Auditing Cases 6th Edition by Mark Beasley,Frank Buckless,Steven Glover,Douglas Prawitt

Exercise 6

In 2002 Andersen was convicted for one felony count of obstructing justice related to its involvement with the Enron Corporation scandal (this conviction was later overturned by the United States Supreme Court). Read the "Enron Corporation and Andersen, LLP" case included in this casebook. (a) Based on your reading of that case and this case, how was Enron Corporation's situation similar or dissimilar to Xerox's situation (b) How did the financial and business sectors react to the two situations when the accounting issues became public (c) If the financial or business sectors reacted differently, why did they react differently (d) How was KPMG's situation similar or dissimilar to Andersen's situation