CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ESSAY Can Corporate Governance Mechanism Prevent Corporate Fraud? Executive Summary This paper will reviews the extent to which corporate governance acts as efficient tool to protect investors against corporate fraud‚ thus contributing to summarize the literatures on role of corporate governance on preventing occurrence of corporate fraud. In a more recent study‚ corporate fraud is part of earnings manipulation done outside the law and standards. Whereas‚ the activities
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TYPES OF CORPORATE DIVERSIFICATION When a firm chooses to diversify‚ it faces a decision as to how related the new business(es) is(are) to the existing businesses of the firm. When Charles Bluhdorn was CEO of a company called Gulf+Western in the 1950s‚ he diversified into a host of industries: motion pictures (Paramount Pictures‚ the makers of The Godfather‚ Chinatown‚ and other movies)‚ clothing‚ cigars‚ zinc mines‚ auto parts‚ and sugar‚ among others! In contrast‚ a company such as Cooper
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Corporate Scandal I. Olympus Updated: April 20‚ 2012 Olympus Corporation‚ founded in 1919‚ is a manufacturer of digital cameras and electronic equipment. Based in Tokyo‚ the multibillion-dollar company has operations worldwide. In mid-October 2011‚ Olympus was rocked by scandal when its former chief executive and president‚ Michael C. Woodford‚ who is British‚ was suddenly fired. The company’s chairman‚ Tsuyoshi Kikukawa‚ blamed a culture clash‚ but Mr. Woodford‚ a 30-year Olympus employee‚
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Introduction The main concept in the assignment is about corporate personality. First of all‚ we need to clarify the meaning and characteristics of company. In short‚ company means a body of persons combined for a common object. A company exist there must be a group of persons that more than 1 persons. In eyes of law‚ a company is a separate legal personality from its members. In Section 16(5) CA1965‚ it stated that a body corporate obligations and liabilities are its own‚ and not those of its
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Chapter 04 Long-Term Financial Planning and Growth Multiple Choice Questions 1. Phil is working on a financial plan for the next three years. This time period is referred to as which one of the following? A. financial range B. planning horizon C. planning agenda D. short-run E. current financing period 2. Atlas Industries combines the smaller investment proposals from each operational unit into a single project for planning purposes. This process is referred to as which one
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Corporate Fraud I. Introductions a. Fraud in the accounting environment is on the increase. b. Fraud takes place in different forms in the accounting environment. II. The growing risk of fraud and corruption a. Local problems‚ global pain b. Awareness is crucial c. Tailoring efforts to avert damage III. Preventing Fraud a. Background checks and enhanced due diligence b. Monitoring and evaluating preventive controls c. Continuous controls monitoring IV. Can we eliminate fraud and corruption
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Corporate Inversion is defined as a company’s reincorporation overseas enabling reduction in tax burden on income earned abroad. When a significant portion of a company’s income is from foreign sources‚ then corporate inversion is the ideal strategy to implement; that is because such income is taxed both abroad and in the company where it is incorporated. The winning corporate inversion strategy would be for a company which has selected a country with lower tax rates and less intricate corporate
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The Corporate Culture Robert Alford Grantham University BA560 Business Ethics Dr. Janice Spangenburg March 19‚ 2013 The Corporate CultureLegal Case: Adelphia Case: Feds drop fraud case against Adelphia founder‚ son A six-year legal battle involving the jailed father-son duo who headed now-defunct Adelphia Communications has ended after prosecutors withdrew tax fraud charges related to their earlier conviction in a $1.9 billion fraud case. Prosecutors said they withdrew the tax-related
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Corporate ethics is adapted from the words: ‘sound moral values’. It attempts at putting in place some sense of ‘sound moral values’ within a company’s employee population as regards how they could conduct business responsibly. The recent corporate scandals globally (which have been taken to unprecedented levels) have made managers and researchers to turn their attentions to questions of ethics management. This paper therefore examines how national culture influences ‘sound moral values’ in business
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V. Possible Government Policies to Cope with Financial Globalization As mentioned above‚ it is agreed by economists that financial globalization would be beneficial in the long run‚ but‚ in the short-run‚ it has certain links to the happening of financial crises. Thus‚ countless economists are suggesting that certain government policies should be imposed to stabilize to stabilize foreign and domestic financial markets. In general‚ there are three different types of arguments adopted by economists
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