1. Relevant Facts: * Ed Giles (35) is a Partner Accountant at Saduga & Mihca, a medium sized accounting firm. * Susan Regas (25) is a senior accountant at the same accounting firm as Giles. * Giles and Regas have been dating for the past four months despite the firm’s policy, which prohibits employees in different ranks to date. * The policy states that if such a relationship will lead to marriage, one of the ?? * The above couple has not declared their romantic relationship
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Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property Kellie L. Plowden LEG 500 Doris Mitchell December 12, 2013 Everyone knows that direct- to consumer-marketing is focused on the patients. There are a lot of ways to get the attention of these patients. Advertising can be done through social media, print, radio, television, and word of mouth. “Prescription direct-to-consumer advertising has become a highly scrutinized and researched topic in healthcare
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Week 4 Short Essay 1- 2 Supervision Concepts and Skill – Building Part 1. The first principle in the principle of organizing it parity principle. The parity principle states that personnel who are given responsibility must also be given enough authority to carry out that responsibility. (Certo, 2013). An example of parity principle is if I hired a contractor to build a house and I was the one picking the material and hiring workers for the job. When giving the task of building the
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Whistleblowing: Right or Wrong? Tayler Parker SOC 120 Instructor Jeremy Bennett 2/16/14 Whistleblowing. Is it right, or is it wrong? Is it ethical or unethical? Many people weigh heavily on one side or the other. I think that it would be a very difficult situation to be in. Should you choose to betray your company or government to do the questionably right thing, or should you aid and abet the scandals by helping keep the secrets? Everyone has different opinions of the subject, especially
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The Importance of Medications in Mental Health Case Study: The information collected for this paper is drawn from a case study of a 72-year-old white female. After her husband’s passing, she moved into a group home facility so that she could benefit from the services and aid they offered. She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia more than 2 years ago and has been hospitalized five times in the past 2 years. Three of those hospitalizations have occurred in the past year. She also has a
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Assignment 1: Employment-At-Will Doctrine 5/4/14 * Summarize the employment-at-will doctrine and evaluate each of the eight (8) scenarios described by determining: The employment-at-will doctrine states that an employee can be fired or released from a company for cause or no cause at all. The employee also has the right to quit a job for any reason. Under this legislation, neither the employer or employee incurs “adverse legal consequences” (NCSL, 2014). There are three exceptions that
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general rule requiring acts of the same kind. Two people who figure large in any discussion of ethics are Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant. Bentham, along with J S Mill, is the founder of a movement known as Utilitarianism and both have also significantly influenced economic thought. In deontology
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Evaluation of a Business Code of Ethics, The Hershey’s Company PHL/323 Mission Statement Hershey’s Mission Statement noted here, (Social- Responsibility/Marketplace) “Bringing sweet moments of Hershey happiness to the world every day,” Provides the focus
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IFRS: FASB and IASB Fair value measurements provide users of financial statements with an accurate picture of the value of a company’s assets. Both IFRS and GAAP require firms to include information regarding fair value measurement practices in the notes of financial statements. Under either system, companies will be required to report assets at either book value or fair value, depending on the situation. As a general rule of thumb, all assets in the same class must receive the same valuation treatment
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Ethics in the Corporate World ACC 557 Financial Accounting January 26, 2014 In today’s society, it seems that most companies are out to chase the almighty dollar and have little to no concern for the repercussions of their actions. In this paper, we will address five aspects of the corporate world and the ethical breaches that have been made in the last few years. The company that we will look at for examples is WorldCom. WorldCom was one of the companies that led to the creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley
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