51 Sarbanes-o Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
Accounting for Managerial Decision Making
Introduction
George Washington, Founding Father and first President of the United States, believed a pious citizenry was indispensable to a republican government (Munoz, 2003, p. 12). In the spirit of the writings of John Locke, the private sector should be encouraged to become the driving infl....
Accounting Fraud at WorldCom
Problem Statement
This section reviews the events that lead up to the failure of Worldcom. The root cause review evaluates the problem similar to that of a fire. Like in all fires, multiple factors must contribute to the event. The presence of these contributing factors does not necessarily equat....
BENCHMARK ANALYSIS: RIORDAN MANUFACTURING
Running head: BENCHMARK ANALYSIS: RIORDAN MANUFACTURING
Introduction
Riordan is sustaining turnover and declining sales due to a noncompetitive salary structure. Riordan has not recognized the significance of supporting productivity levels by motivating employees through a well-designed compe....
Business Regulation Simulation
This paper will discuss the basic concepts of regulatory law on an organization. It will assess the impact of the regulatory environment on industry and organization risks. It will evaluate the legal decision in the context of the organization's values and ethics, and finally show the risk analysi....
CFO - The New Superman
In 2004, Alice Hohler wrote an article for the Financial News entitled "Companies figure out the expanded roles of CFO's". In this article, she states the increasing responsibilities and job description and the reasons behind the role change. Previously, the CFO was basically there to ....
collapse of worldcom and the butterfly effect in australia
AUDITING, THEORY AND PRACTICE
PREPARED BY: UNISA STUDENT UNDERGROUND BOARD (SUB)
ASSIGNMENT ONE
a) Outline some of the major changes that have occurred in the area of independence in Australia and overseas since 2002.
b) Do you think the changes outlined in your answer to part (a) abo....
Continuous Auditing: Is It Necessary in Todays Accounting World?
Due to the increase in the number of cases of corporate fraud, strict internal controls are important to help control this problem. Continuous auditing is an important concept that has been a part of several large companies for many years. The process involves applying the necessary tools to monitor....
Corporate Compliance
Excess Capacity- CertainTeed Corp.-Trent Boldra
In order to understand excess capacity, it is important to understand what happened in The Second Industrial Revolution; a time when there was rapid growth in productivity and living standards, there was a large formation of corporate hierarchies, o....
Corporate Compliance at Riordan Manufacturing
Riordan Manufacturing has assigned a Corporate Compliance Officer (CCO) to review the agencys policies and procedures. The CCO will recommend changes and additions to these policies and procedures that will allow Riordan Manufacturing to be in compliance. The recommended changes are discussed thro....
Corporate Compliance Benchmarking
Introduction
[In the corporate governance and compliance arena, Sarbanes Oxley Act has commanded considerable attention. Developed in response to accounting scares that rocked the business world, SOX has introduced significant legislative changes to corporate governance and financial reporting....
Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance reduces risk of law suites by employee or third party
History
Corporate governance has become a subject of heightened importance and attention in government policy circles, academia, and the popular press throughout the developed/developing countries. The recent financ....
Corporate Governance
Excess Capacity- CertainTeed Corp.-Trent Boldra
In order to understand excess capacity, it is important to understand what happened in The Second Industrial Revolution; a time when there was rapid growth in productivity and living standards, there was a large formation of corporate hierarchies, o....
Corporate Governance Benchmarking
The scope of corporate responsibilities has raised questions that go to the heart of the purposes and roles of the modern corporation. Such debates include whether corporations exist simply to maximize the value of its shareholders investments, or should a corporation recognize the interests of stak....
Designing secure systems
Designing Secure Systems
Designing secure systems became very important topic in our time of IT world. Unauthorized use of the data in the system results in material loss, which can be substantial especially for the larger corporations. The security of information is crucial to the employees, cu....
Developing an Ethical Program: A Must Have in Our Society
As we have read through this class in our case studies many organizations have been found guilty of committing white collar and fraudulent crimes. Enron, Tyco and the infamous Madoff stories make the top ten when we think of organizations that have been flowing and operating in heavy misconduct. Th....
Efforts needed from auditors and corporations to improve ethics in business
A number of major corporate accounting scandals and business failures including Enron and WorldCom in 2001 and early 2002 drew world concern about ethics of both professional accounting and corporations. People came to realize that the existing regulations cannot guarantee absence of misstatement in....
