In order to invest, Enron needed capital, which made a good credit rating critical to the future growth and success of the company. ... Partnership investors were compensated for their risk by being offered additional shares of Enron stock. ... The day after announcing this loss, Enron changed its" 401(k) pension plan administrator, which prevented Enron employees from selling their Enron stock for a period of 30 days and allowed executives to cash in on stock before the value dropped. ... WorldCom is charged with defrauding investors by understating expenses (which inflated the company...

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The last major discussion the collapse of Enron brought up was about corporate business ethics and the use of stock options as employee compensation because some people feel it was one of the biggest factors that led to the executive misconduct (Jickling). Stock options are granted to executives as part of their salary and are used to align executive interests with the shareholders interest as well as allowing the company to save more cash for business operations (Jickling). ... These stock options cause executives to end up having a huge personal stake in the company's share price and f...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

When the word was finally out that Enron had been hiding profits in offshore accounts, the company's stock plummeted after the top executives had pulled out. After the stock is now worth a few cents and the employees had lost over $1.2 Billion in retirement funds, there is to be an investigation as to what went wrong! ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It was formed in 2002, by a core group of experienced financial and operational consultants who used equity sponsorship from investors. ... The HCG headquarters is situated in Chicago, Illinois and is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market. ... It was the fear of not reporting a satisfactory result and performance to the market to accommodate the high expectations that was put on them; and the financial greed associated with an increasing stock price and net profits. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate