No. 2005–57 ROYAL AHOLD: A FAILURE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND AN ACCOUNTING SCANDAL By Abe de Jong‚ Douglas V. DeJong‚ Gerard Mertens‚ Peter Roosenboom March 2005 ISSN 0924-7815 Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance and an Accounting Scandal Abe de Jong* Department of Financial Management Erasmus University Rotterdam a.jong@fbk.eur.nl Douglas V. DeJong Tippie College of Business University of Iowa douglas-dejong@uiowa.edu Gerard Mertens Department of Financial Management Erasmus
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Deontology and the Categorical Imperative Applied to the Adelphia Communications Scandal In July of 2002‚ five officials of the Adelphia cable-television company were arrested on the charge of gross corporate fraud conducted by members of the Rigas family. The events which transpired during the Adelphia scandal were some of the most egregious to date with an estimated "$100 million‚ hiding more than $2 billion in debt the family incured‚ and lying to the public about Adelphia ’s operations and
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Ashe 1 ENG 130 11 February 2013 Another Political Scandal? Hmmm? Set entirely in North Carolina’s fourteenth congressional district‚ incumbent Congressman Cam Brady fends off a challenge from an odd‚ unordinary‚ and peculiar citizen named Marty Higgins in Jay Roach’s The Campaign. This film serves one purpose: to show the obvious problems political action committees (PAC’s) pose when they are allowed to permeate in a campaign. Congressman Cam Brady played by the notoriously humorous Will
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Ms. Hardgrove Financial Accounting 5 November 2013 Xerox’s Accounting Scandal Xerox Corporation is a multinational American document management corporation which sells and produces a wide variety of color and black-and-white printers‚ multifunction systems‚ photo copiers‚ scanners‚ fax‚ digital production printing presses‚ and related consulting services and supplies. Overall any type of printing equipment‚ more specifically office equipment. It is currently headquartered in Norwalk‚ Connecticut
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Introduction The Adelphia Communications scandal occurred in March‚ 2002 when three of the original founding family members which included the father John Rigas‚ and two of his sons Michael and Timothy‚ along with two other company executives were arrested for improperly taking assets from the nation’s sixth-largest cable television company. The scam involved one of the biggest financial frauds faced by a publically held company. In the end stakeholders were forced to absorb massive losses as
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POLITICAL SCIENCE WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT (POLS201): THE SCANDAL OF THE XENOPHOBIA WANDILE SIHLE NZIMAKWE: 211546206 XENOPHOBIA AS WELL KNOWN OF ITS NOTORIOUS AND BRUTALITY BASED ON HATE THAT NATIVES OF A COUNTRY HAS ABOUT THE FOREIGNERS NOT ONLY AFFECTS THE VICTIMS‚ BUT NATIVE CONTRY AND ITS CITIZENZ AS WELL. 2012 Wandile S. Nzimakwe UKZN 10/17/2012 POLITICAL SCIENCE WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT (POLS201): THE SCANDAL OF THE XENOPHOBIA WANDILE SIHLE NZIMAKWE: 211546206 XENOPHOBIA AS WELL KNOWN OF
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reading through this section one situation that came to mind was all the issues at Penn State with Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky was convicted of multiple charges of sexual abuse during his time at the University and despite the University knowing that the scandal was going to take a turn for the worst‚ the decision was to stay quiet about it. The University stayed quiet for about eight months until they finally sought out help to get them out of the mess that was created by staying quiet. If anything a simple
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The Penn State Scandal impacted many areas of the organization. From the managers not doing their part to protect those who were being abused. As a manager if an incident is reported to you it is your responsibility to make sure that the proper authority is notified‚ or you should at least investigate for yourself to make sure that the information that is given to you is creditable. In the case of an eyewitness account as with McQueary he did the right thing by reporting what he saw to coach Paterno
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Parmalat Accounting Scandal Summary After eluding financial analysts and investors for a long time‚ Parmalat went bankrupt later in December‚ 2003 and many of their board of directors have been arrested since then. Here is a brief summary of the events: In the late 1980’s‚ Parmalat’s financial situation was poor due to investment in side businesses. i.e. TV network‚ Parmatur‚ football teams (Palmeiras‚ Parma‚ etc). Cash siphoning through these companies was estimated to be
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The 2G spectrum scandal involved officials in the government of India illegally undercharging mobile telephony companies for frequency allocation licenses‚ which they would use to create 2G subscriptions for cell phones. The shortfall between the money collected and the money which the law mandated to be collected is 1‚76‚379 crore (1.763 trillion) rupees (roughly equivalent to 39 billion US dollars). The issuing of licenses occurred in 2008‚ but the scam came to public notice when the Indian Income
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