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What the GM bankruptcy means
in Sox First, on June 2, 2009
...bankruptcy. It's the world's third largest to date, after Lehman Brothers and telecoms firm Worldcom. This bankruptcy will have global implications. Analysts say it will have an impact on J...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...ngur says in the Deccan Herald , the debacle suggests we have learned very little since Enron and WorldCom. And that's despite governments around the world tightening their corporate governance ...
Gen Y and cheating
in Sox First, on April 22, 2008
...have not exactly been absolutely above ethical lapses. Whether it's been at Enron, Barings or WorldCom . Certainly haven't seen anything rivalling that from Gen Y. And if anything, the G...
Subprime's parallels with Enron and WorldCom: Michael Oxley and Paul Sarbanes
in Sox First, on March 16, 2008
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The subprime crisis has some eerie parallels with Enron and WorldCom, say the two Sarbox co-authors. In an interview with the Indian media , they say what's needed is more regulation. Sarbane...
Madness of groups
in Sox First, on December 4, 2007
...ferent points of view dilutes its impact. This was not the case however at such places as Enron and WorldCom. In each case, the result was an organization where delusions were shared, where dissent wa...
Ethics watch
in Sox First, on November 1, 2007
...iculties companies have implementing codes of ethics .It could be argued that Enron, Parmalat and WorldCom are examples of the spectacular failure of the ethical dimension of business. Let'...
Interview with Professor Sydney Finkelstein
in Sox First, on August 16, 2007
...o occur in different countries. Snowbrand, the dairy company in Japan, blew up in the same way that WorldCom did, Samsung lost billions of dollars in the automobile industry. Parmalat is another perfe...
SOX and bubbles
in Sox First, on July 4, 2007
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With Enron and WorldCom fading from memory and their perpetrators behind bars, the members of the Securities and Exchange Commission are being accused of tilting toward business interests and aw...
Go to jail: a corporate executive survival guide
in Sox First, on May 23, 2007
...tence and Enron's founder Ken Lay had to die in order to escape jail and get declared innocent. WorldCom chief Bernie Ebbers is now doing 25 years behind bars, Tyco's Denis Kozlowski is in the...
Does the punishment fit the crime? Securities fraud and home invasion
in Sox First, on May 19, 2007
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The massive sentences handed out to the likes of WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers and Enron's Jeff Skilling have sparked plenty of debate about whether the punishment fits the crime. Writing in ...
Independence vs diversity in the boardroom
in Sox First, on May 15, 2007
... misguided, says Wayne State University law professor Erica Beecher-Monas. After all, Enron and WorldCom had independent directors and look what happened to them. In her study, Marrying div...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 22
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 4, 2007
...and in 1998 he offered a particular lengthy railing against such behavior, something the Enron and WorldCom execs obviously chose not to read:
Many major corporations still play things straight, but ...
Senate rejects move to weaken Sarbanes-Oxley
in Sox First, on April 26, 2007
...t more likely for investors to be harmed by the malfeasance that caused the collapse of Enron and WorldCom . So this was a good day both for America's investors and for America's small a...
GE and integrity land mines
in Sox First, on April 18, 2007
...rly-warning signs and global trends in finance and law. "For example, in reviewing the Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat scandals , GE's financial services arm recognized the emergence of ...
Michael Oxley: Sarbox sucks? Blame the PCAOB
in Sox First, on April 9, 2007
...time the PCAOB was done, it was 330 pages of regulations". And in any case, he says, it was WorldCom that pushed the Senate toward adopting 404. In other words, Michael Oxley's hands...
Conrad Black and "class war"
in Sox First, on April 2, 2007
...o twelve, plus eight alternates, she found men and women who had "lost every dime" in the WorldCom collapse, whose pensions had evaporated on the stock market, who had been fired thanks to o...
Boom for litigants
in Sox First, on March 23, 2007
...is sponsored by Cornerstone, said the numbers will now go down. "With the
largest part of the WorldCom and Enron settlements now wrapped up, and with fewer huge pieces of
litigation in the pipel...
Fall in securities fraud lawsuits
in Sox First, on January 4, 2007
...on and Department of Justice. The question now is whether the trend will continue. With Enron and WorldCom now relegated to ancient history, the campaign to weaken Federal oversight of big business ...
Top 10 business shenanigans for 2006
in Sox First, on December 25, 2006
What a year it's been! The stories have just kept coming, and certainly kept me busy here. Scandals and litigation have all been part of the mix covered by Sox First this year. And Governments and business are copping plenty of heat to lift their game. And it's now coming from all Quar...
My Stupidest Money Decisions
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on November 6, 2006
...Justin the floor...
My name is Justin and I've been stupid with my money.
[Hi Justin]
When WorldCom's stock price was falling during allegations of cooking the books, I bought more WorldC...
SOX, trust and ethics
in Sox First, on November 6, 2006
...ed declining from the time of the invasion of Iraq, trust in corporations went down after Enron and WorldCom led a parade of scandals. It's a story of wasted opportunities from the abuse of trust:...
Elections and SOX
in Sox First, on November 1, 2006
...nes-Oxley went too far. The fact of the matter is, the things - when we had, for example, Enron and WorldCom, the problems that developed from the standpoint of those companies, those activities were ...
The Skilling sentence: response and analysis
in Sox First, on October 25, 2006
...the other corporate crooks, pointing out this one is right up there with the sentence handed out to WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers and Timothy Rigas. The greater the investor loss, the harsher the penal...
