Financial Scandals and the Role of Private Enforcement: The Parmalat Case Law Working Paper N° 40/2005 May 2005 Guido Ferrarini University of Genoa, Centre for Law and Finance and ECGI Paolo Giudici Free University of Bozen and Centre for Law and Finance © Guido Ferrarini and Paolo Giudici 2005. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. This
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PRACTITIONER'S CORNER INVESTORS TRUST AFTER PARMALAT SCANDAL: THE ROLE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Giovanni D’Orio Giovanni D’Orio, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Calabria – Rende (CS) Italy. Contact: gio.dorio@unical.it 1.1. Introduction The collapse of the Parmalat food empire reveals a troubling aspect about Italian capitalism - the lack of effective financial control over its family-owned companies. But was Parmalat scandal a pure problem of corporate governance
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Global Perspectives on Accounting Education Volume 3, 2006, 27-48 ENRON AND ARTHUR ANDERSEN: THE CASE OF THE CROOKED E AND THE FALLEN A Gary M. Cunningham Visiting Professor Department of Business Administration Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland Jean E. Harris Accounting Department Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Campus School of Business Administration Middletown, Pennsylvania USA ABSTRACT Outside the US, the failures of Enron and Arthur Andersen remain puzzles. How could the accounting
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debacles triggered the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a new era of stakeholder expectations was crystallized for the business world and particularly for the professional accountants that serve in it. The drift away from the professional accountant’s role as a fiduciary to that of a businessperson was called into question and reversed. The principles that the new expectations spawned and renewed resulted in changes in how the professional accountants are to behave, what services are to be offered, and
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have an eye for perfection. It will be a pleasure to work for you. Sample Do the UK Combined Code on Corporate Governance and the legislative framework regulating Listed PLC's in the UK effectively address the problems revealed by the corporate scandals of recent times? Introduction> In UK there are the sole trader, the partnerships, the companies and the joint venture, structure businesses. For the sole trader and the partnerships because the businesses are controlled by the owners and they
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Global Perspectives on Accounting Education Volume 3, 2006, 27-48 ENRON AND ARTHUR ANDERSEN: THE CASE OF THE CROOKED E AND THE FALLEN A Gary M. Cunningham Visiting Professor Department of Business Administration Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland Jean E. Harris Accounting Department Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Campus School of Business Administration Middletown, Pennsylvania USA ABSTRACT Outside the US, the failures of Enron and Arthur Andersen remain puzzles. How could the accounting
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observers and ordinary people, the sudden collapse of corporate dinosaurs nowadays can take even the closest, longterm corporate analysts by surprise. Unfortunately, this was the case in the example of Kelon, a domestic household appliance manufacturer that once enjoyed the honour of being cited as a typically successful case study on Chinese firms in international business schools. Entitled Kelon: China’s Corporate Dragon,1 the study regarded it as an exemplar of dynamic Chinese firms rising from China’s
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