PM Page 138 C H A P T E R 5 Business Ethics and the Legal Environment of Business Learning Objectives After studying this chapter you should be able to: 1. Understand the relationship between ethics and the law and appreciate why it is important to behave ethically. 2. Differentiate between the claims of the different stakeholder groups affected by a company’s actions. 3. Identify the four main sources of business ethics, and describe four rules that can be used to help
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processing systems - document financial activities 3. Management information systems - used to collect qualitative as well as quantitative information for decision making within organizations 4. Decision support systems - help the developers of an AIS identify what information they need for their planning, decision making, and control functions * How is a flowchart used? 5. A document flowchart traces the physical flow of documents through an organization—that is, the flow of documents
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Timeline ..............................................................................6 1.4 Guidance Manual and Training Program.......................................................................7 2. OVERVIEW OF INTERNAL CONTROLS OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Introduction ....................................................................................................................8 Definition of Internal Control ....................................................
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The new economy has brought greater transparency and greater flexibility but also greater complexity and therefore new and greater risks. It has become very crucial to look at how the new economy had brought greater complexity to the business environment changing the ethical dimension and raising new ethical issues. It goes on to outline the varied dimension of the new economy like—Globalization, technology, assets, framework, recruiting and retaining the talent. These factors have brought
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Review of Accounting Ethics Review of Accounting Ethics Dr. ACC 557: Financial Accounting May 22, 2013 Table of Contents 1.0 Corporate ethical breaches in recent times. 3 2.0 Accounting ethical breaches and their impacts 3 2.1 The Scandal of Enron 3 3.0 Organizational ethical issues and the management failure 5 4.0 Breach of the accounting practices and its impacts 5 5.0 Recommendations by the CFO 6 6.0 References 8 1.0 Corporate ethical breaches in recent times. Ethics is an important
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Stockholm, Sweden. The Ericsson share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and NASDAQ New York. Cover photo: Myanmar, a country undergoing democratic and social reform, has one of world’s lowest levels of mobile broadband p enetration. ICT can play a huge role in boosting socio-economic development. In 2014, Ericsson began serving customers in Myanmar, and also joined the UK Department for International Development to support girls’ education in the country. about this report This report, together with
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leaders behave in certain environments and situations. a. Democratic: you care about what others think b. Lasae faire: no structure; people can do what they want c. Authoritarian: you are in charge iii. Situational-contingency theories 5. 6. These theories consider the challenge of a situation and encourage an adaptive leadership style to complement the issue being faced. Assess, assess, assess 7. You are
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PM Page 138 C H A P T E R 5 Business Ethics and the Legal Environment of Business Learning Objectives After studying this chapter you should be able to: 1. Understand the relationship between ethics and the law and appreciate why it is important to behave ethically. 2. Differentiate between the claims of the different stakeholder groups affected by a company’s actions. 3. Identify the four main sources of business ethics, and describe four rules that can be used to help
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EPG SHRM Foundation’s Effective Practice Guidelines Series HRM’s Role in Corporate Social and Environmental Sustainability Produced in partnership with the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA) and the North American Human Resource Management Association (NAHRMA) HRM’s Role in Corporate Social and Environmental Sustainability This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information regarding the subject matter covered. Neither the
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to the competency/cies: 3 1.3 Context / interconnection 3 1.3.1 Learning Tracks 3 1.3.2 Relation with other modules/subjects 3 1.4 Entry requirements 3 1.4.1 Starting Level 3 1.4.2 Conditions 3 1.5 Learning outcomes 3 1.6 Compliance 5 2 Assessment 9 2.1 The assignment 9 2.2 Product 11 2.3 Test criteria 11 2.4 Assessment procedure 12 2.4.1 Assessment Methods 12 2.4.2 Fraud & plagiarism 12 3 Working method and support 12 3.1 Module information 12
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