Chapter 1 The Canadian Financial Reporting Environment Prepared by: Dragan Stojanovic, CA Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto The Canadian Financial Reporting Environment Role of Financial Reporting • Financial statements and financial reporting • Accounting and capital allocation •Stakeholders Objective of Financial Reporting •Management bias •Users’ needs Standard Setting • Need to develop standards • Parties involved in standard setting • Standard setting in a political environment
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Code of Ethics OMM640: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Instructor: Erika O'Quinn 5/26/2014 Code of Ethics Perry's Outreach Ministries is a Christian non-profit organization that relies on government funding, and donations from members of the community. Perry's Outreach Ministries provides,counseling, non-perishable food items,clothing housing vouchers and childcare to the battered and abused women and children throughout the community. The overall mission of
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN VIETNAM; A STUDY OF ITS IMPORTANCE BY PHAM THUY LY E0700048 i BACHELOR OF BUSINESS (ACCOUNTING) HONS HELP UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MARCH 2011 DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY AND WORD COUNT I hereby declare that the graduation project is based on my original work except for quotations and citations which have been duly acknowledged. I also declare that it has not been previously or concurrently submitted for any other course/degree at Help University College or other
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SEMESTER 2 2011 CPA 118 ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE MODULE 1 ACCOUNTING AND SOCIETY 1.05 1.05 Part A: Ineraction with society Depictions of A/cting Depiction=描述 Defeating depictions defeat =挫败 Fig 1.1 new bean counter How to become professional? 3 aspects 1.06 Recruiting the best Beard(1994),Smith and Briggs(1999) and Simnik and Felton(2006) Friedman& Lyne(2001);Albrecht and Sack(2000);Coate et al.(2003) Jeacle: colourful accountant linked to corporate collapses 1.07 Moral agency Biddle(2006) Value
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Reporting practice and ethics paper Latrice Robertson Hcs/405 February 3, 2014 Sherida Douglass Reporting practice and ethics paper It is the responsibility of a health care manager to understand the basic principles of accounting and finance, and have the knowledge and the understanding of a financial report and what it means. Without these skills and ethical standards it could result in poor management. Financial management is a vital part of organizational effectiveness and success
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Code of Ethics Analysis Tina Levering HSM/230 May 17, 2015 Carrie Cooper Code of Ethics Analysis The purpose of the NASW Code of Ethics is to provide guidelines for social workers to follow that will aid them through making decisions that are of an ethical nature. In the field of social services a social worker will likely face many decisions in which this guide will be of great help. According the NASW Code of Ethics, there are six primary values that are accepted by social workers that
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president of the company in 1985, decided the company needed to document the values that all employees must live by: Integrity; Environment, Health and Safety; Customer; Accountability; Excellence; People; and Profitability. Alcoa had implemented a global ethics and compliance program, and the focus on health and safety was interwoven through the company’s program. This program included all the basic elements specified in the U.S Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The company made it clear
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Amans, Patrick Hilario, Kedron ACTG 6650 Dr. Ward 29 July 2015 “Ethics and Its Ties to Earnings Management” INTRODUCTION Many professionals and accounting researchers have raised the question -Is ethics directly linked to the practice of earnings management? Earnings management is defined by Beaudoin, Cianci, and Tsakumis (2012, p.507), as “the manipulation of revenues and/or expenses to obtain a desired financial reporting outcome.” He and Yang’s article offers that the definition of earnings
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Reporting Practices and Ethics Krystal Jackson Septemnber 10, 2012 HCS/405 Diana Schilling Large companies need the attention of investors, creditors, and banks to continue to be profitable. The information that these entities receive is product of the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that are practiced by companies to create and release their annual finances. The financial statements allow the outside entities to judge the economic health
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complaints regarding accounting, internal accounting control or audit matters where they have to establish audit procedure for the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints. Moreover, the organization has to build appropriate structure of line of reporting for the internal audit to support the effective fraud management program. The report discuss in deep on the Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002 in relation with bursa listing requirement. Furthermore, the whistleblowing also become the main issues on this report
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