Hans Christian Andersen

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…

Enron Corporation is one of the American companies; it was formally called the New York Stock Exchange. It was an American energy, services and Commodity Company. In 2001, before its bankruptcy, it had employed more than 20,000 employees. At that point it was the major electricity, communication, natural gas, pulp and Paper Company in the world. It was clamming revenue of $111 billion especially in 2000. After some time Enron scandal was heard. This scandal was that, their financial condition…

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…

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…

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…

Phar-Mor Inc. was a discount drugstore chain that was founded in 1982 by Michael J. “Mickey” Monus. Within ten years of their first store opening, Phar-Mor had 310 stores, and over 20,000 employees in 34 states. Mickey Monus also owned Tamco warehouse, which was the distributer for Phar-Mor. Mickey Monus also owned 60% of each of the ten teams in the World Basketball Leage (WBL). While everything seemed to be growing, and succeeding rapidly, in reality the company was losing money. Between…