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  • Ethics - Fasb - Accounting - Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper

    Ethics - Fasb - Accounting - Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper

    Week Two - Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper Ethical standards have had vast changes over the years. Michael Josephson, in Chapter 1 of Ethical Issues in the Practice of Accounting, 1992, described the "Ten Universal Values." They were as follows: honesty, integrity, promise-keeping, fidelity, fairness, caring, respect for others, responsible citizenship, pursuit of excellence, and accountability. Good ethics does not always mean good business practices. The purpose of ethics in business is to direct business

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: David
  • Ethics and Compliance Paper

    Ethics and Compliance Paper

    Ethics and Compliance Ethics and Compliance FIN/370 Team E: Travis Murphy, Jennifer Barrier, Amy Strohn, and Rosa Ortiz February, 24 2014 Richard Jenkins In today’s business world, all businesses, organizations, and corporations must conduct business with the utmost honesty and in an ethical manner. If the associate is new to the field or recently moved into a new position, each associate has the reasonability and held to a high level in compiling with the policy’s

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    Submitted: September 10, 2014 By: stang1984
  • Ethics and Diversity

    Ethics and Diversity

    The issue of ethics in the workplace is a major issue in the world today. Televisions broadcasted headlines of the unethical behavior involving Martha Stewart and the Enron controversy for weeks, and if that was not enough, Don Imus kept the world talking when he racially disrespected a group of African American women basketball players on his nationally syndicated radio show last year. All of these situations left people with questions and discussions which all

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Ethics and Entrepreneurship

    Ethics and Entrepreneurship

    Ethics and Entrepreneurship Kaustubh Mundra-150326 Ria Sharma - 150577 PHI447A Why are ethics and entrepreneurship having significance in the modern era? Infact, do ethics and entrepreneurship really have importance? Why are these two words reaching the epitome of them being talked about together? However, there are basic fundamental reasons to take the ethics of entrepreneurship seriously than these fleeting references. Primarily, entrepreneurship has emerged as a specific area of research with unique problems and solutions

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    Submitted: January 29, 2019 By: Kaustubh Mundra
  • Ethics and Equality in College Admissions

    Ethics and Equality in College Admissions

    Ethics and Equality in College Admissions Dale Norton, Alex Flores, Doug Schwartz University of Phoenix Ethics in an Academic Environment-GEN 300 Dr. Michael Gottleib September 25, 2007 Ethics and Equality in College Admissions College admissions counselors face many decisions today when it comes to decisions that involve which students get to attend their college of choice. College admissions counselors are faced with concerns about ethics and equality. In 1996, the State of California banned affirmative

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Bred
  • Ethics and Governance

    Ethics and Governance

    Introduction In the stakeholder/responsibility matrix (Carroll & Buchholtz 1999, p. 84), there are employees, owners, customers, communities, public at large, social activist groups and others in the stakeholder group. Carroll & Buchholtz (1999, p. 84) have stated the four types of responsibilities as Philanthropic, Economic, Ethical and Legal. Carroll & Buchholtz (1999, p. 37-38) describe a socially responsible firm would need to make a profit [Economic], obey the law [Legal], be ethical [Ethical] and be

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Jack
  • Ethics and Legal Obligations

    Ethics and Legal Obligations

    For most organizations, values statements are simply rhetoric that sits on a fancy plaque on the wall. The real values are seen in the halls, not on the walls. High performing organizations are clear about their values and about what they translate into in day-to-day behavior. They use their values strategically, to guide every decision and action. The challenge with values is that they are usually vague concepts that have different meanings to different people.

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    Essay Length: 443 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Ethics and Social Responsibilities

    Ethics and Social Responsibilities

    Introduction This paper will examine the statement, “Strict government regulations are necessary to make companies behave ethically.” It will also examine the impact of government regulations have on business ethics and social responsibility along with the chosen statement. Also, this paper will defend the position of the author with relevant business examples and appropriate references. As a manager, we bring along with us our own concepts of what is right and what is wrong. Every

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    Essay Length: 1,171 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: June 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Ethics and Social Responsibilities Paper

    Ethics and Social Responsibilities Paper

    Ethics and Social Responsibilities Paper In the United States, it should not be about “self-interest” but rather our moral and ethical obligation not to sell items to other countries that could harm others. Therefore, I disagree with the statement “it is acceptable to sell products banned in the United States in other countries (i.e. where permitted by other countries due to differences in national policies).” One example of unethical behavior is a case back in

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    Essay Length: 670 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Steve
  • Ethics and Social Responsibility

