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The Importance of Structural Integrity - Bear Sterns
Like buildings—companies need structural integrity. As we have seen, even the tallest buildings and biggest companies can fall virtually without warning.
As Wall Street remains focused on financial statements as the key indicator of future performance, The Integrity Institute® is focused on the foundation of the organization and the early warning signs to predict how companies […]
What many boards and directors STILL don’t know about the health of their business
An insightful report about the need companies have to move past the financials…
In the Dark II (deloitte)
Sustainability is About More Than the Environment
Sustainable corporate performance is critical to our global economy.
For every “low integrity” company, investors must identify and invest in 40 “high integrity” companies to offset the risk of one unsustainable company.
“Lagging” financial indicators alone are insufficient and yet are still the primary source of anticipating future corporate performance.
56% of CFOs today say intentional misstatement of […]
The Value of Integrity
AN INTEGRATED MODEL TO STANDARDIZE THE MEASURE OF NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AS AN ASSESSMENT OF CORPORATE INTEGRITY
BY: LYNN BREWER
Redefining Integrity
The corporate scandals that began in the early 2000s with Enron revealed business ethics as a key element of corporate responsibility. Investors were suddenly faced with the realization the underlying integrity of financial statements and their ability […]
Enron’s Lessons - SASCOM
How many business leaders believe they have learned the lessons taught by Enron? That the Enron story is simply one of failed corporate governance – the oversight necessary to maintain the compliance and ethics of an organization? What if I told you that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) currently receives some 40,000 whistle-blowing […]
O.C. Ferrell, Business Ethics Expert, letter to USAToday
Letter to the Editor
USA Today
The USA Today effort to represent Lynn Brewer as fabricating significant portions of her experience at Enron needs to be examined more carefully. One of the key issues is that Ms. Brewer misrepresented herself as an ‘executive’.
Dictionary.com defines an executive as a “person or group having administrative activity in an organization.” […]
Lynn Brewer Statement Regarding USAToday
October 17, 2007
On Friday, October 12, 2007, USA Today published a story casting doubt on my character and suggesting I am not who I say I am. I guess I should not be surprised by the allegations in the article as they were made by people who did not fare well in my book, Confessions […]
A Brief Look At Corporate Performance Analysis
Historically, corporate performance analysis has focused on a company’s financial performance - commonly known as “lagging” indicators. This “rear-view mirror” method of analysis depends on accurate financial statements - yet more than 20% of CFOs say they feel more pressure to practice aggressive accounting than they did before Enron.
Whistleblowers - Tales from the backoffice - The Economist
Mar 23rd 2006
It is becoming easier for employees to reveal their bosses’ wrongdoings SHERRON WATKINS, a star witness in the current trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, respectively Enron’s former chairman and chief executive, is billed as a whistleblower. “Probably the closest thing to a hero to emerge from the Enron saga,” said the […]
“Book cooking still rife’ claims Enron Whistleblower
This story was printed from silicon.com.
‘Book cooking still rife’ claims Enron whistleblower
BY: Will Sturgeon
Octoberr 21, 2004Speaking on the issue of Sarbanes-Oxley and highlighting the need for tighter compliance legislation, the key whistleblower at the heart of the Enron scandal has warned that ‘cooking the books’ is still very much a part of corporate America.
Addressing the […]
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