Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Importance of Accounting Accounting is important because it manages the checkbooks of company which are important to analyses and determine the success of the business by looking through the different account statements and translating the company documents. An accountant or accounting firm starts and maintains auditing of a company. Accounting is also important because it offers a great assistance in planning the future investments as well as being able
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What is hairspray made of? Hairspray is a solution of long‚ chainlike molecules (called polymers) in a very volatile solvent. Spraying deposits a stiff layer of the polymer on your hair after the solvent evaporates. The solvent used was once a compound of carbon‚ fluorine‚ and chlorine (a chlorofluorocarbon‚ or CFC). CFCs are nontoxic‚ nonflammable‚ and make almost ideal aerosol propellants. But when it was learned that they causedestruction of stratospheric ozone‚ they were replaced with other
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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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$60 a share in 1990. Of its many acquisitions two were of particular importance. The MFS Communications acquisition which helped WorldCom to obtain UUNet‚ a major supplier of Internet services to business. The acquisition of MCI communications that made WorldCom one of the largest providers of business and consumer telephone service. Soon WorldCom became the darling of Wall Street‚ with several recommendations from analysts to buy. This helped WorldCom in the way that they could make more acquisitions
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very rotten in the state of Enron.” This quote by Michigan Senator Carl Levin is a twist of words from a famous playwright‚ Shakespeare’s Hamlet; “Something was very rotten in the state of Denmark.” From the play‚ this was recited because there was a lot of corruption in Denmark from the betrayal in royalty. In comparison to Levin’s quote‚ there was betrayal of Enron leaders to their employees‚ as well as the company itself. Between the years of 1979 and 2001‚ Enron was known for the largest market
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Enron scandal Enron shocked the world from being “America’s most innovative company” to America’s biggest corporate bankruptcy at its time. At its peak‚ Enron was America’s seventh largest corporation.From the 1990’s until the fall of 2001‚ Enron was famous throughout the business world and was known as an innovator‚ technology powerhouse‚ and a corporation with no fear. The sudden fall of Enron in the end of 2001 shattered not just the business world but also the lives of their employees. Enron
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Marriages are made in heaven‚ so are thunder and lightning A man goes to a marriage broker and says‚ "Sir! I’m looking for a wife. Can you please help me find someone suitable?" "Sure! I can help‚" replies the broker‚ "may I know your requirements?" "Well! She must be polite and have a good sense of humor. She must have knowledge about most subjects. She needs to sing. She must be able to treat my parents and relatives well. I want her to tell me interesting stories when I’m bored and should
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and values. Random House Webster’s College Dictionary notes that ethics are “the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or governing a particular group‚ culture‚ etc.” An individual ’s ethics generally define what that individual believes to be right and wrong. Professional ethics are typically expressed by a code of conduct adopted by an organization that represents a profession. Professions adopt such codes to encourage moral conduct among their members
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BA 215 Spring 2007 Enron Stakeholder Assignment Enron was a dream come true for a lot of people‚ but it was also a nightmare waiting to happen for many more. I am going to examine the collapse of Enron from the management perspective. The three examples of Enron behaving badly that I am going to study are the incidents in Valhalla‚ the electricity trading in California and the conflict of interest between Andy Fastow and his special purpose entities (SPE). These are just a few cases that led
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Business Ethics Movie Summary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room The movie starts with a man named Kenneth Lay‚ he founded Enron. The idea of the film is a documentary of how Enron was managed‚ and by who it was managed‚ and what scandals they were up too. The name of the movie “ Smartest guys in the room” was given because it was not only Kenneth Lay behind the desk‚ he had a group of smart people managing Enron‚ one man by himself cannot manage to create a scheme‚ he needs help from a
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