“Ethical language is meaningless” Discuss Ethics is concerned with what is right and what is wrong. Meta-ethics however looks at the language‚ it asks “What does it mean to say that something is right or wrong”. In the words of Pojman‚ "normative ethics is a philosophical examination of morality‚ meta-ethics is philosophising about ethics -that is‚ about the very terms and structure of ethical theories." I aim to explore the claim that all ethical language is meaningless by looking at some of
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Accounting &Financial Management Report From: Mo Jian hui To: Board of director Executive summary According to the Global Powers of Retailing Report in 2011‚ Ahold now lies at the number 25 of world. It is making the plan to achieve the goal to be No.10 by acquisition Delhaize Group (DG) or WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc. (Morrisons).This report will analyze and compare these three companies by using CORE to find out their advantages and disadvantages of financial performance‚ then
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Uses of Accounting Information and the Financial Statements TRUE/FALSE 1. The intentional preparation of misleading financial statements is referred to as fraudulent financial reporting. ANS: T PTS: 1 OBJ: LO1 NAT: AACSB correlation: ethics LOC: Learning Type: Recall KEY: ethical reporting 2. Fraudulent financial reporting can result from the misapplication of accounting principles. ANS: T PTS: 1 OBJ: LO1 NAT: AACSB correlation: ethics LOC: Learning Type: Recall KEY: ethical reporting
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P5 Explain the legal and ethical issues in relation to the use of business information Definition: Ethics concern an individual’s moral judgments about right and wrong. Explanation: Business information belongs to the business owner and any kind of use of the business related information should be used as per the company policy. There are legal consequences in breaking the rules (code of conduct & code of practice). Staff member needs to use his/her ethical judgement to decide what is
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Lindsey Moran Financial Accounting Final Project Amazons mission and goal is “ to be earth ’s most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.” (http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-faq#14296). Their business summary states “Amazon.com‚ Inc. operates as an online retailer in North America and internationally. It operates retail Websites‚ such as amazon.com and amazon.ca. The company serves
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http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/ Legal and Ethical Issues in the Online World Nov 1st‚ 2007 by Bryan. This year‚ a slightly revised version of an earlier article I wrote was printed in Keeping Free Presses Free‚ a publication of the Student Press Law Center and CMA. Even though the printed publication is distributed at conventions‚ I think the information is worthwhile for a general audience who might not be able to attend‚ so I’m including what I wrote in this blog post. Look below
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Chapter Two Legal/Ethical Challenge Wal-Mart What would you do if you were an executive at Wal-Mart? 1. Give Casias his job back. He is a great employee and is not violating state law about using marijuana for medical conditions. If I were an executive at Wal-Mart‚ I would amend the drug policy. I know that according to the Controlled Substance Act‚ marijuana is a controlled substance primarily because it has a high potential to be abused and there is no currently acceptable use. Under
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Financial statements are a necessity when it comes to businesses. They are used by both internal managers as well as outside users and provide information about the entire company. Managerial accounting is primarily used by individuals within a company or organization. The main purpose of financial accounting is to prepare financial reports that provide information about an organization’s performance to external parties like creditors‚ investors and tax authorities (Hilton‚ 2006). There are several
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development of Integrated Reporting is designed to enhance and consolidate existing reporting practices‚ to move towards a reporting framework that provides the information needed to assess organizational value in the 21st century. The traditional reporting model was developed for an industrial world. Although it continues to play a valuable role with respect to stewardship of financial capital‚ it nonetheless focuses on a relatively narrow account of historical financial performance of the value-creation
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make additional acquisitions‚ support its $30 billion debt‚ as well as allow executives to cash in on their stock options. The final reason why people participate in unethical behavior is because the company culture puts the bottom line ahead of ethical behavior. This is exactly what happened at Enron. Enron had a program called “rank and yank.” In the “rank and yank” process your performance is evaluated yearly and if you are ranked the 15-20 percent lowest ranking employees you are let go or encouraged
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