Ethics Core-Tex is facing a number of problems that could result in negative publicity. At present, the company is facing multiple challenges but has escaped major headlines. Thus, its stock price has not been hit too hard as the result of the accou Continue Reading...
Johnson Bank v. George Korbaken Company Johnson Bank v. George Korbakes Company Over the last several years, the role of the auditor has been continually evolving. This is because financial institutions are relying on the information they are provi 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...
Databases and Regulatory Compliance Challenges The advent of technology has increased the popularity of database usage in firms, yet the legislation regulating the field has yet to be finalized. The changing nature of the IT sector, coupled with the Continue Reading...
Small Business Idea When starting a new company, there are a number of different forms the business can take. It is important to understand the differences between the forms, including their advantages and disadvantages. The main forms for a new sma Continue Reading...
However, they have also changed the face of the accounting profession in a way that will affect the education and conduct of accountants in the future. In the future, the accountant will have to do more than to balance the books. In order to underst Continue Reading...
The company's efforts to sell globally make this aspect of their ethics and online initiative programs noteworthy according to Saywell (2002, May). The use of online initiatives to protect intellectual property rights online, in addition to the prot Continue Reading...
(Millstein, 2005) Since United States and Australia are countries which are already considered to be globally competitive that has attained its almost perfect status in the world market, developing countries are basically taking into account every Continue Reading...
Organizational Behavior Trends Increasingly two major factors are influencing corporate decisions makers. The first is a reenergized campaign for corporate ethics. The second is technology and work-related stress. This paper describes why these tren Continue Reading...
Those discretionary areas include sales and negotiating. These are open to flexibility, argument, discussion -- all within boundaries. The boundaries that fence them in are the non-discretionary functions of the business, those areas where the lines Continue Reading...
Board GovernanceIntroductionIn order for an organization to achieve good outcomes, its board should be characterized by good governance. Good governance often includes characteristics such as accountability, diversity of representation in the board r Continue Reading...
Student Life Generally Business Plan The business plan that is created is for an electronics retails store that will retail electronic merchandise. The main products that will be offered by the store will be Samsung electronic products which includ Continue Reading...
Risk Assessment for GFI Group, Inc. (GFI) RISK ASSESSMENT Company Network, Interconnection, and Communication Environment When it comes to the company network, GFI Group, Inc. (GFI) operates as a dealer brokerage company, which was discovered in t Continue Reading...
Knowledge Navigator Tablet PC The proposed new product that an entirely new venture will be based on is the Knowledge Navigator Tablet PC. Capitalizing on the popularity of tablet PCs including the Apple iPad, the Knowledge Navigator is specifically Continue Reading...
Transaction Under Each of the Five Ethical Theories Ethical fundamentalism: Juanita's behavior is clearly in contravention of a normative code of ethics since each of the world's religions proscribe bribery. The Bible, for instance, as does the Ko Continue Reading...
Care and Diligence and Audit Committee Members "The duty of due diligence and due care has been defined, generally, as a requirement that each director and officers exercise the care which ordinarily prudent and reasonable persons would exercise un 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...
" 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...
Nevertheless such mandatory disclosures presume that people can and will cognitively appraise such disclosures as against to higher noise trading. In the light of realities of emotional regulating, the SEC in general and its compulsory disclosure re Continue Reading...
Figure 2: ECM is the foundation of solid knowledge management Source: Establishing a True Source of Product Content for Competitive Advantage, AMR Research (Murphy (2003)) Retaining the knowledge to overcome "knowledge walkouts" From the basis Continue Reading...
The statement regulating accounting for stock-based compensations defines a fair value-based method of accounting for an employee stock option or similar equity instrument and encourages all entities to adopt that method of accounting for all of th 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...
They did this by stressing the engineering expertise that the company is well-known for, coupling it with their well-respected Toyota Production System (TPS) which unifies suppliers to their internal supplier quality management standards. It is comm Continue Reading...
The paradox of strategic planning is that the fact that market and industry conditions often force companies to shorten their R&D and strategic plan execution timeframes while the complexity of products and resulting coordination with suppliers, Continue Reading...
Dishonesty in either could result in disaster for companies. Communication is the element that unites everything else. Employers should encourage employees to communicate either grievances or suggestions. This opportunity will result not only in bet Continue Reading...
Further, coercive and reward power are often highly distributed through the more agile organizations and as a result must be applied immediately to behavior to be effective. In the context of Dr. Edgar Schein's (1983) analysis and presentation of r Continue Reading...
Columbus (3) found that within the customer service arena, one CRM capability in particular demonstrated the greatest impact on profit improvement -- customer service execution. Integration into Overall Marketing Strategy SAP seeks to improve glo Continue Reading...
In addition, the researchers found that on three of the four dimensions, the salespeople were ethical in their conduct, including the use of moral reasoning in the service of both prospects and customers. The only dimension to not test statistically Continue Reading...
In this segment S&W competes with Beretta from Italy, Heckler & Koch from Germany and Fabrique Nationale from Belgium. The most dominant competitor in this segment is Glock of Austria, which sold 50,000 Glock Model 19 pistols to Iraqi Securi Continue Reading...
Figure 2: Defining Workflows as part of the Systems Analysis Phase Further steps regarding systems analysis and design include the creation of roles and responsibilities in a matrix, defining alpha and beta test programs, with strong focus on maki Continue Reading...
Business Ethics Recent high profile bankruptcies in the U.S. corporate sector such as the ones filed by Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing in 2001 have highlighted the importance of financial ethics in business since lack of ethical practices were Continue Reading...
Internal Control Analysis Publicly owned and operated businesses have always been flashed an evil eye of suspicion by many corners of society but the depth and breadth of the scrutiny now bestowed is not a higher pitch than ever, and for two major r 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...
and, most internal auditors are still reporting to the CEO or chief financial officers -- the very people who were responsible for most of the past enormous scandals. Therefore, the affectivity of internal audits in correcting the original problems Continue Reading...
Introduction Enron was one of the biggest business collapses, and one of the most egregious incidents during a period in the early 2000s when investor faith in the securities system was shaken by a series of scandals. The scandals varied in terms of Continue Reading...
Financial Reporting and Analysis Accounting Quality The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act was created with the intent of improving the quality of accounting, reliability of financial statements to investors, and providing oversight to accounting professiona Continue Reading...
Capital Management Blows Whistle A whistleblower in the classic sense of the word possesses a number of key characteristics. Some of these pertain to the fact that whistleblowers tend to believe that there are acts of impropriety at their workplace Continue Reading...
Olympus Scandal The Olympus corporate governance and accounting scandal is and should be considered one of the largest business scandals in the history of business and the modern world. It is right up there with Enron (and in some ways worse) than t Continue Reading...
