HomeWork Case #1 (Enron)

HomeWork Case #1 (Enron)    Due Tuesday, February 9

    Corporate Social Responsibility Readings

Readings More Specific to Enron

  1. Enron (short backgrounder including Arthur Andersen & Its Bankers) Economist.com, 7/14/2005
  2. Conflicts, conflicts everywhere - Was America wrong to scrap the laws that kept commercial and investment banking apart? The Economist, 1/26/2002
  3. Nothing about Enron's demise was surprising; nor is what must be done  The Economist, 1/19/2002
  4. Enron a Year on  The Economist, 11/28/2002
  5. Enron and Corporate Law  The Economist, 1/30/2003

  6. Enron and the economics of greed Prosecutor's dilemma    Aug 29th 2002     From The Economist print edition    Enron's prosecutors wonder whether greed is worse than lying
     

Readings More Specific to Arthur Andersen

  1. Capstone case study on organizational architecture (3/E of Bsz) Arthur Andersen LLP

  2. Arthur Andersen Reversed and remanded  Jun 2nd 2005 From The Economist print edition    The Supreme Court's quashing of the accounting firm's conviction sends an important signal

  3. Accounting    Crooks and books    Jul 28th 2005     From The Economist print edition    How accounting reforms are creating problems as well as solving them

  4. Employee share options No compensation without cost    Oct 27th 2005 | NEW YORK     From The Economist print edition    As corporate America prepares to account for employee share options, they are losing their appeal

Some older articles on Arthur Andersen.

  1. Auditing: Unresolved Conflicts    The Economist    Oct 16, 2003
  2. How Bad Was Andersen?    The Economist    Dec 4, 2003
  3. Corporate Boards: The Way We Govern Now    The Economist     Jan 9, 2003   
  4. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Evolution of Corporate Governance (pdf file)   The CPA Journal: Mar 2004
  5. Restoring Trust After The Bubble  (pdf file)   Business Economics    July 2003

General Readings

  1. Companies are under pressure to display integrity but codes of conduct alone cannot guarantee a culture of appropriate behaviour  Financial Times  12/31/2003
  2. The Critical Role of Ethics  Internal Auditor  12/1/2003
  3. Europe's Corporate Governance: Lessons from Parmalat, Europe's Largest Dairy-Products Group The Economist 1/17/2004

  4. SarbanesOxley  Five years under the thumb  Jul 26th 2007 | NEW YORK  From The Economist print edition  Corporate America is learning how to live with the tough regulations introduced after the collapse of Enron