Organizational Behavior within WorldCom WorldCom entered the telecommunications market as LDDS in 1983, founded by Bernie Ebbers in Jackson, Mississippi. The company grew dramatically through numerous acquisitions and adapted the name “WorldCom” in 1995. In 1998, WorldCom purchased MCI, the nation’s number two long-distance provider, for $37 billion. WorldCom, considered a major success story of the 1990s, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July 2002. With 65 successful acquisitions, including 11
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lose everything. The CFO, Sullivan, formulated a plan to use accounting entries to achieve targeted performance and persuaded and coaxed many others to go along with the plan in order to stay on top. 2. What is the boundary between earnings smoothing or earning management and fraudulent reporting? The boundary between earnings management and fraudulent reporting can overlap at times. Earning management is defined as the use of accounting techniques to produce financial reports that may paint an overly
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INVESTIGATION BY THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WORLDCOM, INC. Dennis R. Beresford Nicholas deB. Katzenbach C.B. Rogers, Jr. Counsel Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Accounting Advisors PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP March 31, 2003 I. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................. 1 A. The Nature of the Accounting Fraud....................................................................... 9 1. 2. B
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guilty of ethics-based malfeasance related to financial management and determine why their comeuppance was deserved. The two companies that I focus on in this section are Goldman Sachs company and WorldCom in the telecom world. Goldman Sachs was charged by the securities exchange commission, with fraud because the company developed and marketed an artificial collateralized debt system. Paulson & Co had the same invested and at stake with in the equity of ABACUS as believed by ACA. In circumstance
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Three of the biggest frauds in American history, were committed by the companies Enron, World Com and Tyco. All three CEO/CFO’ks of these companies’ indulged in malicious intend to create a better financial standing within the company and for themselves. All of them were ethically wrong, regardless of the details. These individuals violated many different ethical principles which lead them all to be charged with criminal offenses and jail time. Enron used an accounting method known as “mark to
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the accounting field over the past decade has been very poor in the eyes of the public. Especially after many recent scandals that have more then embarrassed the industry. The overall idea behind the field of accounting is for accountants to serve the public for the greater good. Yet the public doesn’t feel that accountants can be trusted. Hence, the numerous amounts of regulations imposed by the government on the finance field. In this paper we discuss the field of finance and accounting, overall
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........................ 1 2. Summary of facts of the scandals at Enron ................................................................................. 1 3. Summary of facts of the scandals at WorldCom ........................................................................ 2 4. Enron and WorldCom executives prosecution ........................................................................... 5 5. Effects of the scandal, legislative perspective ...........................................
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WorldCom Case Study1 By Dennis Moberg (Santa Clara University) and Edward Romar (University of Massachusetts-Boston) (The original of this document can be found at the Santa http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/worldcom.html#one. Clara University website at An update for this case is available at http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/worldcomupdate.html . Note that this update is not part of the syllabus for the PRM or Associate PRM exam. It is included for reference and explanation
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WorldCom Case Study1 By Dennis Moberg (Santa Clara University) and Edward Romar (University of Massachusetts-Boston) (The original of this document can be found at the Santa http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/worldcom.html#one. Clara University website at An update for this case is available at http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/worldcomupdate.html . Note that this update is not part of the syllabus for the PRM or Associate PRM exam. It is included for reference and explanation
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both the US Government and the accounting profession needed to come up with a way to prevent these immense frauds from occurring in the future. As a response to these large frauds, in 2002, the US Government passed the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) issued Statement on Auditing Standards No. 99(SAS No. 99) to improve investor confidence and the auditing function’s ability to detect material frauds. The intent of this thesis
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