I have no idea. Sorry. Well K-mart is a big one, Enron is another one to.
Enron is not a place with a population. Enron Corporation was a company, not a city or region.
Enron ended in 2001.
Enron scandal was created in 1985.
Enron was filed for bankruptcy on December 2nd 2001
After the Enron accounting scandal came to light, its stock price plummeted to 0, which wiped out many investors who had purchased Enron's stock.
According to an article published in the Los Angeles Times in January, 2002, an investor known to specialize in short-selling, named James Chanos, was a prominent critic of Wall Streets valuation of Enron. While his claims received little attention, Chanos began to publicly challenge the reports of Enron's profitability. He began to short Enron stock in early 2001--well ahead of the collapse--and, throughout 2001, a small number of investors began to follow his lead. By December 2, 2001, Enron had declared bankruptcy, thus fueling the ongoing debate about whether investors had been duped, or simply weren't paying attention to the proper indicators.
Enron was formed in the late 1980s as a result of a merger between two gas pipeline firms.
Enron was said to have committed fraud in an accounting scandal. Refer to the link below, for more information.
1. Which segment of its operations got Enron into difficulties? 2. Did Enron's directors understand how profits were being made in this segment? Why and why not? a. Enron's directors realized that Enron's conflict of interests policy would be violated by Fastow's proposed SPE management and operating arrangements because they proposed alternative oversight measures. What was wrong with their alternatives? 3. Ken Lay was the chair of the board and the CEO for much of the time. How did this probably contribute to the lack of proper governance? 4. What aspects of the Enron governance system failed to work properly and why? 5. Why didn't more whistleblowers come forward, and why didn't some make significant difference? How would whistleblowers have been encouraged? 6. What were the common aspects that were necessary for the Enron and WorldCom debacles to occur? 7. What actions by directors, executives and professional accountants could have prevented the Enron and WorldCom Debacles 8. Was the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) necessary? Why or why not? 9. What are the three most important improvements in the governance structure that could result from Enron from SOX? 10. What is wrong with Enron's bank financing transactions they knew were without economic substance? 11. How should boards of directors change incentive remuneration schemes for executives to lessen the risk of motivating executives to risk manipulations to enrich themselves 12. What lessons you could learn from reviewing the cases?
Very safe, the biggest risk is a lower credit rating. Those were my thought until Enron. Enron went from AAA to worthless very quickly. Fortunately, we did not own Enron paper.
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