Wal-Mart Group Case Study Team A Westley Bisson‚ Leah Bond‚ Ken Chrapkowski‚ Lisa Cochran‚ Christopher Cooper MGMT560PA – Ethics in a Global Marketplace June 17‚ 2012 Dr. Roger Fuller Southwestern College Professional Studies Wal-Mart Group Case Study Team A’s paper will provide an in-depth review of Wal-Mart’s ethical challenges at home and abroad along with how Wal-Mart continues to make corporate social responsibility a priority in its business across the globe. The teams review begins
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The 2G spectrum scandal involved officials in the government of India illegally undercharging mobile telephony companies for frequency allocation licenses‚ which they would use to create 2G subscriptions for cell phones. The shortfall between the money collected and the money which the law mandated to be collected is 1‚76‚379 crore (1.763 trillion) rupees (roughly equivalent to 39 billion US dollars). The issuing of licenses occurred in 2008‚ but the scam came to public notice when the Indian Income
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Case summary – Enron Corporation’s Weather Derivatives Steve Haik‚ Dan Sleker and Bas van Bellegem – March 2003 Background In October Mary Watts‚ CFO of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW) reviewed the forward plan for PNW’s 200-2001 season. PNW’s has been experiencing nearly no EPS growth since 1995 due to deregulation and warmer-than-average winter climate. The stock price had suffered accordingly‚ but there maybe a way to hedge the weather risk via a new “weather derivative” being proposed by
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CASE 4-1: Bessrawl Corporation Reconciliation of net income from U.S. GAAP to IFRS 2011 Net Income according to U.S. GAAP attributable to equity holders of Bessrawl Corporation ………… $1‚000‚000.00 IFRS adjustments: Add: Reversal of inventory cost written down to replacement cost….. 10‚000.00 Less: Additional depreciation of building after 2011 revaluation……..
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Enron The affect of the unethical behavior of the profitability of Enron was that the third party “outside” independent auditors was not able to backup and have accounting financial statements‚ some of those auditors and financial institutions may have been misled by the corporation’s net income. If I was an accountant for this company I would have followed regulated federal security laws‚ and if failed to provide prove of documents or financial statements‚ I would admit to my mistakes but also
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A person should never throw away documents or personal checks without ripping them up. It’s easy for someone to go through trashcans that have the intent to steal identities. A well-known and controversial identity theft scandal that occurred was at Target in November of 2013 when hackers stole 40 million credit card numbers‚ 70 million telephone numbers and addresses‚ and more (Riley‚ Elgin‚ Lawrence‚ & Matlack‚ 2014). Offenders most likely chose to hack into Target’s system
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The Lorena Bobbitt Scandal The name Lorena Bobbitt became familiarized with the concept of penis removal. The Lorena Bobbitt case also raised the issue of marital rape‚ forced abortion and domestic violence. Feminists along with domestic violence groups supported Lorena Bobbitt an alleged abused wife who acted out in a moment of insanity by cutting her husband’s penis after years of sexual‚ physical‚ and emotional abuse. The case sparked national debate and jokes about the mutilation of men’s
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The central text for this project is the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room by filmmaker Alex Gibney. This film investigates‚ documents and then exposes the many moves that led to the collapse of Enron. The director focuses on the chief leaders of the corporation as his principal characters in order to develop the story as a human tragedy. Throughout the course of the film‚ each leading character is revealed. All players were found to be distinct in their strategies and methods. However
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The collapse of Enron case study Q1. The key stakeholders involved in‚ or affected by the collapse of Enron are: employees and retirees‚ thousands of them lost their jobs and the investment; the executives: Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow they sold significant blocs of company stock‚ have conflicts of interests; government figures‚ Lay had close personal tie with the Bush family‚ Enron’s efforts influence policy making; regulatory authorities: Commodities Futures Trading Commission
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Enron- Examining a Business Failure University of Phoenix Organization Leadership LDR/531 Mr. January 12‚ 2010 Enron- Examining a Business Failure How did a multibillion dollar company arrive to the point of non existence? Was it the lack of organizational structure? Or maybe the lack of ethical management and leadership? One thing is certain and that is Enron has given the world a glance at how a leader within the energy industry‚ could have it all one minute‚ yet in a blink of
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