343 Search Results for Ethics and the Auditor
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...
auditing comes with immense responsibility as it plays a vital role in maintaining a check and balance and establishes an organization's credibility and repute among its stakeholder. An auditor's report is a key document that most stakeholders use w Continue Reading...
The expectations gap occurs because many investors and policy makers expect auditors to detect all fraud, and if they do not, the auditors are presumed to be at fault." (Apostolou and Crumbley, 2008)
The specific requirements of auditors are includ Continue Reading...
Ethics and Related Issues
Brief Review of the Case from the Auditors Point-of-View
Beaudean who has just become a senior partner at Cardinal and Coyote Audit firm has been tasked with doing a background check on a new client Jost Furniture Internat Continue Reading...
Education on ethics must be wider compared to "moral development" in that it must tackle the broader consideration of a wide-ranging vocation, and constricted in that it must tackle problems particularly to the accounting vocation. (Research on Acco Continue Reading...
.." And "The probability that my peers would undertake the same action is...." It is the difference in the responses given to these two questions, as captured on a seven point Likert scale, that is the measure of the social desirability response bias Continue Reading...
Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
The following will be an assessment of firm referred to as PharmaCARE. The assessment will concentrate on the idea of companies that have encountered negative outcomes as a result of company business activities. C Continue Reading...
Ethics
Cable provider Adelphia was one of the major accounting scandals of the early 2000s that led to the creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. A key provision of the Act was to create a stronger ethical climate in the auditing profession, a conseque Continue Reading...
Ethics
Corporate Governance & Business Ethics
It is quite interesting to note that, academic research in business ethics was a totally distinct discipline from research in corporate governance, and the application of the word 'ethics' was uncom Continue Reading...
Ethics and Regulatory Issues
Related party transactions reported on by Arthur Andersen & Co.
Flaw in the accounting firm's logic
Checklist for special projects performed by external auditors
Checklist
Proposed rules or laws to prevent simila Continue Reading...
Ethics and Accounting - Financial Decision-Making
Ethics in Accounting and Financial Decision Making
The article Ethical guidance and constraints under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 by R.M. Orin (2008), espouses the belief that the Sarbanes-Oxley Continue Reading...
Ethics
With respect to the ethics audit, the company shouldn't change anything other than to institute it. Where we left off, the ethics audit was external, and this is critical, because many of the current ethical issues arise because of the relati Continue Reading...
(Ferrel, Fraedrich, & Farrel, 2009)
How will the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 prevent future dilemmas in Tyco?
Sarbanes-Oxley increases: the penalties for such actions, limits the role that the board of directors will have Continue Reading...
Ethics in Business: Accounting Standards
Accounting Standards
Ethics in Business
Accounting Standards
The objective of this work is to address the relationship among the FASB, SEC, and PCAOB and to provide explanations of basic accounting theorie Continue Reading...
Ethics and Firm's Goals
Agency Problems: The shareholders of a corporation are its owners, and these oweners control management by electing a board (with most smaller shareholders voting "by proxy" or not really voting at all) that oversees the exec Continue Reading...
Ethics
Core-Tex is facing a number of problems that could result in negative publicity. At present, the company is facing multiple challenges but has escaped major headlines. Thus, its stock price has not been hit too hard as the result of the accou Continue Reading...
For example, mergers and acquisitions are perceived as the latest fashionable trend to grow the company market share and profitability due to synergies affect. But as the practise has shown, out of the latest mergers, about 75% did not perform as th Continue Reading...
Ethics and Independence in the Accounting Profession
There are according to the text, two primary reasons that people act unethically. A person will act unethically if there standards differ substantially from those of society "as a whole" or if the Continue Reading...
Ethics, Corporate Governance and Company Social Responsibility
OCED state-owned enterprises and Privatized companies
In the past few decades, emerging economies have launched ambitious plans to privatize their state owned enterprises (SOEs). The vo Continue Reading...
The board is intended to be an agent for the shareholders, yet the agency problem results when the interests of the board are more closely aligned with management. This renders the board to be more sympathetic to management, even if that comes at th Continue Reading...
