The film titled‚ Enron‚ the Smartest Guys in the Room‚ is a phenomenal examination of an organization that in all likelihood started out to perform ethically but‚ after a modification in design and moral decision-making‚ it evolved into an organization based upon greed and performance no matter what cost. Ironically‚ the motto of this company was‚ “ask why” however this is perhaps the sole question that many employees are now asking themselves and should have routinely asked in the years
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The Enron Case Questions: 1. Do you believe that there has been a significant shift or evolution over the past several decades in the concept of “professionalism” as it related to the public accounting profession? If so‚ explain how you believe that the concept has changed or evolved over that time frame and identify the key factors responsible for any apparent changes. a. Do you believe that there has been a significant shift or evaluation over the past several decades in the concept
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"Enron the smartest man in the room" was a very intense story on how a fortune five hundred company CEO’S can get very greedy and turn on there employees. This story is very true and teaches you how to be true to your employees and also other business investors. This story tells you how wrong humanity morals can end up in greed and even death due to guilt. This story takes place with many business and financial advisors and writers who looked into the story and explained it the best they can to
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Joseph’s Story A. Risk Factors: Family history of vascular disease Weight gain Working long hours Stressed at work Not sleeping well Started to smoke cigarettes again Eating fatty foods Putting all his risk factors together can stress out the heart and circulation of blood vessels that help maintain a homeostasis of the body. When the body cannot produce or reproduce cells that help keeps the body in order they fight other cells which deteriorate and die when they cannot the reproduce vitamins
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San Francisco has become the first major American city to prohibit fast-food restaurants from including toys with children’s meals that do not meet nutritional guidelines. The city’s Board of Supervisors gave the measure final approval Tuesday on an 8-3 vote. That’s enough votes to survive a planned veto by Mayor Gavin Newsom. The ordinance‚ which would go into effect in December of next year‚ prohibits toy giveaways in fast-food children’s meals that have more than 640 milligrams of sodium‚ 600
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1. Given the description of the leadership situation facing the airplane crash survivors described in Chapter 1‚ how would leader-member exchange‚ the normative decision model‚ the situational leadership theory‚ the contingency model‚ and the path-goal theory prescribe that a leader should act? Leadership is said to be sudden when there is exchange of the three sections of the pioneer‚ supporter‚ and the situation illustrate. Leaders are required to act in a versatile path aside from the model of
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1. Business risks: * Too conservation and risk-aversion: avoid much of the risk of new-product development and introduction in the volatile drug industry. * Centralizing complete authority in the chief executive: all expenditures greater than $500 had to be personally approved by William Laporte‚ even if authorized in the corporate budget; the management from the top is unparalleled in any firm of comparable size. * Excess liquidity and low degree of leverage‚ conservative capital structure
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Gastro Enteritis - Infection Control policies and procedures. 1. Outline possible reasons for this infection. Possible reasons for an outbreak of Gastro Enteritis is poor hand hygiene‚ Virus ’s (e.g Astrovirus)‚ Medications (e.g Antibiotics) Bacteria (e.g Campylobacter bacterium) Chemicals (e.g lead poisoning) Parasites (e.g Giardia Lambila) Bacterial toxins ( e.g Staphylococcal) 2. Which groups of people are more at risk during this outbreak? Children and Chemo therapy treated
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True Earth 1. Wheeler’s primary choices were between targeting the general audience of all men and women over the age of 34‚ and specifically targeting the high value 18-34 year old women. The upside of taking a generalist approach is that it would be safe. There was already evidence that the 1.0 neilson rating was coming from an audience of women 34 and up. However‚ there are many downsides to this strategy. The primary downside is that men only made up 39% of the viewership‚ yet by targeting
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MediBuddy 1. Company Name And New Product Or Service Description MediBuddy is a device similar to the forehead thermometer sold by Braun‚ but is much more advanced. This device is swiped across the forehead similar to the thermometer‚ but takes more readings than just the temperature. Using advance technology‚ it reads things such as heart rate‚ blood pressure‚ and temperature. It uses these readings to determine if the “patient” needs to take an over-the-counter medication or if they should go to
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