by admin | September 22, 2009 · 8:47 pm
Enron Case Study: Need for Corporate Governance
Enron brings to mind the collapse of the seventh largest company in the United States of America and the largest bankruptcy seen by the country till date. Its stock was valued at $90 per share in 2001 and is worth almost nothing at the end of the same year.[1] The downward spiral that began since Enron’s accounting fraud was exposed affected all their shareholders and employees. Billions of dollars were lost and thousands of jobs were mislaid. Following this debacle, the US authorities have analyzed the situation and have attempted at undoing the wrong in a variety of ways. We will summarize the efforts made by the US authorities in rectifying the discrepancies in the regulations of business practices in corporate America.
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