Not only were these leveraged assets transferred to the partnerships, but Enron also booked a profit on many of these transactions, further improving the company's ROA and net earnings as reported to the public.
Enron was not required to consolidate the partnerships into its" own financial statements because the Financial Accounting Standards Board requires it only when less than 3% of the partnership is owned by outside investors. Therefore, Enron was allowed to conduct business without reflecting the activities on the company's financial statements. These limited partnerships further benefited Enron by becoming a conduit with which to invest in risky ventures or ""park" troubled assets that were falling in value" (The Rise and Fall of Enron). Partnership investors were compensated for their risk by being offered additional shares of Enron stock.
Enron's activities started to unravel as the partnership values fell and Enron incurred growing obligations to issue its own stock as compensation. As part of the capitalization of an entity designed to hedge an investment Enron held in a bankrupt broadband company, a $1.2 billion entry was made to Enron's books to increase notes receivable and shareholder's equity. When these hedging arrangements were terminated to avoid having to issue more than 58 million shares of its" own stock, Enron recorded a loss on its financials. It also reversed the $1.2 billion transaction to "unwind" its activities, which raised a red flag to the SEC.
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. In a period of less than 45 days, Enron's stock price fell from $80 per share in February 2001 to .26 per share at the end of November 2001.
Criminal charges were filed against Enron's management team for fraud.
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The tooth fairy is an important mythical character in the majority of every young child's life. Children around the world find joy in ripping out their adolescent teeth in hopes of receiving a gift from the tooth fairy. I was one of those children. I would anxiously pull out my teeth one by one and ...
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