...VANITA YADAV C.V. BAXI CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FAILURE AT SATYAM “Why do you want to quit Satyam,”1 the panel member asked the 30-year-old employee being interviewed. Satyam Computer Services Ltd (“Satyam”) was India’s fourth-largest computer services company; however, many employees had left and applied for new jobs after news of a US$1.4 billion corporate fraud at Satyam became public in December 2008. 2 Satyam’s governance failure had severely shaken its stakeholders and the global business community, and the business press worldwide referred to Satyam as “India’s Enron”.3 Satyam was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) in 2001 and on Euronext Amsterdam in 2008. 4 It boasted a large number of clients, including many Fortune 500 companies.5 The founder of Satyam Computer Services, B. Ramalinga Raju (“Raju”), was a highly regarded entrepreneur and an eminent fixture at prestigious corporate events in India.6 In 2007, he was honoured with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, yet a mere two years later, on 7 January 2009, Raju made the calamitous confession that he had falsified accounts on a grand scale over a long period of time. His shocking announcement sparked a big debate over whether India possessed adequate guidelines for corporate governance. 7 How did Raju commit a fraud of such magnitude? How could a successful company, twice awarded the Golden Peacock award for corporate governance excellence collapse in such a manner? 8 Where did the internal...
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...Assignment on: “Tazreen Fashion and Rana Plaza Tragedy: Failure of Corporate Governance” Supervised By: Dr. Chowdhury Saima Ferdous Associate Professor, Department of International Business University Of Dhaka Course no: IB-409 (Corporate Governance) Prepared By: D.M. Saddam Hossan Roll no: 93 (5th Batch) Department of International Business University of Dhaka Date of Submission: October 4, 2015. A case for Rana Plaza & Tazreen Fashions Ltd. Bangladesh’s ready-made garments sector accounts for 80% of the country’s exports and employs over 4 million people, nearly three-quarters of who are women. It is estimated that the garment industry supports a further 25 million people and has played a pivotal role in the country’s development. On 24 April 2013, an eight-story commercial building, Rana Plaza, collapsed just outside Dhaka. The building contained five clothing factories: most of the people in the building at the time were garment workers. Over 17 days of search and rescue, 2,438 people were evacuated, more than 1,100 people died, and many more were left with life-long debilitating injuries. The land underneath the Rana Plaza was unsuitable for construction. The Plaza was originally designed as a four-story building primarily for retail store use, but was instead occupied by garment factories. The Plaza was owned by Sohel Rana, who used his aggressive tenacity and political connections to acquire illegal permits and bribe government officials to approve...
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...Table of content 1. Question 1 1. Introduce to Corporate Governance 2. Governance makes a Difference 3. Failures of Corporate Governance 4. Failures in Major companies 5. Reform of Corporate Governance 6. Conclusions 2. Question 2 1. Introduce to Cadbury Report 2. Conclusions 3.0 References Question 1 Based on the above it has been stated that “the problem is not a failure to comply with rules but a failure in governance practice”. Do you agree and why? (10 Marks) Introduce to Corporate Governance Corporate governance looks at issues pertaining to transparency, integrity, effectiveness and accountability in the management of the affairs, and all other activities of an organization. Management is concerned with the company’s operations, functions and financial performance; hence, corporate governance aims to involve the quality assurance of the operation of the board itself. The concern is for the welfare, good performance, corporate ethics and morality, as well as social and public responsibility for the good corporate citizenship. Corporate governance also involves in system to ensure that the organization’s obligations to its major stakeholders. The relationship among the many stakeholders and the way of corporation is directed and governed is therefore created. Stakeholders might include customers, employees, creditors, suppliers and distributors, the...
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...Throughout this report I will evaluate the main elements of modern corporate governance structures and I will then focus and explain each of these and how they lead to good governance and how management accounting has a role in supporting them. Over time the meaning of corporate governance has been debated and discussed by economists not only in managerial economics but also in many other areas. In 1992, Adrian Cadbury described corporate governance as the “system in which companies are directed and controlled” (Cadbury,1992). But many other economists have completely different views and depictions of the term corporate governance. Cadburys statement above is only one sentence on corporate governance which other economists could write a thousand...
