SCENARIO: You are a CPA with an office in NearLakes City and clients consisting primarily of professionals‚ entrepreneurs‚ and small business owners. John Smith‚ Esq.‚ a practicing attorney with offices near yours‚ walks in your office and wants advice from you relating to a recent influx of cash he received as a result of winning a large jury verdict on behalf of his client in a personal injury case. His wife Jane Smith accompanies him during your meeting because she has some additional tax planning
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The Role of the External Auditor in Corporate Governance The external auditor has long played an important role in the corporate governance function. However‚ before we begin our analysis on how the external auditor plays this role and its importance‚ we must first examine the responsibilities and duties of such an auditor. Similarly‚ we need to clearly define what corporate governance is before we discuss in detail the role that auditors play in it. 1. Introduction 1.1 The External Auditor External
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Challenges to Corporate Social Responsibilities Company: Reebok International Ltd. Student Name: Jedy Wang Student #: 250476511 Teacher Assistant: Mike Dove Due Date: 11/14/2008 Executive Summary The 20th century illustrated a dispersing trend of capitalism as the end of the Cold War illustrated evident economic prosperity in Western countries. Consequently‚ many former Communist countries implemented economic reforms due to the perception that capitalism was the economic ideology
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Doctrine of Piercing the Veil of Corporate Entity Requires the court to see through the protective shroud which exempts its stockholders from liabilities that they ordinarily would be subject to‚ or distinguishes a corporation from a seemingly separate one‚ were it not for the existing corporate fiction (Lim vs CA‚ 323 SCRA 102) Extent: The application of the doctrine to a particular case does not deny the corporation of legal personality for any and all purposes‚ but only for the particular transaction
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Enron‚ Ethics And Today’s Corporate Values Enron’s heyday has long ended. But its lessons will long endure. The global business community is now watching a painful new chapter is this saga — one where its former high-riding chief executive officer‚ Jeff Skilling‚ is getting a decade shaved off of his prison term that should now end in 2017. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The company’s failure in 2001 represents the biggest business bankruptcy ever while also spotlighting
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN FAMILY BUSINESSES IN SERBIA PhD Katarina Djulic‚ Faculty of Economics‚ Finance and Administration‚ kdjulic@fefa.edu.rs MSc Tanja Kuzman‚ Faculty of Economics‚ Finance and Administration PhD Katarina Djulic is Assistant Professor at FEFA on subjects of Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance. She also works as Senior Consultant in KPMG Serbia. She worked as an Associate Operations Officer at the International Finance Corporation‚ World Bank Group‚ on the Corporate Governance
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Corporate governance – Intended learning outcomes Students should be able to Identify different forms of corporate governance Evaluate the influence of organisational stakeholders on a firm’s purposes and performance Conduct stakeholder mapping Exhibit 4.1 Influences on strategic purpose Corporate Governance Corporate governance refers to the influence and power of the stakeholders to control the strategic direction of the organisation (Lynch‚ p.362) The chain of corporate governance:
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Chapter 1 Comparative Corporate Governance and Financial Goals End-of-Chapter Questions 1. Corporate goals: shareholder wealth maximization. Explain the assumptions and objectives of the shareholder wealth maximization pmodel. Answer: The Anglo-American markets have a philosophy that a firm’s objective should follow the shareholder wealth maximization (SWM) model. More specifically‚ the firm should strive to maximize the return to shareholders‚ as measured by the sum of capital gains and dividends
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Journal of Corporate Finance 11 (2005) 85 – 106 www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase Additions to corporate boards: the effect of gender Kathleen A. Farrell a‚*‚ Philip L. Hersch b a Department of Finance‚ University of Nebraska-Lincoln‚ Lincoln‚ NE 68588-0490‚ USA b Department of Economics‚ Wichita State University‚ USA Received 1 November 2003; accepted 1 December 2003 Available online 20 April 2004 Abstract During the decade of the 1990s the number of women serving on corporate boards increased
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - ROLE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS People often question whether corporate boards matter because their day-today impact is difficult to observe. But‚ when things go wrong‚ they can become the center of attention. Certainly this was true of the Enron‚ Worldcom‚ and Parmalat scandals. The directors of Enron and Worldcom‚ in particular‚ were held liable for the fraud that occurred: Enron directors had to pay $168 million to investor plaintiffs‚ of which $13 million was out of pocket
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