Unethical Practices of Arthur Anderson: Week 2 Checkpoint ACC/260 – Accounting Ethics: Keeping It Clean September 26‚ 2013 Thomas Scholz What did Arthur Andersen contribute to the Enron disaster? Assistance! Arthur Andersen assisted Enron in deceiving stakeholders by revealing ways to generate false profits and hide losses through the development of Special Purpose Entities (SPEs). Enron’s consolidated financial statements did not depict or clearly
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Unethical Research Arnuang Bullie RES/351 Jeff Duncan November 9‚ 2012 In this paper I will try and discuss the unethical business research conduct that has resulted in individuals or a firm being convicted‚ or at least tried for‚ this conduct. Some questions will be what were the inappropriate questions‚ what were the research results‚ and who was involved in the maintaining of the participants’ confidential information‚ and were there any acts involving the use of participant information
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TUTORIAL 2 MEETINGS 1. What is special notice? Give the circumstances for which the notice is required. Special notice is a notice of a proposal to be distributed to all shareholders before a meeting of a company. This notice required if company want to make announce the meeting which is made less than 28 days before the meeting. Circumstances warrant for an adjournment: * When the accounts are not ready for submission at AGM * When it is impossible to maintain order of the
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Corporate Secretarial Practice Sample paper Suggested answers Important notice When reading these answers‚ please note that they are not intended to be viewed as a definitive „model‟ answer‚ as in many instances there are several possible answers/approaches to a question. These answers indicate a range of appropriate content that could have been provided in answer to the questions. They may be a different length or format to the answers expected from candidates in the examination. Case study
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Answers to “Abilidad” questions: 1. I personally do not believe that it has become inevitable for businesses that managers or owners cultivate the “abilidad” or techniques bordering the unethical to achieve revenue objectives. Lucky as I am‚ currently I am a member of an organization who signed an integrity pledge for good corporate governance. Our mandate is to declare the correct taxes at the proper time and authority. In this case‚ it was never hard for us to compute and pay the correct
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To behave unethically is something we all know not to do. We all know that it is wrong however many people still do. There are three main reasons why people participate in unethical behavior. The first reason is because of an overzealous pursuit of personal gain‚ wealth‚ and selfish interests. An example of this would be the use of a ponzi scam. The ponzi scam was is a scheme that was named after a man named Charles Ponzi. The idea of a ponzi scam is that it pays returns to investors from their own
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main parties in the insurance business: 1- the insured and 2) the insurer. The insured is the individual or organization‚ which had agreed to contribute an amount of money and been relieved from the risks The insurer is usually an organization‚ which manages the money and undertakes the risks. MFRS 111 -3 Introduction • The insurance business can be broadly categorized into two classes‚ the general insurance and the life insurance. • life insurance business is involved in life insurance
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In my opinion‚ a business organization most of the time tolerate techniques bordering the unethical to pursue the business and to establish good relationships. In the Philippines‚ as we all know‚ we have a bureaucratic system in all our government agencies. In order to expedite the process‚ business owners may facilitate it in different ways and as to how fit they see it. Small or big gestures are construed as “abilidad” and bordering to act of bribery. This is an unavoidable circumstance given that
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outsource some of its parts to other company. Outsourcing was first carried out between companies in the same country. With the growth of economy and technologies‚ companies have to start to outsource the jobs to other companies from the other countries‚ such as China and India. That is called as offshore outsourcing. However‚ there are a number of problems with offshore outsourcing‚ such as risk of sharing data. Should the companies practice offshore outsourcing as a business strategy? Offshore outsourcing
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Companies and Business Ethics National American University Abstract Business ethics play a major role in the business world today. Since their development they have become a major influence on anything business related. The importance of business ethics was chosen to give more of an in-depth look at not only basic benefits that business ethics bring about‚ but some not so known benefits that come about as well. Business ethics bring about a great moral to the corporation and its culture
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