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...New Zealand Principles of Corporate Governance and Responsibility. A Global Perspective. Prepared by: Mark Gray Large businesses around the world are controlled in a variegated fashion. Whilst the Anglo American system of corporate control is heavily based on a strict structure of a Board of Directors, in itself controlled by a chairman and constituting a various number of executive and non-executive directors. Whilst the primary function of the Board has fundamentally been seen as one of accountability, monitoring and goal setting, there is large chasm of difference in Board performance, and this highlighted graphically by the numerous large scale Corporate collapses in the United States. Indeed the U.S economy has been severely affected by ‘avoidable’ corporate bankruptcies. As the United States comprises a large proportion of the largest corporations in the world, it is not surprising that it has suffered a large number of corporate failures of corporate governance (Blackmore, 2006). The speedy corporate meltdown of very large U.S corporations, the like of Lehman Brothers and Enron threw the entire U.S business community into turmoil, prompting the U.S and other governments to speedily regulate as a deterrent to all business owners. This approach is ‘rules based’ and relies heavily on legislation for business compliance and good corporate governance. Although there have been corporate failures in New Zealand, most recently...
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...Corporate Governance Issues and Responsibility On the basis of the principles and rules outlined by the New Zealand Security Commission and code of ethics adopted by NZFSU and PGGW Wrightson in their company’s prospectus, they have failed to follow good corporate governance in their companies. In this case study, there were many corporate governance issues and some of them are highlighted below Board Composition and review: There was imbalance of independent and non independent directors in the board. Craig Norgate, who was the Chairman of PGG Wrightson failed to promote cooperation and efficiency amongst the board members, and was unsuccessful in trying to maintaining good relationship between the management and the board. The Chairman of NZFSU and PGWW failed to comply with the rules of Corporate Governance that, there should be a mix of balance and skills according to the size and complexity of firms, and in this case study, there were fewer independent directors and the need of them were felt by NZFSU, when the company’s current directors were unable to cope up with the failure of the company The board need to achieve the right mix, and should choose directors who have the required skills and knowledge and can contribute to achieve the goal of the company and provide more benefits to the shareholders. There should be a rigorous process for nomination and selection procedure of a director. The Chairman of Boards of PGG Wrightson and NZFSU, were accused in not disclosing...
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...Corpporate Governance & Accountability Get Tutorial by Clicking on the link below or Copy Paste Link in Your Browser https://hwguiders.com/downloads/acc-511-corpporate-governance-accountability-amaterial/ For More Courses and Exams use this form ( http://hwguiders.com/contact-us/ ) Feel Free to Search your Class through Our Product Categories or From Our Search Bar (http://hwguiders.com/ ) Table of content 1. Question 1 1. Introduce to Corporate Governance 2. Governance makes a Difference 3. Failures of Corporate Governance 4. Failures in Major companies 5. Reform of Corporate Governance 6. Conclusions 2. Question 2 1. Introduce to Cadbury Report 2. Conclusions 3.0 References Question 1 Based on the above it has been stated that “the problem is not a failure to comply with rules but a failure in governance practice”. Do you agree and why? (10 Marks) Introduce to Corporate Governance Corporate governance looks at issues pertaining to transparency, integrity, effectiveness and accountability in the management of the affairs, and all other activities of an organization. Management is concerned with the company’s operations, functions and financial performance; hence, corporate governance aims to involve the quality assurance of the operation of the board itself. The concern is for the welfare, good performance, corporate ethics and morality, as well as social and public responsibility for the good corporate citizenship. Corporate governance also involves...
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...Module 1 National library of New Zealand Is accounting a profession? Ethics Failures in Corporate Financial Reporting The strategic accountant - best show business leadership Public practice: Firm of the future Briefly explain why you think that SMEs do not extensively rely on their external accountants for business advisory services. discuss at least four types of relationships and possible conflicts an accountant faces in performing the above roles How soft skills can boost your career Former Harris Scarfe officer jailed The Ford Pinto Nestle Milk Powder Exxon Oil Company Jacinta faces distress in the office what circumstances apply professional judgement Module 2 Accoutants,ethical issues and the corporate governance context apply the code's conceptual framework approach to explain threat to independence Arthur Andersen and auditor independence accountant no experience,what he should do to perform audit The cautionary tale of Jose L.Gomez contact or obtain professional clearance prior to accepting the appointment? fundraising for a charity,sole tax purposes,voilation of ethic? marketing professional services Explain why integrity is an essential attribute of the profession quality control, merger,not yet completed a review kitchen-tabling-Keith Purcell's earnestness Utilitarianism Does employer have a right to inquire your personal life-rights theory Cheating-the pressure on Pasquale Vialletta to succeed which stage of Kohlberg's of CMD best describes the decisionmaking behaviour...
