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| Knowledge@Wharton |
Oh, the Games Enron Played The Enron story is not simply a case of a lone company that played with fire and got burned. Enron was able to take enormous risks while keeping shareholders in the dark because it could exploit accounting loopholes for subsidiaries that are available to most publicly traded companies.   |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Enron Still Matters Enron was a catastrophe in the public markets. Individual investors should take a hard look at the trial so they know what happened and how it came to be, with the intent of learning to avoid companies that exhibit the same characteristics in the future. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
Salon.com
October 8, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
In greed we trusted Robert Bryce's Enron book entertainingly chronicles fraudulent excesses and office sex. But was Enron a fluke -- or capitalism taken to its logical extreme? |
Salon.com
January 15, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
Ken Lay: "There are no accounting issues" Even as an executive was warning Enron's CEO of impending problems, he was telling the press that all was well... |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
David Henry |
Fuzzy Numbers Despite the reforms, corporate profits can be as distorted and confusing as ever. Here's how the game is played. |
Fast Company
May 2002
John Ellis |
Wall Street's Den of Thieves If you follow the trail of deceit from Enron to its natural lair, it only leads to one destination: Wall Street. Here's why... |
CFO
Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing... |
Salon.com
January 29, 2002
Jake Tapper |
How to be an Enron millionaire According to former colleagues, two executives reaped million-dollar windfalls by investing $6,000 apiece in the company's partnership scam. A case study in corporate rot... |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2010
Anand Chokkavelu |
Your Next Big Dividend Stock These are some really good candidates: Merck... ConAgra Foods... Johnson & Johnson... Marathon Oil... Sysco... FPL Group... McDonald's... |
U.S. Banker
January 2002 |
Trust Big Accounting Firms? Arthur Andersen, the huge accounting firm, hides behind legal technicalities to excuse itself for approving Enron's financial statements. Rather than working for shareholders and investors as it is supposed to, Andersen seems to have done whatever Enron's management wanted it to... |
Salon.com
February 20, 2002
Dave Lindorff |
Chief fudge-the-books officer Enron CFO Andrew Fastow wasn't a renegade, he was just doing his job -- or, at least, he was doing precisely what today's CFOs are being told to do... |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Staples Gets It The shareholder-friendly company sets an example for others. |
Salon.com
January 19, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
Capitalist pigs The sordid tales of Enron plutocrats looting the company of its treasure as their employees and shareholders faced ruin are enough to turn you into a class warrior... |
Salon.com
November 9, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
Enron, we hardly knew ye Ironically, only one thing could have saved the now-imploding corporate poster child for deregulation: Tougher regulations requiring more financial "transparency"... |
BusinessWeek
June 12, 2006
Michael Orey |
Enron's Last Mystery Was Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, as blind to the company's shenanigans as it maintains? Internal messages suggest the firm doubted the legitimacy of some of Enron's business practices. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Enron's Board Gives Black Eye to Efforts Aimed at Improving Corporate Governance By not keeping Enron from barreling down the wrong track to a rendezvous with catastrophe, the board has given a black eye to efforts by other American firms to improve corporate governance in recent years... |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2010 |
One Way to Protect Your Portfolio From a Market Downturn Rather than exit stocks completely, maybe now is the time for investors to focus on steady, stable, dividend-paying stocks. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
7 Stocks With Dividends That Should Survive Don't get caught by a dividend cut. |
CFO
June 1, 2006
Joseph McCafferty |
Portland General Electric's Jim Piro An Enron survivor, Piro had to reassure banks, creditors, ratings agencies, and customers that the utility wasn't tainted by the energy trader's sins. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Feeling Burned by Accounting Scams in the U.S.? Just Look Overseas Self-dealing and the misappropriation of profits at the expense of minority shareholders is much more common in other countries due to the weaker legal measures protecting such stockholders. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2007
Joe Magyer |
Avoid the Next Dividend Implosion Dividend stocks may have a reputation of being safe or stodgy, but sometimes they're anything but. Here are three keys to help you spot a dividend cut from a mile away. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Is the Dividend Crisis Finally Over? Not all of the news on the dividend front is bad. There are several reasons why you shouldn't give up on dividend stocks. |
Fast Company
May 2002
Charles Fishman |
What If You'd Worked at Enron? We've all heard the same Enron story: executives at the top behaving badly, victims at the bottom losing their savings. But the truth is in the middle... |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2007
Todd Wenning |
Stocks That Don't Stop Dividend-paying stocks are great for your portfolio -- but only if they keep paying out. |
Salon.com
January 18, 2002
Jake Tapper |
