Resisting corporate corruption : cases in practical ethics from enron through the financial crisis

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Note to Faculty: How to Use this Book -- Acknowledgements -- Section 1 The Enron Cases -- Part 1 Demolishing Financial Control, Neutering the Gatekeepers -- Case 1 Enron Oil Trading (A): Untimely Problems in Valhalla -- Natural Gas Pipelines in Crisis -- Considering the Options -- The Meeting with Internal Audit -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Essay 1 How to Do an Ethics Case Study -- The Solution Framework: Defining the Ethics Issue -- Tactical Planning and Alternative Business Plans -- Personal Considerations -- A Final Word About Financial Control -- Case 2 Enron Oil Trading (B): An Opening for Enron Audit? -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Essay 2 How a Corporation Becomes Corrupt -- Case 3 Enter Mark-to-Market: Exit Accounting Integrity? -- Jeff Skilling's Association with Enron -- Serge Goldman Prepares to Meet Jeff Skilling -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Essay 3 Necessary Ammunition: Economic Rationales for Financial Control -- Financial Control at the Heart of Business Success: Personal Experience -- Summarizing the Controls/Business Success Intangibles -- The Economic Consequences of Sound Financial Control -- Notes -- Part 2 Business Struggles, Accounting Manipulations -- Case 4 Adjusting the Forward Curve in the Backroom -- Conversation with T.J. Malva -- Ethics Assessment and Tactical Options -- Author's Note -- Case 5 Enron's SPEs: A Vehicle too Far? -- Enron and Special Purpose Entity (SPE) Vehicles -- Chewco Investments -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Case 6 Court Date Coming in California? -- California Decontrols Electricity -- Enron's 'Star Wars' Gambits -- Political Fallout in California -- Enron Legal Investigates -- SR Produces a Legal Opinion -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Part 3 Resisting Corruption at Enron -- Case 7 New Counsel for Andy Fastow.