H8032-Prelims.QXD 7/1/06 11:08 AM Page i CIMA’S Official Learning System CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting, 2006 Syllabus Certificate Level Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business law David Sagar Larry Mead Philippa Foster Back H8032-Prelims.QXD 7/1/06 11:08 AM Page ii CIMA Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA First edition 2006
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Business and Society 4395, I had no idea of all the dimensions of ethics or how ethics is intertwine into the business workforce and today’s society. To be honest, I actually thought that business people had very low ethics with their main focus on the contracts and/or the highest bid. I learned that society painted an image of questionable ethics by associating practices or traditions that are unethical and illegal or legal. Some of my classmates in my course did not believe that certain practices were
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Topic: Electronic Contracts – Issues and Challenges Electronic Contracts – Issues and Challenges Introduction: Electronic contracts (e-contracts) are governed by the basic principles provided in the Indian Contract Act, 1872 applicable to regular contracts, which mandates that a valid contract should have been entered with a free consent and for a lawful consideration between two adults. Electronic contracts are not paper based but rather in electronic form and are born out of the need for speed
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Tommy Hilfiger Case By: Mick A. Leikanger, 3rd year BBA Strategic Management. Professor Ms Clarke. Intro In 1969, Tommy Hilfiger took up a job at store selling clothes, especially towards the hippie-inspired youth. After some time, he realized the great potential for fashion-retailers, and decided to sell 20 pairs of bell-bottom jeans out of the trunk of his car. Soon after, he managed to sell 600 pairs in a week, and the rest is history. Although the rest is history, it was not an easy road
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Organisation Faces 5 1.5 Strategies used by Firms 5 ENTRY STRATEGIES 6 2.0 EXPORTING 6 2.1 Advantages and Disadvantages of Exporting 7 2.2 Passive exports Vs Aggressive exports 7 2.3 Direct and Indirect Export 8 2.4 Case Study 9 3.0 PIGGYBANKING…………………………………………………………………………………….10 4.0COUNTERTRADE……………………………………………………………………………………10 4.1 Forms of Countertrade…………………………………………………………………………….10 4.2 Examples of Countertrade…………………………………………………………………………11 4
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Introduction According to the case study, Odwalla Juice Company was founded in 1980 when three musicians in an effort to raise money to fund music school programs, had the idea of selling freshly squeezed juice to small businesses within their immediate community. The trio invested $200 in juicing equipment and started a “fresh juice revolution”, which was intended to meet the growing demand for organic foods & beverages by consumers across the country. The company started relatively small with
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many types of financial instruments, including stocks, exchange-traded funds, insurance, forward contracts,swaps, options, many types of over-the-counter and derivative products, and futures contracts. Public futures markets were established in the 19th century[1] to allow transparent, standardized, and efficient hedging of agricultural commodityprices; they have since expanded to include futures contracts for hedging the values of energy, precious metals, foreign currency, and interest rate fluctuations
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review Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Herzberg’s two factor theory and see how it employees motivation in today’s organisations. Introduction A common phrase used by management with companies in the modern working world is that '...people are a company’s most valuable asset”. Twenty five years ago this was not the case and the complete opposite was thought. Businesses appeared to operate despite the best attempts of the workers to take high salary increases for less and less work put in. The corporate
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CASE 1.9 ZZZZ Best Company, \nc. On May 19,1987, a short article in The Wall Street Journal reported that ZZZZ Best Company, Inc., of Reseda, California, had signed a contract for a $13.8 million insurance restoration project. This project was just the most recent of a series of large restoration jobs obtained by ZZZZ Best (pronounced "zee best"). Located in the San Fernando Valley of southern California, ZZZZ Best had begun operations in the fall of 1982 as a small, door-ta-door carpet cleaning
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|Ethics Case Studies—Learning Application of the 2009 ADA/CDR Code of |[pic] | |Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics | | |Case Study #1: A registered dietitian (RD) is newly employed as part of a treatment team in an ambulatory care setting. After several | |counseling sessions, one of the clients he is counseling
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