620 Search Results for Fraud Issues in Accounting and
PENALTIES - CIVIL & CRIMINAL
There are statutes that impose penalties both civil and criminal for government contractors who commit fraud, waste or abuse. Some of those statutes are as follows:
False Claims Act;
False Statements Act;
Forfeit Continue Reading...
Because the home country is not required to reimburse foreign depositors for losses, there is no corresponding financial penalty for lax supervision; there is, though, a benefit to the country with lenient regulatory policies because of increased r Continue Reading...
Reject Shop -- Recent Events (January 1st, 2010 -- March 31st, 2011)
EVENT 1: Publication Date: February 16th 2011 -- Impact of floods on sales
The Reject Shop issued a statement declaring uncertainty regarding the aggregate cost of the floods and Continue Reading...
1. If jail time is off the table for executives, that would be an odd choice. Sarbanes Oxley creates disincentives for esecutives to commit fraud, such as in Enron. The point of SOX was really to add extra regulatory teeth, added punishments for exec Continue Reading...
behave ethically are more apt to earn the trust of their customers, employees, and stockholders. A system of ethics serves as the backbone of an organization. Without such a backbone, an organization cannot be firm enough to provide its various part Continue Reading...
Corporate Governance
Explain how external auditing helps ensure good corporate leadership
Corporate leadership is simply the processes and policies via which a firm manages its traditions, finances and institutions. Corporate leadership is importan Continue Reading...
Business Failure
The first and perhaps the most obvious cause for business failure is fraud. Indeed, fraud is quintessential to business failure, mainly because it takes different forms and appearances, from intentional bad management to accounting Continue Reading...
Online Dating Scams and Its Role in Identity Theft
ONLINE DATING SCAMS AND IDENTITY THEFT
The increased use of the Internet in modern communications has contributed to the emergence of cyberspace, which has become an alternative medium for developi Continue Reading...
WorldCom: The Ethics of Whistle-Blowing
In recent years, it has not been easy for employees to completely trust the corporations for which they work. Accounting scandals have made the average employee question business practices unlike before. The l Continue Reading...
Ethical Imperatives for Rational Paternalism in Advisor-Client RelationshipsInstructions:2/ Here is the one issue that I still dont have clarity on: what is your operational definition of rational paternalism for the purposes of your study? Here are Continue Reading...
Ethical Imperatives for Rational Paternalism in Advisor-Client RelationshipsDissertation ProposalAbstractThis study seeks to understand the role of ethics and rational paternalism in the practice of financial advising. A significant amount of researc Continue Reading...
Despite offering particular benefits to post-conflict nations, increased levels of help following civil war also comes with negative upshots that entails a rise in fraud and jeopardizing one of the basic objectives of peacekeeping.
Corruption affec Continue Reading...
Medicaid Health Care Assistance
How does the organization fund its programs?
Medicaid was developed for the sole purpose of providing health care services to low income individuals and families. For those people that cannot afford to pay for these Continue Reading...
This presented the troubling consideration that many of the current standard-bearers for physical excellence were the product of performance enhancing drug use. Moreover, this cast a dark shadow on what have been regarded as some of the game's great Continue Reading...
(Hackers Chronology,
2006).
1989
The first case of cyber espionage is recognized in Germany (west). This reportedly involved the CHAOS computer club.
"Mentor releases the hacker manifesto Conscience of a hacker, which ends with the intriguing li Continue Reading...
11TechFite Case StudyNameCourseInstitutionTutorSubmission DateContentsA. Application of the Law 21. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) 2Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) 3Electronic Communicatio Continue Reading...
Training is part of this process, so that people explicitly understand the ethical culture of the company. Ethical cultures tend to be self-perpetuating because the people within the organization will hold themselves and their co-workers accountable Continue Reading...
Pharmers now not only small local servers operated by Internet service providers (ISP) but they also target the 13 servers on which all other DNS servers depend.
Implications
Businesses & Large Organizations: Among large scale businesses that Continue Reading...
TMS
How is process improvement important to achieving transportation excellence? How might process improvement be extended to other areas of logistics planning?
Companies now operate in more globalized world, characterized by heavy competition. The Continue Reading...
Pattern of inductive reasoning is as follows: Theory ?Tentative Hypothesis ?Pattern ?Observation. While inductive approach is concerned with the open-ended explanatory, deductive reasoning chooses a narrow perspective by testing or confirming the hy Continue Reading...
There were few positives that could be drawn toward the company's ability to meet the needs of its stakeholders. Former CEO Joseph Nacchio and six other executives of that era faced criminal proceedings. Nacchio was convicted, though that conviction Continue Reading...
The growth of Internet has led to a desire to understand the characteristics of the users, their reasons for using the service and what the users do when connected. A huge and expanding 'Internet watching' industry has progressed to provide such dat Continue Reading...
In other respects, however, the evidence does not readily conform to theoretical predictions. For example, if gross job turnover is taken as a rough proxy for labor market flexibility -- and since stringent EPL reduces both hiring and firing -- it i Continue Reading...
NOZICK'S ENTITLEMENT THEORY
Robert Nozick's Entitlement theory is mainly connected with the issue of property and transfer of property but it is essentially based on the issue of Justice and how it comes into question when property is being transfer Continue Reading...
Enron Ethics
The Enron/Arthur Andersen affair was perhaps the worst business and accounting scandal in the history of the United States. Indeed, Enron was engaging in a massive amount of malfeasance at all levels of the organization while Arthur And Continue Reading...
Specialized labor is needed to produce a specialized product for the military. As such the cost of attracting and utilizing such talent can be very expensive to IBM.
IBM's indirect costs would consist of three aspects pertaining mainly to time, fra Continue Reading...
I agree with your assessment and conclusions regarding shareholder wealth with the context of ethics. I agree with you that the primary role of management is the maximize the wealth of those who provided management with capital. In this instance, man Continue Reading...
It relies on the vision of the state you choose to subscribe and it depends upon the costs and benefits of a few highly imperfect social institutions: market trends and the public sector. (Bovaird, Loffler, 2003, p. 25) The public sector is a ubiqui Continue Reading...
Bernie Madoff
Describe three types of illegal business behavior alleged against Mr. Madoff and for each type of behavior, explain how the behavior is illegal or unethical in the conduct of business.
In the general sense, Madoff was accused of runni Continue Reading...
Having a code of conduct that is actively implemented must seem like the most visible way to regain that trust and reinstall a semblance of corporate ethical behavior. However, in the true spirit of inquiry, we should evaluate whether or not the gra Continue Reading...
Most companies are today setting up certain 'ethical codes of conduct', which the employees, right from the top echelons, are expected to follow; in fact, it is considered a business imperative to follow a code of ethics within the various operation Continue Reading...
Fault: An Alternative to the Current Tort-Based System in England and Wales
The United Kingdom
statistics regarding claims
THE NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM
OBSTACLES TO DUE PROCESS
THE CASE FOR REFORM
THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT
THE RISING COST OF LI Continue Reading...
However, because of the costliness of this requirement, many believe it is especially unfair to small businesses who are already struggling to be competitive in an increasingly hypercompetitive, globalized economy.
As such, small, public companies Continue Reading...
In contrast, within the firm, the entrepreneur directs production and coordinates without intervention of a price mechanism; but, if production is regulated by price movements, production could be carried on without any organization at all, well mig Continue Reading...