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 * The Enron company** (2 minutes / 2 slides)

Enron has been on of the largest US companies with its headquarter in Houston, Texas. It was founded in 1985 through a merger of "Northern Natural Gas Company" and "Internorth". The company offered a wide range of services in the energy sector, e.g. energy transportation, but also services that were apart from the core business and included capital and risk management services, broadband activities as well as online marketplaces. After several very successful business years, the company finally went bankrupt due to several creative and illegal accouting techniques.

Sources: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25624-2002Jan10.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/regulation/ http://www.marketwatch.com/news/popup.asp?id=news/popup/enrn_timeline/default.htm http://www.enron.com/


 * Timeline of the downfall** (8 minutes / 7 slides)

This part includes a presentation of the most important events that finally led to the downfall of Enron. To make the presenation more interesting for the audience, I will not focus on the contents in detail.

Sources: http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/0,2828,178836,00.html/ http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,178334,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/business/2002/enron/default.stm http://www.zeit.de/2002/07/Der_Totalausfall?page=7