HealthSouth: The Scrushy Way Vonetta M. Henderson Northcentral University Introduction The Enron and Tyco scandals brought visibility to corporate scandals. The magnitude of these scandals resulted in the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act in 2002. Richard M. Scrushy and HealthSouth Corporation were the first CEO and company to be indicted under the SOX Act. HealthSouth was charged with filing false financial statements with the SEC to hid poor financial conditions
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increasing number of corporate fiascos. The Arthur Andersen scandal was one of many conducted worldwide and an example of how things can go wrong in the public sector. This report will briefly describe the Arthur Andersen scandal, analyze the major failure elements that led to the scandal, and finally provide recommendations that could have been implemented to prevent these issues. Overview, Issues, and Recommendations: The Arthur Anderson Scandal was mainly related to Enron’s scandal and fallout
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............................... 14 2.2 Self-regulation prior to SOX ..................................................................... 18 3. Literature Review: The SOX Act ................................................................ 19 3.1 Enron, the trigger to SOX? ........................................................................ 22 4. The Sarbanes Oxley Act: Radical Reforms in Key Areas ....................................... 26 4.1 Establishing the Public Company Accounting Oversight
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history of accounting occurred due to numerous scandals. The results of these scandals from companies lead to terrifying actions, which included the downfall of one of the largest accounting corporations, Arthur Anderson, for their help with Enron. Companies such as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom have led to the passing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) due to their financial reporting scandals (Forbes, 2013). With the passing of SOX in 2002, the falsification of financial statements by companies became a criminal
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Auditing and Assurance Introduction The essay is mainly discussing that Transval Ltd wants to hire a new auditing team and depend on the request that be given to the new auditor, whether the new auditor should accept the offer to audit for Transval Ltd or not. Upon that, the essay also talks about the threats to the objectivity as an auditor and the ways to mitigate these threats. Last part of the essay is talking about the risks that could cause misstatements to the financial statements and
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CAPSTONE CASE STUDY ON ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE: ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP 1. Discuss the environmental, strategic and organizational changes that occurred over the life of Andersen in the context of Figure 11.1. Architectural design of firm may vary among companies. There are most common categories are business environment, strategy, and organizational architecture. Business environment of Andersen includes technology that was used effectively; structure of its markets, regulations which helped
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Curtis Nicholls was printed in the CPA journal in April of this year. To give a brief history of SOX after the corporate fraud in the early 2000’s the SEC felt pressure to respond. Their response to the fraud committed my giant corporations such as Enron and WorldCom was the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The main point of SOX was to try to limit or ideally eliminate corporate fraud by cracking down on self-regulating audit. The answer as to whether SOX is working or not is not as simple as yes or no. Some
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May 2012 Principals of Finance FIN301 Module 1 CFO to CEO is it good idea and do they have what it takes to lead their respective organizations into the future. This is a very good question over the next few minutes we will discuss that very question and I will show you two CFO to CEO’s that made it by two different routes. I will conclude with my person perspective and closing thoughts. Dalton Tong is the President and CEO of Greater Southeast Healthcare System, Washington, D.C. and
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Running Heading: Full disclosure financial reporting Full disclosure financial reporting Mary Miller ACC/421 Intermediate Financial Accounting 1 University of Phoenix Cathy Reed October 8, 2012 Full disclosure principle in accounting The full disclosure principle in accounting is the action of revealing or reporting every detail of economic transactions, which can affect the financial position of the business and other people who use the financial statements
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2002. Congress presented the act to the president on July 26, 2002, after passage in the Senate by a 99-0 vote and in the House by a 423-3 margin” (The sarbanes-oxley act). A new federal law was passed in reaction to corporate scandals such as the Enron, WorldCom, Tyco cases. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act puts extreme pressure on companies accounting practices and annual reports. Simply put, the act was created to protect investors from corporate corruption, and accounting misconduct. This act also created
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