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The Enron Scandal
 and Moral Hazard
         Prof. Leigh Tesfatsion
       Department of Economics
         Iowa State University
         Ames, IA 50011-1070
 http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/

     Last Revised: 3 April 2011
The Enron Scandal
       and Moral Hazard
• Enron, the 7th largest U.S. company in 2001,
  filed for bankruptcy in December 2001.
• Enron investors and retirees were left with
  worthless stock.
• Enron was charged with securities fraud
  (fraudulent manipulation of publicly reported
  financial results, lying to SEC,…)
• QUESTION: In what ways are security
  market moral hazard problems at the
  heart of the Enron bankruptcy scandal?
Brief Time-Line of
       the Enron Scandal

• Enron was a Houston-based natural gas pipeline
  company formed by merger in 1985.

• By early 2001, Enron had morphed into the
  7th largest U.S. company, and the largest U.S.
  buyer/seller of natural gas and electricity.

• Enron was heavily involved in energy brokering,
  electronic energy trading, global commodity and
  options trading, etc.
Brief Time-Line of the
 Enron Scandal…Continued

• On October 16, 2001, in the first major
  public sign of trouble, Enron announces a
  huge third-quarter loss of $618 million.

• On October 22, 2001, the Securities and
  Exchange Commission (SEC) begins an
  inquiry into Enron’s accounting practices.

• On December 2, 2001, Enron files for
  bankruptcy.
: Oct – Dec 2001
Regulatory Oversight of Enron

    Auditors                    SEC
Arthur Anderson
                    Audit
                  Committee
                  (Directors)
                                Enron Board
                                of Directors
       Company Report

  Shareholders
                                      Enron
Investigative Findings
 1993-2001: Enron used complex dubious
energy trading schemes
Example: “Death Star” Energy Trading Strategy

•   Took advantage of a loophole in the market rules governing
    energy trading in California

•   Enron would schedule electric power transmission on a
    congested line from bus A to bus B in the opposite direction
    to demand, thus enabling them to collect a “congestion
    reduction” fee for seemingly relieving congestion on this line.

•   Enron would then schedule the routing of this energy all the
    way back to bus A so that no energy was actually bought or
    sold by Enron in net terms. It was purely a routing scheme.
Investigative Findings …
     1993-2001: Enron also used complex &
    dubious accounting schemes
• to reduce Enron’s tax payments;
• to inflate Enron’s income and profits;
• to inflate Enron’s stock price and credit rating;
• to hide losses in off-balance-sheet subsidiaries;
• to engineer off-balance-sheet schemes to funnel
  money to themselves, friends, and family;
• to fraudulently misrepresent Enron’s financial
  condition in public reports.
  WHY WASN’T ENRON STOPPED SOONER!
Case Study of One Accounting Scheme
   (Based on WSJ site & Prof. S. Ravenscroft Notes)



• Enron’s rapid growth in late 1990s involved
large capital investments not expected to
generate significant cash flow in short term.


• Maintaining Enron’s credit ratings at an
investment grade (e.g., BBB- or higher by
S&P) was vital to Enron’s energy trading
business.
Case Study … Continued

• One perceived solution: Create partnerships
structured as special purpose entities
(SPEs) that could borrow from outside
investors without having to be consolidated
into Enron’s balance sheet.

• SPE 3% Rule: No consolidation needed if
at least 3% of SPE total capital was owned
independently of Enron.
Case Study … Continued

• Enron’s creation of over 3000 partnerships
  started about 1993 when it teamed with Calpers
  (California Public Retirement System) to create JEDI
  (Joint Energy Development Investments) fund.

• Enron initially thought of these partnerships as
  temporary solutions for temporary cash flow
  problems.
• Enron later used SPE partnerships under 3%
  rule to hide bad bets it had made on speculative
  assets by selling these assets to the partnerships in
  return for IOUs backed by Enron stock as collateral!
  (over $1 billion by 2002)
1993                 CALPERS
        50% interest    50% interest
             $250 Mil
             in Enron
             Stock
ENRON

         High-Risk
          Assets
                        JEDI
IOU’s
Case Study… Continued

• In Nov 1997, Calpers wants to cash out of JEDI.

• To keep JEDI afloat, Enron needs new 3% partner.

