Essays Tagged: "Parmalat"

How Parmalat Went Sour

uld ever occur in Europe. They spoke too soon. The accounting calamity at Italian dairy-foods giant Parmalat has prosecutors scrambling to find out what happened to $8.5 billion to $12 billion in vani ... ambling to find out what happened to $8.5 billion to $12 billion in vanished assets. That sum makes Parmalat one of the largest financial frauds in history. Some questions and answers about the collap ...

(5 pages) 136 1 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Australian dairy industry analysis. Includes the effect of deregulation of the industry

e eighteen firms include Murray Goulburn, Bonlac, the Dairy Farmers group, National Foods and Pauls/Parmalat. Murray Goulburn, Bonlac and the dairy farmers group are all co-operatives. In other words, ... companies operating within the Australian dairy industry. These include Fonterra, Nestle, Kraft and Parmalat. 'These co-operatives listed above account for over 60% of all milk intake, and over 70% of ...

(9 pages) 86 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Pathology of failure in governance VS the board's real strategic contribution.

Tyco in U.S.A, HiH in Australia, Brenner Vulkari and Metatlgesellschaft in Germany, BCCI in the UK, Parmalat in Italy, even Qantas in NZ etc. These ongoing corporate events touched off by mentioned ab ... E), and The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). In Italy, in response to the pressure from recent Parmalat scandal, from the ongoing integration of European capital markets and from international, p ...

(13 pages) 140 0 5.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Illustrate the notion of corporate ethics put forward by Dempsey with one recent example from the corporate world.

selves but also that profits are generated by keeping a virtue on the external world.In the case of Parmalat an Italian food company controlling 50% of the Italian market in milk and milk-derivative p ... ch has revealed a multi-billion euro hole in its accounts, is being dubbed as "Europe's Enron". The Parmalat affair has grown into one of Europe's biggest financial scandals discovering that papers de ...

(6 pages) 92 1 3.3 Mar/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Ethics Article Analysis

(Jan 15th 2004, From the Economist, print edition, retrieved May 13, 2005) The article concerns the Parmalat company which was found to have been lying on their financial statements, claiming there wa ... f Italy (a part of Bank of America) to provide a forged and false letter confirming that "Bonlat, a Parmalat subsidiary based in the Cayman Islands, had deposits of close to 4 Billion (5.5 Billion) wi ...

(2 pages) 178 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Why has improved corporate governance become an increasingly important topic in recent years?

y visible corrupt and unethical practices of large and global companies such as Enron, WorldCom and Parmalat, the Italian dairy conglomerate. These scandals had left stakeholders and governments in a ...

(5 pages) 398 0 3.3 Apr/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Oil Reserves of Royal Dutch Shell: How Royal Dutch Shell has accounted for their oil reserves as a practise of looking for grey areas in Financial Accounting.

t, the international financial press was quick to label it "Europe's Enron" and after reading about Parmalat and the US scandals it was interesting with a European one. As the media rage over corporat ...

(8 pages) 85 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Title - "Transformations in the Corporate World related to Financial Reporting Procedures"

ave also come to light. The recent failures of and related to Nortel, Cisco, Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Parmalat, Hollinger, Mutual Fund Industry have led to execution of responses such as U.S. Sarbanes-O ...

(13 pages) 60 0 1.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

A Survey on Compliance of Corporate Governance

y visible corrupt and unethical practices of large and global companies such as Enron, WorldCom and Parmalat, the Italian dairy conglomerate. These unethical practices had left stakeholders and govern ...

(16 pages) 142 0 5.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Case Study of Wimm Bill Dann Foods (WBD)

te's power is highThe emerging market attracted big international players, such as Danone, Campina, Parmalat and Erhmann, who entered the Russian market by importing dairy products and later by openin ... Moscow region. In 2000, Ehrmann and Danone launched yoghurt production facilities in Moscow region. Parmalat and Campina started production of packed milk.High price sensitivity of customers making pr ...

(13 pages) 61 0 0.0 Jul/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Corporate Governance - Impact of Globilisation on Corporate Governance

ible corrupt and unethical practices of large and global companies such as Enron, WorldCom, HIH and Parmalat, the Italian dairy conglomerate & in latest was Satyam. These scandals had left stakeho ...

(10 pages) 71 0 0.0 May/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management