Generational accounting

Life was different growing up in South Africa, with divorced parents (from the age of 5) and my mother being the sole provider in a low-income family. Until the age of eighteen, my objective was to finish high school and to start working, because at the age of sixteen I was almost self-sufficient. The public school, which I had access to, in the late 1990’s did not offer any activities or organization involvement. My first contact with student life was when I became a student at Lone Star…

The client, Barae Pharmaceuticals had won a $2 million judgement against Bara Pharmaceuticals for the misuse of Barae’s name. Bara Pharmaceuticals had used Barae’s name inappropriately in the generic-label over-the-counter market. Bara, the defendant in the case, had closed down and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy when the judgement was entered. With the judgement entered and debt being incurred, the CEO and CFO of Bara had left the country and returned to South America. Additionally, the 125…

Introduction The nineties were a strange, almost fantastical time; new technology was being created, Presidents were playing the sax on television, and Bernard, informally known as Bernie, Madoff was serving as the NASDAQ chairman. Bernie climbed the economic ladder, eventually being in control of millions of investments in 2008 until it was found out that he had been the head of the largest Ponzi scheme in America. Madoff’s case is not only important to the how expansive it was, but how…

and combat corporate and accounting fraud” (sec.gov/about/laws.shtml). “This Act requires that Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in every annual report that they have reviewed the report and that it does not contain untrue statements or omissions of material facts, and are personally responsible for any misstatements”. HealthSouth…

BenQ, a Taiwanese-based company, grabbed the headlines all over the world on June 7, 2005 when it acquired Siemens Mobile, a lose making mobile phone division of Germany’s Siemens and later launched the brand, BenQ-Siemens. Subsequently the acquisition proved to be a strategic mistake, as the two companies could not successfully integrate. In October 2006 BenQ-Siemens filed for bankruptcy in a Munich court, surprising every one. This sparked a debate in Germany over whether BenQ had acquired…

All types of kids will die someday no matter how hard you try to make their lives better economically; similar to the tale “Kids Who Die” by Langston Hughes. Hughes was a literary icon well known for writing about the African Americans’ experience with racism and discrimination during the 1950-1960’s. He was the leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance promoting upcoming young poets. On the other hand, he was the first black poet to support himself through his writing, according to the Poetry…

Scrushy, the Chief Executive Officer of HealthSouth, sold $100 million in stock few days before the corporation published a huge loss. HealthSouth was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) because accounting fraud of the corporation allegedly overstating profits by $1.4 billion. (Aguilera, 2015) In 1996, Scrushy had directed the firm’s accountants and executives which misstated company revenue for the purpose of satisfied shareholders’ expectations…

it was revealed that it’s reported financial condition was sustained substantially by institutionalized, systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud, known as the "Enron scandal". Enron has since become a popular symbol of wilful corporate fraud and corruption. The Enron scandal was a financial scandal involving Enron Corporation and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen that…

The job I had accepted assumed directorship of a 50-man comprehensive information technology department with a history of perennially poor management, incoherent staff development, technologies, internal policies and procedures. However, no sooner than concluding the first day on the job, the chief operating officer had apparently gone snooping around my office only to discover an inadvertent disregard for one of their key rules - all desks must be clean before leaving. Had I been informed?…

Franklin Clinton Franklin Clinton is one of the three main characters from a video game called, “Grand Theft Auto V”. His height is 6’0”. Franklin is 27 years old. His first job was towing cars. He is sometimes nice, sometimes gets mad, strong, a really good driver, and used to be a gang banger. Even though he’s a criminal and a gang banger, he just do it to protect himself and for money. He live in a poor neighborhood but as soon as he met a guy name Michael, who is also a criminal but more…