ABACUS, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2006 doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4497.2006.00196.x ABACUS PRINCIPLES ORIGINAL ARTICLE 2 42 © 2006 0001-3072Publishing, Ltd. Abacus UK VERSUS RULES-BASED ACCOUNTING ABA Accounting Foundation, Unviersity of Sydney Oxford, Blackwell GEORGE J. BENSTON, MICHAEL BROMWICH AND ALFRED WAGENHOFER Principles- Versus Rules-Based Accounting Standards: The FASB’s Standard Setting Strategy In response to criticism of rules-based accounting standards and Section 108(d) of the Sarbanes-Oxley
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company said the accounting irregularities, which did not conform to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, included transfers between internal accounts of $3.06 billion in 2001 and $797 million in the first quarter of 2002. Accounting firm Andersen had audited the company's 2001 financial statements for 2001 and reviewed
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The Enron Scandal Background Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 20,000 staff and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper companies, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion in 2000.[1] Fortune named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years. At the end of 2001, it was revealed that
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Wk2 checkpoint Read the Arthur Andersen’s Troubles Ethics Case on pp. 107–113 (Ch. 2) of the text. Answer questions 1, 3, and 4 on p. 113 in 200 to 300 words. When responding to question 3, focus solely on the Enron case. Questions 1. What did Arthur Andersen contribute to the Enron disaster? I found an article in Time Magazine that discusses the fact that Andersen employees followed instructions from Enron executives to destroy documents. The Wikipedia article that I found lists
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AICPA violations committed by Andersen and Enron CPAs. 1. Article I – requires professionals to maintain the integrity of the profession, as well as, maintain the public's confidence which was not done by Arthur Andersen when the signed off on document knowingly containing material misstatements which is a violation of the very essence of auditing principles. The CPAs of Enron should have stood up for their morals and the public’s best interest when they saw what was occurring. 2. Article
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Olympus Accounting Fraud ACTG 6100 Professor Mark Jobe Feb. 18, 2014 Inhwa Kim M01243678 The Olympus has a pretty strong position in the camera market. This company is popular because they made the world’s first DSLR (Digital Single-Lens Reflex). Many camera users who are located in all around the world prefer the Olympus. Also, the Olympus is popular because the company made the medical devices, endoscope which is able to watch inside the organ of human body. The Olympus, which
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Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility Professor Dr. Dana Legette-Traylor Unit 5 Case Study Accounting for Enron By Accounting for Enron 1. Donald Duncan had responsibilities to everyone mentioned and he definitely failed by acting negligently and by showing a complete lack of ethics throughout his involvement with Enron. Due to the fact that Donald Duncan was the head auditor he had a responsibility to maintain the highest professional accounting and auditing ethics, and to lead his
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Contrary to some belief, accounting is not a “walk-in-the-park” career. Accountants do not sit at a desk one-hundred percent of the time crunching numbers that always add up perfectly. In fact, accounting fraud is one of the largest scandals found today. When an accountant enters an engagement with a client, who are they liable to? Certainly not just to the client, but also anyone who could negatively be affected by a material misstatement, as well as the government. These responsibilities are
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employer-employee relationship (Deckop, 2006). This essay will mainly explain and analyse the different types of misbehaviour that can be found in a particular case: The Enron & Arthur Andersen scandal, the “Why’s” and “How’s” these two companies fell into corruption and thus, misbehaviour. Enron & Andersen Enron Corporation was an energy company founded in 1930 based in Houston, Texas. It never shined out until 1996, when the firm was considered as one of the most innovative organisation
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Waste Management, Inc. is the nation's largest waste collector (Feder). In other words, they collect and recycle garbage. They are a known brand and dominate the regions of the country and Canada where they provide services. Grownups and kids alike see their trucks and think, "Garbage". Which could sound awful, but garbage is lucrative. In the early 1990's, Waste Management, instead of just picking up the garbage, provided garbage to their investors in the form of an accounting scandal which
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