Case Analysis Part IV Organizations design their internal structures and processes for efficiency, quality, and other goals. Legal compliance and prevention of accounting fraud are among the goals...

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Case Analysis Part IV


Organizations design their internal structures and processes for efficiency, quality, and other goals. Legal compliance and prevention of accounting fraud are among the goals that can be achieved by modifying internal structures. In this assignment, you will evaluate how your selected organization changed its structure to prevent fraud.



Tasks:


Continuing to research your chosen organization: Enron



  • Summarize the case study so far.




    • What is the organization?

    • What unethical behaviors has it demonstrated?

    • What illegal behaviors has it demonstrated?

    • How has it adjusted practices following the unethical and illegal behaviors?


  • Assess how the organization changed its structure to prevent unethical and illegal behavior.

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the new structure for preventing unethical and illegal behavior.




Submission Details:



  • Complete your response to this assignment in a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.



Answered Same DaySep 06, 2022

Answer To: Case Analysis Part IV Organizations design their internal structures and processes for efficiency,...

Rochak answered on Sep 07 2022
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The organization is ‘Enron’, the largest energy trading company before it went bankrupt. The company was founded in the year 1985 after a merger between two gas companies, soon the company saw itself rise and enter the Fortune 500 companies, and the revenue of the company kept growing along with the profits (Healy 2003)
There were a host of activities which the organization performed that were both illegal and unethical, starting from the ‘cooking’ (faking) of the company’s financial statements, this was done to show more profits than what the company earned in the previous year or previous quarter.
The unethical activities by the company started in the year 1991, after the appointment of a new executive officer (Finance), who was the head looking after all the accounting and finance-related activities to make sure that the company showered a picture that the company is profitable across, and the profits have been increasing each quarter. For this the company used techniques such...
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