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FIVE QUESTIONS FOR... Avoiding another Enron
MarketWatch - Jun 12, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Guilty verdicts against two former Enron chiefs last month closed the books on the biggest case of corporate chicanery in recent ...
Rand Study: Small Public Firms Felt Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley Insurance Journal
In Enron's wake a sense of proportion must prevail Telegraph.co.uk
Number of accounting graduates rebounding from slow period Bizjournals.com
The Age - all 11 related
(2006-06-12 23:41:00 GMT)
Information Privacy, Retention and Other Necessary Evils
Computerworld - Jun 12, 2006
A recent article here in Computerworld Blogs was discussing Information Privacy and was querying what will be the event that becomes the "Enron of information ...
(2006-06-12 18:12:00 GMT)
General Counsel to Directors: You 10 Most Common Mistakes
Boardmember.com, TN - Jun 12, 2006
... Just ask the former directors of Enron Corp., who obviously glossed over the disingenuous strategies that company was using to hide the highly leveraged nature ...
(2006-06-12 18:00:00 GMT)
 
Sharing contact networks the scrutineer | Bruce McCabe
Australian IT, Australia - Jun 12, 2006
... For a visual appreciation of the value of analysing email-based social data, take a look at the Enron Corpus Viewer (http:// jheer.org/enron/). ...
(2006-06-12 15:01:00 GMT)
Vinson forks out $30m in Enron escape plan
The Lawyer, UK - Jun 12, 2006
Vinson & Elkins has settled to the tune of $30m (£16.09m) with Enron's bankruptcy estate in a deal that staves off the threat of civil litigation from the ...
(2006-06-12 11:43:00 GMT)
Number of accounting graduates rebounding from slow period
Bizjournals.com, NC - 1 hour ago
... This resulted in what happened with Enron and WorldCom, but it's also something that gives us getting into accounting an opportunity to change things so it won ...
Tighter controls won't end corporate fraud The Age
Opinion by Bruce Meyerson : CPAs hit by SEC often pay no price Arizona Daily Star
Oversight of rogue CPAs has been inconsistent MSNBC
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(2006-06-12 11:11:00 GMT)
Baltimore accounting firm 'critical' to Enron convictions
Baltimore Business Journal, MD - 14
For nearly four years, Michael Petron and his Ellin & Tucker colleagues pored over millions of documents from Enron Corp.'s rise and fall. ...
(2006-06-12 10:59:00 GMT)
Employees rev up habits for saving
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 15
... Five years after Enron’s meltdown cost its workers their jobs, their pensions and their 401(k) plans stuffed with Enron stock, the lesson is finally ...
VIEW: The myth of the ‘Ownership Society’ — J Bradford ... Daily Times
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(2006-06-12 10:31:00 GMT)
Our Readers' Views
The News Journal, DE - Jun 12, 2006
... off. Our policy makers deregulated the electric company even though Enron rigged energy markets and almost drove California. It's ...
(2006-06-12 07:40:00 GMT)
Enron's legal advisers unscathed so far
Kentucky.com, KY - 7
It looks as though everybody connected to the Enron collapse got zapped by the law, including the Arthur Andersen accounting firm and JPMorgan Chase, which ...
(2006-06-12 07:03:00 GMT)
If power-line promises seem too good to be true ...
Times Herald-Record, NY - Jun 11, 2006
... what? So companies like Mirant can neglect the reservoir system in Sullivan County, and Enron executives could enrich themselves? ...
(2006-06-12 05:38:00 GMT)
It's Time for Spitzer to Probe 401(k) Plan Costs
Bloomberg - 13
... You would think after the Enron Corp. accounting scandal and trial that Congress would be eager to fix some of the flaws in the 401(k) system. ...
(2006-06-12 04:41:00 GMT)
No accounting for ephemeral goods
Palm Beach Post, United States - 5
But it was not the kind of thing that usually stirs their wrath. What it was, plain and simple, was executive greed, the flaw that brought down Enron. ...
(2006-06-12 04:11:00 GMT)
Feds Were Accomplices to Enron Crooks
Human Events - 6
Federal prosecutors have successfully prosecuted Enron CEOs Jeff Skilling and Kenneth Lay for what the grand jury's indictment described as "a wide-ranging ...
(2006-06-12 04:05:00 GMT)
Rising prison problems begin to trickle into society
USA Today - Jun 11, 2006
... Comedians joke about what'll happen to former Enron CEO Ken Lay once he's behind bars. Most people feel that what goes on in prisons doesn't affect them. ...
(2006-06-12 02:23:00 GMT)
CBI warns over cost of crackdown on auditors
Financial Times, UK - Jun 11, 2006
... It is an unnecessary piece of legislation.". Auditors have been subject to a series of new regulatory controls since Enron, Parmalat and other scandals. ...
(2006-06-12 02:11:00 GMT)
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Report Compares San Diego Pension Fund Scandal to Enron Los Angeles Times, CA - 37 ... blames San Diego's pension fund debacle on mismanagement and illegal financial manipulations that recall the fiscal crises of Orange County and Enron Corp. ... San Diego Broke Laws in Pension Crisis, Panel Says New York Times San Diego engaged in reckless fiscal mismanagement, report says San Jose Mercury News $20 Million Audit Report Slams City Officials NBC Sandiego.com KVOA.com - KESQ - all 117 related
Request for Enron Broadband retrial rejected Houston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour ago A federal judge has turned down a request for a new trial by a former executive of Enron's Internet unit who claimed jurors pressured one another and swapped ...
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San Diego Broke Laws in Pension Crisis, Panel Says New York Times, United States - 16 ... by the private sector in recent years, as American business has sought to restore confidence in the wake of big accounting scandals at Enron and other companies ... San Diego engaged in reckless fiscal mismanagement, report says San Jose Mercury News $20 Million Audit Report Slams City Officials NBC Sandiego.com Report says San Diego deliberately mismanaged finances for years KESQ KVOA.com - Bloomberg - all 114 related
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