Prosecutors historically avoid high costs of taking corporations to trial by either dropping charges or entering into a plea agreement at the end of a criminal investigation. Plea agreement in the U.S. may take place with regard to any crime, including the most serious crimes such as homicide. Plea bargaining can begin as soon as the defendant has been indicted or charged. This can occur at any time prior to sentencing. In negotiating plea agreements with corporations, prosecutors should seek a plea
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other criminals” (p. 282). I guess this means white-collar crimes are usually fraud and instead of streets crimes, because they are less violent, and usually committed within the organizations or corporates’ executives and etc. for example, collapse of Enron that had a serious lasting impact on it
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Financial Statements and There Importance in Outside Interests Jay Whittington ACC 205 Instructor Angela Sneed 4/23/12 Financial statements are used in accounting to give an accurate representation of the financial health of a given business or entity. These statements and their underlying importance of accuracy cannot be overlooked. It is of the utmost importance for a business to present accurate financial statements not only to meet reporting requirements internally, but
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Is stock option backdating ethically defensible? Background Stock options are widely used to supplement the amount of non-performance-based cash compensation for executives and CEOs. Furthermore, Bishara & Schipani state that stock options, “have long been touted as a way to align the interests of the executive with the shareholder…”(2008, p. 13) and thus provide, “greater incentives for executives to improve firm performance.” (Raiborn et al. 2007, p.1) However, due to the transactional
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Business Ethics: What happens when business operates without ethics In Ethics, The Heart of Leadership, Al Gini argues that ethics are an integral part of business. He employs multiple arguments to back up his claim. One such argument is that “work is how we spend our lives, and the lessons we learn there, good or bad, play a part in the development of our moral perspective and the manner in which we formulate and adjudicate ethical choices” (p. 30). In other word, as long as one values ethics
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BACHELOR OF COMMERCE YEAR 3 - ACADEMIC CALENDER | | | Appendix A: ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET | | | | | | | | | | Date Received: ………………………….. | | | | Date Returned: ……………....………… | | | Programme | BACHELOR OF COMMERCE DEGREE | Module Name | BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 3 | Assignment Number | ASSIGNMENT 1 | Surname | De Villiers | First Name/s | Cornèl | Student Number | BCOM 1121041 | Date Submitted | | Postal Address | P O Box 252 |
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Name of Student: Name of Instructor: Course: Date: Accounting Standards Codification The FASB Accounting Standard Codification is the source of authoritative Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) documented by the FASB to be applied to nongovernmental entities. The Codification is the result of a major five-year project involving more than two hundred people from multiple entities. The Codification is effective for provisional and annual periods ending after September
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Restoring Trust in WorldCom 1. What are the three or four central objectives that Breeden hopes to achieve with the proposals in “Restoring Trust”? Why is reform needed? What are the benefits? What are your concerns regarding the reform? The WorldCom Corporate Monitor, Richard Breeden, believed that in order to correct the ills that faced the company, WorldCom needed to adopt a strong Corporate Governance structure. The central objectives of his proposal “Restoring Trust” included improving
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taught in accounting courses at higher education institutions as well as by companies training accountants and auditors. Due to the diverse range of accounting services and recent corporate collapses, attention has been drawn to ethical standards accepted within the accounting profession.[2] These collapses have resulted in a widespread disregard for the reputation of the accounting profession.[3] To combat the criticism and prevent fraudulent accounting, various accounting organizations and governments
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else with your investment. But there is an answer to help protect companies and shareholder, and it comes in the form of a regulatory organization that was put in place in 2002. That was put in place as a direct response to the corporate scandals of Enron and other scandals that followed, and was also put in place to help restore confidence in the financial market. SOX-Applies only to US companies on the US exchange, and is an Act put in place in 2002 to mandate all publicly traded corporations
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