Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was led by Kenneth Lay and developed in 1985 via a merger between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional companies at the time of the merger.

2025年3月19日 · Enron scandal, series of events that resulted in the bankruptcy of the U.S. energy, commodities, and services company Enron Corporation in 2001 and the dissolution of Arthur Andersen LLP, which had been one of the largest …

The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal sparked by American energy company Enron Corporation filing for bankruptcy after news of widespread internal fraud became public in October 2001, which led to the dissolution of its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, previously one of the five largest in the world.

2024年12月4日 · Enron was an energy company that became the subject of one of the largest accounting frauds in U.S. history. The company used fraudulent accounting practices to inflate revenues and hide...

2024年12月3日 · Enron used special-purpose vehicles to hide its debt and toxic assets from investors and creditors. The price of Enron’s shares went from $90.75 at its peak to $0.26 at bankruptcy.

2024年12月3日 · "Enron will focus on scalable, sustainable solutions, including investments in renewable energy infrastructure, cutting-edge energy storage and advanced power distribution systems," the statement...

The collapse of the energy company Enron in December 2001 precipitated what would become the most complex white-collar crime investigation in the FBI’s history.

In early December 2001, innovative energy company Enron Corporation, a darling of Wall Street investors with $63.4 billion in assets, went bust. It was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

2021年4月5日 · This spring marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the dramatic and cataclysmic demise of Enron Corp. A scandal of exceptional scope and impact, it was (at the time) the largest bankruptcy in American history.

2025年3月19日 · Enron scandal - Accounting Fraud, Corporate Greed, Bankruptcy: Enron executives practiced mark-to-market accounting and special purpose entities (SPEs). Sherron Watkins warned of possible accounting scandals.