    Ethics and Social Responsibility

    Richie Dunn 2/4/2006 ETHICS & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Ethics and Social Responsibility in business and government today are very important subjects. There are numerous reasons for businesses to operate in an ethical and socially responsible manner. There are government regulations, corporate belief systems, and basic common sense. There needs to be a overall intent to be ethical and socially responsible in today’s business environment in order to stay successful. Ethics in Business In business today there

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Ethics and Social Responsibility

    Ethics and Social Responsibility

    ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY NAME OF THE STUDENT Date Section ? Ethics and Social Responsibility Basically the course Ethics and Social Responsibility was the study of ethics and which was the study of how one can conclude what is right from and what is wrong in our relationships with other individuals and other groups of people. We studied the basic Ethical standards which are considered as the basic principles that guides how can people

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    Submitted: April 20, 2011 By: aisha.warsi
  • Ethics and Technology

    Ethics and Technology

    Ethics and Technology Work environments require careful attention to both many aspects. Two of those aspects are technology and ethics. Although the two topics may not seem related, ethics is directly involved with technology. . In a study conducted by ICR (International Communications Research) on behalf of the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters and Chartered Financial Consultants and the Ethics Officer Association, it was revealed that nearly half of American workers engaged in an

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    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: regina
  • Ethics and Worldcom

    Ethics and Worldcom

    In the case of WorldCom, a national company that began in 1983 and would provide long-distance telephone services, it is hard to determine where the problem begins. The case, as explained in the book, has never really found the core of the problem. We are told that financial reports were falsely created and improper accounting practices were found, but who is to blame? The textbook tells us that several of the former top financial executives

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    Essay Length: 670 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Yan
  • Ethics Article Review

    Ethics Article Review

    The article I chose about ethics was “Little Things Mean A Lot”. In business ethics it is important that the organization complies with financial and laws regulations. These are always major concerns because there is such high visibility on it but the “little things” are what causes the problems. For some business people, the little day-to-day things that seem insignificant or the behaviors that are forgotten are seem and watched by others. We all set

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    Essay Length: 585 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Monika
  • Ethics Article Review

    Ethics Article Review

    Ethics Article Review The purpose of ethics in business is to direct business men and women to abide by a code of conduct that facilitates, if not encourages, public confidence in their products and services. Professional accounting organizations recognize the accounting profession's responsibility to provide ethical guidelines to its members. According to the article, “It's a matter of integrity,” ethics in business is also about the integrity of the people. Summary of article “Integrity is

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Janna
  • Ethics Article Review

    Ethics Article Review

    Article Summary The article being reviewed is called, “Sarbanes-Oxley: Beyond Public Companies” written by William H. Wiersema. Investors in the Stock Market rely on financial information issued by public companies for investment decisions. In order to protect the investors Congress passed the Sarbenes-Oxley Act in 2002. Investors need protection and the Act regulates many areas of corporate governance, which among other things requires top management to assume a higher level of formal responsibility. According to

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ethics Article Review

    Ethics Article Review

    Ethics article review Ethics in business is something that every one wants but few expect. In the past companies such as Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco have all been in the public eye because of unethical practices in accounting. Even with all these and other high profile cases unethical practices are still happening. In a recent article on the MSN Money Website (bizjournals.com, 2006) yet another case has hit the press. The basis of this article

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    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Ethics Article Review

    Ethics Article Review

    ETHICS ARTICLE REVIEW Ethics Article Review December 27,2006 Since the early 2000s there have been many accounting scandals that have resulted public confidence to decrease in accountants. Due to these scandals the need for ethical awareness has became more important more than ever. The SEC and many other programs have since been implemented to ensure such scandals will be put to a stop. Accountancy programs have often has wondered how to include ethics into a

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    Essay Length: 1,227 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Vika
  • Ethics Article Review

    Ethics Article Review

    RUNNING HEAD: ETHICS ARTICLE REVIEW Ethics in Accounting Ethics in accounting has faced increased scrutiny since the collapse of the Enron Corporation. In December 2001, the Enron Corporation shocked the world when its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, was accused of failing to abide by the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP); a widely accepted set of rules, conventions, standards, and procedures for reporting financial information, as established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). In other

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    Essay Length: 902 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: regina
  • Ethics Article Review

    Ethics Article Review

    Ethics and accounting go together like peanut butter and jelly. Ethics is instilled in accounting principles starting with accounting 101. The selected article discusses how accounting ethics have been compromised recently to include such sordid scandals as Enron and World Com. Einhorn writes; “CPAs need to follow the golden rule: Always be factual and reasonable when evaluating a client’s presentations. That sounds simple enough, but nearly all the dot-com scandals were rooted in inflated projections,

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Janna
  • Ethics Article Review Paper

