INSIDER DEALINGS AND THE PROBLEMS OF BUSINESS ETHICS IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA. BY Adegboye Folasade Bosede Department of Banking & Finance Covenant University Ota, Ogun state. Tel: 07032678252 e-mail:sadeadegboye@yahoo.com THIS PAPER IS TO BE PRESENTED AT: THE 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE NIGERIAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY AT TEMPRANCE HOTEL OFF THE BELLS UNIVERSITY ROAD OTA, OGUN STATE. DATE: TUESDAY NOVEMBER 25- THURSDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2008 ABSTRACT Professionalism in banking
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four most common forms of business enterprises and briefly describe them. Answer: 1. Sole Proprietorship is an unincorporated business owned by one person. 2. Partnership is an unincorporated business owned by two or more persons. 3. Corporation is a type of business organization recognized under the law as an entity separate from its owners. It provides certain legal protection for the owners against lawsuits brought against the company. They are allowed to do many of the same things any
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organizations and managers to be socially responsible and ethical? In this chapter, we’re going to look at what it means to be socially responsible and ethical and what role managers play in both. Focus on the following learning outcomes as you read and study this chapter. LEARNING OUTCOMES 5.1 Discuss what it means to be socially responsible and what factors influence that decision. 5.2 Explain green management and how organizations can go green. 5.3 Discuss the factors that lead to ethical and unethical
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Introduction Accounting conservatism is traditionally defined by the adage “anticipate no profit, but anticipate all losses” (e.g., Bliss, 1924). Anticipating profits means recognizing profits before there is a verifiable legal claim to the revenues generating those profits. Conservatism does not imply that all revenue cash flows should be received before profits are recognized. Thus the issue is one of verifiability. In the empirical literature the adage is interpreted as representing “the
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More Than a Numbers Game A Brief Histor y of Accounting Thomas A. King John Wiley & Sons, Inc. More Than a Numbers Game More Than a Numbers Game A Brief Histor y of Accounting Thomas A. King John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright © 2006 by Thomas A. King. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or
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Today’s knowledge and service-based economy offers innumerable opportunities for well-run companies to increase profits through strategic outsourcing.1 Emphasis is rapidly shifting from outsourcing parts, componentry, and hardware subsystems toward the even greater unexploited potentials that intellectually-based systems offer:2 Obtaining higher value, more flexible, and more integrated services than internal sources can offer. Improving the company’s capacities to stay current and to
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Health South: The Scrushy way Troy Elliott Northcentral University MGT7019-8 Mentor: Janet Jones September 23, 2012 Table of Contents A.) INTRODUCTION…….…………………………………………………………………. 4 B.) Defining the Ethical Issues Involved with HealthSouth…………………………………. 5 1.) HealthSouth Founder and CEO Richard Marin Scrushy………...………………. 5 a.) Trailer Park to Charismatic Leader……………………………………. 5-7 b.) Leadership Tactics……………………………………………………….. 7 2.) Corporate Culture
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Abbey Smith Exercise # 1 Ethics for Decision Making INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ETHICS The 20th Century, an age of electronics, nuclear fission, daring surgery, wonder drugs, computers, and space travel. Will we, the people of the 20th Century be remembered as having lived in the golden age when man finally stuck his finger into the heavens? Will we be remembered because of our scientific breakthroughs and medical gifts that we have given to man? Will we, indeed, be the century of progress
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Introduction Bureaucracy today is an integral part of most modern organizations. Whether public or private, organizations all across the world implement systems and regulations in their daily procedures which are enforced by appointed employees. Although bureaucracy has existed in some form or another for hundreds of years in human society, our point of departure will be the definition presented by Max Weber. In short, Weber defined bureaucracy as an organizational system with a clearly defined
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WorldCom Case Study1 By Dennis Moberg (Santa Clara University) and Edward Romar (University of Massachusetts-Boston) (The original of this document can be found at the Santa http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/worldcom.html#one. Clara University website at An update for this case is available at http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/worldcomupdate.html . Note that this update is not part of the syllabus for the PRM or Associate PRM exam. It is included for reference and explanation
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