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employees - and even the economy. In the end, no one has benefited from either situation, because the methods were done in secrecy...
Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...
savvy ways of getting things done. That is, until the fall of 2001. The nation, already shocked and stunned by the tragedy...
religious ideology) and the various "sciences" of business (Parker S27). Quite often these arguments have attempted to negate the ...
corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...
explained that controlling has no relationship to authoritarian leadership styles, it is about controlling things such as resource...
its only when they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, so to speak, that suddenly there is the desire to become better....
see fit, in spite of how their selfish actions may cause harm or damage to others. Indeed, this is precisely the essence of socia...
business, but it has "confused some employees spiritually -- a side often overlooked by vitally important to an ethical workplace"...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
of philosophy dealing with right and wrong and the morality of motives and ends" (Shaughnessy, 2002, p. 20). But questions of ethi...
these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...
those who were relying on the company for pensions, directly or indirectly, those who worked for them, and those who worked for co...
billions of dollars below expectations, the bottom fell out. The stock was dumped, and it lost value. The stock has lost 99 percen...
(Sun, 2006). The author remarks that internal auditors now have rock star status (Sun, 2006). Clearly, auditors are revered and ha...
Innovation and risk taking - willing to experiment, take risks, encourage innovation (Smith, 2004). 2. Attention to detail - payin...
between Enrons accounting statements and the fiscal reality of the institutions assets and obligations. One might view the major f...
White collar fraud continues to be committed. Most people are well-aware of some of the huge corporate scandals, like Enron, the t...
decided to trade bandwidth as a commodity just as it was trading gas and electricity (Leonard, 2001). The corporations investments...
five" have been working to impose US accounting convention on other developed nations of the world, Andersen has been committing l...
accounting system it may be argued that a collapse in the style of Enron is much more unlikely due to very different accounting en...
company that essentially is a member of the walking dead, it paradoxically experienced a rise in revenues for the nine months ende...
Compounding these problems was the work of Jeffrey Skilling. His duties should have included overseeing and regulating various dep...
made available to all of the outside world including Wall Street analysts. The news of its financial problems came as a surprise ...
(Fixmer, 2002). Network security. By 2002, there had been few lawsuits in this area, but even then it was recognized as on...
Coffees theory is that the legal climate for investment fraud sharply declined throughout the 1990s (allowing everyone to look the...
quality audits and staff - the company valued the quality audits more than short-term profits (Brickley et al, 2006). During the e...
this was not a positive culture for building teamwork, collaboration or conflict management skills. Clearly, Enron has pro...
as was dishonesty and shady deals (Thomas, 2002). Out of fear for being shown the door because of the PRC, in other words,...
behavior incorporates theories from a number of other fields, including psychology, anthropology, sociology, social psychology and...