enron‚ there have been several theories and examinations about why it failed as it was a corporation that no one imagined would ever crash. Based on research to date there are multiple reasons for Enron’s failure; however‚ one that stands out immensely is corporate disregard for ethics
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Introduction J Sainsbury plc was founded in 1869 in Drury Lane by John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury‚ and is one of the oldest supermarkets in the United Kingdom. Its current company structure comprises of a chain of 547 supermarkets‚ 343 convenience stores and the recent addition of Sainsbury’s Pharmacy and Sainsbury’s Bank (which is a joint venture with the Lloyd’s bank group). Currently their customer profile consists of approximately 19 million customers’ each week and a surplus of an estimated
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= Portfolio standard deviation Since standard deviation is a measure of the associated risk (systematic + unsystematic) of a portfolio‚ it helps to evaluate whether the portfolio’s returns are due to smart investment decisions or a result of excess risk. Thus‚ the greater the Sharpe ratio of a portfolio better has been its risk-adjusted performance. {draw:frame} {draw:frame} {draw:line} Treynor Ratio: it measures returns earned in excess of that which could have been earned on a risk-less investment
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business world about the practice of good corporate governance in the United States. Enron was a company that was ranked as seventh out of the five hundred leading companies in the United States and is the largest U.S. energy company that went bankrupt leaving debts amounting to nearly U.S. $ 31.2 billion. In instance with the case of Enron known occurrence of moral threat behavior such as manipulation of financial statements with a record 600 million dollar profit when the company suffered a loss
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