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...Lehman Brothers Scandal Corporate governance is defined as a system that control and direct a corporation (Shleifer 1997). Governance arrangement specifies dissemination of responsibilities and rights among different contributors in the corporation like financial managers, board of directors and shareholders. It also specifies procedures and rules of decision making in corporate affairs. Besides, corporate governance has plays its role to encourage organization to produce value through innovation as well as development process. Lehman Brothers would be further analyze and discussed in term of accounting scandal below. Lehman Brothers was the fourth largest United States investment bank when it collapsed and this has affected 25,000 employees worldwide. Thus, the significant factors that cause this scandal of corporate failure to be happened would be analysed below. Firstly, Lehman has high degree of excessive debt and leverage which mean ratio of total assets to shareholders’ equity in 2007. Furthermore, it has a huge mortgage securities portfolio that cause this corporate to becoming expose to declining market conditions (Chiquier 2004). Besides, it has the largest debt of $619m, which is the largest bankruptcy filling in history which surpasses Enron. Lehman’s shares decreases a huge amount of 48% concerning it would be the next firm to fail in its corporate governance as it is the second largest underwriter of mortgage-backed securities. Consequently, the declining stock...
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...Corporate Governance in Financial Services UMACTF-15-M Corporate Financial Strategy – 2014 Student number- 07975484 Word Count- 2,021 Introduction Dictum Meum Pactum- My word is my bond. Simple, powerful, trustworthy. Unfortunately, the world we live in is not simple, those that hold power (and those that do not) are not always trustworthy. Moral hazard is rife in everyday decisions we make, when multimillion amounts are on the line this does not simply fade. In fact, the temptation to break moral code is as high as it will ever be. As much as we would like to trust those in control to be acting in our best interest, we definitely feel better when there are safeguards in place to ensure we are protected. These safeguards are the beginning of the notion of corporate governance, “The process of supervision and control intended to ensure that the company’s management acts in accordance with the interests of shareholders” Parkinson (1993). Over the course of this essay I will investigate and explain how corporate governance has failed and how this failure is arguably at fault for, or at least contributed to, the recent financial crisis in the UK. Critically assessing the pitfalls in corporate governance I will present a reasonable case for where responsibility lies for resolving previous problems and from this move to suggest potential areas for improvement that may limit the potential for future failure. What has happened? We have experienced financial...
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...Year in Industry Module: International Corporate Governance Assignment Title: Critically discus the extent to which you consider the initiatives aimed at corporate governance reform in the UK represent an improvement to the system of corporate governance Date and Time of Submission: 13/11/2014 11:00AM Please ensure that you complete and attach this Submission Form to the front of all work that is submitted online. Before submission, please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your work, only your Student ID number. By submitting your work online you are confirming that your work is your own and that you understand and have read the University’s rules regarding plagiarism and the consequences that will arise should you submit plagiarised work. Corporate governance pertains to the implementation of a set of established policies in which influence the way an organisation is managed and the style in which it operates. For policies to be efficiently and effectively implemented the execution of corporate governance is not only vital, but also essential in satisfying an organisations customers, employees, management and the interrelations amongst stakeholders involved (Bhattacharya, 2000). The late 1980s and early 1990s witnessed major upheaval in regards to continuous instances of corporate failure of several prominent UK organisations including Polly Peck, BCCI and Maxwell Communications. These corporate collapses and financial scandals were the...
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...Report Report Question Corporate governance, how a company is run, is becoming an important issue for companies to consider due to numerous recent high-profile corporate failures. As a result, businesses are starting to use a corporate governance statement as a way to communicate their corporate governance practices and promote their ethical credentials to interested parties, such as shareholders. This statement is often incorporated into the company’s annual report. To assist with the development of good corporate governance and clear corporate governance statements the ASX Corporate Governance Council has developed a set of principles and recommendations to guide companies. Explain what corporate governance is and its relationship to business ethics. Select the key principles in the ASX Corporate Governance Council’s Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations that focus on ethics and explain how the principle relates to ethics. Evaluate how well your BACC001 Accounting for Business company’s corporate governance statement communicates information related to the ethics focused principles in the ASX Corporate Governance Council’s Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. Reading List Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations (ASX Corporate Governance Council 2010) ‘Corporate Governance and Business Ethics: Insights from the strategic planning experience’ (Bonn & Fisher 2005) ‘Examining Corporate Governance Policies as a Routine Part...
