... most importantly a large conflict of interest (Jickling). Enron created Special Purpose Entities (SPE's), otherwise known as off-book partnerships, and the executives used these partnerships to hide their large amounts of debt as well as record profits by taking out large loans in the SPE's name to purchase assets ... 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 used and were never included in their financial statements. The company would also sell their bad (not profiting or o...

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... to do, and they can then spend most of their work time ensuring that the organisation is working towards it's goals by sticking to objectives. The SMART criteria can be used to define attributes of a good objective, SMART stands for Specific (with regard to what is intended) Measurable (so you can tell if the objectives are being achieved to plan) Agreed ... ...

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