COVER STORY (8/12/02 ISSUE)
Joe Berardino's Fall from Grace Andersen's former CEO presided over the biggest accounting scandals ever and the demise of a legendary firm. Here's what happened
DAILY BRIEFING (8/15/01)
Jeffrey Skilling's Surprising Split from Enron The CEO's abrupt resignation has some investors wondering what's behind the trickle of execs leaving the company
DAILY BRIEFING (8/24/01)
"We Build a Heck of a Business" Enron's former CEO Jeffrey Skilling is vague about the "balanced life" he wants but adamant that the company is in great shape
COVER STORY (12/17/01 ISSUE)
The Fall of Enron How Ex-CEO Jeff Skilling's strategy grew so complex that even his boss couldn't get a handle on it
DAILY BRIEFING (12/19/01)
Enron in Perfect Hindsight Plenty of red flags were waving at the energy giant, but from execs to auditors to the media, no one wanted to argue with success
DAILY BRIEFING (1/11/02)
Enron: Now the IRS Joins the Hunt The latest question: Did the humbled energy giant take deductions for $1.2 billion in debt carried on its books as shareholders' equity?
DAILY BRIEFING (1/16/02)
How Enron Alienated Just About Everyone The way the trading giant played the lobbying game was something to behold. In the end, its bold lobbying efforts didn't make a jot of difference
DAILY BRIEFING (1/18/02)
How the SEC Plans to Police Accountants In an exclusive interview, Chairman Pitt details his proposal for an independent monitoring board to oversee the profession
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY (1/21/02 ISSUE)
Enron: The Morticians Move In Lawyers, investment bankers, and accountants could walk away with as much as $300 million
DAILY BRIEFING (1/17/02)
A New Twist in Enron's Can of Worms
Congressional probers are asking if the company used complex but legal securities to mask the true size of its debt load
DAILY BRIEFING (1/24/02)
What Did Ken Lay Know on Aug. 20?
In an interview with BW Online that day, Enron's then-CEO said: "There are no accounting issues...no previously unknown problem issues." Probers think he may have had reason to think otherwise
DAILY BRIEFING (1/30/02)
The Right Way to Blow the Whistle Insiders who go public with company dirt often pay "a terrible price." Enron's Sherron Watkins may start a different legacy
DAILY BRIEFING (2/1/02)
Pushing Accounting into the Info Age Barry C. Melancon, head of the profession's trade group, talks about the far-reaching post-Enron changes that need to be made
SPECIAL REPORT (2/11/02 ISSUE)
Jeff Skilling: Enron's Missing Man The CEO who created its in-your-face culture has been largely absent from the inquiry
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY (2/11/02 ISSUE)
A Viewer's Guide to the Enron Hearings The ones to watch for revelations, entertainment, or just some quality shut-eye
DAILY BRIEFING (2/12/02)
Enron Directors: Unfit to Serve Anywhere? The AFL-CIO is beating the drum to get the members of this tarnished group permanently banned from other companies' boards
DAILY BRIEFING (2/15/02)
Harvey Pitt on Disclosure Overhaul The SEC chief says the commission will enact far-reaching new rules -- soon -- to "minimize the chances of another Enron"
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY (2/18/02 ISSUE)
Unleashing the Watchdogs Audit boards are trying to show teeth. It won't be easy
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY (2/18/02 ISSUE)
GE: More Disclosure, Please Investors eye GE Capital's numbers in the wake of Enron
COVER STORY (2/25/02 ISSUE)
The Betrayed Investor Americans bought into the idea that stocks could only make them richer. Then the market bubble burst -- and then came Enron
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY (2/25/02 ISSUE)
Enron's Fish Story Was Mariner a "tool for earnings management"?
MANAGEMENT (2/25/02 ISSUE)
At Enron, "The Environment Was Ripe for Abuse" The energy company's unrelenting stress on growth and its absence of controls helped push execs into unethical behavior
COVER STORY (3/25/02 ISSUE)
The Reluctant Reformer Will SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt crack down on corporate abuses?
DAILY BRIEFING (4/11/02)
Corporate Ethics: Right Makes Might
Avoiding scandal isn't the only reason to observe a stringent code of conduct. Doing the right thing also generates more tangible dividends
Crisis of Confidence
The Enron effect is spooking the broad market, but BW's Gene Marcial still sees positive underpinnings
Picking Up After Enron
The blame from the energy giant's flameout is so widespread, new rules are called for, says BW's Bruce Nussbaum
GAAP's Black Eye
BW's Bob Dowling on why the Enron debacle is a significant block to efforts to spread U.S. accounting rules around the world
Advisory Boards: Influence for Hire? Enron wasn't alone. Plenty of companies dispense large sums to the well-known and well-connected, often for very little work (Daily Briefing, 1/24/02)
Investors' New Worry: "Auditor Risk" Before buying a stock, these days you better consider which accounting firm is doing the company's books (Daily Briefing, 1/25/02)
Time for Bush to Tell All about Enron Only by detailing every single one of its contacts with the energy-trader can the White House put the suspicions to rest (Daily Briefing, 1/28/02)
An Abrupt About-Face by Accountants Their trade group will no longer oppose new rules that would force a separation of consulting and auditing for the same client (Daily Briefing, 1/31/02)
Enron: Where Are America's CEOs? So far, they're thunderously silent -- a big mistake that could create a backlash among investors, the public, and lawmakers (Daily Briefing, 2/5/02)
"Enronitis": A Disease -- and a Cure Fear that the accounting plague will spread is sparking a much-needed correction -- and forcing investors to look closer at company books (Daily Briefing, 2/6/02)
Can UBS Tame Enron's Wild Traders? That's the key question facing the Swiss bank as it prepares to take over the Texas company's energy-trading business (Daily Briefing, 2/6/02)
When Good Deeds Are Bad News Corporate donations to organizations with ties to a company's directors ought to be publicly disclosed to avoid conflict-of-interest charges (Daily Briefing, 2/7/02)
Let the Enron Games Begin! In these Olympics, Jeff Skilling skates away, Arthur Andersen glides over irregularities, and Andy Fastow takes a two-fer gold (Daily Briefing, 2/8/02)
Enron Shareholder Suits? Not So Fast Champions of securities-litigation reform should have been more careful about the law they managed to get passed in 1995 (Daily Briefing, 2/11/02)
Mr. Lay Goes to Washington
As expected, Enron's former boss didn't talk at a Capitol Hill hearing. His Senate inquisitors, also as expected, wouldn't shut up (Daily Briefing, 2/13/02)
Accounting Courses Get a Makeover
The profession is working with schools to revamp undergraduate programs, to restore the craft's allure -- and to avoid future Enrons (Daily Briefing, 2/13/02)
His Job: Defending Jeffrey Skilling
Bruce Hiler is the former Enron CEO's lawyer, and he insists "nobody is getting this right in terms of basic, fundamental facts" (Daily Briefing, 2/15/02)
PwC: Sharing the Hot Seat with Andersen?
PricewaterhouseCoopers' dual role at Enron and its controversial debt-shielding partnerships has congressional probers asking questions
(Daily Briefing, 2/15/02)
Paul O'Neill on the Enron Cleanup
Says the Treasury Secretary: "While we may need to do some repair work, I don't believe that our system is broken"
(Daily Briefing, 2/15/02)
How to Make the Enron Gang Pay
Execs who ruin companies need to suffer at least as much as the employees whose hopes and retirement funds they pillaged
(Daily Briefing, 2/21/02)
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