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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.
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 ...
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.
Enron employees leave the headquarters building in 2002 in downtown Houston, Texas. The company appears to have been relaunched as of Dec. 2, 2024 as an elaborate joke more than 20 years after it ...
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 ...
Enron has unveiled a new product a month after the infamous and defunct company was resurrected − apparently for fun − by one of the guys behind the satirical "Birds Aren't Real" conspiracy ...
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron is a book by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, first published in 2003 by Portfolio Trade. In 2005, it was adapted into a documentary film, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. McLean and Elkind worked on the book when they both were Fortune senior writers.
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.