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The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience by Ronald Sider

This book review pertain to Ronald Sider's The Scandal of Evangelical Conscience, which discusses the discrepancies between belief...

The IRS and Other Cheaters

Ariely and his team conducted a number of experiments at three universities to investigate the likelihood of cheating if the stude...

A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE MADOFF SCANDAL

Discusses the issues behind the Bernie Madoff scandal of 2008. There are 2 sources listed in the bibliography of this 3-page paper...

An Attempt to Stope Corruption in one City

In 2013 New York passed the 'Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013' to tighten governance and financial accountability rules and re...

Texas Southern University, Change Leadership

This case study focuses on Texas Southern University, which experienced a scandal that threatened the institution in 2006. The wri...

Unethical Executives

timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...

Fraud - The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...

SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS: BRIBERY OR LOBBYING?

of influencing a particular outcome. The main difference is that lobbying, as such, is "persuasion," whereas bribery is an overt e...

The Failings at Enron from an OB Perspective

as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...

Nixon and Watergate

is used to indicate a political scandal, such as Travelgate, when the Clinton White House fired a number of workers from its Trave...

ENRON: ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, CULTURES AND IRREGULARITIES

corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...

Children Working

to whom they outsource have young children working in the factories. Many people may remember the Kathie Lee Gifford sweat shop co...

Rampart Independent Review Panel Report and What Can be Done to End Deviance within Law Enforcement

to cooperate with LAPD officials in exchange for a five-year prison term. Perez charged that several members of the CRASH unit en...

Media Takes a Constructionist View When Reporting on Sexual Behavior

sexual behavior that conforms with their personal desires. Obviously, when a child would be harmed, or even murdered, such tendenc...

The Importance of Corporate Governance

the context of Walkers (2005) statements, the public arena is noted, but this idea can be applied to any organization. Fiscal resp...

Integrity: A Key Quality in the U.S. Army

of that abuse to his superiors. As horrific as the problem was, it can be contended that a series of critical decisions spanning ...

Accounting: Principles-Based Or Rules-Based?

and diligence and independence at the auditing level" (Anonymous, 2003). From a broader perspective, one of the main reason...

Are Accounting Reforms And Legislation Are The Only Means By Which The Accounting Profession Will be Able To Regain Public Trust And Re-Establish Its’ Credibility?

fraud, and it was with this we might argue there was the first loss of confidence in the auditors. This case limited the liability...

The HealthSouth Scandal

value from dropping.5 He was able to get away with it because he was the person who was charged by the SEC with the responsibility...

Is the Criticism Against Auditors Justified in the Light of Business Collapses such as Enron?

an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...

Baseball History: The 1919 White Sox Fix

begin to see that different stakeholders involved had different concerns. The owners were divided. They realized that money would ...

Industrial Psychology; Explaining Enron

with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...

Shell and Corporate Social Responsiblity

it to the intentions of an organization. If an organization would want to make things right, and hone CSR, the stool analogy can w...

The Ethical Challenges at Tyco, Inc.

This 4 page paper looks at the scandals Tyco has been plagued with. How new management made a difference is highlighted. Bibliogra...

Ebbers Behind Bars

prosecution witness and is "crucial to the prosecutions case," since he is the only witness who said that "he spoke directly to Mr...

Corporate Transparency - McBride Financial

and Weisbach (2007) commented that most of the reforms in corporate governance over the last several years have been directed at i...

The Impact of the Enron Bankruptcy

to less than $1 (Explaining the Enron bankruptcy, 2002). The companys implosion cost thousands of employees their jobs as well as ...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

Analysis of Enron

days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...

Workplace and Loss of Decency

men and women in public places. This increasing informality is also present in the business world and it is straining business re...