Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An Enron manual of ethics from July 2000, about a year before the company collapsed. Enron's complex financial statements were confusing to shareholders and analysts. [1]: 6 [10] When speculative business ventures proved disastrous, it used unethical practices to use accounting limitations to misrepresent earnings and modify the balance sheet to indicate favorable performance.
Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States, 544 U.S. 696 (2005), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously overturned accounting firm Arthur Andersen's conviction of obstruction of justice in the fraudulent activities and subsequent collapse of Enron.
David Delainey [4] – ex-CEO of Enron's trading unit, Enron North America Skilling coached for big meeting with analysts on January 25, 2001; Raptor accounts; Enron Energy Services (EES), February 2001, chaotic, disarray, gushing red ink; lost receivables moved from EES to Enron North America trading division; folding EES losses into Enron ...
Enron was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. In 2001, Enron collapsed in a market-shaking bankruptcy amid revelations that the company had grossly ...
An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001.
Andrew Fastow's interest in LJM2 was purchased in 2001 and many of LJM1's and LJM2's "hedges" and the debt they caused would later be handled in part by another Enron vehicle, the Raptor SPEs. LJM, along with Chewco , played a major role in the downfall of Enron (see Timeline of the Enron scandal ) and was the primary vehicle by which Fastow ...
Conspiracy of Fools tells the story of the 2001 collapse of Enron.Enron's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Andrew Fastow is depicted as voraciously greedy, using front corporations and partnerships, paying himself "management" and "consultant" fees as if he were an outsider, all while cooking Enron's books to show fictitious profits.
Enron Global Exploration & Production Inc. (EGEP) was an Enron subsidiary that was born from the split of domestic assets via EOG Resources (formerly Enron Oil and Gas EOG) and international assets via EGEP (formerly Enron Oil and Gas Int'l, Ltd EOGIL). [102]