774 Search Results for Ethical Decision Making in Accounting
Company audit occurs when there is need to examine the performance of a big company especially the financial and the accounting records over a given period of time. Professionals such as the certified public accountant always do the auditing. The aud Continue Reading...
Or that he is to make expenses on dropping pollution outside the quantity that is in the best welfare of the business or that is mandatory by law in order to add to the social objective of improving the atmosphere (Friedman, 1970).
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Furthermore, social software will only increase in importance in helping organizations maintain and manage their domains of knowledge and information. When networks are enabled and flourish, their value to all users and to the organization inc Continue Reading...
(Snyder & DeBono quoted in Kjeldal 2003, Introduction section, ¶ 6).
The results from the study Kjeldal (2003) conducted with 70 participants in two stages suggest that the word association responses high self-monitors (HSMs) produce refle Continue Reading...
However, this might turn competent healthcare professionals away, who were angry that they no longer could exercise discretion over their treatment, in conference with their patients. Patients might refuse to come to the hospital. And those that did Continue Reading...
George Tenet and the Last Great Days of the CIA, in Stillman
The cross-coded ethical dilemmas facing former CIA Director George Tenet and its impact
The operations of an intelligence agency and its governance are different from the everyday admini Continue Reading...
Odor Beaters Athletic Shoes
The market for athletic shoes has grown into a multi-billion dollar global enterprise in the last several decades. Athletic shoes comprise about 33% of a $48 billion market, growing annually (National Shoe Retailers Assoc Continue Reading...
Integrating the value of the code of ethics to the entire company can indeed help to prevent some unethical behaviors and that safeguards the company's corporate reputation (Vitell, 2006). Having the code of ethics in place, no matter how much emplo Continue Reading...
Improvement in an Organization That Can Benefit a Customer
An improvement to the organization, which will benefit the customer
The best porter's generic strategy is the distinction strategy; this will help the business to differentiate its service Continue Reading...
Personal, Organizational, and Cultural Values play in Personal and Professional Decision-Making
In today's increasingly high-powered, competitive workplaces, employees at all levels, occasionally (or even frequently) find themselves having to make Continue Reading...
Marketing for Humanitarian Organizations
Marketing and Humanitarian
Marketing is often described as the activities which a company or organization undertakes in selling and buying products and services. It involves promoting their products and serv Continue Reading...
Action
The importance of creativity and innovation in the workplace is well documented, but the debate over nature vs. nurture continues with some authorities maintaining that people are born with attributes such as creativity and innovation while Continue Reading...
Strategic Plan & Analysis of New Commercial Endeavor
Planning
Mission statement
Louisville Community Development Bank was set up in the year 1997 as a consequence of a scheme by Louisville mayor Jerry Abramson and a team of business, community Continue Reading...
Uses of visualization in business analytics include market segmentation analysis and factor analysis to define new audience segments based on psychographics. Visualization is often also used for pricing analysis to determine how elasticity can vary Continue Reading...
Community Research and Action
Organizations for Participatory Research: Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) and WK Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
In this comparative analysis of two organizations that are involved in participatory research, Continue Reading...
Corporate Governance
As some queries about corporate governance were there ever since 1932 - the period of Berle and Means, the expression of the concept of Corporate Governance was not found in English vocabulary until 25 years ago. However, in the Continue Reading...
" (Duska and Duska, 2003)
Duska and Duska state that the accountant has three obligations:
1) to be competent and know about the art and science of accounting;
2) to look out for the best interests of the client; avoiding the temptation to take ad Continue Reading...
Enron was at one time considered to be a highly successful energy firm based out of Houston, Texas. The company was initially formed from a merger of two prominent gas pipeline companies in 1985, and the company's scope then broadened to include the Continue Reading...
Other stakeholders were not given a voice to participate in the decision- making discourse. Therefore, the principles that were constructed that allowed the executive financial team to make these decisions led to unethical results.
Statement of Pos Continue Reading...
business scandals in the early 2000s brought the issue of business ethics to the fore -- Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. The three share some similarities but they are different in other ways. Enron was simply a case of criminal activity. The company's ma Continue Reading...
Green alternatives for corporations outside don't just stop at the roof though. Natural landscaping can be used to reduce irrigation requirements. Roof drainage can be reclaimed, along with storm runoff, to be used in irrigation.
For corporations Continue Reading...
Rise and Fall of Nortel
Nortel initially engaged in telecommunications and expanded its business to a net gear for them to uphold competitiveness. The affiliation was performing exceptionally in 2000 when it garnered 37% of the stock exchange in Tor Continue Reading...
Expert Determination
By glancing at the economies and the trading patterns of the world it can be deduced that the investments made in the petroleum business, forms a radical majority; as it involves huge and many a times capital intensive projects. Continue Reading...
Employee benefit packages (especially healthcare and other areas of governmentally-mandated benefits) and pension plans must be carefully and conscientiously maintained, with the primary -- even the sole -- purpose of providing Riordan Manufacturing 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...
Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting
Companies have presented investigations about their motivation towards voluntarily social and environmental as insolvent. This paper argues in agreement with Adam's view that the goal of CSR reporting is Continue Reading...
Royal Philips Electronics and with reference to each of the proposed five chapters in the final essay. It is important to note that the essay is basically based on a critical analysis of the accounting and finance function of Philips Company and hen Continue Reading...
Corporate Governance on Organizational Performance
Corporate governance implies to decisions made by the management in organizations, which influence the overall performance of the firm. Corporate governance focuses on organization's governance and Continue Reading...
Business Summaries
This chapter addresses the reasons that one should study business and businesses to begin with. The authors make the point that they do not intend for this to be a narrow study that just focuses on particular examples of successiv Continue Reading...
ETHICS plays an important role in many areas of our business world. Take direct selling, for instance. How can you tell the difference between a legitimate business and a disguised pyramid scheme? To answer this question, we need to back up and look Continue Reading...
Integrating Total Quality Environmental Management Systems - a Critical Study of TQEM
Relevance of TQM to Environmental Management
Scope of Dissertation
Moving from Reactive to Proactive Management
Understanding TQM in Relation to TQEM
History o Continue Reading...
Financial Stakeholders in a Business
Main financial stakeholders, their power and influence in a business
Stakeholders refer to people affected or have an interest in the objectives and operations of the business. The business has a variety of sta Continue Reading...
The question is then, how far legislation should go to avoid future scandals such as Enron and other major companies. It appears that the current constraints, especially in terms of business operation, and particularly as these manifest within the Continue Reading...
.....ethical dilemma you know of, and how it was dealt with by management.
Recently, Harvard Business School itself was involved in an ethical scandal when it turned out its dean might be involved in a gross case of conflict of interest (Galani, 201 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...
Nursing and Scholarship
Will Two-Hour Turning and Positioning Decrease Pressure Ulcers in the Elderly Population in Nursing Homes?
In order for a modern nurse to be both clinically and practically qualified to give exemplary patient care, they must Continue Reading...
All of these factors then contribute to the complexity of hiring senior international positions, and underscore the HR issues that are going to cause difficulties in the hiring process.
De Beers' recruiting process is going to have to focus on thos Continue Reading...
Therefore, 'on balance, much empirical evidence supports the view of dividends as a signaling device'. There have been reported instances when the management has deliberately reduced the expected worth of the dividend, considered to be a strategic d Continue Reading...
Appropriate Objectives: Managers in Accounting and Finance
According to the classical theory of the ethical responsibilities of a firm, the sole obligation of the firm is to shareholders and the need to make a profit to sustain them economically. How Continue Reading...