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    How Enron Was A Company

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    Enron was a company that was known by many people and corporation not only in the United States but also around the world. It grew to be one of the largest companies, so as imaged a lot of people were affected by the fall of the company. Over 210000 employees lost there jobs without even knowing what was coming to them and what was going on behind the doors by the people who were running the company. Apart from losing their job, their form of income for their families, they also lost any money that

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    Enron Of Enron And Enron

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    scandalous bosses of Enron, Chairman Kenneth Lay, CEO Jeff Skilling and CFO Andrew Fastow. The narrator describes the company as a cooperation that is greedy and fraudulent and later turns bankrupt. We are showed that top executives of Enron held their own personal accounts and transferred a millions of dollars all the time. Their traders were doing scandalous things by fixing the market so the people would invest in the company. Instead of fixing this, Ken Lay is shown in the documentary sending

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    democratic capitalism to remain in balance and provision the greatest output, a culture of moral, ethical, and spiritual values are paramount. Sans these basic values, capitalism will fail. Exemplifying such failure is the 2006 verdict of Enron founder Kenneth Lay and Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling. Convicted of conspiracy and security and wire fraud, these two men were sentenced to 165 and 185 years in prison respectively. This scandal not only tore their families apart, but affected the lives of 5,600

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    Enron, a company which originated in Huston, Texas, was one of the largest American energy trading corporations in the nation. Although it was one of the most well known companies, it was also one that crashed and burned the fastest, shocking many people when it did. Not only did it end fast, the company caused quite a scandal which is still being discussed and reviewed in today’s world. Enron’s bankruptcy scandal was so widely known because of the many people who associated themselves with the company

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    Kenneth lay, the founder of Enron, did not start his life as a deceiving criminal. He was born in Missouri in 1942. He went to school at the university of Missouri where he got a master’s degree in economics. After serving briefly in the us navy he got into the Gas business starting a career working for Exxon predecessor Humble Oil & Refining. He quickly moved up the ladder and found himself as president and CEO of Houston Natural Gas Co in 1981. Four years later his company merged with InterNorth

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    The Enron Dilemma and Catholic Social Teaching The business world is an interesting environment that is often described as heartless and cutthroat. However, while it is described that way, ethics do still apply to the business world. Companies and corporations are expected to adhere to the ethical code that has become engrained in business world. Unfortunately, however, despite the existence of that expectation, some companies and corporations do not always act in an ethical manner. Enron is an example

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    collapse and the company suffered rapidly. Both Lay and Skilling were headquartered in and also head in the entire fraud, scam and scandal of the Enron Corporation was best known for. Even though records show executives of the company made hundreds of millions of dollars and was going in the right track the successful corporation collapsed, and cost investors as much as seventy billion dollars its shares trading for about $90 each. Furthermore, Lay was convincing his employees to hold on to their

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    corporate whistleblower based on the letter she sent in August 2001 to Kenneth Lay, Chairman of the Board of the Enron Corporation. In her letter she identified Enron's unethical and illegal financial management practices, but her letter was never made public until the company's stock was all but worthless. Subjects: Sherron Watkins, Vice President and CPA of Enron; Andrew Fastow, CFO of Enron; Jeff Skilling, Former CEO; Ken Lay, CEO of Enron Objects: Company, Fraudulent, Whistle Blowing, Declaration

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    In 1939, American sociologist Edwin Sutherland introduced the phrase “white-collar crime”. White-collar crime is a nonviolent crime committed by a business or large corporations. They are usually scams or frauds to gain wealth in society. The people who are guilty of this crime lie, cheat and steal from investors of their company or business. Even though these crimes are non-violent, they have major impacts on the society. Their companies become non existent and families get destroyed. All

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    its glory days Enron beamed billion dollar profits each quarter, however this success was all a part of an elaborate scheme. Behind the veil of smoke and mirrors was a series of deceptive and unethical accounting practices. For Jeff Skilling and Kenneth Lay it was always about outward perception and to them this revolved around the stock price. If the stock price kept rising, as far as they were concerned Enron was doing just fine. The case of Enron is the

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