This essay examines the meaning of culture and provides several possible titles and topics that may be used as starting points for developing a paper on culture. It discusses the definition of culture, how culture is developed, and how cultures chang Continue Reading...
GASB Persons who use governmental financial reports have different needs than those who use business financial reports. These different needs are shown in the way the framework of the accounting and reporting standards are set up. The GASB framework Continue Reading...
1 Identify and discuss some of the principal elements of E. H. Sutherland's contribution to the study of White Collar Crime and some of the limitations regarding his work. Sutherland defined white collar crime as “crimes committed by a pers Continue Reading...
Response to Self-Regulation Proposal Standards and Culture in Self Regulation Introduction The pitfalls of self-regulation are not unknown: object lessons abound in Tyco, WorldCom, Enron, Arthur Andersen, and several others (Pritchard, 2003). What to Continue Reading...
Introduction Leadership is one of the most important needs in any organization. Leaders provide guidance, support, vision, direction, decision-making, and accountability. They inspire workers and help to motivate them by fulfilling their needs and in Continue Reading...
Employees are being rewarded for their honesty, and managers continue to encourage communication between supervisors and subordinates. Management is also looking for ways to encourage employees to tell the truth about other employees who may be invo Continue Reading...
Hastie Group Governance Failure Hastie Group Corporate Governance Hastie Governance Failure The downfall of the Hastie Group reads much like the other major corporate failures around the world including Enron and MCI Worldcom in the United States. Continue Reading...
The statement regulating accounting for stock-based compensations defines a fair value-based method of accounting for an employee stock option or similar equity instrument and encourages all entities to adopt that method of accounting for all of th Continue Reading...
Lehman Brothers Case Study The author of this report is asked to answer to several case study questions related to the collapse of Lehman Brothers and what led up to it. The first question asks about Lehman Brothers' Repo 105 policy and what, if any Continue Reading...
So far, it has been nothing short of corporate welfare free-for-all mentality with billions of taxpayer dollars being around. Today, on the news, President Obama was instructing Congress that he wanted to see budget cuts (CNN, February, 2009). He ha Continue Reading...
Control function, may it be management or accounting, plays the same key role. It is, in many ways, a two-way process. First of all, a top-bottom control flow, where the upper management or higher authorities oversee a certain process, but it is also Continue Reading...
Zilla Data Nuker Test: Zilla Data Nuker Software Title Files created or downloaded leave a trace even when deleted. These traces allow skilled computer forensic professionals to retrieve the data. Zillasoft, LLC, a New England-based software devel Continue Reading...
Financial Fraud What is financial fraud? Identifying Fraud Effect on Economy Are we Protected? Identity Theft in Business Enron Scandel Loss Prevention Planning and Strategies Financial Fraud Financial fraud was an unfamiliar notion prior to Continue Reading...
Olympus Scandal The Olympus corporate governance and accounting scandal is and should be considered one of the largest business scandals in the history of business and the modern world. It is right up there with Enron (and in some ways worse) than t Continue Reading...
Internal Control Analysis Publicly owned and operated businesses have always been flashed an evil eye of suspicion by many corners of society but the depth and breadth of the scrutiny now bestowed is not a higher pitch than ever, and for two major r Continue Reading...
Enron committed financial fraud prior to its collapse in 2001 by overstating its earnings and using mark-to-market accounting essentially to cook its books and dupe third-party auditing firm Arthur Andersen. Enron’s CFO Andy Fastow and it Continue Reading...
The enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has brought exponentially higher costs of operating to every organization that must comply to its requirements. As many organizations are already quite lean in terms of headcount to minimize costs, many outsou Continue Reading...
Dieselgate Case AnalysisWhat?The situation presented in the case study by Schuetz (2016) focuses on VW Group and the emissions scandal that occurred in 2015 just when the company was about to reach a significant milestone in its long-term development Continue Reading...
As a consequence, investors may suffer. Importance of the Study It is necessary and pertinent to discuss the importance of any study, and this particular study is important to many people across many countries. Not only does it have importance for 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). Continue Reading...
represents a diversifiable or an undiversifiable risk. Please consider the issues from the viewpoint of investors. Explain your reasoning. There's a substantial unexpected increase in inflation. The big issue with inflation is that the same amount Continue Reading...
