White also served as a member of Enron's Executive Committee and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Enron Operations Corporation.

Causey was Enron's Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer.

He eventually was promoted to Chief Accounting Officer, where he signed off on the Special Purpose Entities that were Enron's downfall.

* October 17 To correct an accounting error on the Raptor partnerships devised by CFO Andrew Fastow, Enron's assets ( shareholder equity ) are reduced by $ 1. 01 billion.

Andrew Fastow was familiar with the market and knowledgeable in how to play it in Enron's favor.

Andrew Fastow creates Chewco ( managed by Enron's Michael Kopper ) in an effort to hide debt and inflate profits, but Chewco doesn't meet requirements to keep it off Enron's balance sheet.

Although CalPERS " was alerted by its advisers in December 2000 about the serious and potentially embarrassing conflicts inherent in one of a web of private partnerships set up by Enron's chief financial officer, Andrew S. Fastow ", it later denied that it could have taken actions to prevent Enron's downfall.

While presented to the outside world as being independent entities, the funds Fastow created were to take write-downs off Enron's books and guaranteed not to lose money.

Fastow pressured some of the largest investment banks in the United States, such as Merrill Lynch, Citibank, and others to invest in his funds, threatening to cause them to lose Enron's future business if they did not.

In addition to Fastow, there are stories of the complicity of Enron's accountants ( at Arthur Andersen ), their lawyers ( internal and external ), the senior management ( Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling ), Fastow's partner in many of his deals, Michael Kopper, and Enron's board of directors.

It is believed that this is the beginning of the complex and questionable accounting practices that lead to Enron's demise.

* September 26 Lay tells employees that Enron's accounting practices are " legal and totally appropriate ," that Enron stock is " an incredible bargain ," that he and other executives have bought Enron stock in the last two months, and that " the third quarter is looking great " in an online forum.

In 2006 he was convicted of multiple federal felony charges relating to Enron's financial collapse, and is currently serving a 24-year, four-month prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Englewood, Colorado.

In the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Enron's trading floor, used to fool visiting analysts, is described as a " Potemkin Village ".

Enron's CEO, Louis Borget, is also discovered to be diverting company money to offshore accounts.

However, the traders are fired after it is revealed that they gambled away Enron's reserves, nearly destroying the company.

Enron's successes continue as it became one of the few Internet-related companies to survive the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, and is named as the " most admired " corporation by Fortune magazine for the sixth year running.

Powers is a former member of the Enron Corporation Board of Directors and chaired the Special Investigative Committee to investigate the causes of Enron's bankruptcy.

In the 1980s there were questionable activities at the company, but the bulk of the events depicted in the book occur from 1997 onward and led to Enron's collapse.

When brought in front of congressional committees, Skilling stated that he had " no knowledge " of the complicated chain of scandal that would eventually result in Enron's bankruptcy.

Critics dismiss these reports as lip service, citing examples such as Enron's yearly " Corporate Responsibility Annual Report " and tobacco corporations ' social reports.

* May 5 Enron's stock price closes below $ 59. 78, a critical point for one of the partnerships.

* July 23 Enron's stock price closes below $ 47, a critical point for the Raptor partnerships.

* October 22 Enron announces that the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) has begun an inquiry into Enron's accounting practices with its partnerships.

Kynikos profited greatly and Chanos himself became something of a celebrity as a consequence of his early awareness of Enron's problems.

Astros management faced a public relations nightmare when the energy corporation went bankrupt in the midst of one of the biggest corporate scandals in American history in 2001, and they bought back the remainder of Enron's thirty years of naming rights for $ 2. 1 million, rechristening the ballpark as Astros Field on February 7, 2002.

However, as CalPERS had earned $ 132. 5 million from the sale of its stake in Enron's JEDI I project to Enron's Chewco project, its total Enron losses were only about $ 11 million.

Enron's business losses were masked by accounting tricks, while the insiders raked off huge " profits " and bonuses for themselves.

This effectively allowed Enron's audited balance sheet to appear debt free, while in reality it owed more than 30 billion dollars at the height of its debt.

