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    Enron Case The internal controls that were ignored when LJM1 was created were one‚ LJM’s books were kept separate from Enron’s. LJM1 ignored some of Enron’s entries in the books that were missing. Outsiders owned less than 3% of the Special Purpose Entities equities. There was an error made by Arthur Andersen to let LJM’s financial statement to remain unconsolidated. If the financial statements had been consolidated‚ some of the errors could have been found. They may have even had some time to correct

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    the Causes and Effects of the Enron Accounting Scandals Name: Do Minh Tam Class: MEP 100 Lecture: Karen Bird Date: December 24‚ 2010 Introduction Background From the 1980s until now‚ there have been a lot of accounting scandals which were widely announced on by media. The result of this situation is many companies were bankruptcy protection requests‚ and closing. One of the most widely reported emulation of accounting scandals is Enron Company. Enron Corporation is one of the largest

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    Introduction 2 2. History 3 a. Formation 3 b. Operations 3 c. The Success 4 d. All that glitters is not gold 4 e. The Fraud 4 3. Products 5 4. Enron Scandal – The Company Fraud 8 f. What Happed? 8 5. Techniques used in the Company Fraud 9 g. Revenue Recognition 9 h. Mark-to-market accounting 9 i. Special Purpose Entities 10 j. Executive

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    Enron Case ACC 304 1. What led to the collapse of Enron under Lay and Skilling? There were various reasons as to why Enron collapsed under Lay and Skilling. One reason Enron collapsed under Lay is because Lay simply did not practice what he preached. Lay did not live by his code of ethics and neither did his corporation. Not only that‚ but Lay and top management gave Andrew Fastow an exemption to the code of ethics to continue doing business. Another reason that Enron collapsed‚ under Skilling

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    CASE 1.1 Enron Corporation “Think Straight‚ Talk Straight. “ This was the motto of Arthur Edward Andersen. He was the founder of the Arthur & Company‚ which was established to provide accounting‚ auditing and related services. Throughout his professional‚ Arthur E. Andersen career‚ relied on a simple‚ four-word motto to serve as a guiding principle in making important personal and professional decisions: “Think straight‚ Talk straight.” Andersen would prefer fewer clients‚ than having more

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    Is it greed or simply ignorance which caused the Enron Scandal? Enron once was known as "America’s Most Innovative Company" and as of today‚ known as one of the most popular business bankruptcies and failures. Enron appeared to be doing really well‚ producing a lot of cash and new businesses‚ in October of 2001 that all changed. Enron reported a $618 million third-quarter loss and declares a $1.01 billion non-recurring charge against its balance sheet. Partially related to "structured finance" operations

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    The Enron scandal A brief on Enron’s history  Enron was formed in 1985 by Kenneth Lay after merging Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth.  In the early 1990s‚ he helped to initiate the selling of electricity at market prices‚ The resulting markets made it possible for traders such as Enron to sell energy at higher prices‚ thereby significantly increasing its revenue.  As Enron became the largest seller of natural gas in North America by 1992‚ Enron pursued a diversification strategy

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    Based in Houston‚ Texas an American energy‚ commodities‚ and services company named ENRON CORPORATION was Ranked number 7 on the fortune 500 list in 2000‚ it was one of the most famous and largest integrated natural gas and electricity companies in the world. The company went bankruptcy on December 2‚ 2001. But before that it marketed natural gas liquids around the world and was working as one of the biggest natural gas transmission systems in the world‚ with transmissions over a massive area of

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    Enron and Parmalat

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    Managua‚ Nicaragua Sept 28th‚ 2013 ENRON Background In 1985 Kenneth Lay merged his company‚ Houston Natural Gas‚ with Nebraska’s InterNorth to create the Enron; a company to be the biggest natural gass corporation to exist in the U.S. During the 1980’s‚ under the presidency of Ronald Raegan‚ there was a considerable lack of regulations regarding the energy markets‚ thus allowing the company to buy and sell contracts for a delivery at some time in the future. By 1990 Jeffery Skilling joined as

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    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Importance of Accounting Accounting is important because it manages the checkbooks of company which are important to analyses and determine the success of the business by looking through the different account statements and translating the company documents. An accountant or accounting firm starts and maintains auditing of a company. Accounting is also important because it offers a great assistance in planning the future investments as well as being able

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