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    Nowadays‚ accounting scandal or financial statement fraud has increasingly become a serious issue and it threatens to undermine the profession of accountants and auditing companies. Therefore‚ I think that this has affected the way future accountants view the importance of accounting principles‚ future accountants will tend to neglect and disregard accounting principles even more regarding the present accounting scandals. I plan to start my introduction by explaining briefly what accounting is and

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    Notable outcomesThe Enron scandal turned in the indictment and criminal conviction of one of the Big Five auditor Arthur Andersen on June 15‚ 2002. Although the conviction was overturned on May 31‚ 2005 by the Supreme Court of the United States‚ the firm ceased performing audits and is currently unwinding its business operations. On July 9‚ 2002 George W. Bush gave a speech about recent accounting scandals that had been uncovered. In spite of its stern tone‚ the speech did not focus on establishing

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    AIG Accounting Scandal Contents 1.0 Introduction ………………………………………………. 2 1.1 Overview of AIG …………………………………….. 2 2.0 Scandal Methodology Used by the Company………… 3 2.1 Accounting Practices Errors ……………………….. 3 3.1 Ways to Hide Accounting Improprieties ………………. 4 4.1 Who the scandal effected ………………………………. 7 5.1 Recommendations ………………………………………. 8 6.1 Conclusions ………………………………………………. 9 7.1 References ………………………………………………. 10

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    CORPORATE ACCOUNTING SCANDAL AT SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LIMITED BACKGROUND Ironically‚ Satyam means “truth” in the ancient Indian language “Sanskrit” (Basilico et al.‚ 2012). Satyam won the “Golden Peacock Award” for the best-governed company in 2007 and in 2009. From being India’s IT “crown jewel” and the country’s “fourth largest” company with high- profile customers‚ the outsourcing firm Satyam Computers has become embroiled in the nation’s biggest corporate scam in living memory (Ahmad

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    The fallout that accompanied the accounting scandals of the early 2000’s had an immediate impact on corporate business and accounting practices which is still being felt today. The collapse of Enron and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen‚ as well as the subsequent collapses of Worldcom and others have left a permanent mark on how corporate businesses and accounting firms are perceived and how they are regulated. It has also altered the experiences of students who are pursuing‚ or are considering

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    The Accounting Scandal Enron Corp. Collapse and WorldCom Accounting Scandal 11/18/2020 The Enron Corp. collapse Formed in 1985 from a merger of Houston Natural Gas and Inter-north‚ Enron Corp. was the first nationwide natural gas pipeline network. Over time‚ the firm’s business focus shifted from the regulated transportation of natural gas to unregulated energy trading markets. The guiding principle seems to have been that there was more money to be made in buying and selling financial

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    Assignment # 3 WorldCom Accounting Fraud By Mark A. Cowan Strayer University ACC 499- Accounting Capstone May 15‚ 2011 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the aspects of the WorldCom accounting scandal and the effects that this scandal had on the accounting world as we know it. We will discuss the corporate culture at WorldCom and how it contributed to the accounting fraud‚ how the CEO’s desire to be the #1 stock on Wall Street contributed to the fraud‚ pressures on accountants to book

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    books would soon come to an end. With the help from Andersen Accounting firm‚ Enron would lose control of their illegal attempt to contain the debt and loss of the company. Ultimately‚ Enron became bankrupt‚ and the scandal was one of Americas largest accounting investigations into a firms illegal accounting practices and their attempt to conceal it from the shareholders and credit lenders. Divulging themselves into the scandal and solving the problems at hand are several organizations such

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    Financial accounting is one branch of accounting and historically has involved processes by which financial information about a business is recorded‚ classified‚ summarized‚ interpreted‚ and communicated; for public companies‚ this information is generally publicly-accessible (Financial Accounting Info‚ 2006). Accounting attempts to create accurate financial reports that are useful to managers‚ regulators and other stakeholders such as shareholders‚ creditors or owners (Financial Accounting Info‚ 2006)

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    The WorldCom Accounting Scandal WorldCom was started in Mississippi as a long distance telephone service provider in 1983 (Lyke and Jickling‚ 2). Over the next decade and a half‚ the company expanded to offer a whole range of telecommunication services through a series of mergers and acquisitions (Lyke and Jickling‚ 2). At its height‚ WorldCom was the largest long distance phone company in the United States and was one of the leading companies in the telecommunication market in the world‚ providing

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