Insert name Insert name of the course supervisor Insert name of the course Insert date assignment is due Why Corporate Governance is an Important Ethical Issue As consumer movements grow stronger and stakeholders become more knowledgeable and aware of company operations‚ it has become necessary for corporations to come to grips with ethical issues in order to continue surviving in business. Consumers and stakeholders are becoming increasingly aware of the adverse effects of unethical
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Corporate Governance in India: Disciplining the Dominant Shareholder Abstract The nascent debate on corporate governance in India has tended to draw heavily on the large Anglo-American literature on the subject. This paper argues however that the corporate governance problems in India are very different. The governance issue in the US or the UK is essentially that of disciplining the management who have ceased to be effectively accountable to the owners. The problem in the Indian corporate sector
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Corporate Governance‚ accountability and ethics in Goldman Sachs 1. Introduction The greatest modern financial crisis is still unraveling the aftershocks now I feel is the most serious in Europe. In fact‚ the lifting of the mortgage crisis in the United States and bankruptcy homeowners damaged in progress‚ but is no longer news. The ultimate responsibility of the crisis‚ the responsibility of the nature and extent of the problem has not been a satisfactory answer. Therefore‚ the community
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Enron and How it Affected the Accounting Industry Enron once was one the United States largest energy company and was ranked Fortune’s seventh richest corporation in the United States. When Enron had a filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 it unraveled to be one the biggest accounting scandals in United States history. There are many factors that contributed to Enron’s demise but their aggressive and unethical accounting practices were the key component. As a result‚ the accounting industry
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Lecturer responsible for AUE2602: Topic 1: Corporate Governance Ms Nicolene Coetzee Contact details: AUE2602@unisa.ac.za CORPORATE GOVERNANCE What does CORPORATE GOVERNANCE mean: It is the system or process whereby companies are directed or controlled. It follows then that: Healthy‚ honest‚ open‚ competent and responsibly controlled companies will improve the quality of modern society. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Key aspects of King III: Effective leadership * Ethical values of responsibility * Fairness
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The overall cause for Enron’s bankruptcy should be blamed on former chairman and CEO‚ Kenneth Lay. As an Enron executive‚ all of Lay’s concerns should have been focused on Enron’s profits‚ but all he cared about was his property. When he noticed Enron’s financial problem‚ he did not attempt to fix it‚ but made effort to maintain his own benefit and ignored the whole company’s and investors’ loss. His selfish and unethical behavior not only deceived the investors but also finally resulted in Enron’s
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UVA-F-1299 Rev. Feb. 8‚ 2011 This document is authorized for use only by Mattia Tenaglia at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Please do not copy or redistribute. Contact permissions@dardenbusinesspublishing.com for questions or additional permissions. ENRON CORPORATION’S WEATHER DERIVATIVES (A) Everybody talks about the weather‚ but nobody does anything about it.1 In October 2000‚ Mary Watts‚ the chief financial officer of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW)‚ a utility servicing the Pacific Northwest
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Enron: Leadership without Ethics and Practical Execution Enron‚ once one of the largest energy public companies globally‚ achieved a $65 billion asset volume but only took 24 days to go bankrupt. Initially‚ its main service is extracting natural gas and manufacturing energy-using products‚ but the excessively aggressive and benefit-oriented type of operation makes the company create lots of so-called "innovative" investment department and financial products. All these activities played as the
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Corporate governance is defined as the distribution of power in the company. In the 1990s‚ the great success of US economy let to the efforts to understand and copy American management methods. The Anglo-American view of corporate governance derives from generating long term economic gain to enhance shareholder value. An outside board of directors is hired. The boards of US companies are made up of friends and acquaintances of the CEO. The use of stock options ’ is another feature introduced
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experience’’‚ working paper‚ Central Bank of Nigeria. Odife‚ D.O. (1988)‚ Privatization in Nigeria: Concepts‚ Issues and Modalities‚ Alkestis Books‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria. Omole‚ D.A. and Falokun‚ G.O. (1999)‚ ‘‘The impact of interest rate liberalization on the corporate financing strategies of quoted companies in Nigeria’’‚ AERC research paper # 88‚ African Economic Research Consortium. Onyenankeya‚ K. (2004)‚ ‘‘Central bank decries gap between deposit and lending rates’’‚ Daily Independent Online‚ 14 January available
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