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Ethics and Compliance Plan for a CasinoAbstractThis ethics and compliance plan for a casino in Texas provides background information on the industry, regulations to be considered, and the nature of the proposed organization. Because of state regulati Continue Reading...
Decisions Influenced by Bias
Volkswagen produced vehicles that were equipped with emissions controls that were designed to shut off once the cars had passed regulatory tests. As s result, not only did the cars pollute more in real life than in those Continue Reading...
1. As the consultant, create an argument that you will present to the CEO that suggests accounting and financial management knowledge and skills will be essential to the company’s success and stability over the next five (5) years. Provide supp Continue Reading...
Code of Conduct Framework
The Board in charge of every firm has the responsibility to come up with, and record in writing a code stating the processes and practices that the company should follow for fair UPSI disclosure, as per the principles given Continue Reading...
In recent times, there have been accounting scandals that have stunned the finance and accounting realm, and thereby reemphasized the significance of maintaining proper accounting practices. The recent accounting scandal of Olympus Corporation, a Jap Continue Reading...
Balance Sheet Activities
Off-sheet balance activities are of particular interest to investors as well as the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) because these accounts can be difficult to identify and track and, in some cases, can even repr Continue Reading...
Auditing Discussion
a) The public accounting profession has taken a number of steps to minimize potential bias towards important users. The profession has specific standards for auditing, a separation between auditing and consulting roles, and other Continue Reading...
Financial Statements
McDonalds is a fast food restaurant chain that operates globally. The company is the leader in the industry, and is one of the most recognized brands in the world.
The income statement can reveal a number of things about a comp Continue Reading...
audit committee characteristics affect firm performance in Saudi Arabia?
What are audit committees?
Many studies have been carried out to demonstrate the manner in which audit committees reports affect the overall performance of companies in Saudi Continue Reading...
Zappos History (Zappos, N.d.)
Zappos Core Values (Zappos, N.d.)
The Secretes to Zappos' Success (Palmer, 2010)
Here's Why Amazon Bought Zappos (Parr, 2009)
The first two sources are from the company's website and talk describe the founding and cu Continue Reading...
Salesforce Organizational Analysis
Organizational Analysis of Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has completely redefined the economics of cloud computing by successfully using the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that enables enterprise Continue Reading...
05 under Resolving Ethical Issues in corporate situations is apt.
One Research Standard in the "Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research"
The one research standard that stands out as among the most important standards is "accuracy," whic Continue Reading...
Social Performance
Description of Company
My company, WidgetCo, designs and manufactures widgets here in Dullsville, USA. The company has been in operation since 1927, and moved to Dullsville shortly after WWII to take advantage of the large cluste Continue Reading...
This approach to defining a performance-based taxonomy will also allow for a more effective comparison within industries as well. All of these factors taken together will provide enterprise computing buyers with more effective foundations of arguing Continue Reading...
Accounting Information Systems have emerged as very famous components of modern businesses mainly because they offer beneficial and timely information to management in addition to being cost-effective. Generally, these systems are helpful in book acc Continue Reading...
marketing in Germany with marketing in the United States.
The United States Department of State provides cultural, political, economic and other information regarding the marketing opportunities in Germany. The www.export.gov site explains that Ger Continue Reading...
L Finance
Firms operating internationally can find themselves dealing with additional regulatory risks that must be taken into consideration when making investments. Starbucks notes in its 2011 Annual Report (p.12) that there are several regulatory Continue Reading...
Transaction-Related Audit Objectives
Auditing internal controls are processes instituted by companies to assist them accomplish specific goals and objectives (The Institute of Internal Auditors, 2004). In addition, internal controls help in directin Continue Reading...
Monitoring Employees
Employee Monitoring Discussion
In the United States, employment law is based on a minimal expectation of privacy (Rosser, 2011). This means the interest of the business takes precedence over the employee's right to privacy. If Continue Reading...
skills that a forensic accountant needs to possess and evaluate the need for each skill.
