Collaborate with your team before beginning this assignment. Determine who is best-suited to address each criteria of this assignment. Assume you are a senior partner in an accounting firm and you are asked to prepare a presentation for a group of new recruits. Create an 12- to 15-slide presentation that includes detailed speaker notes discussing each slide that does…
Write a response to each of the following questions between 260 to 350 words from Ethics in Accounting: A Decision-Making Approach. · Chapter 14, Exercise 19 · Chapter 14, Exercise 20 Cite your research from the text and any additional professional or regulatory guidance and format your response consistent with APA guidelines.
Discuss and debate amongst your classmates the following: · The history and reason for passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). · An evaluation and defense(or critique) of the efficacy of SOX. · How SOX has impacted: o Public companies o Managers and officers of public companies o Auditors of public companies o Tax practitioners o Nonprofit and privately…
Write a 350- to 700-word paper that: · Identifies a famous (or not so famous) whistleblower. · Describes the situations surrounding the whistleblower. · Describes the issue(s) that motivated the whistleblower to act. · Assesses the personal attributes that the whistleblower needed to possess in order to take action. · Explains what ultimately happened to the whistleblower…
Resources: This week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. Conduct additional research, and then answer each question in two 350- to 700-word responses: Penn Square Bank: What were the ethical pressures on the firm concerning documentation, credit extension, and revenue recognition that lead to the final collapse? What should have been done to reduce or offset these pressures?…
Your firm must establish internal policies regarding the creation of business contracts as well as electronic communications (e-mail) including document retention. Draft the internal policies as a team. The policies should be clear and include a set of procedures.
As a CPA you are in charge of a small tax advisory firm providing services to individual taxpayers, a substantial group of whom is high-wealth. Your firm is experiencing new pressures from the changing marketplace. New, non-CPA market competitors and competition from do-it-yourself tax-preparation software packages have had a negative effect on your bottom line….
Purpose This assignment is to help you gain insight regarding the influence of genetics on an individual’s health and risk for disease. You are to obtain a family genetic history on a willing, nonrelated, adult participant. Course Outcomes This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: CO #3: Utilize effective communication when…
This week’s readings focus on cultural ethics and the issue of cultural diversity in the workplace. Imagine you and your Learning Team members are a part of an organization considering diversity training. Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which you assert the importance of cultural diversity training as it relates to the…
Using Ethics for Life as your source, Please include intro, conclusion and site all ref’s Write a 500- to 750-word essay in which you respond to the following: • Choose three American moral values and explain whether or not you think these moral values are universal or uniquely American. • How are these moral values…
Using Ethics for Life as your source, explain both the connections and differences between religion and morality. Consider the following in your assignment: • Where do the two intersect and how? • How can they be separate from one another? • Why is an understanding of both the intersections and differences important in studying ethics?…
Legal and ethical issues can arise in any organization. How might these issues be different? What sort of relationship exists between the two? Provide an example of each from current events. What might the organizations involved have done differently to prevent these legal and ethical issues?