The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal involving Enron Corporation, an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. When news of widespread fraud...
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fraud, known since as the Enron scandal. Enron has become synonymous with willful corporate fraud and corruption. The scandal also brought into question...
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collapse of the Enron Corporation, which resulted in criminal trials for several of the company's top executives during the ensuing Enron scandal, and contains...
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Arthur Andersen (category Enron)
for energy company Enron and telecommunications company WorldCom were revealed amid the two high-profile bankruptcies. The scandals were a factor in the...
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Enron (stylised as ENRON) is a 2009 play by the British playwright Lucy Prebble, based on the Enron scandal. Enron premiered at the Chichester Festival...
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Donkey punch (section Enron scandal)
several slang terms used by Enron traders to refer to their price gouging methods. During investigations into the 2004 Enron scandal over manipulation of the...
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You have two cows (section Enron scandal)
economics of the Enron scandal have been a target of the "two cows" joke, often describing the accounting fraud that took place in Enron's finances. Much...
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Kenneth Lay (category Enron scandal)
founder, chief executive officer and chairman of Enron. He was heavily involved in Enron's accounting scandal that unraveled in 2001 into the largest bankruptcy...
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Lou Pai (category Enron scandal)
million due to him from Enron's insurance policy for company officers to a fund for Enron shareholders. Accounts of the Enron scandal have frequently portrayed...
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W. Markham (2006), A financial history of modern U.S. corporate scandals: from Enron to reform, M.E. Sharpe, ISBN 978-0765615831 Cohen, Jeffrey R.; Ding...
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Jeffrey Skilling (category Enron scandal)
convicted of federal felony charges relating to the Enron scandal. Skilling, who was CEO of Enron during the company's collapse, was eventually sentenced...
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Tone at the top (section The Enron scandal)
popularized following a series of major corporate accounting scandals such as those affecting Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems and WorldCom...
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J. Clifford Baxter (category Enron people)
Prior to his death he had agreed to testify before Congress in the Enron scandal. Baxter was born in Amityville, New York, and graduated from New York...
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Sherron Watkins (category Enron people)
of Corporate Development at the Enron Corporation. Watkins discovered and reported the 2001 Enron scandal to Enron's then-CEO Kenneth Lay. Watkins was...
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Satyam's board. Analysts in India have termed the Satyam scandal India's own Enron scandal. Some social commentators see it more as a part of a broader...
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in the wake of Andersen's indictment for its role in the accounting scandal at Enron.: 229 By this time, the internal audit team had found 28 prepaid capacity...
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even though its use is considered to be one of the reasons for the Enron scandal and the eventual bankruptcy of the company, as well as the closure of...
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into multiple entities. The Enron scandal was defined as being one of the biggest audit failures of all time. The scandal included utilizing loopholes...
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McKinsey & Company (section Enron)
different projects, and McKinsey consultants had "used Enron as their sandbox." Prior to the Enron scandal, McKinsey helped it shift from an oil and gas production...
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Trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling (redirect from Enron Trial)
Sim Lake in the Southern District of Texas in 2006 in response to the Enron scandal. The trial began on January 30, 2006. Opening arguments The defense...
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Andrew Fastow (category Enron scandal)
convicted felon and former financier who was the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation, an energy trading company based in Houston, Texas, until he...
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Accounting (section Scandals)
PricewaterhouseCoopers. The demise of Arthur Andersen following the Enron scandal reduced the Big Five to the Big Four. Generally accepted accounting...
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MCI Inc. (category Accounting scandals)
of justice in the Enron scandal, a verdict that effectively put Andersen out of business. In his post-mortem of the Enron scandal, Conspiracy of Fools...
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John J. Ray III (category Enron scandal)
chairman of Enron Creditors Recovery Corp., a company tasked with recovering creditor funds from Enron in the wake of its accounting scandal and subsequent...
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Sidney Powell (section Defense of Enron)
counsel, defending Merrill Lynch executives in proceedings related to the Enron scandal. Later in her career, Powell began promoting conspiracy theories. Powell...
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Rebecca Mark-Jusbasche (category Enron people)
Enron International, a subsidiary of Enron. She was also CEO of Azurix Corp., a publicly traded water services company originally developed by Enron International...
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Minute Maid Park (redirect from Enron Field)
ballpark was named "Enron Field" after a $100 million, 30-year naming rights deal was made with Enron on April 7, 1999. After the Enron scandal of 2001, the...
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Northern Trust (category Enron scandal)
Northern Trust and Enron reached a $365 million settlement with 20,000 employees of Enron after the energy company's collapse (see Enron scandal). Northern Trust...
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Conspiracy of Fools (category Books about the Enron scandal)
Kurt Eichenwald detailing the Enron scandal. Conspiracy of Fools tells the story of the 2001 collapse of Enron. Enron's Chief Financial Officer (CFO)...
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Lynn Brewer (category Enron scandal)
Morgan before her marriage, is the author of the book Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story. She is also the founder of the Integrity...
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