The sun always rises. Time is unidirectional. Financial wealth can beget greed. All are fundamental truths of the universe. With regard to the last, is it possible to theorize on the link between performance-based corporate executive compensation and accounting fraud? How do we determine what separates Chief Executive Officers (CEO) such as Jeffery Skilling and Kenneth Lay from the failed conglomerate Enron from perceived highly successful CEO’s such as Jack Welch at General Electric? All of the former corporate executives were handsomely compensated in company stock options, so is it really possible to derive a correlation between corporate pay metrics and fraud? We dive deeper for answers. READ MORE