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This 10 page paper answers a set of 4 questions set by the student. The paper starts by looking at why companies such as Enron, WorldCom and Parmalat have all faced bankruptcy. The paper then considers the different discount models, looks at equity arbitrage theory and Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)for inventory control. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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some commonalities, all cases involved the misstating of performance in the accounts and the active attempts to cover up the misstatements that were not picked up by the auditors. By
looking at the failures the commonalities may become more apparent. If we look at Enron first Enron was initially seen as a
success story growing at a rapid rate and fulfilling the American Dream. The company grew its income from less that $10 billion at the beginning of the 1990s to a
figure of $101 billion in 2000 (Jickling, 2002) The collapse began with a statement that between 1997 and 2000 there had been an
over statement of $569 million and that these years were unreliable. The general feeling is was that the cause of the failure was greed and a lack of integrity (Leone,
2002). However, if this is to be cited the greed and lack of integrity is not limited to the Enron boardroom. The fault must also lie in an accounting system
that made many of the concealments that took placer legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of those who set the rules and audits the accounts. When looking at
the failure of Enron it is these accounting standards that appear to fail. In looking at the failures of the US accounting system it may be argued that a collapse
in the style of Enron is much more unlikely due to very different accounting environment and culture as well as stricter rules. In looking at the Enron accounts may were
actually compiled in strict compliance with the US rules, with very few exceptions (Jones, 2002). The problem with the accounts at the framework level was that they did not give
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