Team Building Training Proposal Table of Contents Introduction 2 Training Program 2 Methodology 3 Rationale 3 Proposed Lesson Plan 4 Objective 4 Time Length 4 Class Audience 4 Materials Required 4 Evaluation 4 Lesson Outline 4 Conclusion 5 References Continue Reading...
Literature Review: Team BuildingAbstractTeam building is a process that can be explored in a range of ways and settings. From the Korean Army to a pilot program using an escape room to help a dozen diverse team members come together as a single unit Continue Reading...
Airline Deregulation There are many questions about whether the deregulation of the airlines was a success or not. Some assert that it was a "great success" due to the lower fares that were realized by a lot of airline passengers. However, whether t Continue Reading...
A leadership development plan depends upon knowing who one is as a person and building on the strengths, innate talents and gifts, and ideals that one possesses. It also depends upon educating oneself as to the leadership styles, behaviors, ethics, a Continue Reading...
Part 1 History of Modern Leadership Studies Since 1900 The evolution of modern leadership studies begins with the Great Man Theory, which originated in the 19th century and carried over into the 20th century. It came about as people looked at the wor Continue Reading...
Further, many home owners lost their homes due to foreclosure and this impacted the society in a negative way. The stock markets were no exception to this problem and most companies saw their stock prices dive down. This prevented them from accessi Continue Reading...
For example, towards the end of Falling Free Van Atta finds an old memo in his e-mail with orders to kill the Quaddies: "Item: Post-fetal experimental tissue cultures. Quantity: 1,000. Disposition: cremation by IGS standard biolab rules" (p. 293). V Continue Reading...
Business News Analysis Thomas (2017) reports that President Trump is urging the pharmaceutical industry to lower its prices on drugs sold in the market. As an incentive to lowering prices, Trump has pledged to "ease rules" -- i.e., deregul Continue Reading...
While the U.S. enjoys the largest insurance market, U.S. companies no longer own the majority of the insurance market share in the country. Foreign companies do with 74% (Vaughan & Vaughan, 2013). This goes to show the extent to which foreign compani Continue Reading...
Business ethics is a division of ethics that pertains to the interaction of business and ethics and applies ethical analysis to the business area. It is both expressive and normal. The five activities within business ethics can be delineated as fol Continue Reading...
This is important, because it shows how there is the potential for both harmonization and division. Yet, once you look at what is taking place around the world, it is obvious that a common set of ideas are being readily accepted in different countri Continue Reading...
Removing losses from the company's books made the main corporation look more attractive. Enron appeared to be operating at a profit; a key factor in the valuation of any company's stock. By virtue of this "success," Enron was able to raise even more Continue Reading...
Business Law When most people think of securities fraud and corporate misconduct, they will often associate Enron to these ideas. This is because it went from being the tenth largest company in America to one the biggest bankruptcies in U.S. history Continue Reading...
roles of forensic accountants in preventing and detecting fraud within a business community. The paper highlights the requisites and basic responsibilities of a forensic accountant. The paper also makes references on the special cases where forensic Continue Reading...
Works Cited Bardhan, P. (1997) "Corruption and Development: A Review of the Issues." Journal of Economic Literature 35: 1320-46. Barro, R. (1996) "Determinants of Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study." NBER Working Paper No. 5698. Barro, R., Continue Reading...
Improvements in Integrity, Financial Accountability, Ethical Conduct and Corporate Responsibilities under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 We passed Sarbanes-Oxley in the wake of the Enron scandal to try to root out financial and accounting irregulari Continue Reading...
People will say everybody else does this and gets away with it, could it be that wrong? It comes down to economics vs. ethics. The difficult thing for me personally is that I do not know how I would have reacted in this situation. I would like to t Continue Reading...
business scandals in the early 2000s brought the issue of business ethics to the fore -- Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. The three share some similarities but they are different in other ways. Enron was simply a case of criminal activity. The company's ma Continue Reading...
Organizations Establish Rules for the Creation or Use of Accounting Information: - Securities and Exchange Commission - New York Stock Exchange Internal Revenue Service Describe what kind of rules each makes, why they make them, and how they enf Continue Reading...
