Primary cause of the Enron scandal
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What do you see as the primary cause of the auditing problems that led to the Enron scandal? Who do you believe carries the moral responsibility for those failures? Why?
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What do you see as the primary cause of the auditing problems that led to the Enron scandal? Who do you believe carries the moral responsibility for those failures? Why?
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There were many problems that led to the eventual collapse of Enron. The auditing firm came under heavy fire and for good reason. The primary cause of the auditing problems was a lack of professional judgment combined with a lack of ethics and greed. Basically, Enron management had enlisted the help of their auditing firm, Arthur Andersen, to perform various consulting services for Enron. The auditing firm was collecting millions of dollars each ...
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