I'm just trying to use the www to get a brief summary of some major accounting scandals / collapses.
I just need a factual overveiw, perhaps with some examples of 'mis-accounting' or poor use of ethics / judgement etc.
I either seem to get reams of detail to the nth degree, or the overview is 'tabloid style' ie of dubious or limited factual content. (No disrespect to Sun readers meant).
Can anyone point me in the right direction.
Particularly interested in ...
Enron
Aurther Andersen
Worldcom
Parmalat
Arholt (Dutch)
United Airlines
Barings Bank
BCCI
Polly Peck
Mirror Group Newspapers
Thanks..
raymond downham
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WWW search sites
You can go to yahoo.com!, altavista, etc and type polly peck or any other topic you want from the website.
I am afraid popular and meaningful topics are displayed in the WWW.
Best wishes.
Try your lucky pick
Like-wise, when I surf yahoo.com! for corporate governance notes, the search site came up with plentiful supply of urls.
I just have to browse through very quickly which one header is probably suitable.
I know there are too plentiful supply of urls to confuse you, but at least plentiful is better than a few, right?
I really got no choice in my case, the same goes when I want to have some good notes on TQM or risk management.
Raymond, you can also get some Enron (and the like cases, Worldcom, Xerox, ....) cases if you care to surf corp governance. Unfortunately, I did not keep them when I got it sometime back.
Another good site you may like to try is http://visar.csustan.edu/aaba/aaba.htm. The great professor Prem certainly has a lot to impart to us. Prof Prem has contributed a lot to Accountingweb too when it comes to auditing.
Have you read .... ?https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=128177&d=101&h=0&f=0 and https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=129854&d=448&h=0&f=0 - these are not Enron cases but food for thought on similar grounds - auditing.
Aweb history
During the Enron affair, AccountingWeb put together a great synopsis of what happened, when, etc.
Try doing a search on here on "Enron", and see what you get. Failing that, I'm sure an email to Aweb, and their helpful people wouldn't go amiss.
Regards
Try Blinkx
If you look back over the last couple of weeks there was a link to the above search engine.
I've just done a quick search and it has thrown up quite a lot of stuff re enron (interviews with execs etc).
The same would apply to the other names.
Hope this helps.