Enron Corporation (former NYSE ticker symbol ENE)
Cierra Gause
Abstract
This paper will describe the legal environment of business, the sources of American law, and the basis of authority for government to regulate business, differentiate between civil law and criminal law and describe the various classifications of crimes as it relates to Enron and the scandal the caused their downfall by using technology and information resources to research issues in business law.
Describe how Enron could have been structured differently to avoid such activities. Skilling changed the way Enron was structured and the way they were doing their accounting methods is what began the downfall of