    Ethics Article Review Paper

    Ethics Article Review Paper (Revised) Shirley Smith University of Phoenix FIN 324 Walter P. Lambert December 1, 2006 A study done between Motorola and Ericsson on the implementation of Corporate Ethics and the transformation within the corporations following the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, looking at various ethic theories, such as stockholder theory, stakeholder theory, and legitimacy theory. Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was enacted in response to the Enron and WorldCom collapses

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Max
  • Ethics Article Review Paper

    Ethics Article Review Paper

    In today’s day and age, the ability to make as much money as quickly and easily as possible is found around every corner. With this topic in mind (ethics in finances) the first article researched, entitled, “Ethics In Accounting And Financial Decision Making”, talked about how ethics in accounting and financial decision making provide the foundation on which a modern business system exists (Accounting, 2007). The article speaks of how making ethical financial decisions sets

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    Submitted: April 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • Ethics at Work

    Ethics at Work

    Ethics at work Today’s society is governed through the implications of rules, legal restrictions that tell you if something is considered, in the eyes of society, to be right or wrong. All of these rules were created to uphold and maintain a ridged idea of ethical and moral values. For example the “10 commandments” which are thousands of years old, were created to teach ethical values, the difference between right and wrong. But who determines

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    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Victor
  • Ethics at Work Across Borders

    Ethics at Work Across Borders

    Ethics at work across borders An American businessman was transferred to Italy from the home office in Connecticut. On his first assignment, on a worm July day, he accompanied a shipment of several trucks loaded with butter from Switzerland to the company’s plant in Milan. When the trucks reached the Italian border, they were waived to the side of the road. There they stood as the customs inspectors passed other vehicles through. It soon became

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    Essay Length: 4,279 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Monika
  • Ethics Awareness

    Ethics Awareness

    Ethics Awareness Inventory Analysis Kecia Franklin University of Phoenix-Butler Campus Interdisciplinary Capstone Course GEN/480 Tom Eason, BA, MBA, CPA December 13, 2005 Week Two Ethics Awareness Inventory Analysis This paper will include an analysis of the results of my Ethics Awareness Inventory. The Ethics Awareness Inventory refers to a combination of broad characterizations representing four categories of ethical philosophy, which are Character, Obligation, Results, and Equity, which has been designed to assist in the

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    Essay Length: 643 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Ethics Awareness Inventory

    Ethics Awareness Inventory

    Case Study Assignment Robert Gardley Gen 480 Professor Constance Van Guilder November 1, 2006 1. Provide four to six assumptions held by Kelly; six to nine assumptions held by Pat; Two to three assumptions held by Cliff; two to three assumptions held by Chris. A. Kelly: Kelly assumes that because of his short staff she won’t have time for the new product development. He also makes the assumption that his department won’t have time

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    Essay Length: 2,780 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Ethics Awareness Inventory Analysis

    Ethics Awareness Inventory Analysis

    Ethics Awareness Inventory Analysis In today's world it is all too prevalent to see more and more people hungry to gain success at any cost. Modern culture can and indeed is labeled greedy and thoughtless. I believe that if it were easy to be ethical all the time, ethics would be a very small area of study. So what does the word ethical mean? To me, it is to take into account every aspect involved

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    Essay Length: 572 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Victor
  • Ethics Awareness Inventory Analysis: Obligation

    Ethics Awareness Inventory Analysis: Obligation

    Ethics Awareness Inventory Analysis: Obligation According to the Ethics Awareness Inventory [EAI] (Williams Institute for Ethics and Management [WIEM], 2003), “[My] ethical perspective is most likely to be based on obligation, and…least likely to be based on equity.” In this paper, I will apply the results of this inventory to my personal and professional development, explaining how my educational experience has shaped my ethical thinking, addressing my use of ethics in thinking and decision-making, and

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    Essay Length: 604 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Anna
  • Ethics Case

    Ethics Case

    I. Introduction Ethical behavior should be observed in Accounting. It is the primary task of people who are involve in this profession to serve the public’s interest and might even sacrifice personal advantages. It is just not right to fool the public since they have little knowledge in accounting information. It is also the duty of accountants to avoid being associated with misleading information. Principles in AICPA’s (American Institute of CPA’s) code of professional conduct

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    Essay Length: 1,507 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 8, 2010 By: Vika
  • Ethics Filler

    Ethics Filler

    Value Personal Source with Examples Justify the Value’s Position in the List. Include any challenges to employing these values consistently when making personal and organizational decisions. 1. Integrity Integrity is needed, when making any decision in my opinion. In my current position in my work, not just we are required by the law to be honest and having and integrity helps a great deal to do my job a great many easier. I work on

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    Essay Length: 834 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Mike
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