1. Enron and the Sarbanes Oxley Act
... large amounts of debt as well as record profits by taking out large loans in the SPE's name to purchase assets and conduct business without ever reporting the liability of debt on their balance sheet (Buckstein). Investigations found that Enron had around 3,000 different SPE's that they ... to get them off their balance sheet and record a gain and then would turn around and hide all their losses under the SPE's name instead of their own (Buckstein). Little tricks like these, along with falsifying the "fair value" of their assets, allowed Enron ... missed that memo because they failed t...
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