Leadership Failures Of Enron

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    Freedom

    NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Learner: StinsonSMGT5019-1 | | MGT5019 | Christopher Barrett | | | Ethics in Business | Cheating in Business Schools and creating a culture of integrity | | | ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------

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    External Auditors Do Not Rely on Internal Auditors as Much as They Could – Why?

    External auditors do not rely on internal auditors as much as they could – why? How could this reliance be improved? Presented By Mingdi Deng Shirene Horner Yueyang Shi Trevor Stewart Jingtao Wang CONTENTS                                                                                                            PAGE ABSTRACT 3 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. REASONS

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    Unions

    Table of Contents Cover page ………………………………………………………………………………………..1 Table of Contents …………………………………………………………………………………2 Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………..……….3 Background ……………………………………..………………………………………………4-5 Concept Definitions ……………………………………………...…………………….…….…5-6 The creation of Unions……………………………………………………………….…………6-7 Pros and Cons of Union Membership…………………………………………..…………….....7-9 Today’s need for Unions ……………..…………………………………………………..…...9-10 Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………………………

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    Auditing Cases

    accounting fraud and auditor legal liability c a S eS inc lu de d in t hiS Se ction 4 89 99 4.1 Enron Corporation and Andersen, LLP Analyzing the Fall of Two Giants . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 Comptronix Corporation 4.3 Cendant Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Identifying Inherent Risk and Control Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 119 127 137 Assessing the Control Environment and Evaluating Risk of Financial Statement

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    Corporate Governance

    key staff; and enhance employee satisfaction. A key focus area is a company’s human capital strategy, which is a lead indicator of corporate success. Principle 2: Nomination and Compensation Committees A key success factor is the quality of leadership of an enterprise. A nomination committee with a written mandate and terms of reference

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    David Sagar

    As you have seen already, companies have always been subject to quite strict regulation. Thus there are detailed requirements in relation to company formation, corporate administration and corporate finance. Despite all this regulation a number of issues have continued to cause considerable unrest and political controversy. The main concerns have centred on the apparent lack of effective control of directors of public listed companies which have manifested themselves in perceived excessive remuneration

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    Corporate Culture

    define its nature. Corporate culture is rooted in an organization's goals, strategies, structure, and approaches to labor, customers, investors, and the greater community. As such, it is an essential component in any business's ultimate success or failure. Closely related concepts, discussed elsewhere in this volume, are corporate ethics (which formally state the company's values) and corporate image (which is the public perception of

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    Compare and Contrast

    Health South: The Scrushy Way It is a cliché that “crime does not pay.” Seemingly when one has the charisma to lead a multi-billion dollar corporation, and power to affect the well-being of thousands, perhaps crime does pay – in the short term. It’s easy to rationalize that what one does is not a crime “if it hurts no one,” or if one is doing amazing amounts of charity work. Richard M. Scrushy is a case in point – he seemed to have it all, the all-American success story, yet dishonesty, and unethical

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    Human Resource Management

    about the people. If the people are nurtured then the organisation can develop. As can be seen below, this was not the case with Enron. Enron: something’s got to give Human beings are not governed purely by their own self-interest, so our management and HR systems should not assume they are. For more than a year, Andrew Fastow – the erstwhile chief financial officer of Enron and the key architect of the off-balance-sheet entities that caused Enron’s sudden death – ran rings around the prosecutors investigating

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    The Role of Human Resource Management

    the people. If the people are nurtured then the organisation can develop. As can be seen below, this was not the case with Enron. Enron: something’s got to give Human beings are not governed purely by their own self-interest, so our management and HR systems should not assume they are. For more than a year, Andrew Fastow – the erstwhile chief financial officer of Enron and the key architect of the off-balance-sheet entities that caused Enron’s sudden death – ran rings around the prosecutors

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