Kim Emigh, Worldcom Whistleblower When he was performing his job, Kim Emigh found out weird the relationship there was between the vendor of hardware and some executives of Worldcom. Some very expensive bills made him feel there was a problem with these deals, just like someone would receive a kickback from these operations. When one of his superior came to see him, and gave him 10 statements of work with missing social security number, or some with the social number use couple time, or already
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RUNNING: Demise of Enron Corporation® and WorldCom® Demise of Enron Corporation® and WorldCom® Your Name October 31st, 2012 FIN/486 Instructor Enron Corporation and WorldCom In the last decade, two powerful American companies, Enron Corporation and WorldCom, have become the models of accounting corporate fraud. The Enron Corporation was founded in 1985 by Kenneth Law in Omaha, Nebraska. The company later moved its operation to Houston Texas when InterNorth and Houston Natural Gas merged
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had each of the ingredients of a fraud triangle and used Meyers as a pawn to take advantage of his situation. The negative profits WorldCom was experiencing pressured Sullivan into reporting false numbers to WorldCom’s investors; he had the opportunity to tamper with the numbers without directly touching them; he rationalized his actions because he thought that WorldCom would produce profits in the future and undo the false entries. When presented with the issue of WorldCom’s falling profits, Sullivan
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Ethics Assignment: Worldcom case Introduction: On 21 July 2002, WorldCom, Inc., the then-second largest telecommunications company in the U.S. filed bankruptcy protection. Its failure was due to its executives’ bad business behaviors to manipulate earnings with improper accounting entries. The key persons involved in the fraud were as follows; CEO Bernard Ebbers, CFO Scott Sullivan, the accountants were Bufford Yates (Director of General Accounting), David Meyers (Controller), Troy Norman (Director
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世通公司财务舞弊案 世界通信公司成立于1983年，在不到20年的时间内，成为美国的第二大长途电信营运商（仅次于1877年成立的美国电报电话公司（AT&T），如果不是司法部在2001年否决了世界通信与斯普瑞特（Srint）公司的合并方案，他很可能成为美国电信业的龙头老大）。世界通信的成功应归功于其创始人本纳德·埃伯斯（Bernard J. Ebbers）在收购兼并方面的禀赋以及首席财务官司考特D·苏利文（Scott D. Sullivan）。从1983年成立至2001年，世界通信共完成了65项重大收购兼并。 2002年7月21申请破产保护前，世界通信是一个业务范围覆盖65个国家，拥有85000名员工、1000多亿美元资产、350多亿美元营业收入，为2000多万个人客户和数万家公司客户提供语音话务、数据传输和因特网服务的超大型跨国公司。 首先发现世界通信财务舞弊的是内部审计部的副总经理辛西亚·库伯（Cynthia Cooper），2002年末被评为《时代》杂志一年一度的新闻人物（此外，还有安然公司的雪伦·沃特金斯（Sherron Watkins）和联邦调查局的柯琳·罗莉（Coleen
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| Bernie Ebbers - WorldCom | Ethical Profile | Khristin B. Vargas | uNIVERSITY OF lA vERNE 1/22/2015 | | | Table of Contents Introduction 3 Timeline leading to Ebbers conviction: 3 Current Events 4 Perceived Motivations 5 Impacts 6 Conclusion 6 Bibliography 7 Introduction “The recent corporate accounting scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and other corporations have helped to fuel a massive loss of confidence in the integrity of American business, Bernie Ebbers
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CASE PAPER: Enron, WorldCom, Tyco Enron, 2001 Enron, a Houston-based energy trading company, was the seventh largest company in the U.S before it filed for bankruptcy in 2001. It employed over 25,000 people, and paid its tops executives a sum of $1.4 billion in 2000. According to Fortune magazine, it was one of the “most admired companies” in the U.S. at the time. The reason Enron was so successful was that it kept hundreds of millions worth of debt off its books through the use of some unethical
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........................ 1 2. Summary of facts of the scandals at Enron ................................................................................. 1 3. Summary of facts of the scandals at WorldCom ........................................................................ 2 4. Enron and WorldCom executives prosecution ........................................................................... 5 5. Effects of the scandal, legislative perspective ...........................................
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1. Introduction WorldCom, the telecommunications giant, once was the largest telecommunications company in the world, with more than $30 billion annual revenue, $104 billion in assets and more than 20 million customers. John Sidgmore (2002), Ebbers’ successor after the scandal, said “WorldCom is a key component of our nation’s economy and communications infrastructure.” However, the giant collapsed in 2002. 2. The Main Issue: Earnings Management 3.1 Definition of Earnings Management
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ACC 260 Week 2 The Enron and WorldCom Scandals Material A+Grade Get Tutorial by Clicking on the link below or Copy Paste Link in Your Browser https://hwguiders.com/downloads/acc-260-week-2-the-enron-and-worldcom-scandals/ For More Courses and Exams use this form ( http://hwguiders.com/contact-us/ ) Feel Free to Search your Class through Our Product Categories or From Our Search Bar (http://hwguiders.com/ ) Assignment: The Enron and WorldCom Scandals • Resource: Business & Professional
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