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