Would ENRON Even Be That Bad by Today’s Standards?

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even been considered that bad by today’s standards?
The headline story that you are probably familiar with is that; the business started out as a moderately successful energy company, but when compounding profits became harder and harder to come by, they resorted to progressively more desperate fraudulent activities to keep the party going as long as they could.
They had convinced the world that they were the smartest men in the room,
made impressive (but willfully reckless) projections about their future performance,
created complex deal networks that made revenue look far better than it actually was, the reality is that, today ENRON is synonymous with corporate greed and corruption, and more than two decades on, it has radically reshaped the way that business is conducted… BUT…
In the years since, there have been plenty of larger and more brazen examples of outright fraud, many of which went largely unpunished and unremembered.