White collar crime is one of the most controversial subjects in America today. With the recent conviction of home-economics guru Martha Stewart for white-collar-crime related issues, the subject has only become more high profile. As white-collar crim Continue Reading...
Stock Options The phenomenon of Stock Options has had a dramatic rise and fall during the last 15 years or so. They have been hailed as a great way to share ownership, attract and retain employees in a tight labor market and "the fuel of entrepreneu Continue Reading...
Ethics in Business Business ethics can be seen from two perspectives. The first, highly personal view of ethics depends to a great extent upon a person's upbringing and life experience. Thus, if a person was raised to be ethical and moral in a gener Continue Reading...
Value of Money That the value of money changes with time is a matter of simple understanding. For example, the value of a dollar in 1920 is not the same at the value of a dollar today. In 1920 the dollar bought many more goods and services compared Continue Reading...
Sociology: Changing Societies in a Diverse World (Fourth Edition) George J. Bryjak & Michael P. Soroka Chapter One Summary of Key Concepts Sociology is the field of study which seeks to "describe, explain, and predict human social patterns" fr Continue Reading...
Broadband Internet Service: What it Is and Where It's Going Explanation of Broadband Current State of Broadband The Future of Broadband The current frontier of high speed internet technology and digital communications is broadband. Although it ha Continue Reading...
Computer Crime As computers and the Internet continue to grow in popularity and the world turns toward globalization, computer crime has quickly become a major concern for businesses, government agencies and individuals. Computer crimes affect mill Continue Reading...
ETHICS Throughout history, there has been an inherent conflict between honesty and profit in business. One the one hand, businesses, like individuals, strive to maintain their personal ethics and honesty in conducting business. However, in order to Continue Reading...
Incentives and Economic Development When attracting new businesses to our community, or encouraging the start-up or expansion of businesses that are already here, the Beacon Council promotes the many advantages of doing business in Miami-Dade Count Continue Reading...
Aviation Business Ethics and Sept. 11 Industry Implications On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists passed through several security checkpoints at three United States airports and proceeded to hijack four commercial jets. The horror began at 8:45 Continue Reading...
Xerox Corporation - Company Profile Company Background The Xerox Corporation was incorporated in 1905 in the state of Connecticut. The corporation is in the business of document production and management. It is traded on the New York Stock Exchange Continue Reading...
SWISSAIR'S (EX NATIONAL SWISS AIRLINES) BANKRUPTCY On October 2, 2001, dozens of aircraft stood grounded at Zurich Unique Airport. Flights could not take off due to the simple lack of cash flow. Swissair, the airline that flew the flag and pride of Continue Reading...
Monetary policy is crucial to the economy and impacts all types of economic and financial decisions individuals make. For example, depending on the state of the economy, individuals may decide whether to obtain a loan to purchase a new car or house o Continue Reading...
MARKETING WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO BOTH MARKETING AND OPERATIONS ACTIVITIES? USE EXAMPLES TO ILLUSTRATE YOUR ANSWER. Ethics and social responsibility have always been critical issues in both marketing and operati Continue Reading...
Real Estate Industry Analysis The residential real estate industry has been surprisingly resilient in light of the current economic situation. Over the previous two years residential real estate purchases registered into the double digits, while the Continue Reading...
Additionally, Weston Smith's wife Susan Jones-Smith, was also a finance executive at the company, a further example of the incestuous relationships that characterized the financial leadership of HealthSouth. A failure of the company meant the failur Continue Reading...
Such accounting is accounting from a purely realistic and numerical perspective, having nothing to do with what those numbers would signify in the context of life within the larger society. All accountants must swear by a strict code of ethics, yet Continue Reading...
Economics Why that Dollar in Your Pocket is More than just a Piece of Paper Money in contemporary society has taken a primary role in life. It affects everything from the quality of a person's social life to the quality and quantity of available fo Continue Reading...
Internal Controls Provide an example of an item that pertains to either (a) the internal control environment (the umbrella) or (b) a monitoring activity or (c) a risk assessment activity that relates to Microsoft Corporation. In 2002, the SEC settl Continue Reading...
cross examine the accounting fraud scandal that took place at Xerox, the main intention of this analysis is to know the causes and the effects of the scandal as well as the need of a good practice in business ethics, corporate management and the gen Continue Reading...
Congressional Committee identified for the recent financial crisis. It would be nearly impossible to assess the financial crisis from 2006 to 2010, which largely began in the United States and reverberated around the world, without acknowledging th 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...
Accounting Theory Why accounting research has had so little impact on preventing such failures in accounting practice? The modern economic society has seen many scientific researches that have been directed at establishing the nature of performance Continue Reading...
Business Law When most people think of securities fraud and corporate misconduct, they will often associate Enron to these ideas. This is because it went from being the tenth largest company in America to one the biggest bankruptcies in U.S. history Continue Reading...
Business Ethics Focus on Merrill Lynch According to Laura Hartman and her co-writer, Joe Desjardins in the work entitled "Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility" philosophical ethics may be clearly differ Continue Reading...
Behavior Reinforcement Theory Use of behavior modeling advocated for in reinforcement theory tends to increase employees' commitment to a job and ensure job satisfaction Robbins S.P. & Judge T.A., 2011. In the organization, this level of beha 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...
The value of audit is therefore noted to be derived wholly from its independence. Without the concept of independence, the auditors are noted to lack both credibility and opinion. The nature of relationship that exists between a client and an audito Continue Reading...
Failure at Tyco Examining a Business Failure Analyzing the Failure at Tyco International This essay is to analyze the situation of Tyco International and how it failed. Tyco provides, security solutions, flow control and fire protection. We would Continue Reading...
Improper Data Analysis Led to the Fall of Enron The downfall of the Enron Corporation in 2001 had far reaching effects that are still felt to this day. Employees, shareholders, auditors, executives, the public and many other stakeholders are still Continue Reading...
competing claims of justice in any economic system almost inevitably revolve around questions of freedom and equality. The society must answer these questions: what constitutes a truly free system so that people can pursue their economic interests? Continue Reading...
Ethical and Legal Issues The Court Appointed Special Advocate program (CASA) has been touted as one way of: preventing abused and neglected children from becoming lost in the child welfare system. As, this nonprofit organization is focused on findin Continue Reading...
Enron Case Study Enron was a company that started out small, but through some ethically unsound decisions, grew to control a large percentage of the energy market in America. In order to expand financially, Enron's executives skirted the law, creati Continue Reading...
In response, the leader may decide to institute an employee stock plan that links shareholder value with long-term rewards for its employees so that they can share in the benefits of growth and appreciate the connection between their individual perf Continue Reading...
Financial Analysis Over the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to the issue of corporate governance. As a result of multiple major scandals, new laws have been passed and the role of the SEC has been expanded. Sarbanes-Oxley introduced Continue Reading...
Ethically, the actions of Enron management were reprehensible. From a deontological perspective, they broke laws. From a consequentialist perspective, their actions resulted in significant financial losses for millions of people, job losses for thou 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...
Passing to a deeper analysis (made through a cognitive and not behavioural perpective), the terms of value and expectancy can be replaced with the ones of "amount" and "rate." The cognitive approach underlines the fact that the importance of the va Continue Reading...
Therefore the international agencies have recommended certain laws and regulations which try to bridge both the parties, and avoid any tussle or clash of interest. According to the proposed laws, the countries and ruling authority should seek quarte Continue Reading...
