Berkeley Journal of International Law Volume 26 | Issue 2 Article 5 2008 Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility: A Research Agenda Amiram Gill Recommended Citation Amiram Gill, Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility: A Research Agenda, 26 Berkeley J. Int'l Law. 452 (2008). Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/bjil/vol26/iss2/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals and Related Materials at Berkeley Law Scholarship
Words: 13200 - Pages: 53
history of accounting occurred due to numerous scandals. The results of these scandals from companies lead to terrifying actions, which included the downfall of one of the largest accounting corporations, Arthur Anderson, for their help with Enron. Companies such as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom have led to the passing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) due to their financial reporting scandals (Forbes, 2013). With the passing of SOX in 2002, the falsification of financial statements by companies became a criminal
Words: 2955 - Pages: 12
Enron Corp.: Credit Sensitive Notes Solution Posted on January 28, 2013 by admin — No Comments ↓ This case investigates an innovative bond issue by Enron. The coupon on the bond is indexed to the company’s credit rating, making it a credit derivative structure.« Hide by Sanjiv Das, Stephen Lynagh Source: Harvard Business School 16 pages. Publication date: Feb 28, 1997. Prod. #: 297099-PDF-ENG Case Study 2 – Enron and Arthur Andersen Enron Corporation Case Study 2 – Enron and Arthur Andersen
Words: 5788 - Pages: 24
clear about the purpose of their reports and provide what their end-users need to know”. Company reports serve the useful information to those interested in the activities of the company, mainly the stakeholder groups. Stakeholders act as nucleus, around which the future activities and strategies would be framed. Company law explicitly guards stakeholder’s value in different areas of disclosure. Zairi, M., and letza, S. (1994) Disclosure system is recognised extensively in the company law. English
Words: 2723 - Pages: 11
REPORT RE: RECENT ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SCANDALS Contents INTRODUCTION: 3 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 5 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN IRELAND 5 RESPONSE FROM REGULATORS TO THE MOST RECENT SCANDALS IN BANKING SECTOR 7 US CORPORATE GOVERNANCE at a time of Tyco scandal 8 RESPONSE FROM THE REGULATORS -SARBANES-OXLEY ACT 2002 9 AUDIT 10 EXTERNAL AUDIT 10 INTERNAL AUDIT 11 INTRODUCTION TO ANGLO IRISH BANK 12 The Scandals 12 Loans to Sean Fitzpatrick 13 Irish Life and Permanent
Words: 12288 - Pages: 50
example of a deterrent. Deterrence is a critical element of the effort to prevent a particular behavior. People have to have a reason not to act that way. When I was a kid, I didn’t know what a deterrent was, but I sure knew that the possibility of a whipping was reason enough not to lose my mind. What deters people working in the business and financial worlds from committing fraud? The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 perhaps? Fear of prosecution? One would hope so, but it is certain that the
Words: 4553 - Pages: 19
Privatization, Regulation and Competition in South Asia T. N. Srinivasan* 1. Introduction It is a great honor to be invited to deliver the Mahbub Ul Haq Memorial Lecture. Mahbub finished his graduate studies in economics and left Yale in 1956, a year before I began my own graduate studies there. He had set an exemplary record that those of us from South Asia who followed him at Yale, such as Bashir Karamali, Parvez Hasan, Syed Nawab Hyder Naqvi, Syed Naseem, and myself included, could only envy.
Words: 12975 - Pages: 52
Indian political philosopher, Kautilya discusses the principles of governing the state and includes the problem of Manuscript BUSI393R1, REVISED and RESUBMITTED to the Journal of Business Ethics. This article fits under the sections: Corporate Governance
Words: 11977 - Pages: 48
ACCA Paper P1 0.b e Governance, Risk & Ethics o bo k 0 s2 0 s log p o t.c o m Class Notes June 2011 ebooks2000.blogspot.com eb o s ok 2 0 00 .b s log p o t.c o m © The Accountancy College Ltd, January 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission
Words: 25700 - Pages: 103
“CAPITAL MARKET REFORMS VIS A VIS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE” The Indian regulatory and supervisory framework of securities market has been adequately strengthened through the legislative and administrative measures in the recent past. However the capital market remains seriously flawed because of the fact that three key ingredients are still missing. These are adequate supervision, strict accountability, and appropriate punishment. As a result, the markets have remained shallow and stunted and have
Words: 3212 - Pages: 13
