MCI Communications Corporation FOUNDED: 1968 Contact Information: HEADQUARTERS: 1801 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20006 PHONE: (202)872-1600 FAX: (202)887-3140 URL: http://www.mci.com OVERVIEW MCI is the second-largest long-distance provider in the United States after AT&T. It is a leader and innovator in the telecommunications industry. MCI was instrumental in forging an opening in that industry for companies to compete with AT&T. It continued in the late 1990s to lead all
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MCI COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION Introduction In 1982, the Justice department ordered the separation of ATT into local subsidiaries. MCI was one of the main competitors of AT&T and the impact of this new competition on MCI was uncertain. In this case the financial impact of this increased competition will be analyzed. Analysis of External Financing Needs for MCI from 1983 to 1989 Please see Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2 MCI’s external needs will keep increasing over the next few years as the operating
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Financial Strategy for Corporation Case3 MCI Communications Corp., 1983 Estimation of external financing MCI requires until the end of 1987 MCI is the second-largest long-distance provider in the telecom industry of United States after AT&T. First of all, in this case we estimate external financing MCI requires until the end of 1987. Exhibit 9A provides the projected capital investment needs for the following year, so our group plug those data in
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Case 10: MCI Communication Corp. ------------------------------------------------- MCI External Financing Needs from 1984 to 1989 Due to the telecom industry’s competitive history, MCI has to continue growing to maintain and increase their market share. Their external financing needs will keep increasing over the next few years as the operating margins shrink in an attempt to acquire 20% market share by 1990. To accomplish this, MCI will need to infuse huge capitals into their business
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MCI COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION Introduction In 1982, the Justice department ordered the separation of ATT into local subsidiaries. MCI was one of the main competitors of AT&T and the impact of this new competition on MCI was uncertain. In this case the financial impact of this increased competition will be analyzed. Analysis of External Financing Needs for MCI from 1983 to 1989 Please see Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2 MCI’s external needs will keep increasing over the next few years as the operating
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MCI External Financing Needs from 1984 to 1989 Due to the telecom industry’s competitive history, MCI has to continue growing to maintain and increase their market share. Their external financing needs will keep increasing over the next few years as the operating margins shrink in an attempt to acquire 20% market share by 1990. To accomplish this, MCI will need to infuse huge capitals into their business. As per the pro forma statements, MCI would need significant amounts of capital to finance
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WorldCom By Dennis Moberg (Santa Clara University) and Edward Romar (University of Massachusetts-Boston) 2002 saw an unprecedented number of corporate scandals: Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing. In many ways, WorldCom is just another case of failed corporate governance, accounting abuses, and outright greed. But none of these other companies had senior executives as colorful and likable as Bernie Ebbers. A Canadian by birth, the 6 foot, 3 inch former basketball coach and Sunday School teacher emerged
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Mark Willis BUS 508 – Contemporary Bus November 15, 2013 Determine the most important five skills that a forensic accountant needs to possess and evaluate the need for each skill. Be sure to include discussion regarding the relationship between the skill and its application to business operations. As the annual price tag for fraud at American business soars to nearly $1 trillion, the demand for Certified Public Accountants that provide forensic accounting services has increased exponentially-
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------------------------------------------------- Case 2: “WorldCom, Inc.: Corporate Bond Issuance” Case Highlights This case is about the $37-billion bid for MCI Corp., by WorldCom – the United States’ second largest long distance phone company (after AT&T at the time). The purchase should come through by using its own stock to buy the public shares of MCI that did not belong to British Telecommunications (BT), and paying with cash the 20% stake BT held in MCI. In order to finance
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Wor9 - 1 04 - 0 71 R EV: JU LY 2 6 , 2 00 4 RO BERT S. KAPLAN D A VI D KIR O N Accounting Fraud at WorldCom WorldCom could not have failed as a result of the actions of a limited number of individuals. Rather, there was a broad breakdown of the system of internal controls, corporate governance and individual responsibility, all of which worked together to create a culture in which few persons took responsibility until it was too late . — Richard Thornburgh, former U.S. attorney general1 On
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