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• Accounting Scandal at Satyam Could Be India's Enron

  Reuters - 2009-01-07

  By Sumeet ChatterjeeBANGALORE (Reuters) - The head of Indian outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services resigned on Wednesday, disclosing that profits had been falsely inflated for years and sending its shares plunging nearly 80 percent.India's biggest corporate scandal in memory threatens future foreign investment flows into Asia's third-largest economy and casts...

  Tags: India, Accounting, Enron Corp., Satyam, Corporate Governance, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Corporate Law

• Biz Prof: What do Bhopal, Enron and Meltdown '08 Have in Common?

  BNET - 2008-11-18

  The Find: Sure, all three were massive business disasters, but Freek Vermeulen insists they also had the same underlying cause: a combination of excessive complexity and "the myopia of success," seasoned with a healthy dash of greed. The Source: The Random Rantings blog of Vermeulen, a strategy...

  Tags: Financial, Enron Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance, Jessica Stillman

• Wall Street Meltdown: Unlearned Lessons From Enron

  - 2008-09-19

  Wall Street Meltdown: Unlearned Lessons From EnronRE: Wall Street Meltdown: Unlearned Lessons From EnronJust not true. The underlying cause of the mortgage problem were civil rights and affordable housing groups, plus, US Congress in demanding easier access to home financing for those who could not afford to pay. Financial companies...

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• Wall Street Meltdown: Unlearned Lessons From Enron

  BNET - 2008-09-18

  Board members of various financial behemoths are being whipsawed these days through sleepless nights and days as the Wall Street meltdown continues. One wonders, though, why boards and their executives did not have a much better grasp on what their debt and obligations actually were and what...

  Tags: Financial, Enron Corp., Board, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Peter Galuszka

• Do Proxy Service Firms Have Too Much Power?

  BNET - 2008-09-16

  For nearly a decade, proxy service firms have held powerful sway over many C-Suites and their boards, pushing recommendations and ratings to institutional shareholders and others. Born of the last round of corporate scandals such as Enron, proxy service firms are now under fire in a new...

  Tags: Shareholder, Fannie Mae, Enron Corp., Consulting, Outsourcing, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Corporate Law, Finance, Peter Galuszka

• Justice can't ask firms to waive legal privilege

  - 2008-08-29

  In a sharp turnaround from the aggressive corporate-charging guidelines of the Enron era, the Justice Department on Thursday announced new policies for federal prosecutors who are investigating companies. Among other practices, the new guidelines bar prosecutors -- in deciding whether to file charges against corporations --...

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• Foreclosure Phil: would you trust the man who broke America's financial system to fix it? John McCain does

  - 2008-07-01

  Who's to blame for the biggest financial catastrophe of our time? There are plenty of culprits, but one candidate for lead perp is former Sen. Phil Gramm. Eight years ago, as part of a decades-long anti-regulatory crusade, Gramm pulled a sly legislative maneuver that greased the way to the multibillion-dollar...

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• Getting our Phil: smearing Phil Gramm

  - 2008-06-30

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PHIL GRAMM can't say he wasn't warned. The former Texas senator, now the co-chairman of John McCain's presidential campaign, was a principal subject of a front-page Washington Post story on April 2. "Democratic opponents are already plotting attacks" on Gramm, reported Jonathan Weisman. In the following...

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• Editorial: Oil Trading

  - 2008-06-11

  It's frustrating enough when gas prices soar due to the unseen forces of global supply and demand. But it's downright unfair when Wall Street speculators contribute to rising prices at the pump. There's growing evidence that investors looking to make a fast buck are causing oil prices to rise faster...

  Tags: Enron Corp., FINANCE, investor, loophole, U.S. Congress

• Bachchans front Bollywood film on power plant debacle

  - 2008-04-21

  MUMBAI AFP — In the first on-screen appearance with her husband since getting married, Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan takes the lead as a powerful executive in Sarkar Raj Absolute Ruler. The film that will also star her father-in-law, Amitabh Bachchan, and her husband, Abhishek Bachchan, will hit the screens...

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• Poll: Enron CEO's "Honest Services" Defense

  - 2008-04-03

  Poll: Enron CEO's "Honest Services" DefenseJeff Skilling DefenseJeff Skilling has admitted to "big risks"; who was at the highest point of risk? Convictions center on defending the defenseless, or those who are at supreme risk. Skilling has admitted to lying to auditors. The primary job of financial or any auditor...

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• Poll: Enron CEO's "Honest Services" Defense

  BNET - 2008-04-03

  Today's poll deals with whether the concept of "honest services" can cover dishonorable acts. Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former Enron chief executive who is serving a 24-year prison sentence after he was convicted on 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors,...

  Tags: Management, Finance, Online Communications, William Baker, Business Operations, Strategy, Financial Accounting, E-mail, Lawyer, Litigation, Conviction, Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron Corp.

• Panelists examine Enron rise and fall

  - 2008-04-02

  John F. Lemanski, MBA, CFE, senior manager in the Litigation Consulting, Valuation and Bankruptcy Services Practice Group at Margolin, Winer & Evens LLP, a leading certified public accounting and business advisory firm recently served as a panelist in an event sponsored by the New Jersey Chapter of the Turnaround Management...

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• Daily Record Prices for Oil, Gasoline Hammer Consumers and U.S. Economy

  - 2008-03-10

  To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Judy Dugan, +1-310 392-0522, ext. 305, or Jamie Court, +1-310 392-0522, ext. 327, both of Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Group Calls for Swift Action to Curb, Regulate Energy Speculators, Todays Enron Rogues SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congress and President Bush...

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• Three Former British Bankers Sentenced in Enron Case

  - 2008-02-22

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• U.S. Labor Department Seeks Contempt Order Against Hewitt Over Improper Distribution of Assets from Enron Litigation Settlement Fund

  - 2008-02-07

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• Governments at All Levels Show High Rates of Misconduct; 'Next Enron' Could Be in Public Sector, ERC Survey Finds

  - 2008-01-29

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• Setbacks bog down investors

  - 2008-01-16

  WASHINGTON -- Investors are heading into 2008 stung by a series of legal and regulatory setbacks, analysts say, with the latest Supreme Court ruling protecting businesses from securities-fraud lawsuits. Tuesday's ruling follows a decision late last year by regulators allowing companies to deny shareholders access to annual director-...

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• Credit crunch confidence crisis worse than that of Enron - study.

  - 2008-01-10

  The recent sharp fall in confidence within the financial services industry is comparable with the aftershocks of the Enron scandal, a definitive survey of the industry has indicated. The recent sharp fall in confidence within the financial services industry is comparable with the...

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• Aspatore Books (Boston, MA), a Thomson West unit, has published "Energy Compliance and Litigation Case Strategies: Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington vs. Enron Power Marketing," a detailed account of "one of the m

  - 2007-12-01

  Aspatore Books (Boston, MA), a Thomson West unit, has published "Energy Compliance and Litigation Case Strategies: Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington vs. Enron Power Marketing," a detailed account of "one of Aspatore Books (Boston, MA), a Thomson West unit, has published...

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