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Enron
In his book A Conspiracy of Fools, Kurt Eichenwald details the Enron implosion, how it came about and how the main players were. For several years there had been suspicions about Enron's behavior -- most notably the company's inability to produce financial statements. The term scandal is broadly used to describe what happened to Enron, but as Eichenwald notes Enron was more a broad conspiracy to commit fraud. The company was allowed to get away with it for so long because it had become a Wall Street and political darling, an example of the effectiveness and power of market capitalism.
Enron was a company that engaged, theoretically, in energy trading. The company's business model has been described as "only vaguely understood even by its own competitors" and this is part of what had led to the belated nature of its downfall. Enron was always a house of cards, but as Eichenwald points out its political clout and unorthodox business model...
He points out that criminal activity flourished in an environment where ethics were fluid, where arrogance and incompetence dovetailed and where dozens of individuals worked the system seemingly oblivious to the fact that they were doing something wrong. As a result, the collapse of Enron became emblematic of the disappearance of ethics from the financial markets.
As a result, Enron became a key lesson on the value of ethics in accounting. Accountants often face pressures from senior management for good results, a situation that arises from the desire to meet aggressive predictions for quarterly results. The accounting department worked with management to facilitate these results,…
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE RISE AND FALL OF ENRON Kenneth Lay being one of the pioneers of Enron from its establishment in 1986, had lead the way of Enron's emergence as one of the leading company in the U.S. And eventually to its collapse and declaration of bankruptcy on December 2001. Kenneth Lay held the position as the CEO and chairman of Enron from 1986 to January 23, 2002. Lay is
Disregarding its Ethical Code. Enron had its own set of Ethical Code, but it became redundant because the top managers at the company hardly paid any heed to it. The corporate culture at the company was focused on making "deals" and increasing Enron's share value, while the "outdated, theoretical concept of ethics and morality" was kept on the back-burner. Enron's 'ethics' was personified by Kenneth Lay's exercising of his stock options
From all facts and appearances, those Enron executives gave lip service to ethics, then went on their own way, making as much profit as they could while the company teetered on collapse. One final example from Enron's "Code of Ethics" is titled "Twenty-Twenty Hindsight" which carries its own irony without delving into its points. Lay writes on page 10 that if any employees' security activities or transactions "become the subject
Enron Leadership Enron collapsed very quickly in November 2001, and its failure should have been a warning to serious dysfunctions in the entire corporate and financial system, but this did not happen. Its executives admitted that they had falsified its records going back for at least five years, although in reality they had been doing so since the 1980s. When the company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy it laid off over 20,000
Enron (Movie) analysis The Smartest Guys in the Room-Enron The film is pitched around the America's seventh largest corporation that was in charge of distributing electricity and natural gas. The company was worth over 70 billion dollars in assets built over years with over 22,000 employees, it became bankrupt within 24 days. The employees lost their jobs and medical insurance, 1.2 billion in retirement benefits while the retirees lost 2 billion dollars
If I was a legislator, I will be doing this act and I will not be swayed or affected by friends and lobbyists alike. Response to Ji Woo Chai: Indeed, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was able to put in place controls and measures to prevent the reoccurrence of the Enron scandal. However, there has to be more done because of what occurred before and during the financial crisis. Thus, there may