Enron Ethics Article
Supreme Court declines to hear Enron case
The article I have reviewed pertains to the Supreme Courts decision not to hear the Enron case. The Supreme Court dealt a blow Tuesday to Enron investors who sued major investment banks to recover money lost when the Texas energy giant collapsed am....
Ensuring Ethical Effectiveness
Time has repeatedly proven that to err is human. Circumstances can sweep away even the bet employees ethical principles. With the desire to produce results, the modern worker can easily be tempted to compromise on ethical principles. Among business professionals, accountants have come under the g....
Environment Analysis for Deloitte
Environment Analysis
Bianca Jordan
University of Phoenix
FORCES INFLUENCING BUSINESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Professor Benjamin Johnson
November3, 2001
Environmental Analysis
Deloitte is one of the largest professional services firm in the world, and is currently tagged as one ....
Ethical and Legal Obligations in Accounting
Commitment to professional ethical conduct in accounting is expected and at times legally enforceable. Businesses are expected to live up to these commitments in their accounting practices. When companies release their financial reports it is important that they are in compliance with all legal re....
Ethics and Law
Abstract
Corporations had become increasingly willing voluntarily to accept responsibility for monitoring their own activities. This trend, in part, was induced by the promotion and encouragement of corporate self-governance by government law enforcement authorities and regulators as well as by cor....
Ethics Article Review -- Enron and Beyond: Whats the Worldcoming To?
Ethics Article Review
Title of the article: Enron and Beyond: Whats the Worldcoming To?
A. Briefly summarize the article: This article written by William Thomas and Thomas Morris (2003) discusses the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals. In April of 2002, internal auditors discovered ....
Ethics in Accounting and Financial Decision Making
Ethics in Accounting and Financial Decision Making
The article I have reviewed pertains to the ethical and financial disaster of the Enron Corporation. According to Fox (2003), Enron was a corporation which employed approximately 21,000 people and was one of the worlds leading communications, ....
Ethics in Review
Ethics in accounting and financial decision making can be an area that could considerably impact an organization. Ethics examines principals and morals and could many times get personal if the boundaries are not structured within the organization. In an article written by Fortune Magazines senior....
FASB and IASB Joint project
FASB and IASB
People have been keeping track of their money and recording details of transactions for thousands of years. Not until the 15th century, however, did accounting gain structure that is similar to what is in wide use today. Fra Luca Pacioli wrote books about a ....
Forensic Accounting
Introduction
When you think of the term forensics, what comes to mind? For the younger readers CSI probably rings a bell, while the elder crowd would probably think of Quincy. Both TV shows glorified the acts of forensics in a medical sense. But a lesser-known form of forensics has been growing....
Gene One
Gene One is a study of a company which is intending to go through an initial public offering in order to sell a portion of the company to investors and generate capital for expansion and completion of its development of the next generation of technological breakthroughs. A number of topics will be d....
Gene One Problem Solution
Problem Solution: GeneOne
Rick Duke
University of Phoenix
Problem Solution: GeneOne
Gene One is a Biotechnology company. The company is facing a situation that many companies have faced throughout the years, and many will continue to face. They have found themselves at a t....
Gene One Problem Solution
Problem Solution: GeneOne
In Gene One scenario, it has been clearly stated that the CEO, Don Ruiz would like to take the company to a higher-ground by keeping up the demand and realizing he conservative annual growth targets of 40 %. To keep up the pace Gene One will have to go public within the n....
Global Communications
Well-known on Wall Street, Global Communications is a confident telecommunication corporation with obligations to its employees and stockholders to remain a competitive market leader in the communications industry and increase profits. To meet the obligations of their employees and stockholders, Glo....
Impact of business scandals on auditing profession - Adelphia scandal
INTRODUCTION
Code of ethics and professional conduct of auditors are major principles that have been directed by guidelines of independence, integrity, disinterest, objectivity and by a fear not to do anything that might cause ill repute of auditing as a profession (Flint, 1988). Even though ....
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
Initial Public Offering Paper
Learning Team C
Chris Smith, Kimberly Grimsley, LaShawn Williams, Tim Magin
FIN325 Financial Analysis for Managers II
David Harding
September 17, 2007
Initial Public Offering
Introduction
A highlight for any company is ....
Kuiper Leda Supply Chain Defense
Innovation keeps a company moving forward (Gomez-Mejia and Balkin, 2002) and for a successful and aggressive enterprise such as Kuiper Leda Inc; growth, market position and above average returns are contingent on Kuiper Leda Inc.s management to design an effective and efficient supply chain strate....
