FINC 225-1203A-03: Financial Statement Analysis Phase V IP: Ethics and the SEC Stacye Bolden-Gunner (13319239) According to Tidewater Marine, LLC which is viewed as a leader in the oil and gas service industry, Tidewater recognizes its responsibility to give back to the community, and encourages its employees to make a difference in the neighborhoods where they live. The company supports a broad range or organizations that are working to build a safer and healthier future; we salute the work
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positively praised while some have been lauded negatively, for instance, the United States. A crying shame how most countries on Earth seem in continuing spiraling towards ecological harm in an abundance of forms, regarding ocean garbage, coral reefs and oil spills over a twenty-five year period have caused our oceans’ ecology suffering to escalate. Incidents regarding a floating garbage patch in the Pacific, even cruise ships repeating sewage and garbage dumping are atrocious. The problem is, most people
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Marine Policy Project Part 2 Overfishing of the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna The Atlantic bluefin tuna is the largest species of tuna and lives near the top of the food chain within its ecosystem. Powerful and strong, they are known to have large appetites and a varied diet which allows them to grow to an average size to about 6.5 feet long and weigh up to 550 pounds, though some specimens have been known to be much larger. These fish are highly migratory, with distribution ranging from
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British Petroleum (BP) is one of the world's leading international oil and gas companies, providing its customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items. In its global business, the company has several family brands: BP, ARAL, ARCO, Castrol, am/pm and Wild Bean Café. BP's global business is divided into three distinctive organizations to deliver energy products (Upstream, Refinance and Marketing, and BP Alternative Energy)
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SOLVING 2/7/11 Professor Janet Wiedman Drilling for oil is not worth the risk. Oil companies refuse to pay attention to the harm they cause to the surrounding environment. The reason put forth by the oil companies are as follows people have cars they need to be filled with gas; we give people warnings about the harmful effects of the surrounding drilling areas, and it too expensive to change from oil to other clean resources. The oil companies know the harm they cause to the people in the surrounding
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September 2012 Managing People and Performance Assignment Student ID#: 82081035 Word Count: 4779 Managing People and Performance Assignment brief Provide a very short introduction to your organisation, and your role, to provide a context for your assignment. Based on your own organisation (or part of the organisation): a) Identify, with justification, a critical issue relating to people that impact on effective performance within the organisation. In justifying your chosen issue, you should
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Project Portfolio ExxonMobil is one of the largest publicly traded petroleum and petrochemical enterprises in the world. It started out as a regional marketer of Kerosene. They have three familiar brand names which are: Exxon, Esso and Mobil. The first oil well was built in 1859 (exxonmobil.com). ExxonMobil uses different types of technology every day like surveillance, network computers, communication devices, etc. Being a big corporation like this requires an IT Department. We’ve learned these past
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pre-tax credit of $3.7 billion in 2011 as a result of the Incident. The total amounts that will ultimately be paid by BP in relation to all obligations relating to the Incident are subject to significant uncertainty and the ultimate exposure and cost to BP will be dependent on many factors. Furthermore, the amount of claims that become payable by BP, the amount of fines ultimately levied on BP (including any potential determination of BP’s negligence or gross negligence), the outcome of litigation, the
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fair, and idealistic (universal principles). The fact that BP knew about the potential harm that might affect the population and yet didn’t do anything about it shows an unfair and disrespectful behavior toward the local population. According to Kant, BP should have fixed the problem that it was aware of before continuing on with the project, even if this would not make the company profitable. Therefore, it’s an unethical decision for BP to avoid responsibility because it has a “duty” to fix the
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“There Will Be Blood” by Paul Thomas Anderson starring Daniel Day Lewis reproduces the early 1900s oil boom in southern California. Daniel Day Lewis plays a man named Daniel Plainview, the very serious boss of a drilling company. After adopting a son early on in the movie for purely business reasons he leads us on the path of innovation and growth within a new industry. His depictions of oil drilling in the turn of the 20th century present endless environmental law issues. These issues have resulted
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