Enron Corporation was a major U. S. energy company. Its executives engaged in a systematic accounting fraud
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1. Discuss whether the Nigerian barge transaction should have been considered a loan rather than a sale. As part of your discussion, consider the following questions. Doesn’t the Merrill Lynch payment to Enron at the time of the initial transaction automatically make it a sale, not a loan? Which aspects of the transaction are similar to a loan? Which aspects suggest that the criteria for revenue recognition (discussed in Chapter 3) were not fulfilled?
2. The effect of recording the transaction as a sale rather than a loan is fairly clear: Enron was able to boost its revenues and net earnings. What is somewhat less obvious, but nearly as important, are the effects on the statement of cash flows. Describe how recording the transaction as a sale rather than as a loan would change the statement of cash flows.
3. How would the two different statements of cash flows (described in your response to (2)) affect financial statement users? Corporation
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ISBN: 978-1259103285
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Authors: Robert Libby, Patricia Libby, Daniel Short, George Kanaan, M
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