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RSS enronSarbanes-Oxley Act: A Regulatory Perspective
White Paper In response to the accounting scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and others, the United States Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act in July 2002. The intent of the Act is to: restore public trust in the securities market, improve corporate... [03 Jul 2008]
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment The act attempted to prevent a rerun of financial scandals such as Enron and WorldCom by imposing thorough checks and balances across business and IT functions simultaneously. Experts say investment banking fraud can never be eradicated - even with... [15 Apr 2008]
Sarbanes-Oxley: Is Corporate Compliance or Corporate Culture the Solution to Ethical Crises?
White Paper While the Sarbanes Oxley Act may not be the ideal response to recent corporate scandals, it is a predictable response given the impact that Enron and its successors have had on market value and shareholder confidence. [10 Apr 2008]
Automatic Categorization of Email Into Folders: Benchmark Experiments on Enron and SRI Corpora
White Paper This paper presents an extensive benchmark study of email foldering using two large corpora of real-world email messages and foldering schemes: one from former Enron employees, another from participants in an SRI research project. [19 Feb 2008]
Nesox Email Marketer
White Paper Then it combines real email examples (from the Enron Corpus) with carefully simulated leak-recipients to learn textual and network patterns associated with email leaks. The widespread use of email has raised serious privacy concerns. [19 Feb 2008]
Preventing Information Leaks in Email
White Paper Then it combines real email examples (from the Enron Corpus) with carefully simulated leak-recipients to learn textual and network patterns associated with email leaks. The widespread use of email has raised serious privacy concerns. [19 Feb 2008]
Sarbanes-Oxley and IFRS
White Paper The high-profile corporate scandals of several U.S.based companies, most notably Enron and WorldCom, led Congress to act to restore public confidence in U.S.financial markets. The result was the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (often referred to as SOX... [07 Jan 2008]
Online Investing Hacks: Spot Hanky Panky With Cash Flow Analysis
White Paper Perhaps the most egregious example of this is Enron, whose saga, along with its master chefs Lay, Skilling, and Fastow, has been beaten to death in the financial press. Analyzing Enron's and WorldCom's financial statements can help one learn what... [17 Oct 2007]
Nasa hacker appeal to be heard next year
News The NatWest Three, also known as the Enron Three, were the first test case of the UK's new Extradition Act and were extradited to the US on 13 July. After months of waiting, Gary McKinnon, the so-called 'Nasa hacker', has learned that his latest... [12 Dec 2006]
HP settles spy scandal for $14.5m
News Fortunately, Hewlett-Packard is not Enron," he said. The California Attorney General's Office said on Thursday Hewlett-Packard will pay $14.5m to settle civil charges related to the company's now infamous spy scandal. [08 Dec 2006]
Planning for a Financials Implementation: How to Avoid a Nosebleed
White Paper Financial scandals at Enron and WorldCom, the crash-and-burn of the "Internet bubble," and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have all increased the exposure and attention, both internal and external, paid to financial reporting and has made... [30 Nov 2006]
Leader: Unjust extradition laws must be amended
Leader In this post-Enron era the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of white collar crime and corporate fraud is something still high on the agenda for the US authorities. High-profile sentences include 25 years for former WorldCom boss Bernie... [22 Nov 2006]
Brampton Factor: Data theft a warning
Comment And given the pusillanimity of auditors in cases such as Enron, one has to wonder about the post-audit accounts. It is hard to see Enron as an exception - rather, it pushed widely adopted practices too far and came to grief as a result. [22 Nov 2006]
Former CA boss given 12 years in jail
News It's unlikely to be much consolation but Kumar's sentence is also half of that handed to Bernie Ebbers, the former WorldCom boss, and also Jeffrey Skilling, the disgraced Enron CEO, who received 25 years and 24 years respectively. [03 Nov 2006]
Siemens White Paper: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
White Paper The telecoms company MCI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2002 then, just as the corporate world was adjusting to that shock, in the following December the energy company and seventh largest US corporate, Enron, was also declared... [06 Oct 2006]
