Enhanced Financial Disclosures: The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted as law after several incidents of accounting failures that involved several functions established to safeguard the interests of public investors. In attempts to deal with these Continue Reading...
"The law banned commercial banks from underwriting securities, forcing banks to choose between being a simple lender or an underwriter (brokerage)" (PBS.org. N.D. PP. 1). The legislation was a direct response to the late 1920's Wall Street binge yea Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act I agree with the points presented in the Sarbanes-Oxley and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) essay. Investors and portfolio managers are typically outsiders when it comes to internal financial matters within compa Continue Reading...
Disney Australia Case Study Management theories aim to improve the operational and financial performance of business organizations and help them in achieving their strategic goals. The internationally accepted Management theories provide a framework Continue Reading...
Morgan Stanley & Goldman Sachs Employee compensations has for many years been seen as a type of job benefit package that did one of two things: either reward people for doing good work (merit) or offer them the chance to make more by coming up w Continue Reading...
Auditing function has undergone several transformations from the periods when it was simply a function of giving opinion but also to an error where auditors are looked upon to offer advisory roles. The auditors should therefore advice the government Continue Reading...
Door Policy -- Literature Review Extension Annotated Bibliography Revolving Door Members (2011). First Street -- Where People and Policy Interact. Retrieved http://firststreet.cqpress.com/content/Revolving_Door_Members.aspx This intelligence tool Continue Reading...
Sears Auto Center Scandal When the Sears Auto Center changed its compensation policies for auto center employees in 1991, it didn't expect to become embroiled in lawsuit and scandal over predatory practices. Their new policies devalued quality mecha Continue Reading...
The auditing process was also significantly affected by the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley. Indeed, the most significant impacts of the legislation are faced by auditors. Auditors are forbidden to have conflicts of interest, such as consulting agreement Continue Reading...
One of the most important matters for Disney Corporation is something that is not materially valuable. Its reputation is the one thing that most tend to disregard when considering its fortune, as people would rather think about the money it generat 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...
The first three organizations in line to recuperate their funds were Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and General Electric Group. They had been offering financial solutions and encouragement to purchase the WorldCom stock based on a favorable business relatio Continue Reading...
marketing strategies of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in Thailand and UK Coca-Cola and Pepsi, rated among the top companies in the world share a common fact - for several years, both these companies have been successfully selling a simple product made of wat Continue Reading...
Employees Accepting Gifts The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of the practice of employees accepting gifts in organizations. Accepting gifts has been a major controversial issue because of the different perceptions among different s Continue Reading...
Dick and Mac McDonald opened their first restaurant in 1940 in San Bernadino, California. These men were among the first to introduce the concept of "fast food," and made dining fun for children. McDonald's went on to enjoy over 60 years of growth, w Continue Reading...
Small Business Growth Achieving the desired organizational growth is a dream most organizations aspire to realize. Organizational growth entails an increase in the total productivity, sustainability, and competitiveness in the marketplace. Organizat Continue Reading...
This is why those service providers to other businesses often stress customer results in the core industries they compete in. These customer successes show the depth of expertise in a given area. These success stories make services tangible to custo Continue Reading...
Other people simply want to live beyond their means and see committing fraud as the way to receive extra money so they can continue to live a lifestyle they would otherwise not be able to afford. If they are angry at their managers or hate their job Continue Reading...
Time delays and cost would be an additional concern. I would, therefore, go for Brazilian-produced material and forego the glass. In regards to the gold leaf, I would also go for the cheaper local material, but I may decide to conduct some imprompt Continue Reading...
Vedanta believed that the company overall was undervalued; Hewitt was trying to avoid the loss of a major segment of business. Overall, merger and acquisition activity has been relatively slow in recent years. However, firms are still trying to fin Continue Reading...
" (Tripathi, Ansolabehere, and Snyder, 2002) Additionally, groups that place emphasis on lobbying tend to may more attention to the position of power that members hold inside Congress and pay less attention to the electoral circumstances of member t Continue Reading...
