The government gave AIG 122.8 billion dollars. AIG committed several ethic mistakes after they receive their bailout money from the government. They went on multiple trips and spend a lot on vacations. AIG hand out 218 millions in bonus money to employees. Jake DeSantis wrote a letter to chief executive of AIG explaining what the company did was wrong, but explain why they did all those things.
Linkage of Case to Chapter Material This case focuses on the controversial $165 million in retention bonuses paid to employees of the Financial Products unit of the American International Group (AIG), a behemoth insurance and financial services company. In early 2008, employees in the Financial Products unit were asked to remain with the company through the unit’s shutdown and, essentially, to work themselves out of a job. To entice talented employees to stay and work through the shut-down, a contractual retention bonus plan was instituted. When the bonuses were paid in early 2009, controversy and outrage arose given that AIG was the recipient of a substantial amount of United States government bailout money under its Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Amid this controversy, Edward Liddy, AIG’s CEO, requested the bonus recipients to return half of the bonus amount.
During an investigation there were many questionable accounting transactions that were brought up, such as large executive bonuses as well as many loans for large amounts of money that were later forgiven without repayment. Kozlowski and Swartz were sentenced to 8 – 25 years in prison ("Investopedia", 2014). Then a lawsuit against Tyco cost the company $2.92 billion in repayment to its investors ("Investopedia", 2014). The biggest issue here was allowing for a CEO and CFO to have too much access to funds. A protocol should be in place that when a sale of stocks is made and no one authorized it then a full audit should take place from a third party or if a loan is going to be made then more then just the CEO and CFO’s approval needs to be given.
And before you go broke and don’t know what to do with your life. After the stock market broke down on August 7th there were 4.5 million people that were unemployment and didn’t know where to go to work and what they were going to do later in life. President Herbert Hoover appoints a Committee for the unemployment relief. And they were too late to take out all of their money and put it back into the bank. Franklin D. Roosevelt handles the great depression very well, because he went to the court of additional Justices, and created a new deal program.
CalPERS vs. JC Penney Overview CalPERS investment program began on February 22, 2000 when they included JC Penney on their annual Focus List. CalPERS further exclaimed that due to declining sales and a deteriorating customer base they had lost confidence in Penney’s management. Subsequent to the release of their focus list JC Penney made numerous strategic decisions to revitalize and boost the value of the company. Penney forced their current CEO James Oesterreicher to retire. Next instead of promoting from within, they searched for new blood and hired former Barney’s CEO Allen Questrom.
That it would be smoother for everyone,” Ramsay said in his first interview since his business was plunged into chaos and his family-man image was tarnished by claims that he had had a seven-year affair. Auditors wanted to take control of his global restaurant group, comprising 21 restaurants and pubs in London, New York, Los Angeles, Florida, Paris, Tokyo, Dubai, Ireland and Prague, to “cherry-pick the winners and say goodbye to the losers”, Ramsay said. Three of his restaurants have now closed. The crisis came after GRH breached covenants – promises made to lenders to secure a loan – on its £500,000 overdraft and £10m of loans with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). “We went over our overdraft limit and we did not hit revenue targets,” Ramsay said.
Which is exactly What KKR had to do when they won. They had to sell off parts of the company off to pay for debt that they had dug themselves into buying the company. After KKR had completed the buyout, then had to shed about 46,000 employees after 1998 consequently they ended up having to sell off 6.2 billion dollars in assets to help get rid of the debt that they had incurred in taking over the company. During the First years of the KKR Reign the equity for the company fell from 24% to 16% from 1998 through 1994. We think that if Ross Johnson was able to take over the company for the original offer of 75 dollars a share things would have turned out a lot better for Nabisco because they shouldn’t have had to sell of as many assets or shed as much of the labor Force as KKR did when they bought the
From 1979 to 2006, the financial industry’s share in the nation’s corporate profits grew from a fifth to almost a third. By 2006, bankers and insurers were making 70 percent more, on average, than workers in the rest of the private sector. Then they set off again one of the worst financial crises since the Great Depression, and taxpayers bailed them out. The corruption is just not limited to Wall Street but also politicians who made money off of looking the other way. My input on this is that we did not learn anything from the crash of the stock market in 1929.
Can this Merger be saved? Short description situation: In this case study, Sara Cliffe, describes a merger between Synergon Capital and Beauchamp, Becker & Company. Synergon Capital is a financial-service business from the United States which usually takes over companies which have a poor management team. After the takeover, they fire most of the management within 12 months. Beauchamp doesn't fit in this picture.
There can be a lot of factors as to why companies file for bankruptcy and closure. In the case of Enron, the first set of problems in the company manifested when traders reluctantly gambled with company assets in the oil market. They lost $90 million in a period of five days. Since then company reserves disappeared and auditors saved the company by reporting fake net worth and imprecise trading revenues resulting to accounting scandals in the company. Due to the company’s compound business model and unethical practices, they required that the balance sheet is to be modified accordingly to illustrate satisfactory