NATURAL DISASTERS AND THE DECISIONS THAT FOLLOW Problem Definition Response of different industries ( Insurance Industries, Airline Industries…etc) to natural disaster. A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends
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Arthur Anderson 1. Environment, strategic, organizational changes * High quality accounting, promoting integrity and sound audit opinions over short run profits * 1930’s- government adopted laws that require public companies to submit financial statements to independent auditor each year * mantra- good service, quality audits, well managed staff, profits for firm * auditors rewarded for making sound auditing decisions * decision rights to Professional Standards Group *
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costs and asymmetric information help to explain these stylized facts? • Enron Case Study (Mishkin p. 177, and asymmetric information problems in securities markets exemplified by the Enron bankruptcy scandal? online html notes “Enron Scandal & Moral Hazard”): In what ways (if any) are © 2004 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved 8-2 Financial Structure Manner in which firms finance their activities using external funds. MIX SOURCE Equity Debt Securities Markets FIs
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The Uses and Abuses of Agency Theory in Business Ethics The spectacular corporate scandals and bankruptcies of the past decade have served as a powerful reminder of the risks that are involved in the ownership of enterprise. Unlike other patrons of the firm, owners are residual claimants on its earnings.1 As a result, they have no explicit contract to protect their interests, but rely instead upon formal control of the decision-making apparatus of the firm in order to ensure that their interests
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Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 1.1. Subject of the report 3 1.2. Background of the report 3 1.3. Objectives of Report 3 1.4. Limitation and Scope of the investigation 3 1.5. Plan of Development 4 2. Methodology 4 2.1. Interview with the shift supervisor 4 2.2. Factory site visit 4 3. Unsafe conditions 4 3.1. Easy access to conveyor belts 4 3.2. Guard rails around moving machinery 4 3.3. Emergency stop buttons 5 4. Unsafe behaviours 5 4.1. Employee’s attitude towards safety 5
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employees to minimise waste production in the workplace as part of their “Think Green! Program”, there is an inherent external benefit to society as they help to reduce environmental impact and there is a potential that such employees will pass their knowledge on to other members of society at a later date, this creates a positive externality. Furthermore, external benefits of consumption arise when employees carpool to commute to their workplace, as a result, fewer emissions are
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Assessed Questions Christian Marroquin University of Phoenix Business Law LAW/ JOHN HUSCHEN March 08, 2010 Assessed Questions 1. Select a product with which you are familiar or interested in. What are its product liability issues? What measures may management take to prevent these issues from arising? How may they minimize legal risk? a. A product that I am interested in is the product that I sell. Insurance. This is a product that if not signed or explained properly
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The Victims of Natural Disasters Natural disasters are most often unexpected, which is why these devastating storms cause so much damage to communities and to people’s lives. People most commonly don’t have enough time to prepare for these disastrous storms and therefore cannot take the precautionary steps. For that reason, I believe the people of these communities should be given more help to rebuild their lives, because it’s not their fault that these disasters happen. The role of the federal
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In the case “Conflict of an Insurance Broker”, whether or not A&A presents the Reliable bid to the museum constitutes a potential conflict of interest. As the insurance broker, A&A should be professional to obtain the best insurance coverage for the museum’s needs; more precisely, the market indicates that the value of the needed policy is around $100,000; therefore, A&A should remove Reliable insurance company whose annual premiums quoted was $60,000 from the proposed list, and
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Competitive Strategies and Government Policies ECO3665 Externalities When looking at economics we have learned the invisible hand always pushes the market to arrive at the best outcome for society as a whole. However sometimes what is good for a market or in this case WalMart may not be good for society. WalMart has a global presence which creates negative and positive externalities. WalMart does business with suppliers all over the world and has to obey a variety of government regulations in
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