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...Autumn 2010 Different ApproA in corporAte Gov Relevant to PaPeR P1 Learning Centre PAGE 15 ches ernAnce Study tiPS: Despite some new additions to the Paper P1 Study Guide in June 2011, a substantial part of the Paper P1 syllabus continues to concern matters of corporate governance. Section A6 of the Paper P1 Study Guide requires to have knowledge of the different approaches to corporate governance, inter alia, the development of corporate governance codes in principles-based jurisdictions (A6(d)), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002) as an example of a rules-based approach (A6(e)) and the objectives, content and limitations of corporate governance codes intended to apply to multiple national jurisdictions, namely the OECD principles of corporate governance (A6(f)). specification in something such as a code of best practice ... One thing is clear, though. Whatever the model, the public must know about it and about how it is operating in practice. Disclosure should be a central feature of any corporate governance regime. Shareholders, potential shareholders and the wider public are entitled to real, meaningful detail about the way the directors say they are carrying out their stewardship role. The annual report and, in these times, the company’s website are important forums for disclosure. Directors who take the fundamental notions of openness, integrity and accountability seriously …… will be well on the way to good corporate governance.” to US and non-US companies with a...
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...SHC 3083 Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Section 2 Case study on Governance Failure at Satyam NAME | I.C NUMBER | MATRIC. NUMBER | BONG LUI LUI | 910710-15-5078 | AH100063 | EILEEN WONG PAK YEE | 911107-13-6184 | AH100066 | LAI JIA SIN | 901026-05-5500 | AH100072 | LIM SIN RUI | 910412-02-5152 | AH100074 | LINDA CHAN CHIN HUA | 910522-13-5360 | AH100075 | Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Summarization 1 2 Key Player 3 2.1 B. Ramalinga Raju and B. Rama Raju 3 2.2 Rammohan Rao 3 2.3 Auditors 3 2.4 Bank 3 2.5 Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri 3 3 Main issue 4 3.1 Weakness of corporate governance 4 3.2 Greedy of external parties 4 3.2.1 Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) 4 3.2.2 World Bank Staff 5 4 Implication 6 4.1 Implication towards company 6 4.2 Implication towards stakeholder 7 4.3 Implication towards economy 8 4.4 Conclusion of Implication 8 5 Discussion 9 5.1 Theory of Ethics 9 5.1.1 Governance Failure and Resignation 9 5.1.2 Secretive Whistleblower 10 5.2 Moral Values 11 5.2.1 Responsibility as a chairman 11 5.2.2 Responsibility as board of directors 12 5.2.3 Loyalty and Truthfulness 12 6 Conclusion and Recommendation 14 6.1 Role played by corporate governance mechanism 14 6.2 Responsibilities and ways to prevent fraud 14 References 16 Introduction We are studying a fraud case which happened at Satyam. In this case study, we will divide into few parts to do analysis. First...
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...REPORT RE: RECENT ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SCANDALS Contents INTRODUCTION: 3 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 5 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN IRELAND 5 RESPONSE FROM REGULATORS TO THE MOST RECENT SCANDALS IN BANKING SECTOR 7 US CORPORATE GOVERNANCE at a time of Tyco scandal 8 RESPONSE FROM THE REGULATORS -SARBANES-OXLEY ACT 2002 9 AUDIT 10 EXTERNAL AUDIT 10 INTERNAL AUDIT 11 INTRODUCTION TO ANGLO IRISH BANK 12 The Scandals 12 Loans to Sean Fitzpatrick 13 Irish Life and Permanent Depositing Funds 14 Corporate Governance Situation of Anglo 16 Ernst & Young – External Auditor 17 Impact on Shareholders & The Public 18 Company Law, Financial Regulator, Accounting Standards IFRS and GAAP 19 TYCO INTERNATIONAL 20 DETAILS OF TYCO’S SCANDAL 21 ACCOUNTING ISSUES IDENTIFIED 22 THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE WEAKNESSES AT TYCO 22 PERFORMANCE OF EXTERNAL AUDITORS 23 CONCLUSION 27 The Main Reasons for The Scandals 27 Steps taken afterwards-will they prevent similar events happening in the future? 33 END REFLECTION 36 Bibliography: 37 Appendices: 41 INTRODUCTION: Accounting and corporate governance scandals have been a growing problem in the recent years. Many believe that the blame for those scandals should be borne on two groups of people. Those responsible for managing a company and those whose duty is to provide assurance on the accounts prepared by the directors (auditors), both of whom failed to perform their jobs adequately...
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