Essays Tagged: "bankruptcy protection"
Enron Fails
so owns or controls several other companies that deal in several different products.Enron asked for bankruptcy protection for itself and fourteen of its companies. Under the bankruptcy law, a business ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Debt, Development and the Biosphere
from bad years of harvest. Over two thousand years later this law can be seen as comparable to the bankruptcy protection in capitalist societies, however, in contemporary times farmers do not get the ... iew through a lens of environmentalism with a social filter. The view is that without international bankruptcy laws among other essential reforms to the international trade institutions and regimes th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies
A Case Study - Retail Electric Provider Bankruptcies
y - Retail Electric Provider BankruptciesTexas Commercial Energy (the "Company" or "TCE") filed for bankruptcyprotection on March 6, 2003 in the Southern District of Texas following a sudden anddramat ... as chargingthe result was the inability of TCE to pay its bills as they came due. At the time of thebankruptcy, TCE was purchasing almost its entire supply of energy on ERCOT's"Balancing Energy" marke ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Illustrate the notion of corporate ethics put forward by Dempsey with one recent example from the corporate world.
od company controlling 50% of the Italian market in milk and milk-derivative products has filed for bankruptcy protection under new fast-track administration rules unveiled by the government. The firm ... on in bonds of investors' money had evaporated as well. In the article "The Story Behind Parmalat's Bankruptcy" (Claudio Celani, Jan 16 2004) the largest bond placers have been Bank of America, Citico ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting
Polaroid Goes Bankrupt; Plans to Sell Existing Assets
ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITORThe Cambridge-based Polaroid Corporation obtained bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware on October 12.La ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Bankruptcy
"The lion's share of people who file for bankruptcy are genuinely in need of protection. But in some cases, there are individuals who have th ... worry that the broadly worded bill would punish not just deadbeat debtors, but families pushed into bankruptcy through no fault of their own.Personal bankruptcy filings have doubled in the past decade ... llion cases last year. The bill now under debate would require tens of thousands of people who seek bankruptcy protection to repay at least part of what they owe and make it harder for them to wipe aw ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
The Politics of Trade in Steel
ed to impose temporary tariffs on steel imports, 16 steel manufactures were already operating under bankruptcy protection (Hill, 2005). The whole idea of the tariffs as explained by Leo Gerard, the pr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics
The Politics of Trade in Steel Case Study MGT448
d to impose temporary tariffs on steel imports, 16 steel manufacturers were already operating under bankruptcy protection (Hill, 2005). The whole idea of the tariffs as explained by Leo Gerard, the pr ... xports.In the case study that I selected, it appears that the Steel industry has recovered from its bankruptcy. In fact, the U.S. steel industry is now beginning to thrive once more. The only potentia ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Effects of Manipulative Accounting Practices
st famous accounting scandal was likely with the Enron Corporation. The Enron Corporation filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001 (From collapse to convictions: a timeline, 2006). The events that led ... om was another major accounting scandal that took place in the last decade. When WorldCom filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001 it went down in United States history as being the largest bankruptcy ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting