of the world's ethics and compliance environment. The benefits of an ethical culture outweigh the costs. Globally ethical companies will be those that maintain a strong reputation in all their markets, experience increased employee commitment and loyalty, garner advantages in attracting and retaining customers, and generate superior levels of performance and success. Keywords: globally ethical companies, business conduct, ethical culture, professional standards, corporate code of conduct Introduction
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of innumerable corporate scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. These companies were misrepresenting their financial reporting to investors and stakeholders to make themselves look more financially stable when in reality they were not. This misrepresentation resulted in huge financial losses and the mistrust of investors in the market. In order to better control financial reporting and restore investors trust, the SOX act was passed. Sarbanes-Oxley aims to enhance corporate governance and strengthen
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Code of Corporate Governance – A Critical Comparison between Bangladesh and Malaysia James Bakul Sarkar Assistant Professor in Accounting and MBA Coordinator Faculty of Business ASA University Bangladesh E-mail: jamssarkar@yahoo.com Mob: 0171-6599599 Dewan Muhammad Nur A Yazdani Lecturer in Marketing
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Corporate Governance Principles Compliance Report 1. Statement of Compliance With Corporate Governance Principles In parallel with the Corporate Governance related activities initiated in late 2004 in Vestel Elektronik San. ve Tic. A.Ş., the corporate governance principles are now implemented within the Company. For the last seven years, the Company has been provided rating services by ISS Corporate Services Inc. (ISS), a leading international rating agency, in order to have the relevant practices
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organisations are tolerant to and utilise ethics communication in each of these modes were illustrated in this paper. In particular, the varied prominence of whistleblowing and ethics advice facilities in each of the reactive (some whistleblowing), compliance (ethics advice supplementary to whistleblowing) and integrity (whistleblowing supplementary to ethics advice) modes were indicated. The seamless integration of ethics talk and ethics advice in the TAO-mode makes whistleblowing superfluous in this
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act came into force in response to corporate financial scandals that emerged due to Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing, Arthur Andersen and WorldCom to protect shareholders and the public from accounting errors and unethical business practices. It brought major changes to the regulation of financial practice and corporate governance. The Act covers issues related to creating a public company accounting oversight board, auditor independence, corporate responsibility and improved financial disclosure
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Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper HCS 405 Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper According to the American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics, “a physician shall support access to medical care for all people” (Zonana, 2001, p.1). This principle becomes an ethical dilemma, however; in our currently divided system in which those without insurance are not provided the same access to health care as those with insurance. Health care providers are continually obligate to balance
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Enron To Lehman Brothers Lessons for Boards From Recent Corporate Governance Failures by Frederick D. Lipman In order for boards to fulfill their oversight obligations, the organizations they serve must have robust whistleblower and compliance policies and programs to encourage reporting that can help identify risk exposures, fraud, or other illegal activity. This report identifies common pitfalls in many current whistleblower and compliance programs, and it offers recommendations on how audit committees
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From Compliance to Practice Mining Companies and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo Tanja A. Börzel/Jana Hönke SFB-Governance Working Paper Series 25 • October 2011 DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 700 Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit - Neue Formen des Regierens? DFG Research Center (SFB) 700 Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood - New Modes of Governance? SFB-Governance Working Paper Series Edited by the Research Center
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Elantas Beck India Ltd. Heading/Subheadings | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | * Director’s Report | 4 | 4 | 4 | * Financial Highlights | 4 | 4 | 4 | * Performance | 4 | 4 | 4 | * Dividend | 4 | 4 | 4 | * Directors | 4 | 4 | 4 | * Corporate Governance | 4 | 5 | 5 | * Change in address of registered office of company | - | 5 | 5 | * Listing on Bombay Stock Exchange | 4 | 5 | 5 | * Directors’ Responsibility Statement | 5 | 5 | 5 | * Cost Audit | 5 | 5 | 5
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