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[waador]

I put the following together for my politics/government course this summer. It consists of one part fact, two parts buzz-words, and one part deliberate attempt to undermine university educational quality. See if you can determine which parts are which!

Enron: A Very Political Review

I. An Enron Perspective‘A guide to the Enron collapse’ by

Comments

[frankly_my_dear]

absolute power corrupts absolute!

enron and ethics

[anonymous]

The good news is that the overwhelming majority of American companies, post-Enron, have codes of ethics. The bad news is that they are not spending enough to make sure that they are putting the codes into practice. Which can turn those codes into something like the one used by Enron. Read more at http://www.soxfirst.com/50226711/ethics_talking_the_talk_without_doing.php

Re: enron and ethics

[waador]

SOX/404 is unfortunately not something that fixes business by funneling money into it.

Although I would argue that understanding SOX/404 from a company-wide perspective [beyond management] would be extremely useful for society, I don't necessarily think compliance alone achieves that usefulness.