Olympus cameras began business in 1919 as Takachiho Seisakusho, a thermometer and microscope manufacturing company in Tokyo. It was renamed Takachiho Optical Co. in 1942 and later Olympus Optical Co in 1949, taking its name from its trademark logo, and reflecting the fact that optical products had become the core of company. Today, Olympus’ key business segments include medical imaging equipment, consumer electronics, industrial imaging equipment and scientific devices, including microscopes. Olympus’
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Nonbanks can follow identical strategies, which is what Enron did in the 1990s when it lobbied its accounts and the government to permit it to mark to market its contracts for the future supply of energy and Internet services to market.- C. William Thomas, The Rise and Fall of Enron: When a Company Looks Too Good to be True, it Usually is, J. ACCT., Apr. 2002, available at http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/2002/Apr/ TheRiseAndFallOfEnron.htm That change in accounting convention let Enron
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AVOIDING INVESTMENTS IN FRAUDULENT COMPANIES: THE WORLDCOM FRAUD Introduction The purpose of this report is to investigate and discuss the accounting fraud that occurred at WorldCom in order to recommend improved strategies to Berkshire Hathaway’s management for avoiding investments in companies with fraudulent financials. Accounting fraud is a crime committed by high level employees at an organization to manipulate the organization’s financial statements and intentionally disguise company
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Accounting fraud case Halliburton, one of the world's largest providers of products and services in the oil and gas industries, had several lawsuits brought against them and its former CEO, Vice President Dick Cheney. The allegations claim that Halliburton illegally overstated its revenues in order to hide losses the company had experienced because of under estimating costs for construction projects, and a downturn in the oil industry. The claim also states that the company violated U.S. securities
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issues are concerned with the control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication and monitoring. Based on the documentary several control issues were observed. They were: * During the Enron oil scandal aka the Valhalla scandal there was significant misappropriation of monies. In this particular situation instead of reducing risk lay encouraged traders to keep gambling more. Traders gambled away all of Enron’s reserves and this was covered up by Muckleroy who
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or "aggressive" are also sometimes used. The term as generally understood refers to systematic misrepresentation of the true income and assets of corporations or other organizations. "Creative accounting" is at the root of a number of accounting scandals, and many proposals for accounting reform – usually centering on an updated analysis of capital and factors of production that would correctly reflect how value is added. Newspaper and television journalists have hypothesized that the stock market
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WorldCom Case Study Requirements 1. The paper must be a minimum of 5 pages in length with 1.5 inch spacing. There is no required font type but it must be legible. Font size cannot be less than 10 nor exceed 14. Use full sentences and avoid using bullet points within the paper. 2. Explain and answer the following questions: a. What are the pressures/forces that lead executives and managers to “cook the books?” b. What is the boundary between earnings smoothing or earnings management
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into a multi-billion dollar disaster for the company. They made the decision to do this in order to attract new investors. Once they took this step there was no going back. The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was a major contributor in this huge scandal, they led the assistance to the false documentation of Enron. Enron also had other accounts with other companies that they credited to aide in hiding the losses and debts that had been accumulated. All these choices led to the collapse of the company
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Affect I feel like there are too many rules in society in general. I understand why we have rules. They should be used as a framework for us as we live in society. But, I also feel that we all have a responsibility to use judgment and remember why the rules exist. For example, I got pulled over on the freeway going 8 miles an hour over the speed limit. This was in a remote part of Utah, early in the morning, not another car within sight. Why do we have a speed limit? Probably to keep others
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and the history of the employee relationship with previous companies. If something sounds too good to be true more often than not, it is .The economy has left a lot of people more cautious with their money and investments especially after the ENRON scandal. Every day we see an employee paying into benefits only to find the company is out of business or has gone bankrupt. The most common thing that I have seen is mergers that take on new benefits that leave prior employees out in the cold without
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