• It creates another partnership Chewco (named
  for the Star Wars character Chewbacca) to buy out
  Calpers’ stake in JEDI for $383 million.

• Enron plans to back short-term loans to Chewco to
  permit it to buy out Calper’s stake for $383 million.
ENRON
                              CALPERS
                           $383 million buyout
 Short-term loans


                    $383 million
CHEWCO
                                   JEDI
This is the plan….
Case Study…Continued

• Chewco needs $383 million to give Calpers
• It gets…..
   — $240 mil loan from Barclay’s bank
      guaranteed by Enron
   — $132 mil credit from JEDI (whose
      only asset is Enron stock)
•Chewco still must get 3% of $383 million
(about $11.5 million) from some outside
source to avoid inclusion of JEDI’s debt on
Enron’s books (SEC filing, 1997).
Case Study…Continued

Chewco Capital Structure: Outside 3%

•$125,000 from William Dodson & Michael
Kopper (an aide to Enron CFO Fastow)

•$11.4 mil loans from Big River and Little
River (two new companies formed by Enron
expressly for this purpose who get a loan
from Barclay’s Bank)
More Complications for Enron!

•   Barclay’s Bank begins to doubt the
    strength of the new companies Big River
    and Little River.
•   It requires a cash reserve of $6.6
    million to be deposited (as security) for
    the $11.4 million dollar loans.
•   This cash reserve is paid by JEDI, whose
    net worth by this time consists solely of
    Enron stock, putting Enron in the at-risk
    position for this amount (red arrow on the
    next slide.)
ENRON                      CALPERS
Enron
 aide
                                        383
                Chewco
Kopper




         125   An entity supposedly           JEDI
               independent of Enron        Enron now
                                       132 sole partner
 240 Enron              6.6
 guarantee                        11.4

Barclay’s Bank                11.4    Big River
                                      Little River
Case Study… Continued


“Oh, what a tangled web
we weave when first we
practice to deceive!”
         Walter Scott, Marimon, VI
Profit to Enron from all this?

• Enron received $10 million in guarantee
fee + fee based on loan balance to JEDI.

• Enron received a total of $25.7 mil
revenues from this source.

• In first quarter of 2000, the increase in
price of Enron stock held by JEDI resulted
in $126 million in profits to Enron.
Profit to Enron from all this?

• But everything fell apart when Enron’s
share price started to drop in Fall 2000
(dot.com bubble burst ↓).

• In November 2001, Enron admitted to the
SEC that Chewco was not truly independent
of Enron.

• Chewco went bankrupt shortly after this
admission by Enron.
Who is to Blame for
         the Enron Scandal?

    Auditors                    SEC
Arthur Anderson
                    Audit
                  Committee
                  (Directors)
                                Enron Board
                                of Directors
       Company Report

  Shareholders
                                      Enron
Who is to Blame for Enron?

• Lax accounting by Arthur Anderson (AA) Co?
•   “Rogue” AA auditor David Duncan (fired 1/15/02)?
•   Enron’s senior management for hiding losses in
dubious off-balance-sheet partnerships?
• CFO Andrew Fastow for setting up these partnerships
(6 year prison sentence 9/26/2004)?
•   Timothy Belden (trading schemes, 2yrs probation 2007)
•   CEO Jeff Skilling (24 year prison sentence 10/23/06)?
•   CEO Kenneth Lay (died 7/23/06 with charges pending)?
•   Media exaggeration and frenzy?
•   Stock analysts who kept pushing Enron stock?
Bad Accounting Practices?

Generally Accepted Accounting Practices
(Prior to 2002):
•Auditing companies often consult for the
companies they audit (conflict of interest).
•Audit company partners often later accept jobs
from their client companies.
•Companies often retain the same auditing
company for long periods of time.
•Auditing companies have been allowed to police
themselves.
Bad Accounting Practices?

Generally Accepted Accounting Practices
(Prior to 2002)… Continued

• Appointment of auditor company is in theory by
shareholders but in practice by senior management
• Audit Committee members often are not
independent of senior management - insiders
are the ones with the most accurate understanding.
• Audit Committee members have typically been
required to own company stock to align their
incentives with those of company.
Other Dubious Practices?

