Enacted in 2002 to prevent the next Enron scandal, Sarbox has thrown sand into the gears of entrepreneurship.
The New York Times is curiously forgiving of the former Treasury secretary's involvement in the Enron scandal.
The Deloitte divorce is a direct result of the fallout from Arthur Andersen's role in the Enron scandal.
Enacted in 2002 to prevent the next Enron scandal, Sarbox has thrown sand into the gears of scaled entrepreneurship.
For the first half of the year most utility stocks managed to weather the Enron scandal, falling an average of only 6% during the period.
You probably have to go back to the Enron scandal to find someone who has fallen as fast and as far as Bernie Madoff.
In the wake of the Enron scandal 10 years ago, the global brand of Arthur Andersen was tarnished to the point where it simply disappeared.
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And the White House has always had difficulty coming forward in instances like this, but it worked very well for them during the Enron scandal.
The securities lawyer, best known for bedeviling corporate executives with shareholder suits, felt compelled to go after some of his own in the Enron scandal.
The Enron scandal is expected to be examined during much of the forum in both the scheduled events and discussions on the sidelines of meetings.
Andersen's conviction in the Enron scandal was recently overturned by the Supreme Court, though that was admittedly because of the judge's wrong advice to the jury.
After the Enron scandal of 2001, in which auditors failed to notice a vast fraud at a publicly traded energy firm, disclosure requirements were tightened drastically.
Delay could play into the financial industry's hands, to the extent that it reduces the likelihood of heat-of-the-moment laws like Sarbanes-Oxley, rushed through after the Enron scandal.
Klaus Schwab, president of the World Economic Forum, urged business leaders and politicians to launch personal clean-up crusades to regain confidence lost through debacles such as the Enron scandal.
PwC decided to spin off its consulting arm, previously known simply as 'PwC Consulting, ' earlier this year in order to protect its reputation in the wake of the Enron scandal.
Since the eruption of the Enron scandal, Andersen has borne the brunt of an outsized portion of criticism for the company's failure because it certified as fair and accurate Enron's financial reporting--including its use of off balance sheet partnerships to disguise the level of Enron's true indebtedness.
The PCAOB, the auditing regulator that emerged from the last scandal, Enron, and its legislation, Sarbanes-Oxley, is starting to rattle their cage however.
"There was a panic reaction, people fear a scandal like Enron or Parmalat as soon as they hear the term 'accounting problems', " said investment analyst Thomas Veillet of Swiss firm Dynacapital.
Well, for example, if you bought at low prices during the scandal that took down Enron, you saw prices go even lower.
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The collapse of Enron and WorldCom, and the scandal over equities analysts' conflicts of interest at investment banks, have already prompted some reforms at the exchange.
After all we've witnessed--Enron, WorldCom, the mutual fund scandal--do right-wingers really, truly believe we can self-regulate?
In the mid-1990s FORBES published an eye-opening story on the extraordinary political lobbying power of Fannie Mae, a power that a decade later would lead to scandal but also would protect it from an Enron-like fate.
In the mid-1990s FORBES published an eye-opening story on the extraordinary political lobbying power of Fannie Mae (nyse: FNM - news - people ), a power that a decade later would lead to scandal but also would protect it from an Enron-like fate.
The list also includes a stock whose name alone should serve as a warning to anybody clueless enough to invest in it: Miniscribe, the Texas disk-drive manufacturer that imploded in 1989 accounting scandal that provided an early taste of the Enron, Worldcom and Adelphia accounting frauds.
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Prosecutors claim the former CEO left the company when he did because he allegedly detected the whiff of scandal in the air: lawmen say Skilling knew Enron's finances were unsound and feared the very implosion that destroyed the company, wiped out billions in investor value and annihilated both thousands of jobs and still-untold life savings.
Enron purchased the naming rights to the Houston Astros stadium just before an accounting scandal bankrupted the company in 2001.
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The Effect reunites Enron author, Lucy Prebble with Rupert Goold, who directed the award-winning play based on the 2001 scandal that led to the eventual bankruptcy of the major American energy company.
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