Creative Accounting, the Enron Case and its impact on Corporate Governance

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: 1,0, University of Northampton (University of Northampton), course: Managing Finance & Financial Decisions, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the last decades creative accounting and corporate governance emerged as common used terms in economical debates. In my assignment I want to point out the meaning and relevance of these concepts as well as to establish a relationship to the Enron case as one of the most prominent corporate collapses in recent years.