The Scrushy Influence Table of Contents Table of Content…………………………………………………………………………………. 2 Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Richard Scrushy-Biography……………………………………………………………………….5 Health South History………………………………………………………………………………6 Health South Down Fall…………………………………………………………………………...7 Sentence…………………………………………………………………………………………...8 Sentence…………………………………………………………………………………………...9 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….10
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THE LEGAL REGULATION OF THE EXTERNAL COMPANY AUDITOR IN POST-ENRON SOUTH AFRICA Hannine Drake THESIS PRESENTED IN FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF LAWS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH Supervisor: Prof A.H. van Wyk March 2009 ii DECLARATION By submitting this thesis electronically, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the owner of the copyright thereof (unless to the extent explicitly otherwise
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their employees. Furthermore, they devised a plan for employees to follow the codes of health and safety so the company could achieve their goal of providing for stakeholders. The company considered the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act with all of the basic elements included. 4. Can Alcoa's "values in practice" be adopted by other organizations as a universal set of ethical standards leading to ethical employee behavior? Measures that Alcoa implemented were crucial to
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Jay Kaplan Business Law and Ethics Professor Gaston de los Reyes December 8, 2014 To Whistleblow or Not To Whistleblow? Introduction When an employee of, or group within, a company witnesses misconduct, there are two simple but very different paths that an employee or group can take: expose the issue in order to try and correct the situation or remain mum and let the issue continue to metastasize. It seems quite obvious what path is best and most noble to take; however, the idea that one
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ended up costing investors and employees of the corporations a lot of money. Enron was a major player in many breeches, and ultimately was one of the key players for the SEC creating new guidelines and punishments for fraudulent behavior, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. As of today, with the SOX act put in place for almost 11 years, there are still corporate breeches, Chesapeake Energy, Wal-Mart, Green Mountain Coffee, and Groupon are among the most recent (Rogers, 2012). I believe the SOX act helped prevent
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Joe Lazar ACC 320 Summer 2011 Prof. Waechter American Business Ethics: Enron Born from the merger of InterNorth Inc. and Houston Natural Gas Company in 1985, Enron began an energy trading corporation. At the time of its creation, the natural gas market was extremely volatile. As such, a considerable amount of uncertainty existed about the future price of natural gas. Consumers could not obtain reliable prices for natural gas because suppliers and sellers of natural gas could agree to
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Introduction The paper provides an overview of the Riordan Manufacturing Company and explains the purpose of the Corporate Compliance Plan. Next, the paper emphasizes four main issues which are Enterprise and Product Liability, Real and Intellectual Property, Governance and International Law related to Riordan's situation. The paper concludes with the Riordan's future legal responsibilities that can affect workforce productivity, customer relationships and customer relationships. 1. Organization
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Riordan Corporate Compliance Plan Learning Team B Veronica Garcia Maribel Rojas Lorena Soto LAW/531 July 23, 2012 Roger Rodriguez Abstract The use of university resources and materials allows teach team members to create Riordan’s Corporate Compliance Plan. In the compliance plan students address the lawful responsibility of Riordan’s executives and presents solutions to situations, which laws have been violated and consequently propose corrective actions. Moreover, the compliance plan
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software provider to the business and their clients. This paper will determine what advances in accounting and/or information technology could have done to prevent such acts from occuring, the paper will give changes that should be made to both the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other current laws in order to make them more effective in deterring companies from committing crimes. Lastly, Recommend a strategy that Koss Corp may use to prevent future business information failures. Indicate how the company
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Name of the Student Submitted to Name of University Date Course Abstract Generally, whistle blower is a person who tries to expose wrong doing inside an organization either to the public or to the authorized people. Whistle blowers disclose information regarding any misconduct at their work place which they think may be against public welfare or law. They speak out to expose corruption or to expose any kind of danger to the public or the environment. Whistle-blowing can
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