• Board of Directors have traditionally been
paid largely in stock to align their
interests with shareholders.

• Directors can sell out early based on
insider information.

• When senior executives are charged with
failure to abide by SEC rulings, the
company typically pays the fine.
Lessons from Enron Scandal
• Demonstrated the importance of “old
economy” questions: How does the company
actually make its money? Is it sustainable
over the long haul? Is it legal!

• Demonstrated the need for significant
reform in accounting and corporate
governance in the U.S.

• Does this necessarily mean government
regulation can fix the problem?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002


• U.S. legislative response to recent spate
of accounting scandals (Enron, WorldCom,
Global Crossing, Adelphia Communications…)

• Compliance with comprehensive
reform of accounting procedures is now
required for publicly held companies, to
promote and improve the quality and
transparency of financial reporting by internal
and external auditors.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002

• Companies must “list and track performance
of their material risks and associated control
procedures.”
• CEOs are required to vouch for the financial
statements of their companies.

• Boards of Directors must have Audit Committees
whose members are independent of company
senior management.

• Companies can no longer make loans to company
directors.
SOX Act of 2002 … Continued

• SOX Act Essentially a response to one cause of
the financial irregularities: failure by auditors, SEC,
and other agencies to provide adequate oversight.
• Not clear how SOX Act will prevent misuse of “off-
balance-sheet activities” that are difficult to trace.

• SOX Act also does not address other key causes:
     misaligned incentives (e.g., shift from cash to
     stock option compensation)
     focus on short-run profits rather than longer-
     run profit performance.
Getting Rid of SPE 3% Rule

• SPE 3% Rule: Rule permitting Special Purpose
Entities (SPEs) created by a firm to be treated as “off-
balance-sheet” – i.e., no required consolidation with
firm’s balance sheets – as long as at least 3% of the
total capital of the SPE was owned independently of
the firm.
• Rule raised to 10% in 2003 following Enron scandal

• After more misuse of rule during Subprime Financial
Crisis, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
replaced this rule in 2009 with stricter consolidation
standards on all asset reporting (FASB 166 & 167).
References
Chron.Com Special Report: “The Fall of Enron”,
www.chron.com/news/specials/enron/
George Benston et al., Following the Money: The
Enron Failure and the State of Corporate Disclosure,
AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies,
Washington, D.C., 2003
www.aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php?id=242

Prof. Sue Ravenscroft, ISU, Enron Case Study Notes
Wall Street Journal, “Glossary of Questionable Enron
Deals” http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/
info-enrongloss-0603.html
www.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ353/tesfatsion/
FASBEliminationOfQSPE.June2009.pdf

