Toshiba’s Accounting Scandal: Business Ethics and the Media Along with Sony, the Toshiba Corporation is one of the most legendary and famous Japanese technology companies in the world. According to the “History of Innovation” sectio Continue Reading...
channel management practices that have been developed via thorough research and analysis of the world's leading companies? Channel management is a process that entails managing the relationship between a vendor and the third parties used by them to Continue Reading...
However, the study made by Robert J. Warth-Ethics in the Accounting Profession- concludes the necessity of better planning of the structure of education, improvements in the measure of compliance and a variation in the concentration on ethics traini Continue Reading...
Profession of Auditing Evaluation of the Profession: The profession of accounting has undergone vast changes over the years, and the traditional accountant concerned himself or herself only with recording the financial transactions of individuals, Continue Reading...
economic globalization over the past twenty years sparked demand for a single, worldwide set of high-quality accounting standards" (Benjamin 2012). The SEC's allowance for American companies with international holdings to use IFRS supports convergen Continue Reading...
accounting discipline has taken a public relations beating over the past few years as a result of scandals in corporate accounting; much of this abuse has been well-deserved. Regulations regarding conflicts of interest, independent monitoring, repor Continue Reading...
Ethics and Regulatory Issues Related party transactions reported on by Arthur Andersen & Co. Flaw in the accounting firm's logic Checklist for special projects performed by external auditors Checklist Proposed rules or laws to prevent simila Continue Reading...
Management Account in the Public Sector and Management Accounting in the Private Sector: A Comparative Review The late 20th and early 21st centuries have brought increasing change to almost every country in the world, Australia included. Globalism d Continue Reading...
In the late 1990s, this was not a problem as the stock was continuing to climb to all-time highs. However, once the economy began to slow, is when this strategy backfired by forcing them to issues more stock to cover these losses. As shares were dec Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act I agree with the points presented in the Sarbanes-Oxley and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) essay. Investors and portfolio managers are typically outsiders when it comes to internal financial matters within compa Continue Reading...
"Failure of any district to budget funds to meet statutory requirements is a very serious matter and will result in the executive county superintendent rejection of the budget. The district will be advised of any lack of budget approval with specif Continue Reading...
Enron Case Study Enron was a company that started out small, but through some ethically unsound decisions, grew to control a large percentage of the energy market in America. In order to expand financially, Enron's executives skirted the law, creati Continue Reading...
Creative accounting" may be considered a very old technique which has conserved its appeal over the ages. However, using such methods could prove costly. The motivation behind techniques of this type varies: sometimes, executive and financial office Continue Reading...
Zhang was employed as a qualified accountant in a small accounting practice. Following an investigation, the disciplinary committee of the professional body to which Sam belonged found that he provided misleading sets of financial statements at the 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...
Enhanced Financial Disclosures: The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted as law after several incidents of accounting failures that involved several functions established to safeguard the interests of public investors. In attempts to deal with these Continue Reading...
Audit Quality and Agency Cost Since the advent of industrialization, there has been the presence of a bond between the people who invest and the people who manage those investments, forming a vital relationship amongst the two groups. Although with Continue Reading...
Enron was a Texas based, low profile, gas pipeline Company that progressed from delivering energy to brokering energy futures. Exploiting de-regulation, it pioneered an innovative mark- to- market pricing strategy and started selling electricity in 1 Continue Reading...
Auditing We are living in times of continuous change that thrives on information. Information is the cornerstone of the financial construct of organizations. Information and access thereto drives the success of organizations in present times. The w Continue Reading...
CPA Profession The accounting profession has had more than its share of ups and downs in the last two decades. The business environment in this period, led by major technological innovations, has changed drastically and become infinitely complex -- 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...
Current event presentation: "The imprecise world of accounting" Accounting is often thought of as a profession of precision. However, according to Hans Hoogervorst, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, calculating the true value Continue Reading...
Voluntary Disclosure Concept of voluntary Disclosure The law requires all companies to disclose their financial information, together with additional information either in annual, half-yearly and quarterly financial reports. In this case, the descr Continue Reading...
Compliance, Risk and Governance This report presents to the board of WB a brief overview of the key findings from the review undertaken, elucidating the concerns recognized from the initial findings from an internal audit. The report, then offers a Continue Reading...
" This project is considered to be the first major update to the Smith Guidance. It was felt that the update was required to shore up some of the deficiencies in the Smith Guidance that have emerged since it was published. There were characteristics Continue Reading...
SOX provides explicit legislative directives for SEC regulation, altering this authority division, of what was once perceived as the states' exclusive jurisdiction. Rule 404 of the SEC The following Executive Summary reflects the Rule 404 of the S Continue Reading...
Enron Corporation was the American company that specialized in supplying of energy. Prior to its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the most admired companies in the United States recording superior profits year by year, however, in 2001, series of Continue Reading...
Enron could engage in their derivative trading strategy with no fear of government intervention because derivative trading was specifically exempted from government regulation. Due in part to a ruling by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission' Continue Reading...
Employee benefit packages (especially healthcare and other areas of governmentally-mandated benefits) and pension plans must be carefully and conscientiously maintained, with the primary -- even the sole -- purpose of providing Riordan Manufacturing Continue Reading...
Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting: Greenwashing or Legitimate Accounting Practice? Corporations have increasingly been viewed as owing a social and environmental responsibility to a wide range of stakeholders, including their employees, s Continue Reading...
White Collar Entrepreneurial Crime Allen Stanford Briefly describe the entrepreneurial crime you researched. In 2009, the Antigua/Texas-based global financial group (which was made up several subsidiaries that were owned by the same investment fi Continue Reading...
Wal-Mart's Annual Report: The role of ethics and compliance in a business can be described as the link between the business environment and the three levels of the organization or business. These levels are the macro level, which is the national or Continue Reading...
Jim & Judy Choi's Bed & Breakfast As Jim & Judy Choi's banker, no, they should not be congratulated on their "profit." Since they have not done anything related to their actual business activities and have not actually made any money fro Continue Reading...
Irish Corporate Governance "Irish Development NGOs," notes a 2008 associational guidebook from the Corporate Governance Association of Ireland (CGAI), "exist to create a better world. They operate on a global scale with diverse missions, but are uni Continue Reading...
Tesco’s Fraud in the Accounting Information System The Accounting Information Systems (AIS) plays a central part in the business computing structure of any organization. AIS deals with the classification, collection, storage, monitoring, and c Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley. The political pressure of the past several years following the dot.com bubble and the collapse of several major companies created a need for new securities legislation, which culminated last year in the Sarbanes-Oxley Investor Protec Continue Reading...
Enron hid most of its debts by establishing several LLPs, with some of them being secretly ran by Andrew Fastow, CFO at Enron. By counting only the gains and losses of the companies, but not having to report the LLPs on its financial sheet, Enron's Continue Reading...
One other new thing brought to the attention of companies by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the fact that, under this law, every public company is supposed to prove strong internal systems designed to catch an employee intending to commit fraud or flag Continue Reading...
Enron Leadership Enron collapsed very quickly in November 2001, and its failure should have been a warning to serious dysfunctions in the entire corporate and financial system, but this did not happen. Its executives admitted that they had falsified Continue Reading...
