Ethical versus Unethical Behavior Carlos Mercado University of Phoenix MGT 344 November 17‚ 2007 Ethical versus Unethical Behavior Companies establish ethics policies as a way to identify expectations of workers and to offer guidance on handling common ethical problems that might arise in the course of doing business. For an organization to determine whether a behavior is ethical or unethical‚ the terms must be defined. The term ethical behavior refers to how an organization
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Unethical Practices and Behavior in Accounting The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was created to prevent fraudulent financial activities‚ and to provide investors with more accurate financial resources on corporations. Under SOX‚ companies are held accountable if they fail to maintain the requirements that were set forth in the act. The act requires companies to maintain satisfactory internal control measures‚ provide responsible financial reports‚ disclose periodic reports‚ and establish rules
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Unethical Behavior Unethical Behavior in the Work Place Caron XXXXXXXX MGM365-0804A-12 Phase 3 individual Project November 10‚ 2008 Unethical Behavior in the Work Place Business ethics is a vital element to the growth and success of any business. To be ethical means to have a system of moral principles. Ethics alone is a branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct‚ with respect to the rightness
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Unethical Behavior Article Analysis Carlyn J. Medley January 23‚ 2012 ACC/291 Kevin Waters Unethical Behavior Article Analysis Before the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 organizations were trusted to do the right thing and be ethical when posting information within their ledgers and journal. Unfortunately‚ some organizations were anything but ethical and moral. This realization became all too real when it was discovered the Enron and Arthur Andersen were participating in immoral and unethical
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Turnitin gave a grade of 4% similarity. | Unethical Behavior of Police Brutality | Ethical Behavior In Criminal Justice | | Yasmen Sarter | 11/18/2012 | This paper is to the best of my ability. | From the perspective of law‚ excessive physical force most clearly constitutes police brutality‚ a term often applied loosely to various forms of police misconduct (Holmes‚ 2000). Over the years‚ police brutality continues to be an issue of concern all across the world and the need for
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Reducing the Level of Unethical Behavior in the Financial Markets By: LaDonna Malone May 8‚ 2009 I. Introduction of how we will show how to reduce the unethical behavior II. SEC Ethics III. How our economy has affected ethics IV. Does competition destroy ethical behavior? V. Ethics in the financial and investment industry VI. Have we turned a blind eye to unethical behavior? VII. Does business ethic pay? VIII. Conclusion Investment fraud we hear about this constantly
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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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7/22/13 WorldCom Search » Ethics Home Page About the Center Focus Areas Bioethics Business Ethics Campus Ethics Character Education Government Ethics Internet Ethics More... Publications Ethics Articles Ethics Cases Ethical Decision Making Videos Ethics Blogs Podcasts E-letter/Subscribe Contact Us Site Index WorldCom1 By Dennis Moberg (Santa Clara University) and Edward Romar (University of MassachusettsBoston) An update for this case is available. 2002 saw an unprecedented number of
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Effect of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis Effect of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis The Sarbanes-Oxley Act‚ passed in congress in 2002 is designed to protect investors from the potential of fraudulent corporate accounting activities. This act strictly mandates reform‚ aimed directly to prevent fraud and improve corporate financial disclosures (INVESTOPEDIA‚ 2012). As a result of several confidence shaking investor accounting scandals that occurred during the late 90s which
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3) Roots of the scandal The roots of the fraud and the role of internal auditors As explained above‚ the fraud was implemented by the former CEO Bernard Ebbers and commited by his financial director Scott D. Sullivan. The technique used by Worldcom was pretty simple; indeed‚ he cooked the books by saving pure operating expenses such as maintenance network in capital expenditure instead of expenses in order to hide its decreasing earnings and to maintain the price of Worldcom’s stock. In summary
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