Review of Elaine Jeffreys‚ Prostitution Scandals in China: Policy‚ Media and Society Publisher: London; New York: Routledge‚ 2012. Prostitution endures to be a contentious topic which has always attracted public‚ policy and prurient interest (Maher‚ 2013). Bringing together seven prostitution-related scandals in People’s Republic of China (PRC) highlighted by the media since the 1990s‚ the volume seeks to display the milieu of prostitution and demonstrate the nexus between the rampant phenomenon
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Running Head: THE BRAZILIAN MILK FRAUD SCANDAL The Brazilian Milk Fraud Scandal Involving the Italian Food Conglomerate Parmalat. A Brief Case Study on a Transnational Corporation In Your Home Country Gabriel Ferreira International Public Relations – PUR6608 class University of Florida 1 THE BRAZILIAN MILK FRAUD SCANDAL 2 The Brazilian Dairy Market background. Over the last decade‚ the Brazilian dairy market has been one of the most fast growing dairy
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Ethical Issues in Managerial Accounting HSBC ethical and legal scandal Overview HSBC is one of the largest financial institutions in the world‚ with over $2.5 trillion in assets‚ 89 million customers‚ 300‚000 employees‚ and 2011 profits of nearly $22 billion. HSBC has operations in over 80 countries‚ with hundreds of affiliates spanning the globe. Its parent corporation‚ HSBC Holdings‚ called “HSBC Group” is headquartered in London. Its key U.S. affiliate is HSBC Bank USA N.A. (HBUS)
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shocks. The recent scandals are no exceptions. The most important scandals are the focus of this paper and are summarized in table 1. Although the problems that exist are diverse‚ a few common characteristics stand out. The first is the obvious backdrop of corporate greed. Presumably‚ senior executives expect to get away with it. They also fit the financial-corporate culture described above. And earnings manipulation is part of (and usually central to) most of the scandals. Some of them used
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understand the crisis that has occurred ("Report" 1). Explanations for the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church of the United States include: psychological disorders‚ societal pressures‚ sociological instability among individual priests‚ and willful ignorance by church hierarchy. The Catholic Church has often been labeled as a harbor for pedophiles. In order to understand the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal a clear and precise definition
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INTRODUCTION Bank of America‚ one of the top financial institutions in the United States of America and Wikileaks‚ described by many as the probably the biggest whistleblower in recent history are in for a colossal battle. Bank of America is on the defensive end as to whether one of its executives lost a hard drive containing information that if and when released could cause the bank to crumble to the ground. On the other hand‚ Wikileaks allegedly has this hard drive in its possession and has
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Fletcher Coffman 9/18/12 PHED 243 Paper #1 On November 11‚ 2011‚ Penn St. head football coach Joe Paterno was fired after 46 seasons with the Nittany Lions. He was fired because according to the Penn St. trustees‚ “he didn’t meet a moral obligation to do more to alert authorities about a child sex abuse allegation against a retired assistant coach” (Armas‚ 2012). Many believe that do to his lack of action‚ he should be held equally responsible for the many sexually offensive crimes committed
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summary “Biggest Scandal in Canadian History”: HRDC Audit Starts Probity War Abstract. This article describes the nearly year-long political and media uproar that followed on the Release in January‚ 2000 of a qualitative or soft “audit” of management control in the federal government department‚ Human Resources Development Canada‚ and analyses the contributing factors. The article argues that the auditors’ examination of project files for programs delivered by grants and contributions was
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Corporate Finance AIG Accounting Scandal Explained December 8th‚ 2012 ________________________________________________________________________________ On February 9th‚ 2006‚ the SEC and the Justice Department settled with AIG for an amount in excess of $1.6B related to alleged improper accounting‚ bid rigging (defined by Investopedia as a scheme in which businesses collude so that a competing business can secure a contract for goods or services at a pre-determined price)‚ and practices involving
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Their will. Our medicines. Together we can prevail. 2006 Annual Report NOPQ Mission Bristol-Myers Squibb’s health care products. integrity of its maker. Our company’s mission is to extend and enhance human life by providing the highest-quality pharmaceutical and related We pledge—to our patients and customers‚ to our employees and partners‚ to our shareholders and neighbors‚ and to the world we serve—to act on our belief that the priceless ingredient of every product is the honor
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