Financial Oversight of Enron
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Credit ratings
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Credit ratings
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Author : Richard Gid Powers
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2002-10
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ISBN : 9780756728038
Enron Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 2, 2001, making it the largest co. to declare bankruptcy in U.S. history. Enron's collapse deprived thousands of employees of their jobs, severely diminished their retirement savings, and led to the loss of billions of shareholder dollars. The company's failure and the months of revelations that followed triggered a crisis in investor confidence. The Committee initiated a wide-ranging review of the actions of the various governmental and private watchdogs that were supposed to monitor Enron's activities and help protect the public against these sorts of calamities. This report discusses the SEC and other watchdogs; and Wall Street securities analysts and credit rating agencies, and how they assessed Enron and its ratings.
Author : Theodore F. Sterling
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781590334607
Preface; Enron: A Select Chronology of Congressional, Corporate, and Government Activities; Enron and Stock Analyst Objectivity; Soft Money, Allegations of Political Corruption, and Enron; Enron: Selected Securities, Accounting, and Pension Laws Possibly Implicated in Its Collapse; The Enron Collapse: An Overview of Financial Issues; Auditing and Its Regulators: Proposals for Reform after Enron; Enron's Banking Relationships and Congressional Repeal of Statutes Separating Bank Lending from Investment Banking; Enron Bankruptcy: Issues for Financial Oversight; The Enron Bankruptcy and Employer Stock in Retirement Plans; Enron and Taxes; Title vs Enron Corp. and Fiduciary Duties Under ERISA; Possible Criminal Provisions Which May Be Implicated in the Events Surrounding the Collapse of the Enron Corporation; Index.
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 1713
Category : Voting registers
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business failures
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2003*
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Energy industries
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business failures
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Author : George Benston
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815708919
A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publication A few years ago, Americans held out their systems of corporate governance and financial disclosure as models to be emulated by the rest of the world. But in late 2001 U.S. policymakers and corporate leaders found themselves facing the largest corporate accounting scandals in American history. The spectacular collapses of Enron and Worldcom—as well as the discovery of accounting irregularities at other large U.S. companies—seemed to call into question the efficacy of the entire system of corporate governance in the United States. In response, Congress quickly enacted a comprehensive package of reform measures in what has come to be known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ followed by making fundamental changes to their listing requirements. The private sector acted as well. Accounting firms—watching in horror as one of their largest, Arthur Andersen, collapsed after a criminal conviction for document shredding—tightened their auditing procedures. Stock analysts and ratings agencies, hit hard by a series of disclosures about their failings, changed their practices as well. Will these reforms be enough? Are some counterproductive? Are other shortcomings in the disclosure system still in need of correction? These are among the questions that George Benston, Michael Bromwich, Robert E. Litan, and Alfred Wagenhofer address in Following the Money. While the authors agree that the U.S. system of corporate disclosure and governance is in need of change, they are concerned that policymakers may be overreacting in some areas and taking actions in others that may prove to be ineffective or even counterproductive. Using the Enron case as a point of departure, the authors argue that the major problem lies not in the accounting and auditing standards themselves, but in the system of enforcing those standards.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business failures
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