A whistleblower is a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities. However‚ Sharron Watkins only blew the whistle internally and so did not do everything she was morally required do as Vice President of Corporate Development for Enron. 1. Sharron Watkins ignored the first signs of fraud in a selfish pursuit to develop her own career. When first warning signs of fraud happened in 1996 Watkins protested against them to higher management however
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Commodity Forwards: with some focus on crude oil 6-1 Same concept applies… • In general‚ commodity forward prices can be found using the same economic principles used for financial forward prices: F0‚T = S0 e (r − δ )T but the details will be different 6-2 Dirty details • For financial assets‚ δ is the dividend yield • For commodities‚ δ is the commodity lease rate The lease rate is the return that makes an investor willing to buy and lend a commodity • Some commodities
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Based in Houston‚ Texas an American energy‚ commodities‚ and services company named ENRON CORPORATION was Ranked number 7 on the fortune 500 list in 2000‚ it was one of the most famous and largest integrated natural gas and electricity companies in the world. The company went bankruptcy on December 2‚ 2001. But before that it marketed natural gas liquids around the world and was working as one of the biggest natural gas transmission systems in the world‚ with transmissions over a massive area of
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A backpack leaf blower completes a supertask of clearing and accumulating flotsam and jetsam from yards. With high limit motors‚ a leaf blower backpack can tidy up a yard covered with debris and jetsam inside a small amount of the time. A leaf blower unit likewise lets in the individual running it to transport easily. Backpack leaf blowers come in either electric controlled or fuel controlled styles. Leaf blower backpacks are intended to offer solace when being used to chip away at their grass for
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Introduction Enron was one of America’s leading companies prior to its spectacular collapse in 2001. It was frequently named as one of America’s top 10 most admired corporations and best places to work‚ and its board was acclaimed one of the US’ best five‚ according to Fortune magazine. As America’s seventh largest company‚ Enron experienced explosive growth through the 1990s. It had revenues of US$139 ($184) billion‚ US$62 ($82) billion in assets and employed more than 30‚000 people across 20
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CHAPTER 4 Privacy‚ Theft‚ and Whistle-Blowing Week 2 Assignment 1.) Theft of time occurs when an employee is paid for time‚ which they did not work. Usually this happens through the falsifying of time records. Technically theft of time can also include employees who are not working while on the job‚ though legally this is more difficult to prove. With all of the new technologies introduced into the workplace and it grows year by year it has completely transformed work arrangements
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Normative theory and whistle-blowing Introduction Whistle-blowing in this context is the act‚ for an employee‚ disclosing what he believes to be an unethical or illegal behaviour to higher management (internal whistle-blowing) or to an external authority or the public (external whistle-blowing). Examples of unethical acts include sexual harassment and racial discrimination at work while illegal act include the accounting fraud by the Arthur-Andersen accountants for Enron (Sims & Brinkmann 2003)
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After reading Sharon Hays’s article “Why Can’t a Mother Be More Like a Businessman?” and watching the TV show Big Little Lies I found the character Renata Klein fits Hay’s concept of intensive mothering. Renata in my opinion is a victim of the standard of american motherhood. All the conflict she had with Jane was just fulfill her obligation of being a mother. Renata is a beautiful woman with successful career‚ she is the CEO of a corporation and on the board many company and she lives in a beautiful
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Alyssa Martin-Davis Scary Stories & Urban Legends She commandeered the room in the basement of her vacant house as soon as she realized she would have to pull an all-nighter in order to prepare for tomorrow’s final exam. Jenna was attempting to pull an all-nighter but she had such an extensive exhausting day. Her parents had wanted a weekend out for some time and they thought this would be the perfect opportunity since Jenna needed to study for her final exams. Jenna’s little sister‚ Khloe
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In the movie Pay it Forward there are many key points that can be touched on. In my eyes the movie was truly inspiring and it shows many examples of how one person can really change society for the better good no matter what their age. The whole concept of pay it forward is quit astonishing‚ it starts with one person trying to find 3 people in need. When you find one person you need a good unannounced deed that changes their lives for the good and when they ask why you did you just say pay to them
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