Enron created Special Purpose Entities (SPE's), otherwise known as off-book partnerships, and the executives used these partnerships to hide their large amounts of debt as well as record profits by taking out large loans in the SPE's name to purchase assets and conduct business without ever reporting the liability of debt on their balance sheet (Buckstein). ... Before further discussing the changed SOX had, it is important to note that the law was not revolutionary in terms of the substantial changes it made but it was revolutionary by the attitude and culture change that the rules a...

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Introduction Terrorism, often specific to the area in which it occurs, is a special domain for the exercise of state sovereignty and, in this context, the comparative study of anti-terrorist legislation is a fruitful line of study. Can we combat a nationalist terrorism whose structures are founded on national historical and ideological roots, in the same way as international terrorism whose strength lies in the capacity of its perpetrators to have access to modern communication methods to convey their ideas and achieve their goals? And if and when several forms of terrorism emerge in the same ...

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