The ethics mirage
in Sox First, on October 24, 2006
...a comparison with 1987? The HNG/InterNorth entity had changed its name to Enron only a year before. WorldCom was trading under the name LDDS, and it wasn't a public company . And of course, ...
Silence, the project killer
in Sox First, on October 16, 2006
...void confronting the crunch issues and problems. In the case of corporate cot-cases like Enron and WorldCom, it had resulted in malfeasance on a grotesque scale. But the silence can also kill ...
Hewlett-Packard and the pretexting economy
in Sox First, on September 12, 2006
... but companies that go bad usually reflect something's rotten in the system. Just as Enron and WorldCom introduced us to the world of accounting shenanigans, the Hewlett- Packard spy scanda...
Boom market for fraud memorabilia
in Sox First, on August 17, 2006
...ivative trading manuals to baseball caps, at eBay here . Fancy an engraved stock certificate from WorldCom? A real bargain at $139.95 (down from $179.95) at scripophily.com . Scripophily , an Int...
Negative balance for Bush in the trust account
in Sox First, on August 16, 2006
...again. And they trust them more than they do the President or members of Congress. With the Enron, WorldCom and similar convictions coming in and there's being some closure on the accounting frau...
Farewell Joe Lieberman, Enron Democrat
in Sox First, on August 11, 2006
...elped pave the way for the big accounting scandals and shenanigans that culminated in Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing. Dean Baker from The American Prospect reminds us of the Lieberman leg...
Paulson and SOX: Has the pendulum swung too far?
in Sox First, on August 2, 2006
...ive years, not the least of which were the corporate scandals involving such companies as Enron and WorldCom. Corrective measures to address corporate scandals and increase investor confidence also pl...
Options probe hits share prices
in Sox First, on July 11, 2006
...allegations of executives living it up after backdating options points to another Tyco, Adelphia or WorldCom, panicked investors are selling out, reports the Los Angeles Times . No charges have been...
Can we teach ethics?
in Sox First, on June 22, 2006
...finance, accounting and even the philosophy department. The four picked through the cases of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and Shell. "At the end of the semester, the number of students in a simulated tr...
Accounting at the cross-roads
in Sox First, on June 13, 2006
Last week, I interviewed Michael Crooch from the financial accounting Standards Board. During our conversation over coffee, he revealed how much Sarbanes-Oxley had transformed the accounting scene and conceded that it provided no rock-solid guarantees against another massive fraud. A fo...
Counterpoint: Why Prosper.com Will Succeed
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 2, 2006
...er. Risks are inherent in any investment. Who would've guessed that huge companies like Enron, WorldCom, etc. would cook the books and throw millon dollar parties for their cronies on your dime? ...
SEC and The Jargon Maze
in Sox First, on May 18, 2006
...ing something. That's usually a dead give-away. Take a look, for example at the way Enron and WorldCom used jargon to sell dubious strategy and stifle dissent . Terms like "seedware" (...
Risk-takers or corporate delinquents?
in Sox First, on May 11, 2006
...9;s the common thread running through every corporate collapse or outbreak of corporate crime, from WorldCom to Hollinger International. Zaleznik described it in this interview I had with him some ...
SOX: The One Size Fits All Debate
in Sox First, on May 9, 2006
...hat it was framed in response to the collapse and fraud at giant corporations like Enron and WorldCom. But as Duane Morris partner Aegis Frumento argues, Sarbanes-Oxley has a framework that ...
美顶级风投CRV进入中国
in Wangtam, on 2006-03-29
...曾因为该网站在上传图片上打上又大又难看的水印而放弃该服务，不过就目前看来，迫于大量优秀服务的进驻市场，他们已经完全改变了策略。 网友天下的CEO叶灵是 美商网 的早期创始人之一，经历过第一轮的泡沫后，叶灵认为自己在心态上已经十分平和，不会可以去追求融资的规模，也不会在意web1.0、web2.0的概念区别，而只是会按照自己的节奏去发展企业。虽然低调，但2005年网友天下已经完成3次收购，包括一家...
Accounting and shell games
in Sox First, on March 16, 2006
...s worth asking whether accounting is just a shell game. What have we really learned since Enron and WorldCom? Has Sarbanes-Oxley stopped dodgy accounting? In FallStreet.com , Brady Willett and Todd ...
Whistleblowers and Lamplighters?
in Sox First, on March 14, 2006
...ber back in December 2002 when Time magazine honored the three women who blew the whistle on Enron, WorldCom and the FBI by declaring them Persons of the Year ? But despite all this, whistleblowers a...
SOX and social costs of fraud
in Sox First, on December 9, 2005
... people. Trouble is when they come to grief, that's lots of folk out of work. Similarly, WorldCom's lies about its profits, internet traffic and demand for telecom capacity, forced its ...
Fireproof directors
in Sox First, on November 18, 2005
...er but where do the directors of these bad businesses go to? An analysis of companies like Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia , Global Crossing, Waste Management, Tyco International by Forbes.com and T...
Eilliott`s wave , Meets bloger short week in US Markets.
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 24, 2005
...verse earnings , sales, or future growth .
As if that has been a better tool over the years , ask WorldCom or Enron stock holders.
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SAP Supports Corporate Governance Software
in The CIO Weblog, on March 17, 2005
...he world continues to contemplate the values of Sarbanes-Oxley (underscored by the conviction of ex-Worldcom CEO), SAP announces enhanced support for corporate governance.
SAP has established a res...