Table of Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Importance of Transparency 7 What Regulation Typically Covers 7 Regulatory Agencies 8 Accounting Reform 10 Conclusion 13 References 15 Abstract Within the accounting profession there are many complex ethical issues that must be dealt with quite often. It is important that the people working within the industry provide high quality financial statements and always pay close attention to ethical concerns that may arise
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Task 11. Explain policies and procedures that are in place to protect children and young people and adults who work with them. The different policies and procedures which protect children, young people and adults who work with them in my setting we are: child protection/safeguarding policy- Which has six main aims to support both staff and children. 1. Ensure safe recruitment and examine suitability of staff and volunteer to work with children. 2. Raise awareness of child protection and safeguarding
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corporate culture at WorldCom and how it contributed to the accounting fraud, how the CEO’s desire to be the #1 stock on Wall Street contributed to the fraud, pressures on accountants to book and release accruals to meet expectations, pros and cons of whistleblowing, and the creditability of the accounting profession when corporate fraud is revealed. First, we must look at WorldCom as a business standpoint. The driving factor behind this fraud was the business strategy of WorldCom's CEO, Bernie Ebbers
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Employment-At-Will- Doctrine Strayer University January 22nd 2014 Employment-At-Will –Doctrine is the doctrine in American law, which can be summarize as either party with reason or without any reason can terminate the employment relationship. In recent years, private employment in the United States has traditionally been governed by employment-at- will” which is known as (EAW), which provides for minimum regulation of employment practices. It allows either the
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The Appellate Division court case: Hernandez v. Montville Facts The court had to consider the following facts for the case at hand; the plaintiff was a night custodian for the defendant and the case at hand was an appeal filed by the plaintiff after he felt that justice had not prevailed in delivering the decree. THE ISSUE The issue before the court is determining whether or not during the prior administering of the remittitur, justice was done to both parties. Notably, the case was an appeal by
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Employment At Will Doctrine Stephen C Wilburth Jr LEG 500 May 1st, 2014 Lateefah Muhammad Abstract This is the doctrine in American law which defines how the employment relationship can be terminated by either party by giving advance notice or even without one. Privacy management tools help organizations conduct privacy impact assessments, check processing activities against requirements from privacy regulations, and track incidents that lead to unauthorized disclosures (investigation, remediation
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Employment-At-Will Doctrine Kimbla Gordon Eaton LEG/500 October 31, 2013 Professor James P. Laurie III, Esq. Employment-At-Will Doctrine This paper will include a summary of the Employment-at-will Doctrine. As a review for understanding the paper will evaluate eight scenarios facing the writer as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) of a medium size establishment. Additionally, the COO will make a recommendation to institute a whistleblower policy giving three essential
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3. This is an extreme one. BSS could introduce employee observation cams to screen employee conduct in the working environment. The organization could likewise nearly screen all approaching and cordial email transmissions for all employees. A whistleblowing approach could be executed in the organization to urge all employees to watch the conduct of different employees/administration and to report any suspicious conduct to their directors or to the HR chief. At last, client overviews or meetings could
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Appropriate Responses When Child Maltreatment or Abuse is Suspected Appropriate Responses When Child Maltreatment or Abuse is Suspected BY Victoria Rothwell This is a guide to be aimed and to be used by professionals in which are the appropriate responses for a professional to follow if a child is being maltreated or if abused is suspected to be taking place. It includes the procedures to follow maltreatment is considered, suspected, confirmed or excluded and the roles and responsibilities of the
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Wigand is one such employee who would have benefitted from this act in 1996. Mr. Wigand disclosed the facts about big tobacco causing a major lawsuit with millions in damages to the public (Salter, 2002). Barron Stone filed a lawsuit under SOX by whistleblowing on Duke Energy for their improper accounting procedures (Ebeling, 2003). In Mr. Wigand’s case he was not protected therefore could not avoid his legal problems. Mr. Stone did benefit from protection under SOX thus avoided legal issues. Both
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