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ENRON PPT

  • 1. The Enron Scandal and Moral Hazard Prof. Leigh Tesfatsion Department of Economics Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011-1070 http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ Last Revised: 3 April 2011
  • 2. The Enron Scandal and Moral Hazard • Enron, the 7th largest U.S. company in 2001, filed for bankruptcy in December 2001. • Enron investors and retirees were left with worthless stock. • Enron was charged with securities fraud (fraudulent manipulation of publicly reported financial results, lying to SEC,…) • QUESTION: In what ways are security market moral hazard problems at the heart of the Enron bankruptcy scandal?
  • 3. Brief Time-Line of the Enron Scandal • Enron was a Houston-based natural gas pipeline company formed by merger in 1985. • By early 2001, Enron had morphed into the 7th largest U.S. company, and the largest U.S. buyer/seller of natural gas and electricity. • Enron was heavily involved in energy brokering, electronic energy trading, global commodity and options trading, etc.
  • 4. Brief Time-Line of the Enron Scandal…Continued • On October 16, 2001, in the first major public sign of trouble, Enron announces a huge third-quarter loss of $618 million. • On October 22, 2001, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) begins an inquiry into Enron’s accounting practices. • On December 2, 2001, Enron files for bankruptcy.
  • 5. : Oct – Dec 2001
  • 6. Regulatory Oversight of Enron Auditors SEC Arthur Anderson Audit Committee (Directors) Enron Board of Directors Company Report Shareholders Enron
  • 7. Investigative Findings 1993-2001: Enron used complex dubious energy trading schemes Example: “Death Star” Energy Trading Strategy • Took advantage of a loophole in the market rules governing energy trading in California • Enron would schedule electric power transmission on a congested line from bus A to bus B in the opposite direction to demand, thus enabling them to collect a “congestion reduction” fee for seemingly relieving congestion on this line. • Enron would then schedule the routing of this energy all the way back to bus A so that no energy was actually bought or sold by Enron in net terms. It was purely a routing scheme.
  • 8. Investigative Findings … 1993-2001: Enron also used complex & dubious accounting schemes • to reduce Enron’s tax payments; • to inflate Enron’s income and profits; • to inflate Enron’s stock price and credit rating; • to hide losses in off-balance-sheet subsidiaries; • to engineer off-balance-sheet schemes to funnel money to themselves, friends, and family; • to fraudulently misrepresent Enron’s financial condition in public reports. WHY WASN’T ENRON STOPPED SOONER!
  • 9. Case Study of One Accounting Scheme (Based on WSJ site & Prof. S. Ravenscroft Notes) • Enron’s rapid growth in late 1990s involved large capital investments not expected to generate significant cash flow in short term. • Maintaining Enron’s credit ratings at an investment grade (e.g., BBB- or higher by S&P) was vital to Enron’s energy trading business.
  • 10. Case Study … Continued • One perceived solution: Create partnerships structured as special purpose entities (SPEs) that could borrow from outside investors without having to be consolidated into Enron’s balance sheet. • SPE 3% Rule: No consolidation needed if at least 3% of SPE total capital was owned independently of Enron.
  • 11. Case Study … Continued • Enron’s creation of over 3000 partnerships started about 1993 when it teamed with Calpers (California Public Retirement System) to create JEDI (Joint Energy Development Investments) fund. • Enron initially thought of these partnerships as temporary solutions for temporary cash flow problems. • Enron later used SPE partnerships under 3% rule to hide bad bets it had made on speculative assets by selling these assets to the partnerships in return for IOUs backed by Enron stock as collateral! (over $1 billion by 2002)
  • 12. 1993 CALPERS 50% interest 50% interest $250 Mil in Enron Stock ENRON High-Risk Assets JEDI IOU’s
  • 13. Case Study… Continued • In Nov 1997, Calpers wants to cash out of JEDI. • To keep JEDI afloat, Enron needs new 3% partner. • It creates another partnership Chewco (named for the Star Wars character Chewbacca) to buy out Calpers’ stake in JEDI for $383 million. • Enron plans to back short-term loans to Chewco to permit it to buy out Calper’s stake for $383 million.
  • 14. ENRON CALPERS $383 million buyout Short-term loans $383 million CHEWCO JEDI This is the plan….
  • 15. Case Study…Continued • Chewco needs $383 million to give Calpers • It gets….. — $240 mil loan from Barclay’s bank guaranteed by Enron — $132 mil credit from JEDI (whose only asset is Enron stock) •Chewco still must get 3% of $383 million (about $11.5 million) from some outside source to avoid inclusion of JEDI’s debt on Enron’s books (SEC filing, 1997).
  • 16. Case Study…Continued Chewco Capital Structure: Outside 3% •$125,000 from William Dodson & Michael Kopper (an aide to Enron CFO Fastow) •$11.4 mil loans from Big River and Little River (two new companies formed by Enron expressly for this purpose who get a loan from Barclay’s Bank)
  • 17. More Complications for Enron! • Barclay’s Bank begins to doubt the strength of the new companies Big River and Little River. • It requires a cash reserve of $6.6 million to be deposited (as security) for the $11.4 million dollar loans. • This cash reserve is paid by JEDI, whose net worth by this time consists solely of Enron stock, putting Enron in the at-risk position for this amount (red arrow on the next slide.)
