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Essay Instructions: I need a paper titled The Enron Scandal. Who is responsible and why?
The body has to be 10 pages
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2 Table of contents
3 Abstract
4 References
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In this paper I am trying to determine who is responsible for what happened and if they had the ability to stop it from happening. Use newspapers, journals, the internet anythingf you wish. But please no one else should have this paper..this professor doesn''t play

Essay Instructions: Basically this paper is about a political scandal in texas and i chose the enron scandal. i need 3 sources that are books. the whole paper is in mla format. use parenthetical citations. no wikipedia

Essay Instructions: Please answer one of the following questions about the Enron scandal. Keep in mind that Enron had a detailed code of ethics and Arthur Andersen had a multi-day corporate ethics training program.

Refer to the following business articles and video to answer this and other questions in this conference:

1. Read What Really Went Wrong with Enron? A Culture of Evil? and Lessons from the Enron Scandal at
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/ethicalperspectives/enronpanel.html
And http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/ethicalperspectives/enronlessons.html

2. (optional) Watch the Enron video at the following website: http://msnbc.com/modules/enron/

* How would you evaluate the causes of the Enron scandal in ethical terms based on your readings to-date?

* How do companies, such as Enron, with ethics training and ethical codes end up in a crisis resulting from ethical failures? Does ethics training or having ethical codes make any difference or are these simply “feel goods” that don’t really change employee behavior?

Essay Instructions: Read the following article:

Folger, J. (2011). The Enron collapse: A look back. Investopedia, December 1. Retrieved May 16, 2014, at http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/1211/the-enron-collapse-a-look-back.aspx

Answer the following questions:
1. Identify one of the examples of financial reporting misconduct associated with the Enron scandal.
2. Identify the stakeholders likely to be affected by that misconduct (including those who may have benefitted) and explain the likely impact it had on them.
3. From a deontological as well as a utilitarian perspective, what would have been the more ethical course of action? (Frame your answer to this question in terms of these ethical principles.)

You?ll also find a lot of material devoted to the Enron and other financial scandals that have occurred during the last decade or so. Just Google ?financial reporting?

Write a 3 page paper, not including reference page. Be sure to set out both the utilitarian and deontological considerations.

Background reading:

Presentations: Ethical business: Reasoning from principles. Focus on the sections devoted to deontological ethics and stakeholder analysis.

Federwisch, A. (2006). Ethical issues in the financial services industry. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University (October). Retrieved March 31, 2014, from http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/business/financial-services.html

Financial Reporting Manual. (2014). U.S. Securities Exchange Commission Division of Corporate Finance. Retrieved May 16, 2014, at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cffinancialreportingmanual.shtml

Sherman, F. (2014). Ethical issues among stakeholders in Google. Houston Chronicle. Retrieved May 29, 2014, at http://smallbusiness.chron.com/ethical-issues-among-stakeholders-google-30716.html