CASE 1.1 Enron Corporation John and Mary Andersen immigrated to the United States from their native Norway in 1881. The young couple made their way to the small farming community of Plano, Illinois, some 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. Over the previous few decades, hundreds of Norwegian families had settled in Plano and surrounding communities. In fact, the aptly named Norway, Illinois, was located just a few miles away from the couple’s new hometown. In 1885, Arthur Edward Andersen
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ABCD COSO case study Case study – Parmalat The situation - - - - - - - - Parmalat is a multinational Italian dairy and food corporation The company was founded by Calisto Tanzi, a university dropout who transformed a family business, Calisto Tanzi & Sons - Salamis and Preserves into an organisation hailed as one of Europe's biggest corporate success stories. In 1997 Parmalat jumped into the world financial markets in a big way, financing several international acquisitions
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l General Electric Global Crossing Merrill Lynch Enron Qwest WorldCom Royal Shell Nortel Krispy Kreme Refco UnitedHealth Group Merck Chiquita World Bank BP Madoff Investment Securities • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • AT&T Titan Xerox Kmart Citigroup Lucent ImClone Arthur Andersen HealthSouth Royal Ahold Parmalat Apollo Group Marsh & McLennan AIG (twice)(Putnam)(Mercer) Fannie Mae (twice) KPMG (twice) GM Options scandals (200 companies) HP Universities and travel Siemens
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statements fraud involves the intentional publishing of false information in any portion of a financial statement (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners).” The Bre-X Minerals Case, provided false information that became detrimental to investors. The false information that harmed investors led to the analysis of how investigating management and directors would help in the determination of the company’s value of gold prospect’s. This also led to the ways in which investigating the
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Part 3 Fundamentals of Financial Institutions Chapter 7 Why Do Financial Institutions Exist? Chapter Preview A vibrant economy requires a financial system that moves funds from savers to borrowers. But how does it ensure that your hard-earned dollars are used by those with the best productive investment opportunities? Copyright ©2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 7-3 Chapter Preview In this chapter, we take a closer look at why financial institutions exist and how they promote
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the organization exists and state goals on what they hope to achieve. One of the most comprehensive mission statements that review their goals in terms of leadership, quality and value, profits, ethics, and social responsibility is Caterpillar (King, Case, and Premo, 2010). Caterpillar Caterpillar will be the leader in providing the best value in machines, engines, and support services for customers dedicated to building the world’s infrastructure and developing and transporting its resources. We
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College Introduction I recently read the following quote posted by an anonymous person on Facebook: “I had ADHD when I was a kid too, but when I saw my father taking off his belt, I was healed”. I share that not just because it is true in my case, but because it is a fairly humorous and spot on example of a deterrent. Deterrence is a critical element of the effort to prevent a particular behavior. People have to have a reason not to act that way. When I was a kid, I didn’t know what a
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Congress. After a series of high profile corporate scandals, such as Enron and WorldCom, the Congress of the United States passed this legislation “to improve and maintain investor confidence. The law requires companies to have more independent board directors (not just company insiders), to adhere strictly to accounting rules, and to have senior managers personally sign off on financial results.” (Bateman, 173). Before the fall of corporations like Enron and WorldCom, there was also far too much corporate
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Math/CPA, and BioTech/CPA programs. The focus of the course is the study of ethical and moral issues that arise in professional lives of accountants and financial managers It is assumed that all of you have some familiarity with the financial scandals of
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earnings, net income, and inventory were overstated “by $8 Million before taxes and $5.8 million after taxes, with $3 million before taxes and $2.2 million after-taxes was from year ended June 30, 2004.” As it was stated on page 12-27 of the Business Analysis and Valuation applications, “The main problem came from the CEO and CFO decision to not disclose this error on the financial statements that were released on July 21, 2004 (Palepu & Healy, 2008).” The auditors were not thrilled about the poor (of)
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