Enron
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Enron Corporation
- a US energy trading company that was started in 1985 as a gas pipeline company based in Houston. Under the leadership of Kenneth Lay it grew to become one of the largest companies in the US and the largest energy trading company in the world. In 2001 its collapse as a result of fraud within the company became the second largest business failure there has ever been. Dishonest accounting practices had allowed it to declare profits which did not exist.
安然（Enron）：美国能源贸易公司，成立于1985年，最初是一家位于休斯敦的天然气管道公司。在肯尼思·赖（Kenneth Lay）的领导下，它成长为美国最大的公司之一和全球最大的能源贸易公司。2001年，由于公司内部欺诈而倒闭，这是有史以来第二大企业倒闭。不诚实的会计惯例使它可以宣布不存在的利润。