Course Meeting Day/Time: Monday - 6:00 – 10.00 p.m. Professor Information: Dr. Jones Olajide E-mail: jones.olajide@strayer.edu Phone: 240-217-0141 Welcome, students! I have the privilege of being your Financial Accounting course instructor for this term. I’m excited about the opportunity to get to know you, and I’m looking forward to a happy and productive summer 2014 Quarter. I will always be available to meet with individual student before or after class on Mondays
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Guillermo Furniture Store The University of Phoenix Scenario: The Guillermo Furniture Store The purpose of this paper is explain how Guillermo could use budgets and performance reports in the decision making process. This paper will also cover how ethics might influence his accounting decisions. Another part of this paper will explain what accounting information is most relevant for Guillermo to consider when making decisions.. Guillermo will use budgets and performance reports in the decision
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Business Ethics MGT/498 Business Ethics This paper will discuss the ethical practices within the business. In the recent years, many businesses have taken a closer look at how the business ethics can either hinder the business or assist them in the growth or sustainability of the business. Examining the different variables of how ethics places into the business’s social responsibilities, and their sustainably organizational strategy and business model. Along with this, both internal and
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which are to be three times the damages the government has sustained. * Since the government has recovered billions of dollars since the law’s inception, this has become a powerful incentive for some employees to tell all to prosecutors. Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) * Passed in 2002, this act provides whistleblowers in publicly traded companies with revolutionary new protections if they “make a disclosure to a supervisor, law-enforcement agency, or congressional investigator that could have
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CHAPTER 1 Auditing and Assurance Services LEARNING OBJECTIVES | | |Exercises and | | | |Problems | | |Review Checkpoints | | |
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Ethics Strategic Planning and Implementation – STR/581 October 8, 2012 The major concern of any shareholder is to maximize the profit of the business; therefore organizations that seek to maximize their profits tend to periodically redefine the company’s missions and strategies. Those in successful strategic management positions also realize the importance of social responsibility. Strategic managers must recognize the importance of the stakeholders, which include stockholders and employees
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should have withdrawn from the market. 3. Using the four methods of ethical reasoning see figure 4.6 was it ethical or not for Chiquita to pay the terrorist organization? A. People in business can analyze ethics dilemmas by using four major types of ethics reasoning virtues ethics, utilitarian reasoning, rights reasoning and justice reasoning. The values and character of the company were right in trying to protect its people. The company was definitely seeing utilitarian benefits by having
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper investigates about the 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
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Read the Arthur Andersen’s Troubles Ethics Case on pp. 107–113 (Ch. 2) of the text. Answer questions 1, 3, and 4 on p. 113 in 200 to 300 words. When responding to question 3, focus solely on the Enron case. 1. What did Arthur Andersen contribute to the Enron disaster? Arthur Andersen (AA) did not advise the Enron Audit Committee that Enron’s policies and internal control were not adequate to protect the shareholders’ interests even though AA had assumed Enron’s internal audit function (Brooks
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SARBANES OXLEY ACT _ FLASH CARDS!!! Inside Directors who are also officers in the corporation, have typically controlled their company's board. Outside directors (also called independent directors) do not work for the company and have traditionally played a lesser role.1 They have been described derisively as "ornaments on a corporate Christmas tree" or "parsley on the fish." Nominated by their friend, the chief executive (CEO), and elected by shareholders without question, these directors
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