system depends on the ethical behaviours of executive ceo’s honesty and integrity, most of which is responsible for the financial crisis of 2007. An example, the unethical conducts of giving mortgages to unqualified borrowers to earn large fees and accounting frauds in the 2000s by large companies such as Enron, Health south and WorldCom. Also moral issues on the fairness in terms of profit making, freedom in terms of individual’s choice between starvation and the acceptance of whatever wage offered
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Assignment I: Tainted Baby Powder Milk 1. Yes, I believe there has been some damage to Baidu.com’s reputation because there was a significant stock price drop from $308 to $110. Stock price drops usually are the result of a lack of confidence by the stakeholders in the future performance of the company. Lack of confidence can often be attributed to actions by a company that are revealed to the stakeholders. 2. Future reputational damage could be reflected by a lack of confidence of the stakeholders
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Research Ethics Digging Into Unethical Corporate Behavior In the textbook “Business Research Methods”, Cooper and Shindler (2011) define ethics as “norms or standards of behavior that guide moral choices about our behavior and our relationships with others” (p.32). Our culture and believes is what helps define and determine what is considered ethical, and what is unethical. “The goal of ethics in research is to ensure that no one is harmed or suffers adverse consequences from research activities
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Felicia Lattimore The SOX Act: Unethical Practices and Behavior in Business Accounting LAW/421 – CONTEMPOARY BUSINESS LAW September 6, 2014 Aretha Somerville Introduction Unethical decisions can ruin a business. Dishonest behaviors by accountants, such as falsifying financial statements, over-billing or misleading regulators, can tarnish a company's reputation, causing loss of customers, employees and/or revenue. In some cases, unethical behavior is also illegal and can
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The Enron Scandal……………………………………………………………………………………..10 The WorldCom Scandal………………………………………………………………….…………..12The consequences of Creative Accounting……………………..…………………………………13Measures of Prevention……………………………………………………………………………………15Conclusion……………………………………………………………………….…………………..17Bibliography……………………………………………………………...…………………………18 | Table of Figures Figure1. A proposed framework for understanding accounting manipulation practices…….……...9 The Ethics in Accounting case and the plan Incidentals
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Oxley, the act's primary authors. The law was overwhelmingly passed by both houses of Congress in response to the widespread public and government outrage against corporate abuses. Fraudulent accounting practices and misleading financial reports issued by such corporate giants as Enron, WorldCom and Arthur Anderson caused millions of dollars in losses to investors and an irreparable damage to the public trust. To ensure the certifications were taken seriously, the act also created criminal penalties
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is an overall assessment of the financial fraud that occurred at Worldcom. This paper will show that if an operational audit had been conducted how it could have uncovered the fraud at an earlier time. | Initial Survey and Engagement Development In the introduction survey there are several topics that should have been discussed in the initial survey and engagement development for an audit of Worldcom. When reading the Worldcom case the very first thing that I noticed was there was no written
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documentary defines a corporation as a legal person, explaining that is has most of the legal rights a person has such as borrowing money and managing property. The film was released around the time of major corporate scandals, such as Xerox, Enron, and WorldCom, and uses the metaphor “bad apples” to state that there are more than a few corporations that are bad. The film argues that if corporations were people, they would have psychopathic personalities. It then states that corporations have become a vessel
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Communications acquired MCI/WorldCom and SBC Communications acquired AT&T Corporation, which had been in business since the 19th Century. The acquisition of MCI/WorldCom was the direct result of the behavior of WorldCom's senior managers as documented above. While it can be argued that the demise of AT&T Corp. was not wholly attributable to WorldCom's behavior, AT&T Corp.'s decimation certainly was facilitated by the events surrounding WorldCom, since WorldCom was the benchmark long distance
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I particularly interesting about the article, is that the authors noted what they considered to be the managerial reaction to the SOA. They believed that the new regulations would magnify managements discernment about full disclosure and ethical practices by making them more aware of the possible outcomes should they be less than honest or fail to maintain compliance. I should note that it is not only important for managers to be compliant to guard their own reputation, but also that of the company
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