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During the time period of 1990 to 2000 financial statement fraud was pretty common. Various firms were engaged in financial fraud without thinking that the investors, and other stakeholders rely on those financial statements and the opinion of the auditor on those financial statements. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was created because of the multiple accounting scandals of WorldCom & Enron in July 30, 2002. Because of that the investors lose billions of dollars, this negatively impacted financial stock…

Enron began as a small company that went global due to their energy trades. Enron didn’t start off bad at first and didn’t think they would become the biggest scandal of the money market nation. Enron was a growing company, over time it began to fall. It was a risky business due to poor money handling and decision making. Enron executives got greedy, the more the company was falling, they found anyway to line their pockets versus help the company. They used temporary accounting practice…

White-collar crime, according to Merriam-Webster, refers to, “a crime that typically involves stealing money from a company and that is done by the people who have important positions in the company”. In modern society, white-collar crime may not be as obvious as violent crime, but its consequences leave major impacts on the world, particularly financially. Beginning in 2002, Wells Fargo began transforming into one of the largest criminal enterprises in history. Over the past 15 years, this…

In current business world, the magnitude of the corporate scandal is huge. In the past 15 years, many directors have breached their fiduciary and legal duty that caused many people loses their money. For instance, the amount of money that lost by the shareholders and stakeholders in Enron Scandal, Lehman Brother Scandal, WorldCom Scandal, Tyco Scandal, Satyam Scandal, and Bernie Madoff Scandal are more than $200 billion. The company can sue the company's director if they breach fiduciary and…

For my person to be researching, I am covering Bernard Ebbers. Ebbers committed fraud, and he tried to merge his company with Sprint. This action was brought to the attention of the Department of Justice. Who immediately dashed this possibility. Ebbers company had an investigation with the SEC. Which led to the bankruptcy and to his eviction. Bernard owed $400 million in margin calls. And he convinced the board to lend him that money, so that he wouldn’t have to give up important blocks of the…

Unfair treatment of minority shareholders in family companies and other closely related held corporations by persons in control of those corporations is so widespread that it had become a national business scandal. The amount of litigation growing out of oppression of minority shareholder (fancied, actual or fabricated) has shown growth tremendously in recent few years, and the flood of litigation shows no sign of putting an end to this nuisance. Minority shareholders often are deprived of any…

Buffalo Creek Disaster Rough Draft The buffalo creek disaster is one of the worst coal mining incidents in the history of the united states. The Book Buffalo Creek disaster written by Gerald Stern is an expose on the wrongdoings of the NewYork based Pittston company but also a summation of the events leading to the 13.5-million-dollar settlement awarded to the victims. The book also serves the purpose of a basic depiction of how the court systems in America work. Gerald Stern served as a…

Company Background HealthSouth Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is the United States’ largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals. It is founded by Richard M. Scrushy and incorporated in Delaware on February 22, 1984 as Amcare, Inc. (Saux, 2014) HealthSouth Corporation hired more than 60,000 employees at 2,000 facilities which operating in 33 states across the U.S. along with its facilities in Puerto Rico, Canada, UK and Saudi Arabia. (Saux, 2014) It provides a…

In elementary school, I struggled with the comprehension of the material in my classes. Although, this was a simpler time period in my school career I never excelled in any specific subject until middle school. I have always suffered through Writing and English courses, but began to transcend in math at age eleven. It was at this age where I began to rationally think about my career options in this field. At the time, and even today still, I was intrigued by fashion. Anything from the runways to…

The financial indecency performed by Bernard Madoff changed the financial world forever. He is not only former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, but the man to operate the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Upon further research relating the awful nature of a Ponzi scheme, many people after the ordeal were hurt and affected closest to him, especially his own children and the individuals following him around the world. This is truly the most deceitful monster like act ever done and…