Over the years, the company grew through a series of business deals. In 1995, the name of the company was changed from LDDS to WorldCom. At the time, MCI was the second long distance provider and AT&T was number one. Ebber purchased MCI in 1998, for the amount of $37 billion dollars. With the Examining Business Failure 3 purchase of the MCI, WorldCom became the telecommunications giant. This changed seemed to be the success story of the 1990s, because of how well the company was doing financially
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Insight on WorldCom Scandal Table of Contents ABSTRACT 2 The importance of accounting conceptual framework 3 Historical Background 5 The Scandal – what happened 6 PENALTIES 7 How the scandal relates to accounting theory 8 RELATION TO POSITIVE ACCOUNTING THEORY 9 Conservatism Principle 9 Lack of Reliability 10 Lack of Relevance 11 Financial Misstatement 11 Conclusion 12 Bibliography 14 Insight on WorldCom Scandal ABSTRACT The scope of this paper deals with the
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ETHICS IN ACCOUNTING: THE WORLDCOM INC. SCANDAL Conf.univ.dr. Lucian Cernuşca “Aurel Vlaicu” University, Arad, str. Piaţa Sporturilor, nr. 10, bl. 25, apt. 7, 310167 Arad, Phone: 0730468534, luciancernusca@gmail.com What is ethics? What does ethics have to do with accounting? How does a scandal affect the business environment and the society? This article will explain just those questions by analyzing a “famous” fraud scandal: WorldCom Inc. The article discusses the chronology of events
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bankruptcy ever in U.S. history with a $41 billion dollar debt load, and more than $107 billion dollars in assets and equipment (Ramero and Atlas, 2002). Bernard John “Bernie” Ebbers the former CEO of WorldCom grew the company into one of the largest communications providers in the world. In light of his resignation from WorldCom in 2002 a Securities and Exchange Commission investigator found out that Ebbers and WorldCom admitted that he had inflated $3.8 billion and it also uncovered some $11 billion in
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WorldCom also sealed what at the time was the biggest deal the US stock market had seen, snatching another US communications group, MCI, from the clutches of BT. That $40bn merger in 1998 gave WorldCom an effective stranglehold on the US internet market, forcing the sale of part of MCI to another British firm, Cable & Wireless. In the deal C&W picked up a piece of internet history as the MCI internet business was one of the original six companies which bought connections to "the internet" when the
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the stock of WorldCom. To accomplish this buying spree, the stock had to continually increase in value. "... WorldCom pursued scores of increasingly large acquisitions. The strategy reached its apex with WorldCom's acquisition in 1998 of MCI Communications, a company with more than two-and-a-half times the revenue of WorldCom. Ebbers' acquisition strategy largely came to an end by early 2000 when WorldCom was forced to abandon a proposed merger with Sprint (NYSE: S) because of antitrust objections
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originally started out as a small provider of long distance telephone service in Mississippi under the name LDDS and later changed its name to WorldCom. During the 1990’s the company took on an aggressive acquisition strategy acquiring the likes of MCI Communications, UUNET, CompuServe, and America Online’s data network. With these acquisitions, WorldCom became a leader in the telecommunications industry due to its vast infrastructure. The company now had global reach in more than 65 countries and even ranked
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bankruptcy ever in U.S. history with a $41 billion dollar debt load, and more than $107 billion dollars in assets and equipment (Ramero and Atlas, 2002). Bernard John “Bernie” Ebbers the former CEO of WorldCom grew the company into one of the largest communications providers in the world. In light of his resignation from WorldCom in 2002 a Securities and Exchange Commission investigator found out that Ebbers and WorldCom admitted that he had inflated $3.8 billion and it also uncovered some $11 billion in
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entity is unethical and disgraceful. Bernie Ebbers, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of WorldCom, did what the average business person would not do, commit fraud. WorldCom was one of the leading giants in the telecommunication arena acquiring MCI Communications en-route to global success, but failing at the proposed merger of Sprint. What lead to the lies and deception of WorldCom downfall? This paper will briefly discuss some of the possibilities and the outcome of WorldCom’s fall as well as that
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Imagine working for a company that provides everything you need financially from an employer, good benefits, decent salary and stock options that make other companies within the industry jealous. How many other middle managers in the industry can claim a net worth of over one million dollars? During WorldCom’s highest point, some of the middle managers could honestly make such a claim because they had so much stock and the price seemed to just keep going up and up. The stock splits, and because of
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