. Do you think it is ethical for social networks to sell access user information to business for market research and other users? Why or why not ? 1.Spamming - Social Networking Sites can sell one's personal information to anyone who wants to buy it, including spammers and on line predators. Even if the terms of understanding claim that no personal information will be sold, the site can change its policy at any time. social networking sites like Myspace and Bebo are full of spam and scams! Many
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haven’t come to bear” (“The Cost and Benefit of Sarbanes and Oxley,” 2014, p. 1). This article also goes and talk about the cost and benefits of the Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002. SOX restrictions pushed several fraud-prone companies to go private. These was mainly the smaller companies that were fraud prone. I believe overall Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002 was good for the consumer and economy. Yet, it’s still undetermined that the SOX Act 2002 led to the crash of the economy in the 2008. Sarbanes Oxley
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Course AC557:01: Internal Control Assessment and Design Unit 5 Final Project: Adelphia Introduction This case analysis is about the Adelphia Corporation fraud that was considered to be one of the massive corporate scandals in US history. This company did not receive as much television and news exposure as Enron and WorldCom, but the fraud the Rigas family had engaged in caused the company to sustain tremendous losses. Adelphia was considered a family owned business to the Rigas family members
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Is company should be held liable for identity theft due to the integrity of ethical responsibility Alejandrina Cleary BIS/221 May 18, 2015 Joseph Mills Is company should be held liable for identity theft due to the integrity of ethical responsibility Even though I believe that companies can protect their consumer, like Facebook can have a system in place for people information. So that people personal information is not a threat. The ethical in technology can be a gray area
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The first scene unethical behaviour in fil dil hai tumhara is when Shalu has determined that she is in need of employment, and got a job with Khanna Industries, with a fair amount of false information. Khanna Industries is a factory that processes an apple to a drink juices which call “Refresh”. The day that Shalu want to apply for a job, the company is on a strike. At that time, Shalu came without an appointment to Khanna Industries and there are two managers (Roopchand and Koopchand) of the company
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trusted executives of corporations. Examples of Accounting Fraud: • Merging short and long term debt into one amount to improve the perceived liquidity of the company • Failing to disclose risky investments or “creative” accounting practices • Over-recording sales revenue • Under-recording expenses (i.e. depreciation expense) Accounting fraud leads to many serious problem for everyone not only for the perpetrator. Accounting fraud causes problem in the market place and the economy. As a result
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representatives to periodically work together on specific projects. The goal of COSO is to provide leadership through the development of frameworks and guidance on enterprise risk management, internal control and fraud deterrence to enhance organizational governance and decrease fraud 1. The History of COSO and the Creation of the COSO Framework Due to the public criticisms against both accounting professionals and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Treadway Commission
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Jenna McMorrow Accounting 249 Linda Amman Ethical Paper 4/09/2015 Fraud An Oak Brook Chicago attorney, Kathleen Niew age 59, was once known as a successful real estate attorney and a popular radio host. Now known as crooked and corrupt behind the scenes. She used her law license to lie and steal from clients. Kathleen Niew used to host call-in radio shows on WIND-AM 560, and she offered estate and financial planning advice. Mrs. Niew also wrote multiple books about financial advice and lead countless
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Kevin Trudeau television pitchman known for his bestseller weight loss books has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Trudeau was convicted for criminal contempt for violating a 2004 federal court order. He was also found in contempt for making misleading claims in infomercials. Trudeau infomercials for “The Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want You to Know About” stating it was not a diet. This weight loss required eating at least three weeks of eating 500 calories or less a day. There also
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Business Fraud By: Accounting Information Systems Professor Broderick Martinez September 14, 2014 In Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, an office manager of an Upper St. Clair accounting firm pleaded guilty to last Wednesday to wire fraud and embezzlement of about $270,000 from Cybergenetics Corp. in Oakland, California. Mary Schneir admitted to shuffling money into and out of accounts of three clients when she was working as an office manager of Karna C. Goldsmith CPA firm. She used many of those
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