After Enron : lessons for public policy

After Enron : lessons for public policy /

"After Enron focuses on the government policies that contributed to the accounting scandals and bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation and other major corporations; the reasons why their weak financial conditions were not revealed and possibly corrected earlier; the effect of private remedies; and...

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Other Authors: Niskanen, William A., 1933-2011
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2005.
Subjects:
Enron Corp. > Corrupt practices.
Enron Corp > Corrupt practices
Enron Corp. > Pratiques déloyales
Enron Corp.
Enron Corp > Corrupt practices.
Disclosure in accounting.
Corporations > United States > Accounting.
Corporations > United States > Auditing.
Corporations > Taxation.
Corporate governance > United States.
Business enterprises > United States > Accounting.
Divulgation en comptabilité.
Entreprises > États-Unis > Comptabilité.
Sociétés > États-Unis > Audit.
Sociétés > Impôts.
Gouvernement d'entreprise > États-Unis.
Corporate governance.
Corporations > Accounting.
Corporations > Auditing.
Corruption.
Wirtschaftskriminalität.
Wirtschaftsprüfung.
Steuerrecht
Accountancy.
Corporaties.
Enron.
Disclosure in accounting > United States.
Corporations > Taxation > United States.
United States.
USA.
Table of Contents:
  • A crisis of trust / Niskanen
  • Major private responses / Niskanen
  • Political responses to the Enron scandal / Reynolds
  • Don't count too much on financial accounting / Niskanen
  • Corporate accounting before and after Enron / Benston
  • Don't count too much on auditing / Niskanen
  • The formal audit process / Benston and Niskanen
  • The market analysts / Niskanen
  • Public and private rule making in securities markets / Mahoney
  • Should Congress repeal securities class-action reform? / Pritchard
  • The business press as a corporate monitor: How the Wall Street Journal and Fortune covered Enron / Weaver
  • Lawyers as corporate monitors / McNamar
  • Bankers as corporate monitors / McNamar
  • The credit rating agencies / Rodríguez
  • The SEC as a corporate monitor / McNamar
  • Our tax system is a major part of the problem / Niskanen
  • Compensation, journalism, and taxes / Reynolds
  • Replace the scandal-plagued corporate income tax with a cash-flow tax / Edwards
  • Corporate governance / Niskanen
  • Major policy lessons from the collapse of Enron / Niskanen.

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