What specific audit procedures might have uncovered the Parmalat fraud earlier? Parmalat went from recording annual sales of 7.6 billion euros in 2002 to being declared insolvent a year later. The collusion at Europe’s Enron made it possible for Parmalat to defraud its investors of billions. The auditing procedures used by Grant Thornton and Deloitte were inadequate. Many of Parmalat’s assets were overstated and its liabilities understated. The auditors did not adequately test the Special Purpose
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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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Enron was an energy company based in Huston‚ Texas. It was one of the innovative and also one of the seven largest company in the United States in 1990s. It had about 20‚000 employees at that time. The company was making profit from supplying natural gas and electricity until the late 1980s‚ but after that it expanded its operation to the trading of energy related financial products such as derivatives. Enron looked like a great company that makes a lot of profit however‚ in 2001‚ after the firm’s
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Case summary – Enron Corporation’s Weather Derivatives Steve Haik‚ Dan Sleker and Bas van Bellegem – March 2003 Background In October Mary Watts‚ CFO of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW) reviewed the forward plan for PNW’s 200-2001 season. PNW’s has been experiencing nearly no EPS growth since 1995 due to deregulation and warmer-than-average winter climate. The stock price had suffered accordingly‚ but there maybe a way to hedge the weather risk via a new “weather derivative” being proposed by
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Enron was once one of the world’s leading electricity‚ natural gas‚ pulp‚ paper and communications companies. However‚ in December 2‚ 2001‚ Enron suddenly filed for bankruptcy. During the ten years before Enron¡¦s went bankrupt‚ Enron¡¦s management had started transferring Enron¡¦s funding to personal accounts and made fake balance sheets‚ which provided investors information about how this company goes. (Gibney‚ 2005) These illegal actions‚ performed by certain individuals‚ finally led Enron to
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fall of Parmalat was an important event as it highlighted the corporate governance issues in the corporate world of Italy. Parmalat was found by Calisto Tanzi‚ CEO and Chairman‚ in 1961 with a pasteurisation plant in Italy. The company was headquartered in Italy and had grown to be a multinational company into all sorts of milk products‚ beverages and bakery goods. Three decades later‚ in 1990‚ it became a publicly traded entity and was listed on the Milan stock exchange. Although Parmalat had become
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1. How was it possible for Parmalat managers to “cook the books” and hide it for so long? Solution Parmalat was able to cook the books mainly due to the fact that Italy has a low level of accounting transparency. The story began in 1997‚ when Parmalat decided to become a "global player" and started a campaign of international acquisitions‚ especially in North and South America‚ financed through debt. Soon‚ Parmalat became the third largest cookie-maker in the United States. But such acquisitions
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Study：Parmalat：Europe’s Enron 1. Review the facts in the case‚ especially the charges in the complaint‚ and evaluate the auditors’ compliance with GAAS. Do you think the auditor did all they could to detect the fraud? Evaluate whether auditors exercised due care and the level of professional skepticism to be expected in an audit the size of Parmalat. After review the material‚ it is apparently the auditors did not do all they could to detect the fraud Parmalat and its management conducted. Parmalat eliminated
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Unit 4: Assignment 1. According to Tapies and Toninato (2007)‚ Calisto Tanzi created the Parmalat Group in 1961. He was a young businessperson that had inherited the business from his father. Originally‚ the business was founded by his grandfather‚ which was called Ditta Tanzi Calisto and Sons. Business began to fail because of health. Therefore‚ he made his son take charge of the business who at the time was only 22 years of age. According to Tapies and Toninato (2007)‚ there were three
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Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case Law Working Paper N° 40/2005 May 2005 Guido Ferrarini University of Genoa‚ Centre for Law and Finance and ECGI Paolo Giudici Free University of Bozen and Centre for Law and Finance © Guido Ferrarini and Paolo Giudici 2005. All rights reserved. Short sections of text‚ not to exceed two paragraphs‚ may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit‚ including © notice‚ is given to the source. This
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