reputation is perhaps the most important asset of a company, being transparent and up front about the work can be seen as a huge plus for accountants. The profession has been suffering with integrity and due care issues since incidents like Enron, WorldCom and Tyco took place in past years. This would show that despite what happens in the past with some auditors, there are honest professionals that are proud of their work and not afraid of to take responsibility for their acts.
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Abide by Your Code of Ethics | Skill Set: Economics | TOPIC OR UNIT OF STUDY | Business Ethics and Social Responsibility | CONTENT STANDARD(S) AND OBJECTIVE(S) | Students will * point out the areas in which businesses demonstrate social responsibility and ethics. * recognize consumerism. * determine current trends to improve the workplace for employees. * research how regulatory agencies protect consumers, workers, and the environment. | INTRODUCTION | Review with students
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of capital and factors of production that would correctly reflect how value is added. Newspaper and television journalists have hypothesized that the stock market downturn of 2002 was precipitated by reports of accounting irregularities at Enron, Worldcom, and other firms in the United States. One commonly accepted incentive for the systemic over-reporting of corporate income which came to light in 2002 was the granting of stock options as part of executive compensation packages. Since stock prices
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the research question to audit practice. This paper attempts to stimulate research into some of the important questions implicitly raised by SOX regarding the audit profession’s potential failings. Enron’s failure and the accounting scandals at Worldcom and other companies provide compelling evidence that auditing matters and is important. However, it is unclear that whether auditing was sufficiently “broken” in the first place to warrant the radical reforms and changes effected by the SOX. The
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Week of Aug 24 Class One Course Introduction Print and read carefully the course syllabus. Class Two What is a stakeholder? Text Ch 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders Register for Ethical Lens Activity; Read “What is Ethics”(Niihka) Complete Ethical Lens Inventory. Bring results to class and submit to Niihka Week of Aug 31 Class One Owners as stakeholders Text Ch 14: Stockholder Rights and Corporate Governance Inland Bank; Cisco (Niihka) Inland Bank and Cisco case
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Introduction “In market-driven societies, ambitious people are expected to pursue their interests vigorously, and the line between self-interest and greed often blurs” (Sandel, 2009, p. 15). For businesses such as WorldCom, Adelphia and Sunbeam, this greed resulted in fraudulent accounting activities that left shareholders vulnerable and left the public untrusting of company financial reporting. High-profile company scandals such as these beg the question of whether ethical practices were properly
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Deloris Alston November 26, 2011 Enron and WorldCom scandals chp#2 1. Which segment of its operations got Enron into difficulties? They didn't have a governance system as we know them today They spent more time trying to find loopholes in tax law rather than how to make legitimate operations profitable 3. Did Enron’s directors understand how profits were being made in this segment? Why or why not? I believe they knew that the company was cheating on the books to make profit for themselves
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ACME Company sells computer components and plans on borrowing some money to expand. After reading a lot about earnings management, Bill, the owner of ACME, has decided he should try to accelerate some sales to improve his financial statement ratios. He has called his best customers and asked them to make their usual January purchases by December 31. Bill told the customers he would allow them, until the end of February, to pay for the purchases, just as if they had made their purchases in January
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There are many ways that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) are similar. These two trading centers make up for the bulk of trade that is connect to equities in the United States and European stock market. The two stock exchange centers concentrate in trading stock options, cash equities, fixed incomes and also exchange traded goods. In order to keep the market current, both exchanges use what is called traffic controllers
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