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Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 21 (2002) 105–127 www.elsevier.com/locate/jaccpubpol Enron: what happened and what we can learn from it George J. Benston *, Al L. Hartgraves Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 1300 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322-2710, USA Abstract Enron’s accounting for its non-consolidated special-purpose entities (SPEs), sales of its own stock and other assets to the SPEs, and mark-ups of investments to fair value substantially inflated its reported revenue

Introduction Enron lead the American energy, commodities, Enron Services was based in Houston, TX. During the turn of the 21st century Enron had an employee base of 20,000 people on payroll. Enron made profits by selling electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper. Enron’s revenues totaled over $101 billion in 2000. Due to Enron’s earning Fortune named Enron as the America Most Innovative Company. Enron was one of the biggest publicly traded companies and highly trusted

1. Title: Climate for Scandal: Corporate Environments that Contribute to Accounting Fraud (Crutchley & Marshall, 2007) studied Climate scandal that corporate environment contribute to the accounting frauds are not .therefore they have select the 97 firms that are under investigation in security and exchange commission for accounting fraud. They consider the corporate environment including board member, auditors, auditor committee etc. however it is observed that if there are more internal auditor

Have you ever finished a book and said to yourself “Wow, I am going to reread this book again?” Unfortunately, The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson is not a book where you will likely reread it, instead you will be saying “Is it finally over?” Ferguson explains how money came to be in our society by starting off with the first use of currency to the end where money has become something we cannot even touch. As a person who is not interested in the history of money, but interested in my net worth

Introduction The Enron case is well known for being the largest corporate bankruptcy in American history. Thousands of people world-wide lost billions of dollars, lost life savings, and lost their jobs. Due to the vast corruption, greed and the blatant disregard for integrity from the very top of Enron leadership, world markets crumbled and investor confidence in corporate America was severely damaged (Chandra, 2003.) We will look at the accounting fraud committed by Enron executives and interested

The Watergate scandal was an event with many strong incidents in pre-scandal, present scandal, and post-scandal. How could this scandal affect American politics? One event that is currently happening right now because it’s a result of the scandal and is affecting American politics is the loss of trust in the government by the public. With conspiracy theories directed towards criminals and Nixon running out of office, trust in the system was at an all-time low. Another effect of Watergate is when

Jordan Belfort: The Wolf of Wall Street History of the case Definition of Crime Laws Violated Penalties Imposed Upon Guilty In 1998 Jordan Belfort was indicted with 27 counts of International Securities Fraud and Money laundering. After cooperating with the FBI, in 2003 Belfort was sentenced to four years in prison and fined and ordered to back approximately $110 million that he had defrauded from investors. He served 22 months in federal prison and was ordered to pay investors 50% of his

AFM 201 – Part 1 Auditing Fall 2007 Group Assignment 2 Publicized Cases of Alleged Audit Failures Involving Large Public Companies 1) Ten Publicized Audit Failures i. Parmalat (2003) - Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu /Grant Thornton Misleading investors with “Brazen Fraud” was what the United States (US) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had sued Parmalat for in 2003. It all began when Parmalat defaulted on a bond payment worth $185 million. This raised a flag for auditors and banks

Phar-Mor was known as one of the major discount chain retailers in the late 1980’s - early 1990’s. It was founded by Mickey Monus, a gambler in nature, who with the help of senior management was “cooking the books” for years to cover up his loses. The reason why senior management agreed to do this fraud is the belief in unique ability of their leader to fix everything later on. This case is known as one of the biggest accounting frauds in the corporate history of the U.S. This paper will analyze

Why do you think Conan Doyle’s crime stories have been so popular? I’m going to closely examine some of Conan Doyle’s stories in order to show why they have proved to be so popular. Conan Doyle has been branded the “father of crime fiction” because he was an outstanding author among the first crime stories writers. First of all I would like to focus our attention on the first story which were published in “The Strand magazine” in the 1800s At some point during this period Conan Doyle decided