Enron creates a series of SPEs called the Raptors that buys the worst performing Enron assets and removes them from Enron's books.

Architects of Enron's rise bred its demise.

April: Enron's Teesside power plant in England begins Operation, one of the first big successes for the company's international strategy.

In December, Skilling Becomes Enron's President and COO.

Wessex become Enron's new water unit, Azurix.

* May 17 The energy task force issues its report, which endorses some of Enron's proposals.

* August 15 Sherron Watkins, a vice president for corporate development, puts a one-page letter in Lay's suggestion box, questioning Enron's accounting practices.

* August 22 Watkins meets with Lay, giving him a seven-page letter stating that Enron may be an " elaborate accounting hoax ," and advises him not to involve Vinson & Elkins, Enron's law firm, because of potential conflicts of interest.

* October 15 Vinson & Elkins deliver a report which states that Arthur Andersen approved of Enron's accounting procedures, and that Enron did nothing wrong.

As of 2011 the Atlanta Falcons Executive Committee consisted of ten people: Arthur Blank, Owner and Chairman ; Rich McKay, President & CEO ; Thomas Dimitroff, General Manager ; Kim Shreckengost, Executive Vice President / Chief of Staff for AMB Group, LLC ; Greg Beadles, Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer ; Jim Smith, Chief Marketing Officer ; Danny Branch, Vice President of Information Technology ; Dave Cohen, Vice President of Sales and Service ; Reggie Roberts, Vice President of Football Communications and Tim Zulawski, VP of Sponsorship Sales and Service.

* Other executives of the organization, such as its Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ) or Executive Vice President

The highest-level executives are usually called " C-level " or part of the " C-suite ," referring to the 3-letter initials starting with " C " and ending with " O " ( for " Chief __________ Officer "); the traditional offices are Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ), Chief Operations Officer ( COO ), and Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ).

* Chief Financial Officer or CFO – high-level corporate officer with oversight of corporate finances ; reports to the CEO.

The board complained that Pfeiffer was too removed from management and the troops, as he surrounded himself with a " clique " of Chief Financial Officer Earl Mason, Senior Vice-President John Rose, and Human Resources Chief Hans Gutsch.

In an interview with Eurostar's Chief Executive Nicolas Petrovic in the Financial Times in May 2012, an intention for Eurostar to serve ten new destinations was expressed, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Cologne, Lyon, Marseille and Geneva, along with a likely second hub to be created in Brussels.

* Daniel Ammann – Chief Financial Officer

In response the DoS Chief Financial Officer observed that ' The Department operates in over 270 locations in 172 countries, while conducting business in 150 currencies and an even large number of languages ...

In 2003 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) conducted an audit of the PNA and stated that Arafat diverted $ 900 million in public funds to a special bank account controlled by Arafat and the PNA Chief Economic Financial adviser.

Based on his work at Continental, Fastow was hired in 1990 by Jeffrey Skilling at the Enron Finance Corp. Fastow was named the Chief Financial Officer at Enron in 1998.

* In November 2003, he represented Andrew Fastow, deposed Chief Financial Officer of Enron.

:" The Chief Financial Officer of the government, the Secretary serves as Chairman Pro Tempore of the President's Economic Policy Council, Chairman of the Boards and Managing Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, and as U. S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The Secretary's staff element is called the Office of the Secretary of Defense ( OSD ) and is composed of a Deputy Secretary of Defense ( DEPSECDEF ) and five Under Secretaries of Defense in the fields of Acquisition, Technology & Logistics ; Comptroller / Chief Financial Officer ; Intelligence ; Personnel & Readiness ; and Policy.

** Chief Financial Officer:

The Office of the Secretary contains a Deputy Secretary of Commerce, a Chief of Staff, a Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, an Assistant Secretary for Commerce and Intergovernmental Affairs, a Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration, a Chief Information Officer, a General Counsel, an Inspector General, an Office of Business Liaison, an Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, an Office of Public Affairs, an Office of White House Liaison, and an International IPR Enforcement Coordinator.

# Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of Administration

* Office of the Chief Financial Officer ( OCFO )