Zack Cearley 11/15/2012 Accounting 1101- Mason The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ often abbreviated as SOX‚ is a legislative act passed by Congress in response to the Enron and WorldCom financial scandals. The primary purpose of SOX is to protect shareholders from errors or fraudulent reporting by the company they have invested in. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is enforced by the Securities and Exchange Commission‚ a department dedicated to ensuring compliance to SOX from
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reputation and development‚ customer supreme"‚ playing an active role in accounting firm’s certification and protecting the client and the legitimate interests of all parties concerned. "Zhiqin‚" adheres to the people-oriented management thinking and focuses on high-quality personnel training and absorption of existing professionals. Nearly 60 people accounts for more than 60% of the total number of employees‚ including accounting‚ financial‚ construction of high or intermediate professional titles
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employee for Enron‚ one of the largest energy companies in the world at the time. As an employee you have the option of owning stock in it and you also have a retirement plan with Enron. But what you don’t know is that Enron has been committing accounting fraud for a while now and Enron’s stocks aren’t really worth $90 and that they are soon going to file for bankruptcy. The executives haven’t told you this because if they told you the truth‚ you would take your money out and they would lose all
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and shareholders analyze earnings before deciding whether or not to invest in the company. Because of this‚ companies know that their earnings play a major part of determining if their company stays afloat. Companies will use different methods of accounting to cloud the differences between reality and said company’s projections. The spectrum goes from conservative to overly aggressive to fraud. The conservative accountant will use the most realistic numbers and typically provide the lowest earnings
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3) Roots of the scandal The roots of the fraud and the role of internal auditors As explained above‚ the fraud was implemented by the former CEO Bernard Ebbers and commited by his financial director Scott D. Sullivan. The technique used by Worldcom was pretty simple; indeed‚ he cooked the books by saving pure operating expenses such as maintenance network in capital expenditure instead of expenses in order to hide its decreasing earnings and to maintain the price of Worldcom’s stock. In summary
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The 1919 Black Sox Scandal In 1919‚ eight of the Chicago White Sox allegedly threw the World Series. Charles Comiskey was the ruthless owner of the White Sox and was the main motive of the sox to throw the series. Chick Gandil was the first player to get involved and then he spread it to the other players on the team. The act by these players would be called the Black Sox Scandal. The Scandal nearly ruined America’s pastime. The baseball commissioner‚ Judge Landis‚ banned all eight of the players
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THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW Vol. 83‚ No. 3 2008 pp. 757–787 Real and Accrual-Based Earnings Management in the Pre- and Post-Sarbanes-Oxley Periods Daniel A. Cohen New York University Aiyesha Dey University of Chicago Thomas Z. Lys Northwestern University ABSTRACT: We document that accrual-based earnings management increased steadily from 1987 until the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002‚ followed by a significant decline after the passage of SOX. Conversely‚ the level of real earnings
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Week Five Reflection Summary ACC/290 Principles of Accounting Date Teacher Week Five Reflection Summary Team B In recent years there have been many highly publicized financial accounting scandals. Enron‚ WorldCom‚ and AIG are a few of the well- known corporate companies that have been involved in financial reporting scandals. United Sates regulators and lawmakers made known their concerns of mistrust in corporate accounting‚ because of unethical financial reporting. In 2002 Congress
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ethical behavior in business can be very easily become a disaster in wake of commonsense decisions gone wrong. This research paper is based on decisions being made in unethically manners that in the long run caused three of the largest corporate scandals of Enron‚ Tyco‚ and WorldCom. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2001‚ Enron Corporation was one of the largest integrated natural gas and electricity companies in the world. It marketed natural gas liquids worldwide and operated one of the largest
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MANAGEMENT & ACCOUNTING Audit Challenges in Malaysia Today Teck Heang Lee and Azham Md. Ali Due to the outbreak of financial scandals involving Bursa Malaysia listed companies Transmile and Megan Media‚ it may be argued that 2007 was a “challenging” year for the auditing profession in Malaysia. The “ripple” effect of the scandals caused turbulence in the auditing industry which spilled over to 2008 when the auditing profession was once again in the limelight‚ in the case of Oilcorp Berhad.
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