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Emergency Preparedness and Governmental Crisis Protection

state, local and personal levels for survival during, and recovery after, a hurricane has passed through an area. On the federal l...

Enron Scandal and Business Ethics

benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...

Increased Corporate Governance and Auditor Independence

At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...

Post WorldCom and Enron International Accounting Standards

a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...

Royal Dutch Shell, Enron, and Business Ethics

those who were relying on the company for pensions, directly or indirectly, those who worked for them, and those who worked for co...

Enron and the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act

audit functions were in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), hiding debt in dummy corporations, as wel...

Strategic Errors at Enron

to be on a continuing growth streak. Enron did not use proper or prudent caution in their diversification strategies. There did ...

Leadership and Business Ethics

Businesses must maintain integrity and they do this "within a framework of the law and ethics" (2000, p.17). Some firms have imple...

Creative Accounting Incentives and Maintenance

share price performance. There are also the wider culture issues that encourage this and place an onerous duty on those who may be...

Emergency Management

specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...

Advertising and the Use of Ebonics

blacks in the U.S. and the Caribbean alike (Everybodys: The Caribbean-American Magazine, 1998). Ebonics has invoked considerable ...

Global Community Assistance and the US

who have lost home and family to a natural disaster, the Red Cross provides relief and hope. The American Red Cross is...

WorldCom, Enron, and IAS

principles of accounting in the U.S. (Larson et al, 2001). Since that time, a number of authoritative bodies have been instituted ...

What Could Have Been Done to Save Enron

Enron, a publicly held company, was once a top provider of electricity but ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy ("Enron," 2002). Pr...

Disasters and Their Psychological Impact

a main area of study being the normative reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to ...

An Analysis of One Market Under God by Thomas Frank

done to rein them in. Even many business people felt that capitalism had to be saved from itself because it was an economic system...

Marketing in a Post 911 Era

as consumers have an increased awareness of less tangible aspects, such as corporate governance and ethical and moral responsibili...

Disaster Recovery Planning

A survey conducted in 1995 by ICR Survey Research Group regarding vulnerability of computers found that sixty six percent of respo...

Individual Character and Ethics

and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...

Deceptive Reporting and Methodologies for Financial Accounting

is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...

Issues of Emergency Response Disaster Management

minds of many - if not most - Americans was a part of the ongoing feud between religious factions in the mideast that occasionally...

Enron and WorldCom Financial Statement Manipulation

processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...

An Organization and Adding Value

as Gap and Nike (Mason, 2000). In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real...

AMD and Intel Exchange Rate Exposure

but the risk types that may be hedged are both investments as well as debts, the tools used tend to be forward contracts for the c...

When Acquisitions Go Wrong - Rover and BMW

The European Union was also changing in terms of competition, with increasing levels of competition from Asian countries such as J...

Overview of Customer Relationship Management

the final consumer has led businesses to recognize that value contributions, from internal and external organizational members in ...

Elementary and High School Virtual Computer Field Trips

of Blooms taxonomy had the assignment not limited their access to the Internet. These outcomes were not uniform for all ind...

Office Max and Boise Cascade

that doesnt have a retail presence (Miller, 2003). Boise is also fortunate in that OfficeMax offers name recognition (Mill...

Slavery and the Revolutionary War

land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...

Economies of Scale and Mergers

support functions and cutting costs (Fletcher and Schaeffer, 2001; see also Meyercord, 2001). The emerging entity from such a merg...