Zack Cearley 11/15/2012 Accounting 1101- Mason The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ often abbreviated as SOX‚ is a legislative act passed by Congress in response to the Enron and WorldCom financial scandals. The primary purpose of SOX is to protect shareholders from errors or fraudulent reporting by the company they have invested in. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is enforced by the Securities and Exchange Commission‚ a department dedicated to ensuring compliance to SOX from
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The Mental Health Act The mental health act is an act design to protect people with mental illness. It was originally written in 1983 and reformed in 2007. It sets out clear guidance for a health professional when a person may need to be taken into compulsorily detained in a hospital. This is known as sectioning. This helps carers who are unable to cope without help. People can be sectioned if the health care profession thinks they are a danger to themselves‚ they are a danger to another person
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AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 1 Affordable Care Act Upper Iowa University AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 2 Abstract The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) this law is the landmark health reform legislation passed by the 111th Congress and was signed into law on March 23‚ 2010. The legislation includes a long list of health-related provisions that began taking effect in 2010 and will continue to be rolled out over the next four years
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condition. To ameliorate involves making more tolerable or acceptable conditions that are hard to endure. The Amelioration act has been seen throughout history as a statue passed to improve the conditions of slaves in the British Caribbean colonies and it is important to understand that this Act did not require an end to the institution we now know as slavery. Slavery was a vicious act committed against humanity and within our own history; rebellions and revolts occurred for this very reason and in the
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The Welfare Reform Act Summary The Welfare Reform Act‚ also known as the “The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996”‚ was intentionally designed to help needy families with children dependents and/or people receiving Supplemental Security Income with cash benefits‚ who in turn would be eligible for Medicaid Health Insurance (Valerius‚ Bayes‚ Newby‚ & Seggern‚ 2008). The Welfare Reform Act replaced a program called “AFDC (Aid to families with dependent children)”
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discrimination. Disability: The act introduces a new protection from discrimination arising from disability. It is discriminatory to threat a disabled person less favourably because of something related to their disability. It is only justifiable if an employer education or service provider can demonstrate that such treatment is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. Gender reassignment: It means the process of transitioning from one gender to another. This Act cover people who have proposed
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the United States. Each political‚ social‚ or economic happening had its own part in causing the Civil War. One of the bloodiest events was something termed "Bleeding Kansas‚" which was caused by the inception of the Kansas-Nebraska Act into United States Law. The Act was introduced to Congress by Stephen A. Douglas in an attempt to establish the Kansas and Nebraska territories. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill caused territorial problems that destroyed the National Party system. It was introduced by Stephen
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additionally‚ the 1867 Reform Act also had a significant impact on the issues that were being addressed by politics. Whereas before‚ the aristocracy had basically decided what happened in the country‚ the act meant that issues were being brought to light that had never been discussed properly in public before. This was very important as it not only changed public but it also changed society too. Issues such as the legislation surrounding drinking‚ education and taxation were now being impacted on
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The RICO Act has been an important component in addressing organized and white collar crime. Write a five page (double-spaced) essay that summarizes the RICO Act and its impact on organized and white collar crime. Be sure to support your thoughts with information from our readings. Rico Act Essay The term “Rico Act” stands for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act‚ Codified as chapter 96‚ Title 18‚ of the United States Code which was passed by Congress in 1970. The purpose
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are able to genuinely create the more positive ambiance around you. An arbitrary act of kind behavior is a supposedly altruistic act accomplished by an individual or humans looking to either commit a hand or cheer up a human or in a few events it exerts to creatures. There will typically be no cause other than to induce the smile of the people‚ or be more pleased. Either impulsive or deliberate‚ random acts of kindness are promoted by several societies. Ann Herbert (1982)‚ a renowned peace militant
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