292 Search Results for Ethics and Law in Accounting Finance
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...
IRAC (Riordan)
Any company that is a leader in an industry knows that what they sell had better be both quality and innovative in order to compete within their designated industry. Riordan Manufacturing is no different. Riordan has long been a comp Continue Reading...
The first three organizations in line to recuperate their funds were Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and General Electric Group. They had been offering financial solutions and encouragement to purchase the WorldCom stock based on a favorable business relatio Continue Reading...
Preparers, auditors, and users of financial statements must encourage and support compliance with the substance and form of the international standards; (3) the adoption and implementation of the international standards require action at both the na Continue Reading...
Delta Airlines CFO ProjectDelta is an established leader in the aviation industry due to its strong brand image that is complemented by numerous prestigious awards. The airlines commitment to innovation has played a critical role in its success since Continue Reading...
Accountants Responsibility
Introduction to Accountant Responsibility
Essentially, accountants have a responsibility a number of parties, with the major parties in this case being the government, clients and third parties. In today's capitalist soci 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...
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...
The amount and complexity of information created and overseen by the auditors in terms of expenses, earnings, and taxes will also increase. The ongoing growth of global organizations is also demanding greater auditing expertise concerning internatio Continue Reading...
Argentinas Financial Crisis [Name] 15[NAME][PROFESSORS NAME][COURSE TITLE]23 April, 2021Argentinas Financial CrisisThe 1990s brought with it a sudden and deep change in economic organization in Argentina. The cornerstone was the 1991 implementation o Continue Reading...
MF Global
Discuss the key difference between conducting a financial audit and a fraud audit, and the related level of responsibility of the auditing firm.
Financial audits are typically carried out by certified public accountants or outside agencie Continue Reading...
The Wall Street gurus who had trumpeted deregulation were now seen demanding a bail-out from the federal government. For business enterprises to thrive today demands an astute understanding of philosophy and ethics, which is why professors are weavi Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in reducing fraudulent financial reporting
Introduction to Fraudulent Financial Reporting
Available research on financial statement fraud relies mostly on anecdotal evidence (for example, Wells, 2001, 2002, 2004a, and 20 Continue Reading...
As one commentator has stated, the presence of two different sets of accounting rules, each plagued by imprecision and subject to multiple interpretations, gives corporations "two different bites at the apple." (6) What used to be seen as an economi Continue Reading...
Islamic economics extends these into the basics of investment for new venture creation, which is another aspect of Islamic accounting that specifically has been focused on from an economic growth perspective (Choudhury, 2001, 31-33).
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Financial Resource Management
Reaching a financial decision regarding heath care services
All forms of industries deemed financial management as expressive in origin till the 1960's. Its basic and sole role was to ensure financing for completing th Continue Reading...
The first set of rules required in-house lawyers to report frauds to the organization's highest authorities. The second set provided exceptions to the general rule on legal confidentiality. Both sets were heatedly discussed for decades. Similar scan Continue Reading...
In the company it has ushered in a better accounting and the management with upgrades in technology and competence, there will be a requirement for training and upgrading managers and staff to meet the contingencies of the proposed systems and contr Continue Reading...
Bullseye CompanyAn audit is a report given from an analysis of business operations. Business operations are analyzed and set standards set either by regulatory bodies, government, or the audited business itself. The completed product is a final repor Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Legislation: Pros and Cons
Positive effects
According to some analysts, despite its costs, Sarbanes-Oxley legislation had some potential benefits for organizations: the additional documentation has amounted to a kind of enforced 'bes Continue Reading...
Regulatory Measures
Events that led to implementation of various regulatory measures
The implementation of the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act called for the establishment of Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (FSGO). The United States Senten Continue Reading...
Business Marketing
Marketing Beyond Borders
As a result of changing regulations and technological advances, businesses are now capable of ever-greater geographic reach. However, the changing competitive landscape also carries the risk of new compet Continue Reading...
Ethical Violations - South African Audit ScandalIntroductionBrowning, Levin, & Wolod is interested in expanding accounting and auditing services to Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, and south Africa. The introduction of international operations into the org 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...
Unethical Practices at Enron
Enron was a company that imploded in the early 2000s after a public scandal involving its accounting books and organizational leaders. The unethical practices at Enron were essentially accounting fraud. LAX market regula Continue Reading...
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...
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...
Rite Aid Fraud
Over the years, there have been numerous cases of financial fraud perpetuated within the organizational mainstream of major companies. Financial fraud is often a well-coordinated sort of white-collar crime that often -- but not always Continue Reading...
However, what does seem clear is that there are not sufficient ethical guidelines for the finance business. Kookmin Bank seemed very welling to address the issue of ethics. Rather than allowing employees to read and personally interpret ethical rule 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...
WorldCom
Prior to the corporate financial scandal, WorldCom was one of the largest long distance telephone companies (Reuters, 2003). Initially headquartered in Mississippi it later moved to Virginia. The company grew fast by acquiring other compan Continue Reading...
corporate ethical breaches in recent times, assess whether or not you believe that the current business and regulatory environment is more conducive to ethical behavior. Provide support for your answer.
Unethical behavior has drawn the attention of 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...
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...
Financial Derivatives
This study emphasized the importance roles of financial derivatives, which has been known for the last decade and its effects on the Global financial crisis. It further analyzes the impact of financial derivatives and how it ca Continue Reading...
" To that end, the Treasury Department would limit executive compensation for institutions receiving "exceptional assistance" (Geithner and Summers, 2009).
Troubles continued in the financial sector -- both Citigroup and the Bank of America needed s Continue Reading...
6%, versus 6.1% in 2008. The return on equity was -6.1% in 2009 and was 15.5% in 2008. The asset and equity levels were relatively stable for the two years, so most of the changes can be attributed to changes in the net income. To investigate those n Continue Reading...
Internal Controls
Provide an example of an item that pertains to either (a) the internal control environment (the umbrella) or (b) a monitoring activity or (c) a risk assessment activity that relates to Microsoft Corporation.
In 2002, the SEC settl Continue Reading...
Failure-to-Disclose
Disclosure & Financial Accounting
Environmental and Financial Factors in the Petroleum Industry
The petroleum industry has a unique responsibility in the initiative to practice environmental safeguarding while producing th Continue Reading...