Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse Your School Here Your Course Name Here Course Number Here Submission Date Here Your Professor Here Table of Contents Page Answers to Question 1 3 Answers to Question 2 3 Answers to Question 3 4 Conclusion 5 References 7 1. How did the corporate culture of Enron contribute to its bankruptcy? Highly effective
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Case 1 ENRON: WHAT CAUSED THE ETHICAL COLLAPSE? case summary | Kenneth Lay, former chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Enron Corp., claimed to be a moral and ethical leader and exhorted Enron’s officers and employees to be highly ethical in their decisions and actions. In addition, the Enron Code of Ethics specified that “An employee shall not conduct himself or herself in a manner which directly or indirectly would be detrimental to the best interests of the Company or in a manner
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The Enron Business Failure 1 The Enron Business Failure The Enron Business Failure 2 The Enron Business Failure The company selected for intense scrutiny on leadership failure and ultimate business catastrophe is Enron. Enron had a very rich history of success and innovation in the industrial market of energy production and delivery. An important note to identify, Enron was named “America’s Most Innovative Company” (Lordan, 2002) for six straight years. This title sheds a great deal of light
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Within the last ten years corporate scandals such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, etc., triggered Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Ross, Westerfield, & Jaffe, 2010). False reporting of financial transactions was the number one commonality in all the scandals. In every case, shareholders of the companies suffered hefty losses due to the misrepresentation of the transactions. Almost $11 billion was lost by the shareholders of Enron (Blackburn, 2002). WorldCom shareholders lost about $194
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cause of the Enron debacle. Actions and events that led to the company’s collapse are still being pieced together. Responsibility for the losses suffered by the investors has been laid to the company’s executive management, its board of directors, its auditors and the Securities and Exchange Commission (Foundation of Economic Development, 2002). In developing a training plan to increase the effectiveness of groups and teams, Team B constructed a plan that would have hopefully, helped Enron succeed instead
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The US Congress in 2002, set out to change the way companies report their financial situation and accounting practices. Congress believed in order to restore consumer confidence, strict accounting and reporting regulations were called for. Congress wanted the financial picture of a company to be more transparent to the consumer, thus the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investors Act of 2002 was past, more popularly known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, (SOX). (Bainbridge, 2007). SOX has revolutionized
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perpetuated by financial institutions such as Enron, Worldcom, and even the Savings and Loan debacles that served to fool and cripple the financial markets. As a result of their deceptive accounting practices, many investors lost millions of dollars. SOX was signed into law by President George Bush on the 30th day of July in the year 2002. The Act was lawmakers and legislators reaction to highly publicized financial reporting scandals like the ones involving Enron and WorldCom that had shaken investors'
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1. ENRON Enron Corporation tuvo su origen durante la recesión en el año de 1985, cuando Kenneth Lay, CEO de la Houston Gas Company, se fusionó con Internorth Inc. La nueva compañía reportó en su primer año una pérdida de $14 millones de dólares, que consistía en $12.1 billones de dólares en activos, 15,000 empleados, la segunda en la nación con la mayor red de distribución y una imponente montaña de deudas. Enron fue una empresa típica de distribución de gas natural con todas las indumentarias
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and accounting debacles (or accounting scandals). Some of those corporate accounting scandals involve companies such as Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems and WorldCom. These scandals, which cost investors billions of dollars when the share prices of these affected companies collapsed and shook public confidence in the US securities markets. To better understand SOX, it is best to understand the first company that found itself in that accounting predicament: The Enron Corporation.
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The Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Auditing Prior to the 2002, there were numerous accounting and corporate scandals that rocked the business world. Foremost of which is the Enron debacle which was followed by WorldCom, Tyco International and Global Crossing (CIO Decisions). The collapse of these businesses was attributed to the lack of regulatory controls in the part of the government as well as transparency of operations of corporations which
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