WorldCom was the second largest telecommunications corporation in the United States. After thriving in a multi-million dollar business they were forced to close their doors. The reason were practices unethical and fraudulent activities which lead to exposing the business. WorldCom was one of the largest accounting fraud scandals in corporate history. WorldCom had to file for bankruptcy after the organization admitted to accounting fraud. How this came up was a long and drawn out investigation
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United Thermostatic Controls ETH 376 June 25‚ 2012 Susan Paris United Thermostatic Controls This paper will show the legality of the activities that happened within United Thermostatic Controls based on federal‚ state‚ and local laws. As this case is examined the Sarbanes-Oxley act will be discussed as it played a role in this case because United is a publicly owned company. Also this paper will show the ethicality‚ if the activities were equitable to internal and external stakeholders
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Due Date: Day 4 [Main] forum • Read the four scenarios under “Getting Started‚” on page 311 in Business and Administrative Communication (7th ed.). • Choose one of the four scenarios. • Post your response to this question: Identify one or more ways that the cultural differences in the scenario you choose may be leading to miscommunication. How would you resolve these differences? Getting Started 11.1 Identifying Sources of Miscommunication In each of the following situations‚ identify
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convey any issue that come up‚ such as scams‚ mistakes‚ and unlawful activities‚ without being provided with a chance of internal control auditing for this time. Green and associates are not able to use correct auditing methods. Ethical Issues ABC declined to have Green to audit of internal controls. However‚ the CFO thinks the current internal control auditors are adequately strong‚ authorization from a professional will increase dependability of internal control too much. Also leads to improving
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This document contains ETH 376 Week 4 Individual Assignment Legality and Ethicality of Corporate Governance General Questions - General General Questions Resource: Case 3-3‚ United Thermostatic Controls in Ch. 3 of Ethical Obligations and Decision Making in Accounting Determine the legality of the activities based on federal‚ state‚ and local laws. Determine the criteria by which Sarbanes-Oxley would apply to this case. Determine the ethicality of the activities. Consider
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Legality and Ethicality of Corporate Governance The United Thermostatic Controls Company is a publicly owned company that manufactures and markets residential and commercial thermostats. As a publicly owned corporation‚ United Thermostatic Controls mutual stocks be listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Frank Campbell is the director of the Southern sales division; however the Southern sales regional economics getting worse‚ the pressure to achieve sales revenue targets has created
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Religious and Ethnic Discrimination Religious Group: Buddhism Buddhists are different from most other religions and many ways‚ but one difference stands out above the others. Buddhism does not worship a specific god. Many people argue that Buddhism is more a philosophy than a religion. The main objective of Buddhist followers is enlightenment and/or liberation from Samsara (the wheel of life) instead of going to a heaven (Eng‚ 2013). The Dalai Lama‚ the leader of the Buddhist religion
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University of Phoenix Material Appendix E Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Racial formation |The process by which social‚ economic and political forces determine the content and importance of | | |racial categories‚ and by which they are in turn shaped by racial meanings. | |Segregation
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Work Related Project Analysis‚ Part III Montarius White BSA/376 3/02/2015 Deborah Marshall Abstract The health care system is full of growth and change. Health care managers have become a lot more involved with project management. I think that part of the growth development in the health care business has to do with creating brand new medical patients‚ patient databases for health charts and technological enhances and this paper involves the six activities: coding‚ testing‚ installation‚ documentation
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Chapter 5 Case -- Stem Corporation (A)* On December 31‚ 2006‚ before the yearly financial statements were prepared‚ the controller of the Stem Corporation reviewed certain transactions that affected accounts receivable and the allowance for doubtful accounts. The controller first examined the December 31‚ 2005‚ balance sheet (Exhibit 1). A subsequent review of the year’s transactions applicable to accounts receivable revealed the items listed below: 1. Sales on account during 2006 amounted to $9
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