Case Study – the Underdog Identification of relevant facts: Frieda and Diane are officers of Beta Alpha Psi, which is a nonprofit international honors organization for accounting, finance and information system students of AACSB or EQUIS accredited universities. Both of them are interns at a big four Accounting firm. Frieda has been selected for a prestigious global summer internship program, among several excellent candidates, Diane was notified this information prior to official announcement
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indicator of company success, while using its other accolades as a means of inviting investment. Ethics indicates the behavior that all individuals should take in any given situation. In regards to Fannie Mae’s governance, the behaviors engaged in by upper management were contrary to good governance, and ethics. This author believes that there is no direct connection between social responsibility and ethics –
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------------------------------------------------- Ethics and Values in Management Interim Report February 10, 2014 February 10, 2014 Submitted to: Prof. N. R. Govinda Sharma Submitted by: Group C10 Submitted to: Prof. N. R. Govinda Sharma Submitted by: Group C10 Table of Contents Introduction: 2 Ethical Issues Involved 2 1. Not Following Corporate Governance Norms 2 2. Tampering the financial data - 2 3. Misleading the Shareholders Fund- 3 4. Insider trading at
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Guillermo Furniture Store Scenario NAME HERE ACC/561 DATE Guillermo Furniture Store Scenario Guillermo Navallez is a highly successful manufacturer of furniture in Sonora, Mexico; however, he is coming to the understanding that he no longer holds a competitive economic advantage that he once enjoyed in the past. The reason behind the lack of advantage is due in part to a new international competitor entering the market and challenging the current profit structure with furniture made from
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I am very interested in learning how ethical values promoted by professional accountants’ impact organizational culture, how organizational culture affects accountants’ ethical judgments and how espoused organizational cultures influence public accounting firms. To analyze and look deeper into these issues, I evaluated and studied the following articles: Daniela, Ţogoe Greti, Mateş Dorel, and Mănescu Dragotoiu Mileva Valentina. Impact of Ethical Values Promoted by Professional Accountants on the
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Instructor University of Phoenix Introduction This paper will discuss a few of the key components of an organization. The components include; organizational culture and behavior, diversity, communication, business code of ethics and an efficient and the importance of effective change management. This paper will provide and example of each of these components from an organization I have been employed by or am currently employed with. Organizational culture and behavior
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How Personal Can Ethics Get Johnnie Farmer Strayer University Leadership and Organizational Behavior – BUS 520 Christopher Hase January 15, 2011 How Personal Can Ethics Get? Depending on the leadership of an organization, ethical decisions can be influenced. Personal values and organizational policies and procedures help to understand decisions made in the case study “How personal can ethics get?” Background Can a persons ethical decisions be compromised in organizations? Personal values
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organization. From this we can see that even the top management have doing the fraudulent so how about the employees? 2) Ethical responsibility In this case study the second issues is about ethical responsibility of all the members of organization. Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. It also about the moral behavior in humans, and how they should act. Responsibility is about taking
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Jensen September 22, 2015 WorldCom Case Analysis According to the section 301.4 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, each audit committee shall establish procedures for complaints regarding accounting, internal accounting control, and auditing matters, and the anonymous complaints regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters. However, in this case, the WorldCom Company did not have the procedures for anonymous complaints, so Cynthia Cooper decided to go over Sullivan’s head and reported her
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purpose of the research is to explore, using hypothesis, whether selection-socialization exists in accounting firms and its effect on accountant’s level of ethical reasoning. The research also investigates whether the selection of women has resulted in ethical reasoning that is similar to that of their male counterparts. This is important given the large number of women that have entered the accounting profession over the past few years. Based on the results reported in the cognitive and ethical
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