USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)
First Advisor
Gerald H. Lander, Ph.D., CPA, CFE, CCEA
Second Advisor
William C. Quilliam, Ph.D., CPA, CIA
Publisher
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Document Type
Thesis
Date Available
April 2012
Publication Date
2003
Date Issued
November 2003
Abstract
The public has long viewed corporate America as ruthless pillagers in the name of profits. Today corporations are blamed for everything from eliminating mom and pop stores and the family farm to draining the environment in the process. Yet somehow no one, congressmen or minimum wage workers alike, were concerned enough to address this brewing epidemic. In the bull market of the 1990's, no one cared what corporations had to do to create profits, as long as those profits, and subsequent dividends and stock options financed their retirement funds. However, the corporate environment is much different today.
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Recommended Citation
Tarras, Lisa E., "WorldCom as an Example of Creative Accounting and Subsequent Regulations of the Accounting Industry" (2003). USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate).
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/honorstheses/121
Comments
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the University Honors Program, University of South Florida St. Petersburg.