this is NOT the Unit Guide The official Unit Guide is available online and is accessed separately through iLearn of this unit. The assessment guide should be read in conjunction with the Unit Guide. Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance Relationship between Assessment and Learning Outcomes Assessment Task 1 Assessment Task 2 Assessment Task 3 Assessment Task 4 Title/Name Class Test 1 Class Test 2 Group Report‚ Proposal & Presentation Final Examination Content Area
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enterprises (SMEs) – IFAC (2010‚ p.7) 1.20 Accountants employed in SMEs 1.23 Ethics? (Mitchell 2003‚ p.8) 1.26 Professional ethics Mintz (1992) Situational ethics Bertrand Russell (1955) 1.27 Governance (Carnegie 2009‚ p.8) – conformance & performance 1.28 Corporate governance (OECD April 1999 and valid for OECD 2004) – ‘Direction’ & ‘Control’ Enterprise Governance – ‘Corporate Governance’ & ‘Business Governance’ (IFAC PAIB‚ 2004) 1.30 Professional? ‘Public Trust’ vs ‘professional judgments’
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Ethics and Governance Module 1 – Accounting and Society Part A: Accounting as a practice 1.04 Roles of accounting 1.04 Accounting as a technical practice 1.04 Traditional Public perception Accounting as a social practice 1.04 Broadening of Accounting Role Measuring performance of Individual Decision making tool Accounting and effective governance 1.06 Case Ex 1.1 – National Library of New Zealand 1.06 Demonstration of accounting Changes Part
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CODE OF ETHICS FOR PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANTS IN THE PHILIPPINES CONTENTS PREFACE PART A: GENERAL APPLICATION OF THE CODE 100 110 120 130 140 150 Introduction and Fundamental Principles Integrity Objectivity Professional Competence and Due Care Confidentiality Professional Behavior PART B: PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANTS IN PUBLIC PRACTICE 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 Introduction Professional Appointment Conflicts of Interest Second Opinions Fees and Other Types of Remuneration Marketing
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Theories of Corporate Governance Agency Theory • • • Separation of ownership from control Dispersed ownership structure – no single shareholder has the power to control management Economic theory suggest that managers will act in their own self interest instead of maximizing shareholders’ return Stewardship Theory Managers are good stewards of corporations and diligently work to attain high levels of corporate profit and shareholders’ returns • Different
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3. Corporations practicing stakeholder management will be more sustainable. Discuss. Over the years‚ social and ethical concerns have brought attention to the community that caused much bitter conflict to the relationship between business and society. As people become better educated and more affluent‚ rising expectations naturally follow for major institutions and these developed a backdrop against which criticisms towards businesses have grown. Therefore‚ these created the need for them to assume
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Introduction: A discussion on corporate regulation and governance is of great importance in today’s economic world. A number of high profile collapses such as HIH‚ One Tel‚ Harris Scarfe‚ Ansett‚ focuses ones attention on governance issues. Nevertheless‚ corporate governance is not a static thing and even if basic structures remain the same‚ policies and procedures surrounding those structures should constantly be reviewed to ensure that the structure is working properly. Globalisation yields challenges
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BUSM3199 Ethics & Governance Introduction to ethics and governance Questions for tutorial 1 I. Questions a) What are the differences between immoral and amoral management (Carroll‚ 2001)? b) What are the differences between intentional and unintentional amoral management (Carroll‚ 2001)? c) How should an organisation deal with an activity that is legal but unethical? d) Why is plagiarism an ethical issue? II. Case study: The not-so-great Gatsby The hourly employees at Appleberg Electric
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Ethics is defined as a system of moral principles that governs a person or a group’s behaviour. Ethics refers to well based standards of right and wrong‚ and prescribe what humans ought to do. It is also the continuous efforts of striving to ensure that people‚ and the institutions they shape‚ live up to the standards that are reasonable and solidly based (Amundsen & Andrade‚ 2009). Ethics involves in doing “what is right” and “what is wrong”. However‚ most ethical dilemmas in workplace are not simply
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With reference to the Oxford English Dictionary (2012)‚ ethics is described as the science of morals. It is also the agency of study with regards to the values of moral obligations of what is right or wrong. It also covers human behaviour. A company makes many decisions in a course of one day. It may include‚ launching new products‚ doing Public Relations‚ making sales‚ rewriting company policies and the recruitment or retrenchment of people‚ just to name a few. All business aims to do so ethically
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