1. The Enron debacle created what one public official reported was a “crisis of confidence” on the part of the public in the accounting profession. List the parties who you believe are most responsible for that crisis. Briefly justify each of your choices. a) With Enron‚ the responsibility and blame started with Enron’s executives‚ Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling‚ and Andrew Fastow. Their goal was to make Enron into the world’s greatest company. To make this goal a reality‚ they created a company
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Designing Internal Control System To Minimize Fraud And This paper gives an introduction to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) informal financial service delivery mechanism which are not under any regulatory framework like the formal sector. So‚ there is a necessity to internalize a built-in internal control system through self-regulation to mitigate exposure to risk in MFI. In 2.0 sound and reliable management system for MFIs through self-regulation are discussed. Section 3.0 discussed under internal
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From the Desk of: Imran Omer Case Study: WorldCom From its beginnings as a long distance call player to handler of Internet data traffic‚ WorldCom was a spectacular firework in the sky before it crashed out as one of the biggest bankruptcies America has witnessed in its corporate history. WorldCom carried more international voice traffic than any other company. It carried a large amount of the world‟s Internet traffic. WorldCom owned and operated a global IP (Internet Protocol) backbone that
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1. Adsteam Adonist@gmx.de‚ quigonjinn@hotmail.de was a very model of conglomerate(jujie). In the eyes of the outside‚ it was a successful company. But it’s not true. It’s far from other companies in its complex structure. Adsteam group comprised numerous less-than-majority-owned companies. It acquired major share-holdings in numerous companies throughout the 1980’s. The acquisition strategy resulted in an extremely complicated cross-shareholding-based structure. It was noting that the maximum amount
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strategic management and leadership 1.1 Explain the link between strategic management and leadership 1.2 Analyze the impact of management and leadership styles on strategic decisions 1.3 Evaluate how leadership styles can be adapted to different situations LO 2 Be able to apply management and leadership theory to support organizational direction 2.1 review the impact that selected theories of management and leadership have on organizational
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How might theories of leadership and group identity help to explain the Enron collapse? Leadership means to motivate‚ influence and enable others to helps contribute towards the sucess of the organisation. The leadership of a company is one of the biggest reasons why a company will either fail or suceed. The leadership is the reason why Enron as a company failed‚ the leaders were inside trading with the companies stock shares for almost 10 years‚ which caused them to lose over 11 billion dollars
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room A white-collar crime by definition is a crime that is committed by individuals of higher status. It is not necessarily a violent crime‚ but could be depending on the situation. An individual who works in a professional environment‚ such as the government or corporation tend to take advantage of employees and manipulate them into thinking their practices are legitimate. Some examples‚ of white-collar crimes include fraud‚ embezzlement‚ insider trading‚ and other
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Introduction Enron was one of America’s leading companies prior to its spectacular collapse in 2001. It was frequently named as one of America’s top 10 most admired corporations and best places to work‚ and its board was acclaimed one of the US’ best five‚ according to Fortune magazine. As America’s seventh largest company‚ Enron experienced explosive growth through the 1990s. It had revenues of US$139 ($184) billion‚ US$62 ($82) billion in assets and employed more than 30‚000 people across 20
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observed to be obsessing over regular tasks and duties during the audit. Almost every duty that involved handling cash was overseen by Hill. There are very little controls on cash‚ as Ben carries the cash between concessions‚ collects cash from all sales‚ and is solely responsible for depositing cash from promotional sales. The only control over the cash right now is double counting once the money has arrived and is all gathered up at the end of each night. He also has an overall opinion of being
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Coding Fraud Michael Anastasio Ultimate Medical Academy Before answering the questions “what are my responsibilities for billing on a procedure that was not performed but asked to do so anyway”‚ Let me explain a little on Medical Billing Fraud? It is an attempt to fraudulently obtain payments from insurance carriers. Fraud in medical billing cost tax payers and medical providers millions of dollars annually (all-things-medical-billing.com). In 1996‚ HIPPA established the Health Care Fraud and
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