Business Categories of risk associated with sourcing of IT/IS services Performance Risk Delays at third parties may lead to a decline in end customer performance levels and timely delivery. As a product/service is outsourced, this risk gets heigh Continue Reading...
Piper Alpha Disaster An Environmental and Safety Management Analysis of the Disaster that Occurred on the Piper Alpha Oil Rig off the Coast of Scotland Piper Alpha (Seconds from Disaster, 2013) The Incident The Piper before the Explosion Timelin Continue Reading...
Urban Political Science: Questions and Answers MIAMI-DADE ETHICS COMMISSION: Miami-Dade County is seeking a new chief for its ethics board. What is the primary purpose of this ethics board? The ethics committee was first enacted to change the Mia Continue Reading...
The independent physician groups and hospitals provide services under the organization's guidelines, but they may also care for patients who are not members. (1997) While managed care does offer employers more control in choosing the specifics of t Continue Reading...
Euthanasia Should Be Illegal Euthanasia is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing death, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, often painful, disease or condition (Euthanasia, Infopl Continue Reading...
Internal Control The purchase orders are not always considered by Competition Bikes Inc. In the company's purchase system, control authorization and record retention are not frequently addressed. Generally speaking, purchase orders are appropriate f Continue Reading...
Corporate governance, a concept which has succeeded in attracting a lot of public interest due to its perceived importance for the corporations' and society' economic health in general has been accorded several definitions. Shleifer and Vishny (737) Continue Reading...
Cardsmax The Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release (AER) for this proceeding is no. 3288 June, 2011. In this case there was a violation of Section 10A of the exchange Act by L&H, Howley and Wood 2005 & 2006-year-end audit, in addition Continue Reading...
United States. I feel that auditors should be held to the highest standards and any implication of illegal behavior should be punishable under law. Supreme Court aside, Congress has done much within Sarbanes-Oxley to address the legal ramifications Continue Reading...
9%. In a less rebound-intensive environment, this would not be bad, but it still represents a PEG ratio of roughly 2.14, which is actually quite high compared to the S&P 500 at large and so reflects a substantial growth premium currently baked in Continue Reading...
RJR Nabisco LBO The players in the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout were the management group led by CEO Ross Johnson (supported by Shearson Lehman Hutton and Salomon Brothers), whose low-ball bid on the company was viewed as something of a conflict of Continue Reading...
Ethical Problems in Business PRINCIPLE: Ethics may be termed as the inner guiding moral principles, values and beliefs people use to indicate and identify what is acceptable and appropriate behavior whilst straying away from the opposite (Jones, 20 Continue Reading...
Iron Triangle Defense Spending Military-Industrial Complex Briefly explains iron triangle model policy-making involving Congress, bureaucracy, interest groups. Analyze information relationships Congress, military bureaucracies, defense industries. Continue Reading...
Political Science Annotated Bibliography The Purpose of a Political Court In the view of Henry J. Abraham (Abraham 1998, 55), "theoretically," just about any qualified law school graduate with ambitions for an important judicial appointment would Continue Reading...
Australian Corporate Directors The four step process of understanding business law is very helpful in arriving at some important conclusions about the case of Coco Ltd. And its recent accident. The four step process suggests provides a manner in whi Continue Reading...
2012 Political Campaign Funds of Presidential Election Various reasons contribute to the usage of money by politicians during the campaign period. Some of them include conflict of interest whereby the politicians use their power to lure the public Continue Reading...
The second proposal stated that the decision as to whether or when an independent counsel needed to be appointed would be at the absolute discretion of the President (Kavanaugh, 1998). The third proposal suggested that Congress should ensure that t Continue Reading...
New Product Plan The PhotoDrive Pro-is a portable hard drive with a high-res screen and fold-out keyboard. It is targeted at photographers both professional and serious amateur. This market has a perpetual need for storage, and benefits from the add Continue Reading...
