Case 2-1 Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom Cynthia Cooper details her trials and tribulations about her experiences at WorldCom in the book Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. The following excerpts from the book describe the actions she took to uncover the fraud at WorldCom and reactions of key players in the accounting department‚ top management‚ the audit committee and the external auditors. Cooper was first alerted to the fact that there may have been a problem
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Chapter 1 Review Questions 1. A project is defined‚ according to the Project Management Insitute‚ as a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product‚ service‚ or result. Five characteristics that help differentiate projects from other functions carried out in the daily operations of the organization are as follows: 1. An established objective. 2. A defined life span with a beginning and an end. 3. Usually‚ the involvement of serveral departments and professionals. 4. Typically
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Chapter 1 P 1-1. a. Calculate the tax disadvantage to organizing a U.S. business today as a corporation‚ as compared to a partnership‚ under the following conditions. Assume that all earnings will be paid out as cash dividends. Operating income (operating profit before taxes) will be $500‚000 per year under either organizational form. The tax rate on corporate profits is 35% (= 0.35)‚ the average personal tax rate for the partners is also 35% (= 0.35)‚ and the capital gains tax rate on dividend
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Case # 4 Chapter 2. Issue: There are two parties involved in the case dispute the one is called plaintiff‚ according to Kubasek. ‚ Browne‚ ‚ Herron‚ ‚ Giampetro-Meyer‚ ‚ Barkacs‚ ‚ Dhooge‚ ‚ & Williamson‚ (2012) the definition of plaintiff is‚ “ the person or party who initiates a lawsuit (an action) before a court by filing a complaint with the clerk of the court against the defendant(s). Also known as claimant or complainant‚” (page‚ G22). In this case Jarold Daniel Friedman is plaintiff;
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Electronics Business System Analysis 1. How do information systems projects get started in organizations? Systems projects get started in organizations for the following reasons: One it can either be to solve a problem‚ fill a need or to take advantage of an opportunity. 2. How are organizational information systems related to company strategy? How does strategy affect the information systems a company develops and uses? The organizational information system is related to company strategy
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Chapter 2: Diversity in Organizations Diversity: Describe the two major forms of workforce diversity. Managers need to recognize and capitalize on individual differences to get the most from their employees. Effective diversity management increases an organization’s access to the widest possible pool of skills‚ abilities‚ and ideas. Managers also need to recognize that differences among people can lead to miscommunication‚ misunderstanding‚ and conflict. Demographic Shifts: 1. Changing
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and violent crime of the United States is comparable to that of disturbed East European and South East Asian regions. It’s been noted that 45.9% of the crimes between 1974 and 2004 are committed by whites; blacks make up a 52.1% and other races about 2%. One big factor that plays into the violence in America is the ownership of guns. Because in America its sociably acceptability to walk around with guns and then you add impulsive behavior to that‚ it is no surprise that that the violent crimes that
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Google’s Closing Case Questions 1. How does Google’s mission drive strategy at the company? Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally acceptable and useful helped it develop a very useful search engine that we all use or have used on a regular basis. They run on the mantra “don’t be evil!” They came up with the saying in the hopes to always run the business with integrity. One aspect of this was the decision to not let outside companies’ interests bias where
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Incident at Morales Assignment After viewing the video‚ Incident at Morales‚ please prepare a 1.5-2 page report (single space‚ at least 11 point type) on the following questions. 1. List the ethical issues you observed in Incident at Morales. 2. From your personal perspective‚ prioritize these ethical issues from most critical to least critical 3. Discuss the video from three additional perspectives: a) Fred’s Perspective: Assume you are Fred: i) What specific ethical issues do you (Fred)
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Media violence Media violence has been an ongoing issue and a major talking point for over three decades. There have been numerous debates whether media violence is considered a problem and if it actually causes real-life aggressive behaviour. It is believed that media violence is seen to have a crucial barring on how an individual may behave whether it is socially or mentally. Biological factors also come into account in media violence situations. Important factors like the amount of media violence
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