524 Search Results for Business Law for Accountants
The policy required women to wear foundation, concealer, or powder, blush, mascara, and to make sure that they have lip color on at all times. Not only did women have to wear makeup, they were required to have a makeover by an image consultant. Once Continue Reading...
Values and Morals in the Accounting Industry
The important questions to be addressed are taken from the "…business ethics/corporate social responsibility literature, oriented towards business enterprises but also of relevance to professional b Continue Reading...
Securities Regulation
SECURITIES REGULARIZATIONS IN NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
The ensuring of the fact that an organization is working as per regulations and is following the code of conduct, while keeping the interest of the public first, are matte Continue Reading...
Procurement and Contract Management:
For a long period of time, procurement has been considered as an aspect that deals with purchasing supplies and stationary. Notably, procurement is an absolutely fundamental function in any business and it's impo 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...
It should not be treated as a separate exercise undertaken to meet regulatory requirements." (ICA, 29) Here is expressed a philosophical impetus that drives the focus of this research, that such compliance which will generally concern matters such a Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
While most Americans know the names Enron and Worldcom, fewer know the term Sarbanes-Oxley Act; however, despite the alarming impact of the two business disasters, the potential impact of Sarbanes-Oxley stands to exceed the impact Continue Reading...
Oxford Brookes University BSc (Hons) in Applied
Accounting Research and Analysis Project
An Analysis of the Business and Financial Performance of StarHub Group from 2008 to 2010
Topic chosen and for the reason
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Control Mechanism: Advance Financial Management
Real corporate governance and financial control comprise of the utilization of monitoring and inducement mechanisms to bring into line different interests that are between managers and shareholders and 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...
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...
Small Business' Need for a CPA
One of the critical investments a small business can make to mitigate loss and risk is hiring a CPA and putting that CPA on the 'management team.' As Wells notes in his groundbreaking research, "Denise, a bookkeeper 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...
IntroductionFrom the onset, it would be prudent to note that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act remains a rather instrumental law in efforts to reign in corporate fraud and further enhance reliability in the realm of financial reporting. The said act was passed Continue Reading...
Management . There scenarios. Read scenarios carefully answer ability. Each scenario answered a maximum half page. I make 3 PAGES, excluding cover page.( YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE COVER PAGE, I WILL DO IT) I attach assignment file.
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Student Profile
The student is a 29-year-old French speaking accountant whose employer is sponsoring him to come to the UK for a four-week intensive English course.
Desired Proficiency
This student should be able to deliver dynamic presentations, Continue Reading...
Ceo:
Determining Issues With the Expansion of Business
Quality assurance and compliance are significant factors in starting and sustaining a successful business. Without these aspects, a business may experience internal or external risks that migh Continue Reading...
This implies that there should be a movement towards measurements that have a more balanced scorecard and dashboard which will be healthy though there is a risk of developing an internal evaluation bureaucracy and lose of credibility if not updated Continue Reading...
Ethical and Legal obligations in financial reporting is extremely important in today's world, fraught as it is with corporate frauds and accounting scams and scandals of every other sort. One Company, the Thornburg Investment Company, has taken a fir Continue Reading...
Accounting Scandals
$2.65 billion. That is the amount the investment Citigroup agreed, less than a year ago, to pay to investors who had bought stock and bonds in the telecommunications giant WorldCom before its bankruptcy filing two years ago. If t Continue Reading...
By adding up the two figures one obtains the company's total net worth. The basic rule of a balance sheet is that the assets on one side have to add up to the same amount as the liabilities and the owners' equity combined, on the other side.
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Operating costs and future sales may be difficult to predict because there is no history to rely on since the business is not established. The single biggest disadvantage of starting a new business is the unknown. There are many rules, regulations, Continue Reading...
Tax
Managing the S Corporation Built-in Gains Tax
Basically there are two types of relatively large corporations that exist in the American corporate system. C corporations were first introduced and they are a type of business that exists as a sep Continue Reading...
Employment at Will Doctrine
At-will employment is actually American Law's doctrine. It states that in the employment relationship, any of the parties involved can break the relationship anytime without any reliability. But only under the condition i Continue Reading...
In other respects, however, the evidence does not readily conform to theoretical predictions. For example, if gross job turnover is taken as a rough proxy for labor market flexibility -- and since stringent EPL reduces both hiring and firing -- it i Continue Reading...
Analysis of Enron Scandal (2001)
Background of the Company
All through the course of the late 90s, Enron Corporation was widely acknowledged as one among the pioneering firms in the nation. The new-economy individualist seemed to ditch the mildewed, Continue Reading...
Accounting Course Concepts
Olympus Corporation
Company Overview
With sales of $10.6 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011, Olympus Corporation (hereinafter alternatively "Olympus" or "the company"), is a leading manufacturer of endosco Continue Reading...
Managers may engage in fraudulent activities by selling company information or details of customers. The manager improperly accesses the company's it system to alter values for citation issued. Fraud is an illegal activity, and the manager that is Continue Reading...
Corporate Crime
In APA Style
Accounting crimes in a Corporation are committed by either the employees within the firm or by other external forces and the result is that large Corporations are affected and so are the large numbers of stockholders, e Continue Reading...
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Comprehensive Analysis of SEC form 10-k and the DEF-14A Proxy statement
Contents
1. Background 1
2. Walmart’s Business Strategy 3
3. Stakeholder Evaluation 4
3.1. Internal Stakeholders 4
3.1.1. Shareholders 5
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American economy are running rampant and on any given day the central issue may change but one issue that seems to keep reappearing is the one regarding the amount of executive compensation. In an era when unemployment is registering at record highs Continue Reading...
However, there were too many issues with the company and with one of Andersen's lawyers -- Nancy Temple -- to say that the company was not aware of what was taking place. Accountants are trained to handle facts and figures, and they know when someth Continue Reading...
They weighed the greed of the few against the good of the many and decided in selfish favor.
Without protection from this sort of corporate greed, American investors would be less inclined to invest at all. One can see the effects of just the one i Continue Reading...
Outsourcing
The advances in both the first and third worlds in addition to the development of technology has caused a shift in what countries do what from an industry standpoint and the measures that businesses are able to take and choose to take as Continue Reading...
Satyam -- The Enron of India," involves its former chairman Ramalinga Raju, who admitted to years of corporate fraud in 2009. At the heart of this fraud was the way in which Raju handled the accounting reports of the company. An initial attempt to c Continue Reading...
JetBlue
Company Background
Organizational mission
Vision
Value statements
Environmental scan
Review of strategies and a recommendation for the best strategy for the organization
Implementation plan
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Many companies go public so that they can expand and so that they can offer employees additional benefits. In addition Shepherd, et al. 2001 asserts that An initial public offering appears to offer the entrepreneurial company a number of benefits, i Continue Reading...