Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics, And Business Law: The Fall of Enron and the Discussion of Morals in Business Ethics in business has continued to be a growing concern in the twenty-first century. In order to protect and attract stakeholders 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...
Introduction Milton Friedman’s quote gets to the heart of the conflict between shareholder theory vs. stakeholder theory. Shareholder theory posits that a corporation’s sole responsibility is to maximize the return on investment (ROI) for Continue Reading...
Corporate Social Responsibility The purpose of this case study is close synopsis of the Enron case and its impact on consumers and corporate business practices alike. Prior to its collapse Enron had been named one of America's top 10 admired corpor Continue Reading...
Whistle Blowing Introduction and History of Whistle Blowing Whistle blowing is the revealing of immoral, illegal or illegitimate deeds to authorities. The authorities may be insiders or from outside the affected organization. Many cases of whistle Continue Reading...
Insider Trading On June 4, 2003, the Securities Exchange Commission announced that it was pursuing charges against investor Martha Stewart and stock broker Peter Bacanovic for securities fraud. The fraud occurred on December 27, 2001 when Stewart so Continue Reading...
They will also examine the importance of ethics classes in college. They will pave the way for future research into actions that can be taken to address the problems that currently exist within the accounting profession. They will play an important Continue Reading...
The CEO of ENRON attempted to give a rosy picture of the company financial position to protect his own investment in company shares. As a part of internal control, the accounting function and actual physical stocks should not be managed by the same Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Over the last 13 years, the issue of fraud in publically traded corporations has been increasingly brought to the forefront. This is in response to firms engaging in behavior that is unethical and borderline illegal. The result is tha Continue Reading...
conception that is laid behind write-down of inventory is that the amount value of the inventory being considered can still appear in the financial statements only if the inventory still has some worth or value. This particular amount value is attai Continue Reading...
"When Congress returned in 1934 to complete the federal disclosure tapestry, it created express private causes of action for misleading reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of the newly enacted continuous disclosu Continue Reading...
Unethical/Criminal Conduct following the Equities Market Crash 2000 to 2002 This paper is a discussion of the identification and analysis of unethical and criminal conduct following the equities market crash from 2000 to 2002. The paper begins with Continue Reading...
This presented the troubling consideration that many of the current standard-bearers for physical excellence were the product of performance enhancing drug use. Moreover, this cast a dark shadow on what have been regarded as some of the game's great Continue Reading...
The stock was trading on pink sheets at $0.165 per share at the end of April 2003" (8). As noted above, one of the key factors involved in what happened at HealthSouth was the enormous pressure to perform in the increasingly competitive for-profit 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...
declining organization is divided in to five stages by Jim Collins. By referring to each stage an organization gets an insight about the degree and relative stages of decline it has encountered. Planning to rectify the problems by referring to the d Continue Reading...
Corporate Governance: A review of Literature What is Corporate Governance? Principles of Corporate Governance Theoretical foundations of corporate governance Agency theory Stewardship theory Stakeholder theory Post-Enron theories Corporate Go Continue Reading...
In other words, people's opinion on accounting companies can be easily distorted by accounting scandals and unethical activities that harm clients. The importance of ethics in accounting is also revealed by the legal actions that can be taken again Continue Reading...
4. Decision and Defense against Weaknesses The Coca-Cola brand is already a strong one, but the company's involvement in unethical behaviors has negatively affected it. In order to decide upon the most favourable courses of action to be implemente Continue Reading...
The other side of this is that the companies have to spend finances in areas of language training or job training when they outsource. However, over the years, many U.S.-based companies haven't been discouraged by these additional costs because the Continue Reading...
This value may not be immediately apparent, however, as investments are long-term projects, and expected to grow over time, hence a new factory is allowed to be accounted for differently than say, a new box of paperclips. But under WorldCom's accoun Continue Reading...
Business Failure The first and perhaps the most obvious cause for business failure is fraud. Indeed, fraud is quintessential to business failure, mainly because it takes different forms and appearances, from intentional bad management to accounting 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...
The investors got intoxicated by fraud happened to them because of greedy people. Thousands of employees left as the stock market went to the peak but most of them left their jobs due to low pay as well. (Kerry Hannon, July 6, 2005) bill was passed Continue Reading...
This means laying out for the jury and the judge the role of different parties and how this contributed to illegal activities. It is at this point when everyone can understand the full context of the case. (Singleton, 2010) (Golden, 2011) Analyze t 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...
Fannie Mae Scandal Fannie Mae is the second largest government sponsored U.S. financial institution engaged in mortgage finance after Citigroup Inc. An investigation lasting for eight long months by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Continue Reading...
The claim that a board member familiar with forensic accounting would have been able to uncover such a fraud holds little water given that it took a team of experts working in secret many months to uncover the fraud. However, the argument generally Continue Reading...
A capitalistic society that provides open and free competition did not bring about Enron and similar debacles. It was the second part of Friedman's statement: "without deception or fraud" that led to such situations. It was the greed of several ind Continue Reading...
Management v. Auditors Responsibility Responsibilities of Management and Auditors & the Public Perception series of high-profile business melt-downs in 2001, led by the Enron scandal have put the roles and responsibilities of the corporate manag Continue Reading...
Training is part of this process, so that people explicitly understand the ethical culture of the company. Ethical cultures tend to be self-perpetuating because the people within the organization will hold themselves and their co-workers accountable Continue Reading...
Internal Control The Importance of Internal Control Programs An effective internal control program in an organization ensures the efficiency of its operations and helps a business to attain its objectives by minimizing the chances of violation of r Continue Reading...
The article speaks about how legal action and settlements for legal cases that involve corporate fraud rarely emanate from individuals. Even though individuals are ultimately the ones who commit the fraud, even if it's in a systematic and organizati Continue Reading...
Sunbeam Corporation's fraudulent accounting for its financial years 1996, 1997 and early 1998. The essay also reviews the historic audit failure that occurred, and discusses factors that contributed to the scandal and ways in which it might have bee Continue Reading...
likeability is effected by management in the international workplace. It assumes a phenomenological approach to the notion of likeability, and is based on the idea that likeability in management is fundamental to achieving "connectedness" among empl Continue Reading...
Industries that face stiff competition may favor and encourage an aggressive approach from employees that produces rapid results, rather than thoughtful, strategic action. When the gains cannot be realized in the desired time frame, there is a tempt Continue Reading...
First, ethical responsibility at the level of executive and boards of directors must establish formal ethical policies and guidelines. However, it is equally important that middle management sincerely promote the values and formal policies designed Continue Reading...
(5) Auditors and CPAs should consider several ways that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and SEC implementation rules as a whole impact accountants and work closely with regulators to address these effects. (6) Public accounting firms need to reconsider exter Continue Reading...
