Ethical and Legal obligations in financial reporting is extremely important in today's world, fraught as it is with corporate frauds and accounting scams and scandals of every other sort. One Company, the Thornburg Investment Company, has taken a fir Continue Reading...
Movie Industry in Downloading Movies Practicality The idea of providing movies for download over the Internet would be an extremely practical acquisition. In fact, Walt Disney Corporation and Sony Pictures have entertained the idea of allowing mov Continue Reading...
QuintilesIMS services the healthcare industry and plans on expanding their reach internationality. Turkey is a country that has experienced changes in recent years. They offer universal healthcare with private health insurance options for individuals Continue Reading...
Auditing Discussion a) The public accounting profession has taken a number of steps to minimize potential bias towards important users. The profession has specific standards for auditing, a separation between auditing and consulting roles, and other Continue Reading...
Liberal Arts Education Should College Students be required to take Courses Outside of Their Major Field of Study? An education that lacks of a world view may be more harmful than meets the eye. One could reasonably argue that the question of whethe Continue Reading...
Corporate Personality Separate Corporate Personality Explain the meaning of and the rationale for the principle of separate corporation personality. Personality in this case does not have anything to do with an actual person, but that personhood i Continue Reading...
As both carriers, are concerned about addressing the various provisions in: the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act of 2004 and Sarbanes-Oxley. This is accomplished by tackling those issues that contributed to a host of mo Continue Reading...
591-2). The failure to integrate CSR initiatives into a larger development plan is another problem contributing to the lack of implementation of CSR projects. Projects are often driven by short-term expediency meaning that the decisions taken are a Continue Reading...
As one commentator has stated, the presence of two different sets of accounting rules, each plagued by imprecision and subject to multiple interpretations, gives corporations "two different bites at the apple." (6) What used to be seen as an economi Continue Reading...
Fixtures are considered part of personal property, but in cases where they become a part of real property and cannot be removed, they are considered part of real property. Building on a plot of land is a fixture that is considered part of real prop Continue Reading...
Spencer's Model of Staff Development This essay attempts to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Spencer model of staff development as it pertains to my work environment in the retail jewelry business. In other words, by understanding the f Continue Reading...
Jack Welch Leadership Strategies Jack Welch is rated as the greatest CEO of the current generation and one of the greatest business leaders of all times. The legendary leader, donned the top post in General Electric (GE) from April 1981 to September Continue Reading...
Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization, by Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Specifically, it will discuss the book as if explaining it to a friend who had not read the book, so they would be able to understand the whole bo Continue Reading...
Stories about Life 1 The first paradigm I have about life is that you need to know what your duty in life is and then you need to do it. This depends upon having a state in life—i.e., a role to play. So whether you are a teacher, a member of a Continue Reading...
Agency Theory Agency theory refers to the relationship with the principle and the agent, where the principle delegates its financial decision making to the agent. In most cases, the agent is the owner/executive of the company while the principle is t Continue Reading...
The Little Book of Marketing Thought Introduction Everyone knows the 4 P’s of the Marketing Mix (Product, Place, Price and Promotion) and most are aware of the 7 P’s too (the same 4 with People, Processes and Physical added)—and alm Continue Reading...
In the present times many government officials do the same feeding of celebrities and common people. Anyone can become a target for a prosecutor's conviction record. The war on drugs has come as a bonanza for such U.S. attorneys. It is easy to get a Continue Reading...
Ethical Leadership in an Organization: Donald Trump -- the man, the mogul, the reality TV series ... The fragrance? How can an organization behave as an ethical entity when is headed by an individual whom is not only an organizational leader but is Continue Reading...
Stephen Rushing (461-35-0813) The five-years between 1997 and 2002 were a financial and emotional roller coaster for me - a true rags-to-riches-to-rags journey of self-discovery. Almost overnight, my life was transformed from that of a typical under Continue Reading...
Leader Analysis: Abraham LincolnBackgroundAbraham Lincoln came from humble origins: he was not born into a wealthy aristocratic family like so many of this nations presidents. Rather, he was born on a Kentucky farm in 1809, and was largely self-educa Continue Reading...
Organization Theory and DesignAbstractThis paper explains the various theories of organization and design by looking at historical theories, modern theories, symbolic theories and postmodern theories. It then compares and evaluates six major concepts Continue Reading...
International medical Laboratories, acronymed as IML, is one of the largest manufacturers of biomedical equipments. The unique selling point of IML is completing heart surgeries using high class equipments. John Cannon is the man behind the structure Continue Reading...
Realistic, Hypothetical legal scenarios (Business Law for Accountants The foundations of Corporate Governance demand that organizational practice follow the legal requirements. In current times, news reviews of industry wrong doings have forged unce Continue Reading...
Regulation on Financial InstitutionsIntroductionThe regulation of financial institutions in the US is a controversial subject, as there are arguments both for and against regulation. However, regulation for the most part is an accepted way of life an Continue Reading...
Business coach Jonathan Farrington reports that the standards that follow team work should underpin how a person operates. The purpose of a team is to get work done satisfactorily by involving everyone and gaining through their individual strengths Continue Reading...
4) II. Peter Senge - the Learning Organization Peter Senge, who describes himself as the "idealistic pragmatist" states that learning organizations are: "...organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they tr Continue Reading...
The mistake occurred when enthusiasts tried to use those data for other purposes such as 'strategic product decisions.' The average cost of production never could, and never will, be relevant for those classes of decisions where only the change in t Continue Reading...
In contrast, within the firm, the entrepreneur directs production and coordinates without intervention of a price mechanism; but, if production is regulated by price movements, production could be carried on without any organization at all, well mig Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted to facilitate in guaranteeing the correctness of financial reporting by the public listed companies. In the stir of millions of dollars of investor's money going down the gutter because of their reposing faith on the fi Continue Reading...
Executive Summary Coca-Cola's mission, vision and values are analyzed, against the literature outlining what the best practices for these things are. Coca-Cola's mission statement has three parts, only one of which says something meaningful; Continue Reading...
57 Spillover Effect on the Stock Market and Bond Prices in Relation with GARCH Abstract This study examines the spillover effect between bond and stock markets in the U.S. using GARCH. The finding of a unidirectional spillover flow from bonds to stoc Continue Reading...
Pharmacy Ethics The author of this report has been asked to review the legal and ethical considerations in play given the test case scenario surrounding Pharmacare and Compcare. As is quickly apparent while reading the case study, the company engage Continue Reading...
Too many leaders today do not see much as necessarily bad or good, and they simply go through their life without realizing there is so much more out there to be done and seen, just like the people in Plato's Cave. They have blinders on -- some of w Continue Reading...
Business Ethics At one time it may have been possible, if inhumane, to run a business like the Robber Barons, on sheer fear, power and control. If a person incorrectly followed directions, made too many mistakes, or did not put in numerous extra hou Continue Reading...
Beyond Budgeting" by Jeremy Hope The Significance of Budgeting on Effective Management: Analysis of "Beyond Budgeting" by Jeremy Hope In the book "Beyond Budgeting," author Jeremy Hope gave an altogether different conceptualization of the signific Continue Reading...
