A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals

A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals
Author: Jerry W Markham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 822
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317478150

A definitive new reference on the major failures of American corporate governance at the start of the 21st century. Tracing the market boom and bust that preceded Enron's collapse, as well as the aftermath of that failure, the book chronicles the meltdown in the telecom sector that gave rise to accounting scandals globally. Featuring expert analysis of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation that was adopted in response to these scandals, the author also investigates the remarkable market recovery that followed the scandals. An exhaustive guide to the collapse of the Enron Corporation and other financial scandals that erupted in the wake of the market downturn of 2000, this book is an essential resource for students, teachers and professionals in corporate governance, finance, and law.

Corporate Responses to Financial Crime

Corporate Responses to Financial Crime
Author: Petter Gottschalk
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2020-08-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030514528

This brief extends studies on how corporations respond to scandals by examining the evolution of the accounts that corporate agents develop after a scandal becomes public. Guided by the theory of accounts and a recently developed perspective on crisis management, its examines how the accounts developed by thirteen corporations caught up in highly publicized scandals changed from the time of initial exposure to the issuance of an investigative report. This brief continues the discussion of the broader managerial and social implications of the analysis of accounts, and analyses their effect on our understanding of the ability of corporations to weather serious scandals. It includes four case studies; from Switzerland, Moldova, Denmark, and Norway respectively.

Corporate Scandals

Corporate Scandals
Author: Kenneth R. Gray
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2005-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The Gray, Frieder, and Clark author team does a terrific job integrating

Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals

Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals
Author: Michael J. Jones
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119978629

Business scandals are always with us from the South Sea Bubble to Enron and Parmalat. As accounting forms a central element of any business success or failure, the role of accounting is crucial in understanding business scandals. This book aims to explore the role of accounting, particularly creative accounting and fraud, in business scandals. The book is divided into three parts. In Part A the background and context of creative accounting and fraud is explored. Part B looks at a series of international accounting scandals and Part C draws some themes and implications from the country studies.

Corporate Scandal

Corporate Scandal
Author: John Gledhill
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2004-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800733615

When the Enron filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history of the United States, if not the world, the immediate response by most politicians and financiers was that this scandal was a “failure of regulatory institutions” that can be corrected and may possibly even be a purely North American problem. However, an in-depth exploration of what happened, as undertaken in this volume, reveals that the widespread corruptions at corporate level have their roots in the transformations of socio-political conditions in the wake of an extreme fetishization of the neo-liberal market model.

Corporate White-Collar Crime Scandals

Corporate White-Collar Crime Scandals
Author: Petter Gottschalk
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2020-05-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1839105992

By examining white-collar crime scandals using the theory of convenience, Petter Gottschalk offers ways to improve the detection of crime signals and investigative skills in fraud examinations, as well as improve change management measures.

Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos

Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos
Author: Nancy B. Rapoport
Publisher: Foundation Press
Total Pages: 1252
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This law school text explores the Enron debacle from a variety of different aspects. Essays analyze the business-government interactions and decisions that laid the foundations for Enron's growth and subsequent demise. Other essays describe and detail the complex web of partnerships and accounting tricks used by Enron to hide bad news and project good news. Additional essays focus on the ethical and legal dimensions of the Enron crisis, and the subsequent lessons for business and law students, as well as for society.

Law & Capitalism

Law & Capitalism
Author: Curtis J. Milhaupt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2008-09-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0226525295

Recent high-profile corporate scandals—such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan—demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for understanding these problems, Law and Capitalism examines such contemporary corporate governance crises in six countries, to shed light on the interaction of legal systems and economic change. This provocative book debunks the simplistic view of law’s instrumental function for financial market development and economic growth. Using comparative case studies that address the United States, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Russia, Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor argue that a disparate blend of legal and nonlegal mechanisms have supported economic growth around the world. Their groundbreaking findings show that law and markets evolve together in a “rolling relationship,” and legal systems, including those of the most successful economies, therefore differ significantly in their organizational characteristics. Innovative and insightful, Law and Capitalism will change the way lawyers, economists, policy makers, and business leaders think about legal regulation in an increasingly global market for capital and corporate governance.

Corporate Governance in South Africa

Corporate Governance in South Africa
Author: Warren Maroun
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2024-07-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3111337995

Corporate governance continues to evolve, especially in a South African context where companies must deal with the combined effects of environmental challenges, socio-political uncertainty and impediments to economic growth. The second edition of Corporate Governance in South Africa contains essential details on the principles and practices of good governance outlined in the first edition. It builds on these concepts by covering the latest developments in the sustainability reporting space, incorporating recent research findings on integrated thinking and clarifying the core features of outcomes-based governance. This book demonstrates to governing bodies, users of corporate reports, practitioners and academics how corporate governance is not just a compliance exercise but something central to the generation of superior financial returns and long-term sustainable development.