329 Search Results for Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002
Sage, who has seen how costly application customization can be, has created a series of template-based charts of accounts, with the last count indicating they had over 70 of Charts of Accounts that could be quickly used by customers to customize for Continue Reading...
From this broader perspective and in their planning and operations they have changed the term 'stockholder' to 'stakeholder' to cover employees, customers, suppliers and the community at large. With the growing complexity and dynamism brought about Continue Reading...
Response to Self-Regulation Proposal
Standards and Culture in Self Regulation
Introduction
The pitfalls of self-regulation are not unknown: object lessons abound in Tyco, WorldCom, Enron, Arthur Andersen, and several others (Pritchard, 2003). What to Continue Reading...
whistleblowing that occurred in publicly traded corporations in the past year.
Whistleblowing
The term "whistleblowing" refers to an attempt made by an employee or ex-employee of a firm to warn the public regarding any serious danger(s) or wrongdo Continue Reading...
Internal Controls
Organizations have the responsibility of accounting for all of their financial and operational data in an effective and efficient manner that is in compliance with all regulations as well as industry practices. Having a set of inte Continue Reading...
Code of Conduct Framework
The Board in charge of every firm has the responsibility to come up with, and record in writing a code stating the processes and practices that the company should follow for fair UPSI disclosure, as per the principles given Continue Reading...
05 under Resolving Ethical Issues in corporate situations is apt.
One Research Standard in the "Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research"
The one research standard that stands out as among the most important standards is "accuracy," whic Continue Reading...
This would immediately flag the loans going outside their own bank and also provide greater insights into how customers were using funds over time. Another approach is to incent auditors to find fraud and embezzlement and make it widely known in the Continue Reading...
Balance Sheet Items
Off-Balance Sheet Items
This paper examines off-balance sheet items and their treatment in financial systems analysis. Balance sheets consist of information about a company's assets, liabilities, and owner's equity. Off-balance Continue Reading...
If the right employee is chosen then the knowledge that they gain while abroad can be a valuable asset when they return home. They develop an intimate relationship with a different market than the parent company. This knowledge can help the parent c Continue Reading...
Texas have inspired discussion about the pay of public officials. State representative Terry Keel, claiming to be cutting expense corners, said that he would block a bill to increase the pay of Texas judges. In an as-yet-unresolved conflict of stori Continue Reading...
Disregarding its Ethical Code. Enron had its own set of Ethical Code, but it became redundant because the top managers at the company hardly paid any heed to it. The corporate culture at the company was focused on making "deals" and increasing Enro Continue Reading...
Critics of the ACA highlight several concerns, however, with the way that the law affects their businesses. For the 10,000 or so employers over 50 people who do not offer insurance, the cost per worker increases immediately. For companies just unde Continue Reading...
The company showed a global reach early, adding numerous language versions around the world. In 2000, the company reached 18 million search queries per day and officially became the world's largest search engine ("Google, Inc." paras. 11-14).
The c Continue Reading...
Johnson and Johnson Annual Report Review
Financial Report Review
Company: Johnson and Johnson
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Total Assets: $121,347,000,000
Total Liabilities: $56,521,000,000
Total Shareholder's Equity: $64,826,000,000
Company's R Continue Reading...
Business Ethics
Every company has corporate governance initiatives in place. Consider that corporate governance simply refers to how the company is run and controlled. The current usage of the buzzword derives from the issues that a few companies ha 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...
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...
The amount and complexity of information created and overseen by the auditors in terms of expenses, earnings, and taxes will also increase. The ongoing growth of global organizations is also demanding greater auditing expertise concerning internatio Continue Reading...
" China's undeveloped market limits investment returns potential and express insurance to a risk in investment. (Beijing Review, 2005) A plan for compulsory malpractice insurance was stated by the Beijing Insurance Regulatory Committee in June 2005 u Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues in AIS
Ethical Issues in Accounting Information Systems
This essay examines ethical issues in accounting information systems as presented in the case of DHB Industries. Now known as Point Blank Solutions, the company, which supplied Continue Reading...
ERP and Information Security
Introduction to ERP
Even though the plans of information security include the prevention of outsiders to gain access of internal network still the risk from the outsiders still exists. The outsiders can also represent t Continue Reading...
Computer Security
People, process and technology are three things which are involved in information security. Biometrics, passwords and firewalls are some of the technical measures and these are not enough in justifying threats to information. In o Continue Reading...
Accountability
When do we hold the accountants accountable?
In the wake of accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom, the question arose: how to hold accountants accountable, when it is they who are supposed to be the objective determinants of a fi Continue Reading...
Financial Statement Fraud Report: Rite-Aid
Fraudulent financial reporting can really have unfavorable results on companies, as well as, public confidence in capital markets. This paper will examine the financial statement fraud and will also investi Continue Reading...
In 2003, he resigned both posts as news of the twin scandals emerged. The Air Force froze the contract that Druyun had negotiated, precipitating Condit's resignation and retirement.
Condit had joined Boeing in 1965 as an engineer and moved into man Continue Reading...
52). The researcher handles or controls the items differently. It is a form of Pareto analysis where items such as customers, documents, activities, inventory items, sales territories grouped into three categories namely a, B, and C. In order of the Continue Reading...
Also people enjoying decent salaries with huge remuneration believe that their level of performance is so high that they are working on low salaries. (Vickers, 2005) at the time of the boom during the 1990s because of the unparalleled stock options, Continue Reading...
With software and technological oversight, many of the errors experienced by Insight Enterprises could have been avoided. Furthermore, the duration that these errors occurred suggests that proper oversight of accounting was not in the company. With Continue Reading...
SECURITY
Information Security and Risk Management in IT
This essay is designed to present and discuss both an assessment of information security and risk management in IT systems and a comparative discussion of important academic theories related t Continue Reading...
These three strengths of their content methodology, depth of expertise in the Asian manufacturing sector, and commitment to being a leader in electronic enablement and IT form a defensible competitive position. As a result, the company is well posit 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...
Accounting Information Systems
Decisions of managers heavily rely upon the effective information systems (Srinivas and Gopisetti, 2012). Accounting Information Systems contain confidential data of the company; this information can be accessed by the 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...
FedEx is a worldwide delivery service specializing in the transportation of parcels and packages, and is the largest express transportation company with about 30 per cent of the market share. Since its founding in 1973, FedEx has done business with a Continue Reading...
Gene Rogers who served as the medical director for Sacramento County's Indigent Services program for the most of the last decade who has "waged a long fight against the central California country's practice of providing non-emergency medical care to Continue Reading...
Dell Computers Incorporated is a global technological corporation that develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers and computer and electronic-based devices. Dell was indeed the first company in the IT sector to ordain that no comp 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...