CFO’s of Public Companies Outside Independent Audit Firms SOX section 404 on Internal Control The Main Advantages and Disadvantages of SOX Executive Summary The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was intended to create more transparency in financial reporting and to combat the perceived inflation of CEO compensation. To do this, the act required that a board of directors be financially independent from the CEO and have no familial ties. It also required the CEO and CFO to personally sign all
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trading entities identified and $1 billion of hidden debt revealed, this obscure office of 40 employees almost bankrupt the giant Enron Corporation. After the collapse of Enron in 2001, denial was identified as Enron’s modus operandi. This paper will examine the warning signs of Enron Oil Trading prior to the fall of Enron, highlight the inconsistencies and demonstrate and unwillingness of Enron to learn from their
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Licensed to: iChapters User CASE 1.1 Enron Corporation John and Mary Andersen immigrated to the United States from their native Norway in 1881. The young couple made their way to the small farming community of Plano, Illinois, some 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. Over the previous few decades, hundreds of Norwegian families had settled in Plano and surrounding communities. In fact, the aptly named Norway, Illinois, was located just a few miles away from the couple’s new hometown. In
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inquiry, Green Mountain’s accounting irregularities spanned three fiscal years and three fiscal quarters. Starting with fiscal year 2007 and running through the third fiscal quarter of 2010. In total Green Mountain had five areas of their financial statements in which they did not follow GAAP. The first issue overstated $7.6 million dollars of inventory during the time period, because of an incorrect standard of cost (Dulong, 2010). Next they had a $1.4 million overstated income, because of incorrect
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A Publicly Traded Company's Worst Nightmare? This paper is about Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications and an issue that they faced in 2009. Emmis Communications is publicly traded on the NASDAQ index with a ticker symbol of EMMS. The company owns more than 20 radio stations in the United States, including stations in the nation’s top three radio markets, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. (Emmis Communications, 2010) There have been many discussions in this course’s classroom about the implications
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the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, otherwise referred to as SOX; you first need to understand that the Act was created for. The SOX came into effect in July 2002 and it was introduced for major changes to the regulation of corporate governance and financial practice. The act was also known as the ‘Public Company Accounting Reform and investor Protection Act of 2002’ in the senate and was called ‘Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act’ in the house. SOX set new and enhanced standards
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KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting 2011 kpmg.com The Definitive Snapshot of CR Reporting Welcome to The KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting 2011. We believe that this report represents the largest and most comprehensive survey of CR reporting trends ever published. Thirty-four hundred companies representing the national leaders from 34 countries around the world, including the largest 250 global companies based on the Fortune Global 500
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Recent historical events suggest that trust between employees and management has been negatively affected however, with the enactment of new laws and ethics policies has there been a strengthening of this trust relationship in recent years? This paper discusses the history effecting trust between employees and management and the related changes that have been implemented in attempts to improve this relationship. This examination suggests that although there has been improvement in the recognition
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of standards governing the conduct of the members of a profession”. The Enron scandal is already part of the history as one of the reasons why Business and Accounting Ethics had become more than ever a major concern in today’s businesses. In this paper we’ll review and analyze all the major reasons why will Enron collapse. To begin with, Enron in only 15 years grew rapidly and became of the biggest companies in the United States. Enron employed more than 21,000 people in more than 40 countries.
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Adjusting the Financial StatementsContent Author: Louise August, CPA, PhD. | Financial statement analysis is based on comparability - not just year-to-year, but between firms as well. So we want to do everything we can to make those comparisons as easy and as meaningful as possible. Once you have your firm's financial statements re-created in Excel, you need to make a copy and use that to make any needed restatements. Why make a copy? Because… * Providing the “as published” financials is a requirement
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