More than one Enron official warned company about growing crisis One staff lawyer grew so worried, he secretly hired an outside law firm to review the company's murky business partnerships. Another executive was reassigned after raising alarms... |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 7, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron Companies can take steps to help senior executives avoid the two sources of leadership failure at Enron: personal opportunism and flights to utopianism. |
BusinessWeek
February 6, 2006
Anthony Bianco |
Ken Lay's Audacious Ignorance Even if one of America's worst ex-CEOs beats the rap - and he just might - history's verdict will be harsh. |
The Motley Fool
August 28, 2008
Todd Wenning |
Stocks You Shouldn't Be Without Dividend-paying stocks provide investors with more options when it comes to returning shareholder value. |
U.S. Banker
April 2002
Robert A. Bennett |
We've Learned Nothing Despite the Enron-Andersen scandal, little has changed, at least so far... |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
France, Zellner & McNamee |
The Case Against Jeff Skilling Enron prosecutors haven't been dragging their feet. The problem is, with few of the ex-CEO's directives in writing, there are no smoking guns |
Fast Company
May 2002
George Anders |
How to Spot the Next Enron Want to know how to avoid being fooled by the next too-good-to-be-true stock-market darling? Just remember these six tips from the cynics of Wall Street, the short sellers... |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 21, 2006
Malcolm S. Salter |
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message The most noteworthy message of the Enron trial is that corporate executives can be convicted in a court of law for a pattern of deception that may or may not be illegal. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2011
John Grgurich |
3 Strong Yields From the Market's Biggest and Brightest Companies Earn sustainable dividends from companies you can count on to stick around: Intel... Microsoft... Johnson & Johnson... |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2012
Chuck Saletta |
I Will Not Throw Good Money After Bad in 2012 There's bargain hunting, and then there's stupid. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 18, 2003 |
Board Members Feeling the Heat of Public Scrutiny Should Bone Up on Finance, Accounting What you don't know can't hurt you. That old adage may be true some of the time, but not for people serving on boards of directors and audit committees in the wake of recent scandals that have tarnished the reputation of corporate America. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2007
Joe Magyer |
The Weekly Dividend Could your portfolio use a Band-Aid? PepsiCo... Arch Coal... Dow Chemical... Johnson & Johnson... etc. |
CFO
September 1, 2006
Julia Homer |
Enron, RIP? The louder the calls for a hiatus in new rules or the rolling back of existing ones, the less reason investors may have to place their confidence in companies issuing such demands. |
CFO
November 1, 2002
Tim Reason |
Align the Books? The gap between the numbers reported to shareholders and to the taxman is growing. Critics contend it's time to explain why. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Fool on the Street: Healthy Heinz Apparently, selling health is healthy for business. But organic innovation isn't the most important factor in going global. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
What Dividends Tell You Dividends can tell you a lot about a company -- perhaps more than you think. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 4, 2003 |
Bush's Dividend Tax Cut: Glass Half Empty or Half Full? The final tax-cut bill the president signed into law at the end of May did not eliminate dividend taxes, but reduced the dividend tax to 15%, from a high of 38.6%, for investors in the top tax bracket. Is that enough to provide the benefits advocates had predicted? |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2009
David Williamson |
The Daily Walk of Shame: Jeffrey Skilling Jeffrey Skilling, former president of Enron, was convicted on charges of fraud, conspiracy, and insider trading and forced to serve 292 months, a little over 24 years, in federal prison. What's he up to now? |
The Motley Fool
July 31, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Retire Rich With These Stocks Stick with these winners even after you quit. If you're approaching or in retirement, think about how dividend stocks can play a larger role in your investment strategy. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2008
Ilan Moscovitz |
The Next 2 Dividend Blowups? Nearly 100 companies cut their dividends during the second quarter, the biggest quarterly decline since 1991. Who might be next? |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2012 |
What Johnson & Johnson Does With Its Cash Over the last five years, Johnson & Johnson shares returned 14%, which drops to -3% without dividends -- not a bad boost to top off otherwise lowly share performance. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2006
Steven Mallas |
Dueling Fools: Johnson & Johnson Bull Rebuttal Plenty of opportunities lie ahead for Johnson & Johnson, and even in down times, you've got a good defensive stock. |
The Motley Fool
July 5, 2006
Bill Mann |
The Death of a Salesman How do you eulogize one of the most hated men in America? Ken Lay managed to destroy the wealth of tens of thousands of people and trigger much-needed reforms in how America regulates its public companies. |
Entrepreneur
January 2003
Jason Leopold |
Enron But Not Forgotten Being a former Enron employee doesn't necessarily leave you out in the cold in the business community -- not for entrepreneurs with the guts to restake their names on ventures of their own. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2009
Chuck Saletta |
Are Your Dividends Safe? More than 340 companies reduced or eliminated their dividends in 2008. Whether you rely on your dividends for current income, cash to reinvest, or signals of a company's true strength, those reductions should be troubling. |
