to stay afloat, it was too late to reverse the damage. History WorldCom Inc. was developed by Murray Waldron and William Rector in 1983 by planning to create a discount long-distance provider named LDDS (Pandey & Verma, 2004). Then in 1985 Bernard Ebbers became CEO of LDDS, in which by 1989 it merged with Advantage Companies, Inc, and then in 1992 it merged with Advanced Telecommunications Corp. With these two mergers WorldCom Inc. grew into a large company with in the US and globally as well
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information that can be obtained in Japanese is far less compared with Enron. The fact relevance makes the description of the case a base. WorldCom is a huge telecommunication company that exists in the United States before. The company that Mr. Bernard Ebbers founded in 1983 accomplishes the rapid growth repeating M&A with tremendous force. Long-distance telecom carrier and MCI in the fourth place in the U.S. at that time are purchased in 1996. At that time, this was the maximum M&A play in the
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founder and CEO Bernard Ebbers due to his unruly managerial functions (planning, organizing, leading and controlling) that he practiced during his time at WorldCom. WorldCom was known as a telecommunication giant, established from nothing in 1983 to become the biggest accounting scandal in United States (U.S.) history in 2002. According to Jones Jonesington (2007) says, “In 1998, the telecommunications industry began to slow down and WorldCom’s stock was declining which gave CEO Bernard Ebbers increased
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Accounting scandals CEO Bernard Ebbers became very wealthy from the rising price of his holdings in WorldCom common stock. However, in the year 2000, the telecommunications industry entered a downturn and WorldCom’s aggressive growth strategy suffered a serious setback when it was forced by the US Justice Department to abandon its proposed merger with Sprint in mid 2000. By that time, WorldCom’s stock was declining and Ebbers came under increasing pressure from banks to cover margin calls on his
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Running head: Review of Accounting Ethics 1 Review of Accounting Ethics Cynthia Harley Dr. Julie Hamm Acc 557 5/1/2014 Review of Accounting Ethics The WorldCom Scandal Vikalpa: The Journal For Decision Makers provides us with the following excerpt from WorldCom’s 2002 press release: CLINTON, Miss., June 25, 2002 –- WorldCom Inc. (Nasdaq: WCOM, MCIT) today announced that it intends to restate its financial statements for 2001 and the first quarter of 2002. As a result of an internal audit
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Paper Carnival (Lights come up on the interior of an old office space. Papers clatter the one solitary desk in the Corner of the room a man sits behind it typing away. The tile floors are a dirty shade of lime green and, the walls have yellowed from age. A Delivery man with a low brow expression enters UR. Packages in hand) Delivery man: I have a delivery here for A Mr. Haven can you sign for this? (The delivery man hastily hands the clipboard to an
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2002 WorldCom, the fastest rising company in the US history with its CEO of 17 years Bernard Ebbers was busted for fraudulent financial activities (American Greed, 2008). The history of the company dates back to 1983 when Long Distance Discount Services (LDDS) was founded. The company was providing long distance calling for cheap by doing acquisitions and buying smaller phone companies (American Greed, 2008). Bernard Ebbers was company’s CEO and within 10 years he was able to make LDDS into the largest
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Case Study The Rise and Fall of Worldcom This case study is about Bernard Ebbers CEO of Worldcom, Inc. and Scott Sullivan CFO of Worldcom, Inc. once they were boosted the company growth and they got awards. Later on they made frauds by using their influential tactics on employees and company’s board. Those are Assertiveness: it involves applying legitimate and coercive power to influence others by threatening or giving punishment. This tactic was used by sullivans office where they berated and
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In this case, Cynthia Cooper, VP of Internal Audit blew the whistle on fraud she and her team found. Cynthia brought up concern over the accounting treatment of a $400M entry to re-class a reserve to income. She was dismissed by the CFO and by the external auditors, Arthur Andersen. Luckily she was not deterred and had her team continue to review the accounts. That’s how the largest part of the fraud was found. The CFO and CEO were involved in capitalizing network lease expenses as assets in WorldCom’s
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English 1010 Don’t Be Afraid To Be You Bernard M. Baruch once said, “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” Will the people you associate with in your life everyday always agree with the decisions you make? No, they won’t, but you need to remember that life’s not about changing yourself to become what others want you to be. It’s about creating yourself in being the kind of person you want to be. Your life is how you live. Others
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