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Business Daily: The collapse of Enron: Did we learn the lessons?

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The collapse of Enron: Did we learn the lessons?

02/12/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, The collapse of Enron: Did we learn the lessons?

Two decades have passed since the scandal, but could another Enron happen today?

The US energy giant became synonymous with corruption - but did the corporate world learn anything from its collapse?

The collapse of the US energy giant Enron remains one of the most dramatic scandals in modern capitalism, but 20 years on did we learn any of the lessons from the fall of a corporate giant? 
The BBC's Lesley Curwen covered the story every step of the way back in the 2000's right up to the company's collapse, and the jailing of some of its most senior executives. She takes Ed Butler back through Enron's tale of deceit, intimidation and collapse with archive and fresh interviews with some of the scandal's key figures. 
And Ed hears from Dr Howard Schilit, of Schilit Forensics accountancy firm, a witness at Enron's Senate hearing and a man with a serious warning for the corporate world, two decades on from the Enron scandal. 

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