Melissa Mayella (13/342836/EK/19220)

Chintya Putri (13/350333/EK/19595)

Achmad Faizal Azmi(14/361160/EK/19691)
Claudia Alexandra (14/361225/EK/19733)
Anastasia Stella Hanny (14/361213/EK/19725)

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
Introductory
Hello, we are Achmad, Lala, Claudia, Chintya, and Melissa. We would
like to ask you something regarding our assignment and we really need your
help. Do have time to answer our questions?
Informational
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Did you have any take home exam recently?

How long did it take for you to write the essay?
Where did you find any reference for your essay?
Did you find any difficulties in making the essay?
How do you overcome the difficulties?
With whom did you write the essay?
Where did you write the essay?
Please tell us briefly about the content of your essay.
How was your last GPA compared to the previous one?

Assessment
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Do you think that the essay exam was necessary?

Are you confidence in getting a good grade for your essay? Why?
Is academic success one of your goal?
Do you think academic dishonesty can be justified? If yes, to what
extend?
5. Do you know the consequences of doing academic dishonesty?
6. One of your friend told us that someone was copying his work, who do
you think is the suspect?
7. What punishment do you think someone deserves if he/she does
academic dishonesty?
Closing
1. Can you take responsibility over your answers in this interview?
2. Do you have something that you want to tell us?
3. Please give us your closing statement to convince us that you are not
the suspect.

ANALYSIS
Based on the interview that we have done, we suspected that the
perpetrators are Dilla and Reyza. Our conclusion based on the verbal and
nonverbal language as we think the content of their answers were based on
their real experience (all suspects except for Risang are enrolled in the
International Financial Management course for this semester). Therefore, we
did not rely on the content of their answers but rather focusing on their
gestures, eye contact, and the way they answered the questions.
The first interviewee was Jevon, he was able to answer all questions
calmly, clearly, and confidently. He could reply directly to the questions
without taking too much time thinking about the responses. Even though
Jevon was often shaking his head, yet we knew that it is normal for him to do
so. He did not accuse any of his friends because he said that he had no idea
about it. Hence, we concluded that Jevon was not the perpetrator.
Reyza was the second interviewee, there was a change of behavior
from his usual self to be more defensive. He answered the questions given to
him with other questions so we took it as a red flag. He also made a
suspicious gesture by placing his hand over his mouth during the interview.
He avoided giving further information without questions being asked.
Therefore, we suspected him as the perpetrator.
The second perpetrator that we recognized is Dilla, the third
interviewee of our group. She was not confidence in answering the
questions. She needed more time to think about the answers and seemed to
be confused over her answers. The delayed answers mean the respondent
might be deceptive. Moreover, she refused to make eye contact to the
interviewer and kept moving in her seat, so we were more convinced that
she was the real suspect.
The last interviewee was Risang, he seemed so relaxed when
answering the questions asked. His facial expression was convincingly
innocent. He was not making excuses, therefore we thought that he was just
being honest. He was able to make us doubtful as he said that the one who
had the most probability to be dishonest was him, so we concluded that he
was not the perpetrator as we think the real suspect would not expose
himself.

Enron was formed in 1985 following a merger between Houston Natural

Gas Co. and Omaha-based InterNorth Inc. Following the merger, Kenneth
Lay, who had been the chief executive officer (CEO) of Houston Natural Gas,
became Enron's CEO and chairman, and quickly rebranded Enron into an
energy trader and supplier. Deregulation of the energy markets allowed
companies to place bets on future prices, and Enron was poised to take
advantage.
By the fall of 2000, Enron was starting to collapese under its own
weight. CEO Jeffrey Skilling had a way of hiding the financial losses of the
trading business and other operations of the company; it was called mark-tomarket accounting. This is a technique used when trading securities where
you measure the value of a security based on its current market value,
instead of its book value. This can work well for securities, but it can be
failure for other businesses. In Enron's case, the company would build an
asset, such as a power plant, and immediately claim the projected profit on
its books, even though it hadn't made one cent from it. If the revenue from
the power plant were less than the projected amount, instead of taking the
loss, the company would then transfer these assets to an off-the-books
corporation, where the loss would go unreported. This type of accounting
enabled Enron to write off losses without decreasing the company's profit.
The primary motive for Enrons fraud was thought to be to hide the
companys debt, keep bonus high and make its stock ever more valuable.
Those are the detailed motives of Enrons fraud:

Highly aggressive earnings targets

compensation based on those targets.

Immense interest by management in maintaining stock price or

earnings trend through the use of unusually aggressive accounting
practices.

Inability to generate sufficient cash flow from operations while

reporting earnings growth.

and

management

bonus

Assets, liabilities, revenues or expenses based on significant estimates

that involve unusually subjective judgments such as reliability of
financial instruments.