Open AccessEnron And Continental Vending: A Comparison
Author(s) -
Ronald M. Mano,
Matthew L. Mouritsen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the international business and economic research journal/the international business and economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2157-9393
pISSN - 1535-0754
DOI - 10.19030/iber.v2i5.3793
Subject(s) - history , advertising , business
We have all heard it said that if we dont learn from history, we are condemned to repeat it. It appears that we, as the accounting profession, failed to learn from the Continental Vending case that occurred about four decades ago and thus repeated our mistakes in the Enron case. First, we will give a brief review of the basics of the Continental Vending case since few of us seem to remember it.