A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals: From Enron to ReformRoutledge, 2015 M01 28 - 775 páginas 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. |
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... Fraud and Abuses 21 • Fraud Schemes 21 • Ponzi Schemes 23 • Electronic Fraud 25 • Pump and Dump Schemes 27 • Other Problems 29 • Executive Compensation 30 • Expensing Options 33 Attacks on the Markets 34 • The First Attack 34 • The ...
... Fraud 484 • Pump and Dump Schemes 484 • Ponzi Schemes 487 • Other Scandals 490 • Fraud Abroad 494 Scandal at the New York Stock Exchange 498 • Richard Grasso 498 • NYSE Problems 501 • Spitzer Again 506 IV. Recovery and Reform Market ...
... fraud in connection with massive accounting malpractices that had improperly boosted earnings by as much as $11 billion. The seventy-eight-year-old founder of another telecommunications firm, Adelphia, was arrested in a dawn raid ...
... Fraud and Abuses Fraud Schemes Fraud was burgeoning in the financial markets at the end of the century even before Enron. Popular scams involved Internet fraud, investment seminars that touted get-rich schemes, affinity group fraud in ...
... fraud claims in connection with viatical contracts, claiming that they were securities under the federal securities laws. A federal judge rejected that assertion in 1996, but the SEC continued to pursue the issue. Frederick C. Brandau ...
Contenido
II Full Disclosure and the Accountants | 141 |
Photographs follow page 302 | 302 |
III Full Disclosure Fails | 309 |
IV Recovery and Reform | 519 |
Conclusion | 661 |
Notes | 665 |
Selected Bibliography | 677 |
Name Index | 693 |
Subject Index | 733 |
About the Author | 743 |
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A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals: From Enron to Reform Jerry W Markham Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals: From Enron to Reform Jerry W. Markham Vista previa limitada - 2006 |