Corporate Integrity Yiyang Zheng BUSA 552 Dr. Kerlin May 7th, 2015 INTRODUCTION This paper will review the ethical business practices of Duke Energy in the light of the recent Coal-Ash spill. It will review ethical principles, business considerations, stakeholder impact, and the company’s internal policies related to preventing environmental damage. The thesis of this research essay is that Duke Energy did not only suffer financial loss due to being made to pay a fine for
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Office Hours: by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION: Through the study of laws, ethical principles and court judgments, this course will introduce students to important legal and ethical issues that they may encounter within a business organization. In today’s environment of social awareness, business can no longer focus solely on maximizing profits and must recognize and respect its legal and ethical obligations to a wide range of stakeholders, both within and outside of the business organization
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Answers Professional Level – Essentials Module, Paper P2 (INT) Corporate Reporting (International) 1 (a) Angel Group Statement of cash flows for the year ended 30 November 2013 Profit for the year (W1) Adjustments to operating activities Financial assets – profit on sale (W5) Retirement benefit expense (W7) Depreciation (W1) Profit on sale of PPE (W1) Associate’s profit (W3) Impairment of goodwill and intangible assets (26·5 + 90) (W6) Finance costs Movements in working capital Decrease in trade
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International Business Environment BE2501 – Summary Chapter 1 Globalization – refers to the shift toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy. Globalization of markets – refers to the merging of historically distinct and separate national markets into one huge global marketplace. Globalization of products – refers to the sourcing of goods and services from locations around the globe to take advantage of national differences in the cost and quality of factors of production (such
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Leadership and Organizational Behavior How Personal Can Ethics Get? Discovering inappropriate behavior at work, forces an individual to make an ethical decision. Ethics are values and principles that help individuals distinguish right from wrong (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011). There are many considerations before making a final decision. In this case we will address some of the items an individual needs to consider while making a decision by exploring the following questions: 1. How can personal
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Risk Communication 8 Ethical Issues 5.1 Introduction Management ensures that the goals of the organisation are achieved within the resources available. It can be making decisions or ensuring appropriate measures are in place. It might be setting targets and ensuring they are achieved. In Risk Management the issues are trying to survive the inherent risk. Some individuals believe the idea is to prevent a risk occurring. In most case sadly this is not possible. In many cases the idea is to have measure
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1. Introduction 1.1 Purpose The purpose of this report is to determine, discuss and demonstrate how the management of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. can apply the concepts of organizing and motivating to reach the organizational objective of resolving the ethical issues regarding wages and employee welfare by June 2012. 1.2 Background Vesilind (1988) defined ethics as the study of systematic methodologies which can assist one in making value-laden decisions when one is guided by his or her individual
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Ethics and Organizational Design- A Literature Review Abstract This literature review observes the views of organizational design and business ethics as they relate to one another in business. The first portion of this paper defines organizational design and business ethics to establish their importance and also examines managerial ethics and corporate social responsibility, sources of ethical principles. The second portion pursues to explain the relationship between business ethics and
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so on. This, government control or suppression of what can be gain access to, distributed, or watched on the internet, is called internet censorship. The definition of internet censorship is a way used by government or religious institutions to supervise or regulate the public access to offensive or harmful materials (Turban, 2012) This topic is very sensitive subject to decide whether it should exist or not. There is a sharp division of belief between people who approve and disapprove. This report
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