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Essay on Waste Management Inc
Waste Management needed a comprehensive solution to simplify the invoice acceptance, review, and approval process for its corporate legal department and its 65 primary, outside law firms. Drowning in a sea of paper, the company needed an e-invoicing system integrated with the new matter management system it was implementing, to streamline its process for more efficient tracking and monitoring of legal invoices. An additional challenge included finding a system that Waste Management's law firms could use regardless of their existing time and billing systems.
Generally accepted accounting principles provide a set of rules that all auditors follow. Doing so helps certified and independent public auditors avoid client pressure to sign an opinion that would approve of fraudulent financial practices. GAAP also protects auditors from being sued. If the auditors can show they followed GAAP standards, they are absolved of liability even though the statements are misleading; the standards, not the auditor, are at fault. In theory, companies cannot shop for an auditor who would agree to a certain non-GAAP practice. How then, asks Dr. George Benston, did the major accounting scandals of the last few years occur? Some of the answers, he suggests, lie in history. Once accounting and auditing standards were the exclusive province of the SEC, but it has delegated much of its authority, first to the AICPA and then to the FASB. Too many rules led to an information overload, which inevitably results in noncompliance.
In a complex maze of transactions, Enron reported net after-tax income in 2000 of $979 million, rather than $42 million; debt of $10.23 billion, instead of $22.06 billion; and a positive operating cash flow of $3.01 billion, not the actual $154 million outflow. These staggering misstatements, the author explains, came about through GAAP manipulation by aggressive executives seeking to profit from higher stock prices and stock option gains....
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