507 Search Results for Sarbanes Oxley Act
" China's undeveloped market limits investment returns potential and express insurance to a risk in investment. (Beijing Review, 2005) A plan for compulsory malpractice insurance was stated by the Beijing Insurance Regulatory Committee in June 2005 u Continue Reading...
Health Care -- Lean Philosophy on Cost Reduction and Quality Improvement
Lean Philosophy is initially traced back to Henry Ford's innovative assembly line, revolutionizing manufacturing while failing to provide true variety. Building on Ford's conce Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues in AIS
Ethical Issues in Accounting Information Systems
This essay examines ethical issues in accounting information systems as presented in the case of DHB Industries. Now known as Point Blank Solutions, the company, which supplied Continue Reading...
United States. I feel that auditors should be held to the highest standards and any implication of illegal behavior should be punishable under law.
Supreme Court aside, Congress has done much within Sarbanes-Oxley to address the legal ramifications Continue Reading...
" A unified strategy begins at the fundamental education level, students who will become the future corporate leaders and operators must be taught at an early age to have strong business ethics and values. The lack of such education is an essential c Continue Reading...
ERP and Information Security
Introduction to ERP
Even though the plans of information security include the prevention of outsiders to gain access of internal network still the risk from the outsiders still exists. The outsiders can also represent t Continue Reading...
They are held responsible by the CEO.
The shareholders of the corporate are the legal owners of the corporation. In most cases, they do not actively control the corporation, but rather are responsible for appointing the board to oversee the corpora Continue Reading...
The actions by O'Neal and Prince are clearly more than just poor decision making. They represent irresponsible and unethical behavior. Years after the Enron diabolical, boards of certain financial institutions seem to lack transparency into the dec Continue Reading...
Computer Security
People, process and technology are three things which are involved in information security. Biometrics, passwords and firewalls are some of the technical measures and these are not enough in justifying threats to information. In o Continue Reading...
SECURITY
Information Security and Risk Management in IT
This essay is designed to present and discuss both an assessment of information security and risk management in IT systems and a comparative discussion of important academic theories related t Continue Reading...
The situations therefore are not analogous. I believe the Supreme Court also erred in finding that the knowingly corrupt act needed to be within the context of a specific investigation. If a criminal act is being undertaken, there is a reasonable ch Continue Reading...
The author identifies different type of ethical issues, which include:
Privacy & confidentiality,
Hacking/Spamming,
Property/Copyright,
Netiquette,
Vandalism,
Access,
Accuracy.
Students can break the law by going against the laws on ethi Continue Reading...
Accountability
When do we hold the accountants accountable?
In the wake of accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom, the question arose: how to hold accountants accountable, when it is they who are supposed to be the objective determinants of a fi Continue Reading...
Accounting Information Systems
Decisions of managers heavily rely upon the effective information systems (Srinivas and Gopisetti, 2012). Accounting Information Systems contain confidential data of the company; this information can be accessed by the Continue Reading...
Financial Statement Fraud Report: Rite-Aid
Fraudulent financial reporting can really have unfavorable results on companies, as well as, public confidence in capital markets. This paper will examine the financial statement fraud and will also investi Continue Reading...
i.e. modifying the domain name system.
7. DNS-Based Phishing ("Pharming"): This offense is based on interference in the domain name searching process by modifying the domain name resolution sending the user to a different IP address.
8. Content-In Continue Reading...
He believed that people cannot be trusted to act in their own best interest, and are better governed by a state that usurps the profit motive thought process from the people. He understood the evils of the profit motivator in business, and sought to Continue Reading...
Lindbergh Kidnapping
Lindberg Kidnapping
The Lindberg kidnapping was one of, and the most to some, notorious crime and/or kidnapping in the 20th century. The ways and means that had to be used given the targets of the kidnapping, what happened to t Continue Reading...
CSR
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has recently reached an unprecedented level of salience with the emergence of global protests that seem to be driven in a large part by concerns over social issues such as eq Continue Reading...
52). The researcher handles or controls the items differently. It is a form of Pareto analysis where items such as customers, documents, activities, inventory items, sales territories grouped into three categories namely a, B, and C. In order of the Continue Reading...
23 Blue sheet
Info, Societal, Political, Legal -- w / # from Blue sheet]
Alt market + Nonmkt [6 + 7]
analysis Mkt reactions
Select strategic action [8]
Is it legal and ethical?
Selected? (Yes / No / Wait)
Implementation of strategic action fo Continue Reading...
Building Shared Services at RR Case Study
An analysis of the Building Shared Services at RR reveals that various challenges facing the company require immediate response. This will ensure that the company does not lose its customers and face closure Continue Reading...
Marketing in Banking
The topic being researched for this doctoral work is marketing in the banking industry. Before delving into the research too much for this topic, the researcher will first enumerate the goals that are to be attained. These goals Continue Reading...
Leadership
The author of this report is asked to answer to a number of questions relating to leadership. First is a compare and contrast of Fiedler's Model of Leadership followed by a description of the Cognitive Resource Theory. Next, it is asked Continue Reading...
The article concedes, however, that declining business confidence is an absolute danger that must be dealt with and the government not being an active partner with businesses and in favor of the recovery will just make things worse (Pollin, 2010).
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With software and technological oversight, many of the errors experienced by Insight Enterprises could have been avoided. Furthermore, the duration that these errors occurred suggests that proper oversight of accounting was not in the company. With Continue Reading...
Corporate governance, a concept which has succeeded in attracting a lot of public interest due to its perceived importance for the corporations' and society' economic health in general has been accorded several definitions. Shleifer and Vishny (737) Continue Reading...
Enron
The answer to the first question is that the executives at Enron committed accounting fraud. The company had grown rapidly to become one of the largest firms in the United States, theoretically building a business in energy trading. Even befor Continue Reading...
Accounting Systems
Assessing the Current and Future State of The lifeblood of any business is the revenue it generates while managing costs, ensuring profitability of the business, and its long-term survival and growth. The catalyst of managing a b Continue Reading...
The reality was that a company which aspired to be "the No. 1 stock on Wall Street" was instead steadily bleeding money while claim growth in the billions.
The pressure placed upon accountants at WordCom was reflective of the pressure facing accoun Continue Reading...
Institutional investors are finding XBRL to be valuable from the standpoint of creating taxonomies that give them greater insights into the performance of the firms they hold significant stock share positions in. In addition, investment analysts wit Continue Reading...
By "spreading these large expenses over decades rather than years," WorldCom's appeared to do the impossible: "cut annual expenses, acknowledge all MCI revenue, and boost profits from the acquisition" (Moberg & Romar 2008).
Who wouldn't want to Continue Reading...
While it can be argued that auditors bear a degree of responsibility to evaluate management practices, Cousteau clearly took the view that on the whole the financial statements did accurately reflect the firm's circumstances; that the fraud did not Continue Reading...
These three strengths of their content methodology, depth of expertise in the Asian manufacturing sector, and commitment to being a leader in electronic enablement and IT form a defensible competitive position. As a result, the company is well posit Continue Reading...
In 2003, he resigned both posts as news of the twin scandals emerged. The Air Force froze the contract that Druyun had negotiated, precipitating Condit's resignation and retirement.
Condit had joined Boeing in 1965 as an engineer and moved into man Continue Reading...
Also people enjoying decent salaries with huge remuneration believe that their level of performance is so high that they are working on low salaries. (Vickers, 2005) at the time of the boom during the 1990s because of the unparalleled stock options, Continue Reading...