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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Unethical Behavior Article Analysis ACC/291 The Sarbanes Oxley Act was passed as a result of plenty of corporate scandals. The purpose of this act was to protect investors and to provide them with accurate and reliable information, and to disclose all information that can affect an investor’s decision. It was passed to restore the confidence of investors. The Sarbanes Oxley Act has impacted financial statements in several ways. The act has asked that independent
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Purpose-This paper aims to obtain views in ICT company regarding the role of cultural values in company performance in terms of customer satisfaction, skills in solving problems and capability in adopting new technologies and its influence to people behavior in terms of innovativeness and motivation. This paper also contributes to the discussion of cultural values in business ethics. Methodology-Data are collected through one on one interviewing process with 15 managers. Findings-The two main findings
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NIKE CASE STUDY This post is a based on a case study of Nike. The article will be discussing legal and ethical analysis and how the impact the operational/ ethical issues of the organization, the paper shall also be discussing the contribution factors and how the company’s corporate culture may have helped to minimize the unethical behavior or actually contributed to/caused the unethical behavior. The paper is also going to provide ethical decision factors, which are going to address or going to
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quality product which has a huge impact to the many stakeholders. This report contents the impacts for the stakeholders concerns and the ethical problems as a product manager will be facing in the long run. By going further lets us see what do we mean by stakeholders? The world is so compact that today each actions of any business will cause a huge impact to the end users of that product. The product may be a consumed by one person in a certain community but the impact may bring the whole community
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Conclusion---------------------------------------------------------------------------10 References----------------------------------------------------------------------------11 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Business ethics have a strong impact on all companies. When a company is written up for unethical performances the profitability of the company will be affected in a negative way. Every business needs to have a code of ethics that relates to its mission statement. An employee code of ethics does not tell an employee
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GUIDELINES FOR CASE ANALYSIS The following guidelines are designed to assist in the case analysis process. The Guidelines are not intended to be a rigid format, however. Each question is intended to surface information that will be helpful in analyzing and resolving the case. Each case is different, and some parts of these guidelines may not apply in every case. Following each case are discussion questions that should be answered as part of any complete case analysis. The heart of any
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Non-Compliance Report To: CEO, Executive team Purpose: The intent of this document is to discuss the recent discovery of trace amounts of lead in the whistles to be included in the Elementary Toy Collection (ETC). It details the situation, list three alternative solutions for your consideration, and gives a recommendation to the preferred alternative. Further the idea of a Code of Ethics will be presented with the benefits laid out as well as a case study of one of our competitors and their
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impacted by several environmental factors including federal regulations and the economy. The U.S. financial markets impact the economy, businesses, and individual by the movement of funds among financiers, businesses and governments. It involves investments in the area of sales or marketing of securities, the management of investment risk through portfolio diversification and the analysis of securities. Melicher, R. W., & Norton, E. A. (2011).Pg. 6 The U.S. Federal Reserve is the central bank of
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September in 2014 is far lower than analysts’ anticipation (Guynn, 2014). It may imply that there is stagnation for Google’s earnings. As a result, we will analyze Google based on CVP analysis, cost structure analysis, ratio analysis, and ethical issues and provide recommendations to maintain its sustainability. Financial analysis The quarter report shows that the total revenue in this quarter is $16.52 billion, which has increase by 20% on a year-over-year basic. However, it still cannot meet the expectation
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