Word: enronization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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STEPPING DOWN. SHERRON WATKINS, 43, Enron vice president who blew the whistle on the company's accounting problems before it collapsed; to start a consulting company focused on corporate-compliance issues; in Houston...
...discuss the industry's searing issues, like solar vs. battery-powered calculators or the long-awaited switch to No. 3 pencils. Usually it would be the dullest four days this side of, well, a meeting with 5,001 accountants, but thanks to the bookkeeping debacles at kleptocorporations like Enron, once-ignored accountants are suddenly the mysterious bad boys of the corporate world. This year's congress was the perfect chance for the tarnished industry to pick itself up, dust itself off and blame Kenneth Lay for all its problems. I was assigned to cover...
...Harken, it took on an even larger role as an investor when it helped to create Harvard Anadarko Partnership (HAP) in December 1990—a move which helped Harken to remain solvent and which HarvardWatch has compared to the off-the-book shadow companies and partnerships used at Enron...
...same time, unlike the fake companies set up by Enron executives, the formation of the partnership made HMC liable for the debt associated with Harken properties, Meyer says...
Meyer adds that unlike Enron, “all material aspects of the partnerships and economic arrangements between the partnership and Harken” were included in SEC filings...