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He agreed to forfeit $3.18 million in accounting fees and withdrawals from his account with Madoff. His involvement makes the Madoff scheme not only the largest Ponzi scheme ever uncovered, but the largest accounting fraud in world history. [127] The $64.8 billion claimed to be in Madoff accounts dwarfed the $11 billion fraud at WorldCom.
A corporate scandal involves alleged or actual unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. Many recent corporate collapses and scandals have involved some type of false or inappropriate accounting (see list at accounting scandals).
7. Enron Corp. Total assets at the time of bankruptcy (in billions of dollars): 65.5. Date of bankruptcy: December 2, 2001. One of the biggest accounting scandals in history saw the demise of two ...
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The credentials: Enron's bankruptcy was the largest in U.S. history at the time, but more importantly, was the most egregious example of planned accounting fraud ever seen. So much so that it was ...
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Enron logo. The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal sparked by American energy company Enron Corporation filing for bankruptcy after news of widespread internal fraud became public in October 2001, which led to the dissolution of its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, previously one of the five largest in the world.
Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corporations and was one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers).