Analysis of Ethical Corporate Culture between 2013 and 2015 Group 6: Michelle Delgado Lok Sum Lydia Fung Chau Nguyen ACCT 415 Dr. James Gong 5/14/2015 Executive Summary In business, leaders, managers, and employees face conflicting incentives, messages and pressures from multiple stakeholders. Conflict of interest is said to occur when a professional’s self interest offers an incentive that mitigates his or her judgment against the best interest of the corporation or its customers
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Enron Corporation and Arthur Anderson. This assignment is to identify the background of Enron and Arthur Anderson and Enron fail. Other than that, identify the business risks that faced by Enron. Moreover, determine the responsibilities of board of directors and steps to improve corporate governance. Besides that, differentiated between rules-based accounting and principle-based accounting and the uses. In addition, there are discussion about auditor should allowed to provide non-audit services. There
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Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson is known around the world today as the most competitive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products. J & J also provides other services to the pharmaceutical and medical diagnostic markets. In 1887, three brothers, Robert Wood, Edward Mead, and James Wood Johnson set out to create Johnson & Johnson; which became one of the largest health care companies. The company started in Brunswick, New Jersey with only fourteen employees, today employs more
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mobile-based application software development and distribution, which has made Nokia as highest-selling mobile-phone vendor within the past few years. Nokia has sites for research and development, manufacture and sales in many countries throughout the world. As of December 2010, Nokia had R&D presence in 16 countries and employed 35,870 people in research and development, representing
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Faculty Board of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT Business Administration Starbucks with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) “How Starbucks succeeds in a business world with CSR” 15 Credits Master Thesis (FEAD 01) Thesis Advisor: Bo Enquist Co-reviewer Lars Haglund The Authors: Sornchai Harnrungchalotorn Yaowalak Phayonlerd Karlstads universitet 651 88 Karlstad Tfn 054-700 10 00 Fax 054-700 14 60 Information@kau.se www.kau.se ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Acknowledgements Our
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to worthwhile causes in our communities and society. 3. Doing the right thing: We exercise good judgment by "doing the right thing" instead of just "doing things right." We strive to understand the impact of our decisions, and we accept responsibility for our actions. 4. Excellent customer service: Along with our quality products, service, price and selection, we must go the extra mile to give customers knowledgeable advice about merchandise and to help them use those products to their
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doesn’t disclose financial details on the green initiative, it says the program is already saving money and resources, and it projects billions in savings over time.1 Ethics and Corporate Responsibility Hear the True Story of how today’s managers do the right thing. Listen to what Derrick and Elaine have to say. “Ethics are crucial in the property management business. We are obligated to abide by fair housing laws in our dayto-day operations. Not only do we have an obligation as a company
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countries around the world” (Ferrell, Fraedrich, Ferrell, 2011). Nike built its “good quality” reputation from popular athletic sponsors. Although the brand was growing into a successful sports oriented company, high demand for the product led to thought on how to manufacture more apparel. The founders of the company devised a plan on how to increase manufacturing while not completely blowing their accounts on laboring. The company agreed to take their manufacturing overseas to third-world countries where
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Code of Business Ethics Third Edition Reprint Third Edition tA B L E o F C o n t E n t S oUR EtHICAL FoUndAtIon, oUR CoRE VALUES And oUR KEy dRIVERS ........................1 Our Code of Business Ethics ..........................................2 We are passionately focused on business results and customer success. ........................................14 Fair Dealing .....................................................................14 SECtIon I EtHICAL BEHAVIoR We
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organisations”. These were words written over a hundred years ago not by a management guru but an ordinary person who have concretely experienced such trends. In fact, so many revelations are reported that people who wish to be honest in the business world may be tempted to believe that they, too, must be sneaky, deceitful or dishonest in order to pay their way and make a decent profit. Various gurus have consciously defined ethical conduct in which one view is from Michael Cook, chairman Deloitte Haskins
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