1. Who are the stakeholders involved in this decision? Although Anne‚ the CEO‚ and Sue‚ the accountant are involved in this decision it is the banks‚ Linkage Construction Inc. employees and investors‚ and subcontractors if any are used are the affected stakeholders involved in this decision. 2. What are the ethical issues involved? The ethical issue involved is changing the expense report to show lower expected profits for the current year just to manipulate the growth trend of the company which
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Exercise 9.1 The following data represent total personnel expenses for the Palmdale Human Service Agency for past four fiscal years: 20X1 $5‚250‚000 20X2 $5‚500‚000 20X3 $6‚000‚000 20X4 $6‚750‚000 Moving Averages 20X2-X4 $18‚250‚000 / 3 = $6‚083‚333 Weighted Moving Averages Fiscal Year Expenses Weight Weighted Score 20X2 $5‚500‚000 1 $5‚500‚000 20X3 $6‚000‚000 2 $12‚000‚000 20X4 $6‚750‚000 3 $20‚250‚000 __ ___________ 6 $37‚750
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ACC/260 Week 8 Individual The situation in “Locker Room Talk”‚ centers on Albert Gable‚ a partner in a CPA firm. Mr. Gable took on a married couple‚ Larry and Susan Wilson‚ as clients for financial planning‚ and as he worked their case he became their personal friends. Albert knew that their marriage had some problems‚ and as he was auditing a bank‚ which he did annual audits for‚ he discovered some discrepancies in the information that the Wilson’s gave him and the information that the bank had
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1. Livingston made some mistakes initially. Describe at least two of them and provide how you would handle the situations. Livingston did make a critical mistake initially of choosing the project manager from a different department. So that was one of the mistakes that he had made. With choosing a project manager‚ from a different department Livingston is looking at possible resentment arising from of all functional departments. Although Livingston’s did make the right move of appointing a project
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Week 2 Checkpoint- Unethical Practices of Arthur Andersen 1.What did Arthur Andersen contribute to the Enron disaster? Arthur Andersen contributed to the Enron disaster by failing to have Enron establish and enforce internal controls. Also by destroying Enron audit papers which covered deficiencies contributed to the Enron disaster. The formal charges and jail sentence were a result of the obstruction of justice caused by the destruction of the audit papers. 3. What was the prime motivation
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• List and describe the security controls in place. Where are the weaknesses? I did not notice any securities in place. The article did mention a second layer or security that was not properly installed. The systems were out of date and TJX used an old Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption system. Other companies made the switch to a Wi-Fi Protected Access (WAP) with more complex encryption. The article also states that they failed to install firewalls and data encryption on some of the
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Board Members What resources do the board members use to base off from‚ when making decisions? This question is very important. The board members are on top f an organizations chain. It is important to know that those on the board are reliable and know what they are there for. As a whole‚ you need to be aware that the decisions made by the board will ensure that everyone is taken care of. Board members can’t just make a decision without using references. Otherwise‚ the decisions being made wont
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Ratios over Time 9/2/2013 Ratios over Time The financial position of this organization has changed in multiple ways. First being that the company has increased their profit and lowered their expenses. Generally it has improved. The contribution ratio has also lowered explaining that their company is not putting in as much of their own money as in the fiscal year 2000. The revenue
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Week 4 Checkpoint – Part 1 (5 points) The following are common categories on a classified Balance Sheet: Current Assets Long-term Investments Plant Assets Intangible Assets Current Liabilities Long-term Liabilities For each of the following items‚ select a category from above that identifies the Balance Sheet category where the item typically would appear. Category on Balance Sheet Account Title Long-term Investments Notes Receivable Current Assets Merchandise
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Assignment: Critiquing Philosophical Approaches to Ethical Decision Making When it comes to making ethical decisions there are many different approaches to reach a decision. There is an ethical decision making (EDM) framework which incorporates traditional requirements for profitability and legality‚ as well as requirements shown to be philosophically important to stakeholders. The EDM framework asses the ethicality of a decision or action by examining the consequences or well-offness created in
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