Ethics and Corporate Governance: Corporate Social Responsibility Contents Introduction 2 Definition of Ethics 2 Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 2 History of Ethics 2 Socrates 2 Plato 2 Aristotle 2 Cynics 2 Cyrenaics 2 Business Ethics 2 Nike 2 McDonalds 2 Enron 2 Wal-Mart 2 Why Business Ethics is Necessary 2 Conclusion 2 Bibliography 2 Introduction This assignment is a brief over view of ethics in the modern day era. It begins with a definition
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for Ethics in Accounting 1 What Is Ethics? 1 Definition 1 Application of Ethical Reasoning in Accounting DigitPrint Case 33 32 Conclusion 34 Discussion Questions 34 Endnotes 36 Chapter 2 Cases 37 2 Case 2-1: A Faulty Budget 38 Case 2-2: Better Boston Beans 39 Case 2-3: Eating Time 40 Case 2-4: Is Internal Whistle-Blowing "Right"? Case 2-5: Play Ball 43 Case 2-6: Supreme Designs, Inc. 44 Case 2- 7: The City of West Buckle 46 Case 2-8: The CPA Review Course 47 Case 2-9: The Ethics ofiPod-ing
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accounting services are vital for the success of a business, and their quality is very important, both for the users of accounting information, as well as for the providers of services. I want to highlights through this paper, the characteristics and important quality factors of management accounting that managers need to use during management decision-making process. Accounting information provides managers with data needed to determine whether a business is at a profit or a loss, company’s liabilities
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Effects of Unethical and Irrational Decision Making at Enron DePaul University Managers and employees are often faced with ethical problems. The decisions that are made in regards to handling those problems can define an individual's career and determine the ultimate fate of their organization. In this discussion, examples of decisions that were made by Enron employees will be discussed that will exemplify this point. The first decision that will be discussed is the
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The Demise of Arthur Anderson Business ethics set a standard for businesses to conduct their affairs with internal and external stakeholders. Corporate ethics allows individuals to scrutinize and self-correct the ethical values and morals of a business. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the mistakes detailed in the Ethics case, “The Demise of Arthur Anderson” and identify the potential actions that leadership could have taken to prevent this organizational failure. The firm committed several
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Legal Advice Question #1 - Summarize the actions that lead to the lawsuit. In the suit Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 508 v. Coopers & Lybrand, the Board filed suit due to Cooper’s failure to report discrepancies and inappropriate investments by the Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer Phillip R. Luhmann. According to Kilbride (2003, p.1), “in 1988, 1990, and 1992, the Board Adopted Resolutions authorizing its treasurer to invest City Colleges’ funds only
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ETHICS AND THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTANTS According to (Finn, 1994) ethical behaviour is a base which is required in the accounting profession to provide a proper and professional service to a client who just relies on the information provided by the accountant. This helps to build a reputation and in as well in the eyes of the client that the accountant is reliable and adds to their degree of trustworthiness for the client. The reason it has become so important to monitor the ethical behaviour of accountants
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Enron Case Study Seven years after the fact, the story of the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of the Enron Corporation continues to capture the imagination of the general public. What really happened with Enron? Outside of those associated with the corporate world, either through business or education, relatively few people seem to have a complete sense of the myriad people, places, and events making up the sixteen years of Enron’s existence as an American energy company. Some argue Enron’s record-breaking
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Honesty in Accounting Business history has recorded dozens of major corporate frauds, bankruptcies, greed, and other illegal acts performed by corporate America. Naturally, major ones always coincide with recession and period of economic complications. The bigger the corporation, higher the risks will be. In these days, there are lots of rules, regulations, checks and balances that help protect the public investor, but these rules were not written years ago and not updated on regular basis which
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An Ethical Accountant? About eleven years ago, Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies with 21,000 employees (Enron Corporation, 2012), collapsed. The whole nation was shocked as the investigation went on. “Ten years ago this week, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen sealed its fate when a few partners in its Houston office decided to shred documents related to the collapse of one of its clients, Enron” (Agnes, 2011). Found out that Enron scandal had close relationship with the fraud of
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