Enron scandal

$11-billion-dollar fraud, making it one of the largest in all time. Spearheading the scandal were six employees, Bernard Ebbers the CEO, Scott Sullivan the CFO, David Myers the accounting controller, Buddy Yates the Accounting Director, and Betty Vinson and Troy Norman the accountants. The scandal went to federal trial, and after six days of jury deliberation, all six of the employees that were part of the scandal were found guilty. Bernard Ebbers was found guilty of Securities fraud,…

In the case of United States vs. Walter Liew, Liew is being charged with over 20 criminal counts, with one of them being misappropriation of trade secrets (Levine). Liew had gotten paid millions of dollars by a Chinese company to apprehend trade secrets of the American company Dupont in order to solidify the company in China. Liew, 56, living in California, received 28 million in order to bribe engineers and other employees for confidential paperwork that the Chinese company wanted. What was the…

The Sarbanes and Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was put into place because of outrageous fraud acts that were conducted by U.S. corporations that led to the layoffs of thousands of Americans. Companies were self-auditing therefore creating conflicts that might inflate accounting statements. The executives of the companies were not savvy enough to understand the complex forms to do addition checks on initial reporting. I this report the major topics that will be discussed are Mistakes made by the…

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…

Situation Analysis The case begins with Dave Hersh, CEO of Jive Software, addressing a meeting of all employees and he was looking at shell-shocked faces of Jive Software employees after a massive layoff of 20 percent of workforce. After a year of record sales in year 2007, Jive has increased its sales force strength too quickly to match the sales growth and sale force started to miss the sale quota from the 2nd quarter of 2007 and his plane of sale in the in 2008 was even higher than 2007. The…

The fraud that Bernard Madoff committed was discovered in December 2009, which was based upon a Ponzi scheme. He did so by taking money from new investors to pay earnings to old customers. The higher the number of his clients who wanted to withdraw of retire their investment, the more revenue he would need. Ponzi scheme is named after Charles Ponzi whose crime was discovered in July of 1920 by the Boston Post. Madoff started in the investment business legally by buying and selling stocks that…

INTRODUCTION Bernard Madoff was a former chairman of NASDAQ stock exchange. He started his investment advisory firm on his own. He has be guilty for the defrauding of the investors of amount $50 billion which he was running the biggest Ponzi scheme for around two decades. In 2008 December when there were economic disturbances and meltdown in the United States Madoff couldn't carry his functions and satisfy his Investors requests of cash. He decided to come clean and accept the fraud he has…

From the case, we know that the Imclone company was almost destroyed due to the conspiracy of Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic. The fact is that, in 2001, 28th 0f December, SEC rejected the approval of a kind of medicine. However, before this big day, CEO and her stockbroker sold their stock, making the share price plunged. Thus, Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic were convicted of conspiracy, making false statement and interfere with a public function. At the same time, Lawrence Stewart, an…

After HealthSouth publicly became a traded company, their earnings were being escalated falsely. Management was under a huge amount of stress because they did not meet the standards of their business financially. When the company reported their earnings, they overstated them purposely. It fell under, “Income Before Income Taxes.” (Zmuda). Falling under the motivation of the fraud triangle, their sole motive was to meet their financial needs. Since they did not, between the years of 1999 and 2002…

As one of the largest 500 companies in the US, Enron had reported sales reached $101 billion in 2000, and also in year 2012, the share price of Enron climbed the peak to $90 dollars. Nevertheless, in such short time with some simple tips and complex tips, Enron plunged into a major scandal in the history, and very quickly, in December 11-2001, Enron 's stock price dropped to $1, a day before bankruptcy in February 12-2001. Enron filed for bankruptcy protection. With assets of $63.4 billion, this…