Over the last several years, the role of forensic accountants has been continually evolving. This is because there have been a number of cases surrounding thei Continue Reading...
Financial Structure of Financial Environment
Financial structure is the mixture of financial instruments, financial markets and other financial institutions operating within the economy. ( Fase & Abma, 2003). Financial structure consists of a co Continue Reading...
Financial Audit SOW
Financial Audit Statement of Work
The objectives of this work order is for the contractor to express an opinion on the fairness in which the financial statements are fairly presented, in all material aspects, financial position, Continue Reading...
There are several reasons why this model is particularly relevant for outsourcing relationship maturity. First, at the lowest level of the model the focus is on purely reacting, which is exactly what many companies do when they are stressed with co Continue Reading...
Improper Data Analysis Led to the Fall of Enron
The downfall of the Enron Corporation in 2001 had far reaching effects that are still felt to this day. Employees, shareholders, auditors, executives, the public and many other stakeholders are still Continue Reading...
Golf Company
The Calloway Golf website states that their aim is pure in that they are "always looking to raise" their game and as well stated is that each day the company searches for "Pure innovation and performance." (2011) The Calloway Golf Comp Continue Reading...
This would immediately flag the loans going outside their own bank and also provide greater insights into how customers were using funds over time. Another approach is to incent auditors to find fraud and embezzlement and make it widely known in the Continue Reading...
This has saved many organizations literally millions of dollars by averting investments in IT programs that would have not delivered a sufficient enough return to make they valuable (Weill, Ross, 2004).
IT Governance failures often manifest themsel Continue Reading...
Business Ethics and Its Importance
How is the notion of business ethics important for management, work and organisations?
Business ethics is a form of professional ethics guiding the moral conducts of business organizations. Business ethics applies Continue Reading...
Balance Sheet Items
Off-Balance Sheet Items
This paper examines off-balance sheet items and their treatment in financial systems analysis. Balance sheets consist of information about a company's assets, liabilities, and owner's equity. Off-balance Continue Reading...
Auditing of Enron Corporation
Responsible Accounting and Enron Questions
There were numerous parties associated with Enron who were responsible for creating the "crisis of confidence" in the accounting profession. At the top of the list would be En Continue Reading...
A company may be profitable, but not growing, and vice versa, thus affecting leverage (Aggaral and Zhao, 2007).
b. induce a negative relationship between firm value and leverage; conversely, if a firm is perceived with negative or flat growth, leve Continue Reading...
In other words, with respect to the dilemma between IFRS and U.S. GAAP, the view provided by the article is that recent changes have actually manifested a far more intensive process of oversight in the latter than is proposed by the former.
To the Continue Reading...
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Occasionally, a firm will appear in the business media specifically for successes or failures in certain areas. Smuckers, for example, received an extensive w Continue Reading...
There is a modern emphasis, which has resulted from the experience of the economic impact of disaster, on a more extensive and 'distributed' mode of thinking about disaster recovery. This is an important factor that should be stressed as it has dire Continue Reading...
This however is not possible under the form of governance and control seen in New Zealand. The other example is that of heavy regulation as found in the U.S. And the UK. This sort of regulation results in increased controls and governance because he Continue Reading...
Pharmaceutical drugs are among the most expensive products to produce globally and as a result have a major impact on the profitability of these firms. Without accurate financial reporting of these costs many investors have no idea of whether the co Continue Reading...
The statement "What is worse is that it legitimizes the self-serving managerial behaviors" in the context of CEO pay. This statement I agree with as CEOs have used governance to rationalize giving themselves exceptionally large raises without accoun Continue Reading...
The ratios are symptoms rather than problems. Thus, we see the emergence of ratios as a diagnosis tool rather (Johnson, 2008). These tools must then be used in concert with more in-depth analysis techniques and the collect and interpretation of othe Continue Reading...
Today Halliburton must address transparency and compliance to the U.S. Government, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in accordance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and also the shareholders. This has added cost and time constraints to their s Continue Reading...