Managerial and Financial Accounting
Managerial and Financial Accounting
There are two different avenues of accounting reporting; financial or external reporting and managerial or management accounting used mostly internally. While financial accounting reports the past results, the history of an organizations finances, managerial....
Mixed Feelings About Sarbanes-Oxley
Mixed Feelings About SOX
The Cost, the Benefits, and the Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Finance for Non-Financial Managers (MSM 9015)
Eric Pendleton
February 18, 2007
The Sarbanes-Oxley statute (SOX) is one of the most powerful and controversial pieces of corporate legislation....
Problem Solution of CareNetWest
CareNet West
Somewhere between finishing medical school, receiving a license to practice medicine and donning the trademark white coat of a physician, a ceremony with family and friends, a welcome by school administrators, an inspirational message delivered by a role model and a swearing of an ....
Riordan Compliance Plan
Company Overview
Dr. Riordan founded Riordan Manufacturing in 1991, after obtaining patents from processing polymers into high tensile strength plastic substrates (University of Phoenix, 2003). In 1993, Riordan manufacturing Inc, expanded its business in the production of plastic bevera....
Riordan Manufacturing Corporate Compliance Plan
Riordan Manufacturing Corporate Compliance Plan
The purpose of this paper is to develop a corporate compliance plan for Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. This plan will be created as if was going to be presented to company's board composed by the company's officers and directors.
The Riordan Manufactur....
Sarbanes Oxley
Four years ago, in the wake of Enron and several accounting fiascos, Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland and Rep. Michael G. Oxley of Ohio felt they needed a new tool -- one that could be used to stamp an unfortunately steady stream of corporate malfeasance. They got it with overwhelming support in both ....
Sarbanes-Oxley
MDC Consulting
January 15, 2003
TO: Michael Justin, CEO Aguri Industries
FROM: MDC Consulting
VIA: Mr. James Brown
SUBJ: SARBANES-OXLEY ACT
In response to your request, our team has examined the effects that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, will have on your company, w....
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and IT Controls
Introduction
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is the public company accounting reform and investor protection act signed into law on July 30, 2002 in response to a number of Fortune 500 companies� involvement in corporate and accounting scandals. These widely published corporate debacles....
Sarbanes-Oxley: Cost of Doing Business
Sarbanes-Oxley: Cost of Doing Business
Presented to the faculty of the
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In Partial Completion of the Requirements
For the degree of
Masters of Business Administration
By
April 24, 2006
Abstract
This paper reviews the debate of....
Section 404 of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act poses a threat to U.S. jobs
Section 404 of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act poses a threat to U.S. jobs
Section 404 of the Sarbanes- Oxley act is a huge negative and needs to be repealed or modified because it is a threat to US jobs. Requirements of section 404 are to include in the annual report on internal control the following: ....
Summary of The 21st Century Public Company Audit
Summary of "The 21st Century Public Company Audit"
Over the last seventy-five years, regulators have introduced legislation, regulations, and authoritative guidance for public company audits. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has triggered new responsibilities for corporate governors, produced a n....
Target vs Walmart
Abstract
The paper to follow will analyze the working capital and financial environment of the Target and Wal-Mart Corporations. The working capital will be described as well as quantified, explain the functions of intermediaries and financial regulatory bodies and finally the implementation of th....
The Unseen Advantages of Employee Rights
The Unseen Advantages of Employee Rights
Table of Contents
I. Unseen Advantages of Employee Rights 1
II. Abstract 3
III. Introduction 4
i. Definition and Nature of Employe....
vc funding
In the next few years, venture capital funds will find themselves squeezed from four directions. They're already stuck with a seller's market, because of the huge amounts they raised at the end of the Bubble and still haven't invested. This by itself is not the end of the world. In fact, it's just a....
Working Capital and Financial Environment
Working Capital and Financial Environment
Working Capital and Financial Environment
The elements of working capital for two large retail stores such as Wal-Mart and Target were not comparable because Wal-Mart is the larger retail store of the two. Since the Target stores are a seasonal nature ....
Working Capital and Financial Environment Paper
Rapid technological change, conglomeration, mergers, and globalization are rocking the financial industry here and abroad. In this paper we will describe and quantify the elements of working capital for the most recent year explain the functions of intermediaries and financial regulatory bodies with....
Working Capital and Financial Environment Paper
Rapid technological change, conglomeration, mergers, and globalization are rocking the financial industry here and abroad. In this paper we will describe and quantify the elements of working capital for the most recent year explain the functions of intermediaries and financial regulatory bodies with....
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