High level – why auditing? • Enron Auditing • Why do we have auditing? • Lemonade Stand Example Did ANYONE Do ANYTHING WRONG? CONCLUSION Did Anyone Do Anything Wrong? YES!! ENRON’S RISE 1985 – Internorth‚ based in Omaha‚ acquired Houston Natural Gas. 1986 – Changed name to Enron and moved to Houston. OLD ENERGY SYSTEM • Electricity • State-regulated monopolies. • Stable‚ but inefficient. • Natural Gas • Pipelines transported on fixed delivery routes with set prices. Enron Producers
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A Blueprint for Corporate Governance Fred R. Kaen AMACOM AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION A Blueprint for Corporate Governance This Page Intentionally Left Blank A Blueprint for Corporate Governance Strategy‚ Accountability‚ and the Preservation of Shareholder Value Fred R. Kaen American Management Association New York • Atlanta • Brussels • Buenos Aires • Chicago • London • Mexico City San Francisco • Shanghai • Tokyo • Toronto • Washington‚ D. C. Special discounts on
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performance work systems” WORD COUNT: 2153 Critically assess the concept of “high performance work systems” The relationship between employees and their managers is changing. This essay critically assesses high performance work systems (HPWS) and how it effects an organization. Before proceeding to critically assess high performance work systems it is necessary to clarify exactly what these systems consist of. After investigating the foundations of high performance work systems the essay will
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To get money should be the reason for why do people. We work in exchange to earn money‚ which is the factor to acquire what we need in daily lives. Although people have a right to choose whether they want to live either with sufficiency economy or extravagant economy‚ they do have to work hard in a different way. For those whose lives lie on the philosophy of sufficiency economy‚ they will have to work to survive even though they do not need money. People need to buy food‚ clothes and other necessarily
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TOPIC: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ETHICS Table of contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………3 Framework for understanding ethical decision making……………………………………………………………..5 Understanding the views of corporate governance…………………………………………………………….…...15 Corporate governance as a dimension of ethical decision making……………………………………….………...23 Corporate governance issues…………………………………………………………………………………
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Asking the Right Questions? Lecture 12 Learning Objectives • Ask Why‚ Asshole? • Identify the types of threats professional accountants encounter and identify ways of minimising these. • Outline the disciplinary procedures for accountants. • Discuss the role of ethics in a global environment Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room? Threats to Accountants • Code of Ethical Conduct • Compliance with these principles may be undermined by the following 5 threats from APES 110: • Self-Interest
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1. Define the problem(s) Enron failed to record some of its transactions. Arthur Andersen did not allow the LJM financial statement to stay unconsolidated. 2. Analyze the situation - again‚ take a "lessons learned" approach. You might use the following questions as guides: A. What important internal controls were ignored when LJM1 was created? LJM1 ignored some of Enron’s entries in the books that were missing. Outsiders owned less than 3% of the Special Purpose Entities equities. There was
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Designing A Reward System That Works Ruby Jester HSM 220 Barry Schultz August 08‚ 2010 Designing A Reward System That Works In any type of business reward systems offer employees the incentive to more effectively and efficiently perform. Whether the rewards are financial‚ material‚ recognition based‚ or just beneficial they are important in helping to motivate employees in performing better and going above and beyond the minimum requirements. There are nine major factors that motivate
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am detailThe ENRON Scandal is considered to be one of the most notorious within American history-White Collar By misrepresenting earnings reports while continuing to enjoy the revenue provided by the investors not privy to the true financial condition of ENRON‚ the executives of ENRON embezzled funds funneling in from investments while reporting fraudulent earnings to those investors; this not only proliferated more investments from current stockholders‚ but also attracted new investors desiring
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Corporate Governance in UK Table of Contents 1. history 3 1.1 Developments since 1979 6 2. evolution of corporate governance 8 2.1 Cadbury Report (1992) 8 2.2 Greenbury Report (1995) 9 2.3 Hampel Report (1998) 9 2.4 Combined Code (1998) 10 2.5 Turnbull Report (1999) 11 2.6 Myners: Review of Institutional Investment (2001) 11 2.7 Higgs Report (2003) 12 2.8 Smith Report (2003) 12 2.9 Revised Combined Code (2003) 13 2.10 Myners Report (2004) 14 2.11 Financial
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