In recent times, there have been accounting scandals that have stunned the finance and accounting realm, and thereby reemphasized the significance of maintaining proper accounting practices. The recent accounting scandal of Olympus Corporation, a Jap 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...
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is will probably be known as one of the most significant change to federal securities laws in the United States since the New Deal. The act was passed after a series of corporate financial scandals made the national news, w Continue Reading...
Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies
Apple Inc. Ethics and social responsibility
Apple is known across the globe for its quality products and up-to-date technology that allows the users to feel to be ahead of other brands hence forming Continue Reading...
Regulating the Accounting Industry
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss regulation of the accounting industry, which is currently self-regulated. Is regulation necessary, and if so, why?
THE ACCOUNTING INDUSTRY
Currently, the acco Continue Reading...
Ethics
There are many factors that go into creating a code of ethics for an organization. At its simplest, a code of ethics should be a "collection of principles and practices that a business believes in and aims to live by (Spiro, 2010). The code s Continue Reading...
Ethics
There are basically two choices that Chris has. The first is that Chris can increase the allowance for bad debts to account for the possibility that Ender will not be able to pay its obligations. The second choice is that Chris can choose not Continue Reading...
Ethics
The Nike ethical dilemma
The Nike Company is undoubtedly ne of the most established companies with a strong brand across the globe. It has a big name a wide coverage across the globe hence by 2007 it was estimated to have employed 30,000 peo Continue Reading...
In addition, individuals have ethical decisions when it comes to whistleblowing, because very often, when they bring attention to a problem or concern within an organization, they pay the ultimate price - they lose their jobs, or lose the respect o Continue Reading...
Develop metrics. -- put tangible ethics measures in place and consider connecting compensation to ethical principles.
3. Create a cross-functional team. - include an HR professional in auditing team as well as an ethics and compliance manager and i Continue Reading...
Thus high relativistic individuals and low idealistic individuals were likely to view slavery as a necessary evil to accomplish the goals set by society, while high idealistic individuals were perturbed by the harm that slavery caused to the slaves. Continue Reading...
Accounting Ethics
The Dilemma
The dilemma that Dan faces juxtaposes his loyalty to what are portrayed as his company's interests and to what are his own interests. Dan knows that the company is overstating the value of the property and that Oliver Continue Reading...
Code of Ethics
Over a period of time organizations around the world have realized the need to emphasis on making ethics as an integral part of their overall business strategy. While organizational activities in a corporate sector are carried out pri Continue Reading...
During a routine investigation, one the actuaries discovers that there are some possible red flags for illegal activity. When they report these issues to their supervisors, they are told to not worry about that. What make this so troubling is audito Continue Reading...
Code of Ethics
"the time is always right to do what is right" (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings"
(Albert Schweitzer).
This paper presents a code of ethics for the Continue Reading...
Code of ethics.
H&R Block code of Ethics
H&R Block are tax specialists who deal with anything t do with tax calculations, tax returns for organizations as well as any advisory role in anything to do with taxes. They actually describe their Continue Reading...
Unethical 'Best Practices'
Corporate Governance Case Study: Enron
Enron, the seventh-largest American corporation, collapsed in December 2001 in what most people refer to as the 'New Economy's first major failure'. Following its collapse, Congressi Continue Reading...
Promoting an Ethical Organizational Culture and the Implications for StakeholdersIn the past, corporate social responsibility was widely considered as a way to enhance an organizations reputation or brand, but some corporate leaders may be unaware th Continue Reading...
From all facts and appearances, those Enron executives gave lip service to ethics, then went on their own way, making as much profit as they could while the company teetered on collapse.
One final example from Enron's "Code of Ethics" is titled "Tw Continue Reading...
Management v. Auditors Responsibility
Responsibilities of Management and Auditors & the Public Perception series of high-profile business melt-downs in 2001, led by the Enron scandal have put the roles and responsibilities of the corporate manag Continue Reading...