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Arthur Anderson has collapsed after a guilty verdict resulting from the destruction of incriminating documents. The accounting industry was also directly affected in terms of its standards and procedures. There are hundreds of firms with methods to Continue Reading...
Capitalism does force us sometimes to make decisions in a context narrower than we need in order to make them morally, socially, environmentally (Rolston, 1988, p. 324).
Rolston points to several cases of corporate myopia that was changed as custom 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...
The Bank CEO's Role in Defining Ethical Integrity
Based on a thorough review of existing literature of the role of ethics in the banking industry, the role of the CEO as the ethical leader of their organization is next discussion. Based on the con 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...
The Cost Effectiveness of Cloud Computing within an Accounting Organization
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 4
1.1 Background 4
1.2 Significance of the Topic 4
1.3 Research Problem 5
1.4 Research Questions 5
1.5 Purpose of the Study 5
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Polish Companies Reacted to Ethical Issues and Changes in Business Standards Since the Fall of Communism in 1989?
Poland's Economy Pre-Communism's Fall
Poland's Natural Resources
Minerals and Fuels
Agricultural Resources
Labor Force
The Polish Continue Reading...
Accounting has been nothing if not a dynamic, global discipline over the last two decades. The role of the accountant has changed dramatically during that time and will continue to do so -- as will the nature of the challenges that the accounting pr Continue Reading...
Accounting Profession: New Scrutiny and Responsibilities
While many people treat the accounting profession as something which lacks glamour and prestige, ordinary civilians often don't realize how crucial the accounting profession is to the world a Continue Reading...
Accounting CPA. Ideas 1- My story: I a young, my father gave responsibility manage budget house. School I control budget Volunteer
Personal statement: Why I want to obtain an MSc in Accounting
Ever since I was young, I have had the responsibility Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues Affecting Accountants
The need for ethical standards within the corporate accounting field is urgent, and this paper delves into ethical issues. Given the fact that rules can be bent and manipulated, this paper also points to potentia Continue Reading...
Regulating the Accounting Industry
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss regulation of the accounting industry, which is currently self-regulated. Is regulation necessary, and if so, why?
THE ACCOUNTING INDUSTRY
Currently, the acco Continue Reading...
.....ethical for an employer to use social media information as a factor when considering whether to hire an employee? What about monitoring social networking activities of employees while on the job? Use ethical reasoning in answering these question Continue Reading...
auditing comes with immense responsibility as it plays a vital role in maintaining a check and balance and establishes an organization's credibility and repute among its stakeholder. An auditor's report is a key document that most stakeholders use w Continue Reading...
Law Is Likely to Affect All of the Following: Audit Committees of Public Company Boards of Directors
According to Sections 201 and 204 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), auditors must report "all critical accounting policies and practices" and the me Continue Reading...
Betty Vinson was horribly unjust, especially considering that she cooperated completely with federal prosecutors. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine how their case against WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers could have proceeded as well as it did without th Continue Reading...
OlympusThe Olympus case highlights a number of behavioral, ethical and accounting issues. First, the ethics of the case are crystal clear. The two executives of Olympus went to extensive lengths to commit the fraud. It was carefully planned, with mu Continue Reading...
Accounting System Implemented at Chic Paints Limited
Report submitted in order to fulfil the requirements of AAT Accounting Qualification
Internal Controls and Fraud
Accounting System Review
Weaknesses in the Existing System and Recommendations
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Ethics
Information Technology
It is commonly argued that information technology and information systems is largely value neutral in the same way that other technologies do not necessarily have any ethical implications by themselves. However, one i Continue Reading...
companies I talked about in Phase 1 was Costco. The big thing in this and other reports is that there are tradeoffs, but they are not necessarily ethical tradeoffs. Ethical dilemmas must have tradeoffs that are mutually exclusive and where the agent Continue Reading...
Business Ethics
The issue of business ethics has been front and center for over a decade, following on the heels of the accounting scandals that led to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. That those scandals came in such rapid succession and occu Continue Reading...
Countrywide Accounting Fraud
In the year 1969, David Loeb moved to NY from Virginia to begin a home loan and advance organization named as "United Mortgage Servicing." He was joined by his trusted aide Angelo Mozilo. Both shared common dreams of big Continue Reading...
Companies that stress financial results measured as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, should be one potential red flag for regulators (Krantz 2002:2).
Because it is extremely difficult for ordinary investors to careful Continue Reading...
158). These five life cycles are described further in Table 1 below.
Table 1
Five Life Cycle Model for Reviewing and Improving Ethics Programs in NPO Consultancies
Life Cycle Stage
Description
Entrepreneurial
This stage is primarily concerned Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is will probably be known as one of the most significant change to federal securities laws in the United States since the New Deal. The act was passed after a series of corporate financial scandals made the national news, w Continue Reading...
. What do you think about the notion presented by Terris that Lockheed\\\'s ethics program does little to prevent ethical breaches at the highest level of the organization?I somewhat agree with the notion present regarding Lockheeds ethics program. A Continue Reading...
Normativity and Legitimacy of CSR Disclosure: Evidence from France
In this article (published in 2015) by Jean-Noel Chauvey and colleagues the theme is about companies in France following (or not following) laws about disclosure of corporate social Continue Reading...
Strategic and Financial Planning
Meeting corporate objectives requires alignment between the strategic and financial plans. While corporate strategy may call for exciting growth opportunities, without a solid financial plan to provide capital resou Continue Reading...
Accounting: Ethical Issues in Budgeting
What should an employee do when he or she discovers that there is an error in a projection?
Accounting professionals have a duty to observe high standards of conduct and integrity in order to uphold the reput Continue Reading...
Accounting
International Accounting and Auditing Standards
International public sector accounting standards (IPSAS) are developed and put forth by the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board of the International Federation of Account Continue Reading...
Ethics and Leadership Failures: The Enron Case
Gibney's 2005 documentary film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room reveals some of the main ethical weaknesses in an unbridled neoliberal capitalist market system. Barely addressing environmental and s Continue Reading...
Accounting for Partnerships
Advanced Accounting
Partnership is a legal business relationship between two or more people who agree to do business for the purposes of earning profit. It is considered as the most appealing option in setting up a new s Continue Reading...
Ethics
Employees and business management personal are taught business ethics as a fundamental guideline. It is tasked with assigning a particular meaning and role to business on the whole. Taking ethical decisions entails keeping certain aspects in Continue Reading...
As stated in the AICPA code of conduct, the accountants need to put aside their own points-of-view and use the unified school of thought that is presented in the code. This means that the accountants should work on a deontological perspective since Continue Reading...
Arthur Anderson: Questionable Accounting Parctices
Arthur Anderson: Questionable Accounting Practices
Arthur Andersen LLP was founded in 1913, and for over 90 years, the company would have become one of the "Big Five" largest accounting and auditin Continue Reading...
GAAP
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in Health Care
GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) in health care
Within the United States, all businesses that keep financial records must adhere to GAAP or generally accepted accounting p Continue Reading...
Australian Accounting
The complicated world of finance, business and accounting in today's world justifies the firm's customer base's inquiry into some proposed changes in accounting standards for leases. The purpose of this report is to inform clie Continue Reading...
Ethical ChallengesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Impact of accounting on corporate performance 1Ethical Challenges Faced to Maintain Cost Accounting 1Ethical Issue in Cost Accounting 1What are the Factors that Influence Ethical Behavior in Cost Accou Continue Reading...
The examples cited by Thomas and Smith (1997) are the political concern with discrimination in insurance pricing, leading to numerous papers on underwriting; and proposals to change accounting standards for pension costs, leading to a flurry of effo Continue Reading...