  • 18. ENRON CALPERS Enron aide 383 Chewco Kopper 125 An entity supposedly JEDI independent of Enron Enron now 132 sole partner 240 Enron 6.6 guarantee 11.4 Barclay’s Bank 11.4 Big River Little River
  • 19. Case Study… Continued “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!” Walter Scott, Marimon, VI
  • 20. Profit to Enron from all this? • Enron received $10 million in guarantee fee + fee based on loan balance to JEDI. • Enron received a total of $25.7 mil revenues from this source. • In first quarter of 2000, the increase in price of Enron stock held by JEDI resulted in $126 million in profits to Enron.
  • 21. Profit to Enron from all this? • But everything fell apart when Enron’s share price started to drop in Fall 2000 (dot.com bubble burst ↓). • In November 2001, Enron admitted to the SEC that Chewco was not truly independent of Enron. • Chewco went bankrupt shortly after this admission by Enron.
  • 22. Who is to Blame for the Enron Scandal? Auditors SEC Arthur Anderson Audit Committee (Directors) Enron Board of Directors Company Report Shareholders Enron
  • 23. Who is to Blame for Enron? • Lax accounting by Arthur Anderson (AA) Co? • “Rogue” AA auditor David Duncan (fired 1/15/02)? • Enron’s senior management for hiding losses in dubious off-balance-sheet partnerships? • CFO Andrew Fastow for setting up these partnerships (6 year prison sentence 9/26/2004)? • Timothy Belden (trading schemes, 2yrs probation 2007) • CEO Jeff Skilling (24 year prison sentence 10/23/06)? • CEO Kenneth Lay (died 7/23/06 with charges pending)? • Media exaggeration and frenzy? • Stock analysts who kept pushing Enron stock?
  • 24. Bad Accounting Practices? Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (Prior to 2002): •Auditing companies often consult for the companies they audit (conflict of interest). •Audit company partners often later accept jobs from their client companies. •Companies often retain the same auditing company for long periods of time. •Auditing companies have been allowed to police themselves.
  • 25. Bad Accounting Practices? Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (Prior to 2002)… Continued • Appointment of auditor company is in theory by shareholders but in practice by senior management • Audit Committee members often are not independent of senior management - insiders are the ones with the most accurate understanding. • Audit Committee members have typically been required to own company stock to align their incentives with those of company.
  • 26. Other Dubious Practices? • Board of Directors have traditionally been paid largely in stock to align their interests with shareholders. • Directors can sell out early based on insider information. • When senior executives are charged with failure to abide by SEC rulings, the company typically pays the fine.
  • 27. Lessons from Enron Scandal • Demonstrated the importance of “old economy” questions: How does the company actually make its money? Is it sustainable over the long haul? Is it legal! • Demonstrated the need for significant reform in accounting and corporate governance in the U.S. • Does this necessarily mean government regulation can fix the problem?
  • 28. Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 • U.S. legislative response to recent spate of accounting scandals (Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Adelphia Communications…) • Compliance with comprehensive reform of accounting procedures is now required for publicly held companies, to promote and improve the quality and transparency of financial reporting by internal and external auditors.
  • 29. Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 • Companies must “list and track performance of their material risks and associated control procedures.” • CEOs are required to vouch for the financial statements of their companies. • Boards of Directors must have Audit Committees whose members are independent of company senior management. • Companies can no longer make loans to company directors.
  • 30. SOX Act of 2002 … Continued • SOX Act Essentially a response to one cause of the financial irregularities: failure by auditors, SEC, and other agencies to provide adequate oversight. • Not clear how SOX Act will prevent misuse of “off- balance-sheet activities” that are difficult to trace. • SOX Act also does not address other key causes: misaligned incentives (e.g., shift from cash to stock option compensation) focus on short-run profits rather than longer- run profit performance.
  • 31. Getting Rid of SPE 3% Rule • SPE 3% Rule: Rule permitting Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) created by a firm to be treated as “off- balance-sheet” – i.e., no required consolidation with firm’s balance sheets – as long as at least 3% of the total capital of the SPE was owned independently of the firm. • Rule raised to 10% in 2003 following Enron scandal • After more misuse of rule during Subprime Financial Crisis, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) replaced this rule in 2009 with stricter consolidation standards on all asset reporting (FASB 166 & 167).
  • 32. References Chron.Com Special Report: “The Fall of Enron”, www.chron.com/news/specials/enron/ George Benston et al., Following the Money: The Enron Failure and the State of Corporate Disclosure, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Washington, D.C., 2003 www.aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php?id=242 Prof. Sue Ravenscroft, ISU, Enron Case Study Notes Wall Street Journal, “Glossary of Questionable Enron Deals” http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/ info-enrongloss-0603.html www.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ353/tesfatsion/ FASBEliminationOfQSPE.June2009.pdf