The story is all about Irene Adler’s cleverness and skill over Sherlock Holmes’ perfection in deception. Sherlock Holmes always spoke about her in a way of pride, and of course not jealousy. In Watson’s words, she was one of the few to be as clever as Sherlock Holmes himself. The main part of the story begins in Holmes’ apartment where one day a man with a foreign uniform appeared to see Holmes. In spite of his efforts to prove himself a second person, the king of Bohemia couldn’t hide his identity
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(GAAS), Statements on Auditing Standards (SAS), and a few other things such as the business code of ethics. However, Enron executives found a way around this. Unfortunately for them, that way was illegal and led to the scam being known as the Enron Scandal. The top executives at Enron had been inflating their balance sheets by valuing assets at far greater values than their worth as well as hiding their liabilities. Not only did Enron build a mountain for their company in engaging in these illegal
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The youngest CPA in Illinois, Arthur Anderson, created Arthur Anderson & Company in 1913. The company developed throughout the years and became one of the largest auditing firms in the world. “Think straight, talk straight,” a quote from, Arthur Anderson, which described his viewpoints for auditing and the approach he took with his clients. Since America did not have strictly based accounting rules, Anderson believed as long as clients fully reported their financial statements minor accounting
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Phase 4 Individual Project Sara Smith HIST101-1303B-10 Modern American History: 1950 to the 21st Century Constantinos Scaros Colorado Technical University President Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal In 1998 President Bill Clinton was questioned about several allegations that he had harassed and/or had sexual relationships with women that worked under him. He became the first President to ever be involved in questioning as a civil defendant
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The objective of this research was to investigate empirical evidence about influence auditor spiritual intelligence on the performance with emotional intelligence as a mediator variable. Linear regression models are developed to examine the hypothesis and path analysis. The dependent variable of each model is auditor performance, whereas the independent variable of model 1 is spiritual intelligence, of model 2 are emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence. The parameters
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While having to listen to the CEO, CFO, and COO rationalize their behavior was revolting enough, the other employees — most of whom will remain forever nameless — are as equally deserving of long prison sentences and/or the firing squad. These gullible, sanctimonious men accepted the official cheerleading as gospel and proceeded to ruin thousands of lives in the process. Take the California energy crisis, one of the vilest results of deregulation in U.S. history. To believe Rush Limbaugh
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sector. In the highlights of Enron’s success, it has about 21,000 employees and considered the leading supplier of electricity, natural gas, communication, and paper. Enron’s perceived success was a mask for the cast schemed fraud called the “Enron Scandal” (Kadlee et. al. 2002). Enron Corporation not only committed financial fraud but also may have been brining people for contracts on South America. Later, this accumulated, and reports started to appear regarding the fishy accounting structure of
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also saw the opportunity in the weakness of the controls in the company so they knew how they will do it and conceal it. These ideas were in a way lessen as the accounting standards were amended due to the detection of numerous cases of accounting scandals at the start of the second millennium. More disclosures are now being asked from the companies in order for them to be transparent in their operations and be aware that the lawmakers are, now, more focus on them. However, even if more disclosures
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WorldCom history The history of WorldCom Company dates back in 1983 which started as a partnership between a former basketball coach Bernard Ebbers. This company was established at Mississippi as a coffee shop, which later developed to long distance Telephone Company. The company’s name initially was Long Distance Discount Service whose operations began on 1984. After several years in operation, the company became public in August 1989 with Bernard Ebbers as the company’s CEO (Moberg 4). Over the
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People over the world want to know what happened to Enron. Although this company's name was splashed over every news network and periodical paper in the United States, few people know the long and torrid story that lead to the collapse of an energy giant. Enron began in the eighties as an energy company selling natural gas. When energy markets were deregulated in the mid-nineties, Enron, like many energy companies, began to focus on selling energy from other sources rather than creating it. The
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