Ethics case study discussions

Read the following case studies and thoroughly answer the questions that follow in at least one paragraph each. Be sure to explain the reasoning behind your answer.

Case Study 1 Dora rents retail space for her business. She installed custom shelving and attached display cases to the building she was renting for her business. Can Dora remove that shelving and those display cases and take them with her at the end of her lease? Would your answer be different if Dora were renting the property for personal use instead of for business use? Give reasons to support your answers.

Case Study 2 Grandpa Shemp died a widower, leaving a valid, uncontested will which stated, “I hereby devise all my real property to my grandsons Larry, Moe, and Curly.” At the time of his death, Grandpa Shemp owned only one parcel of real property, an undeveloped 2-acre parcel of land. Five years after Grandpa Shemp’s death, Moe paid all the expenses of building “Shempland Village,” a large 100-unit apartment complex, on that 2-acre parcel of land. Who owns the “Shempland Village” apartment building? Who has a legal right to rents collected from tenants of “Shempland Village”? If someone is injured at “Shempland Village,” who might be held liable as an owner of the property? Give reasons to support your answers.

Assignment 2

 

Nolan drove to the big concert. He decided to splurge on valet parking to save time. What kind of property is Nolan’s car? What kind of bailment, if any, was created with the parking company? If Nolan’s car is damaged while he is at the concert, to what extent might the parking company be legally liable for that damage?

As Nolan walked by some vendors on the way into the concert, he saw lots of great stuff for sale, including CD recordings of the band’s greatest hits and T-shirts with the band’s name and logo. What kinds of intellectual property rights might the manufacturers of these items have needed to license or purchase, in order to legally produce the CDs and T-shirts? If Nolan buys a copy of a CD, can he legally rip the tracks from the CD and burn copies as holiday gifts for his four best friends?

At intermission, Nolan bought a beverage that was served in a souvenir cup. After the concert, Nolan decided he didn’t want to take the souvenir cup home, so he left it on the floor by his seat. What Nolan did not realize until he got home was that his cell phone had fallen out of his pocket and was also lying on the floor by his concert seat. Another concert goer found the souvenir cup and cell phone on the way out of the building. Could the finder legally keep the souvenir cup? Could the finder legally keep the cell phone?

Give reasons to support your answers and conclusions.

Your assignment should be 1-2 pages,

 

Assignment 3

Revise your code of ethics in light of what you learned from your classmates’ feedback and your instructor’s comments. Please be sure to incorporate your instructor’s corrections or suggestions into your final draft.

Describe two different business situations as case studies to test your code of ethics. These case study situations can be ones that you have faced personally or have heard about, or they can be situations your classmates mentioned in their discussion posts. You can even make up a situation, if you want. Give enough detail about each situation so that you have enough information to work with when you apply your code of ethics to the case study situations, and please choose situations that require you to make decisions that are ethically challenging, or at least, where the right or best decision is not obvious or intuitive.

In each of the case study situations you have described, explain how you would use and apply your code of ethics to help you decide what to do in response to the situation. Give reasons in support of your conclusions.

Your final Code of Ethics submission should be 5-7 pages long, including your description of the business for which you drafted the code, your description of two case study situations, and your evaluation of how well the Code would help someone decide what to do in response to the two case study situations. The case study situations you use to road-test your code of ethics can be ones that you have faced personally or have heard about, or they can be situations your classmates mentioned in their discussion posts. You can even make up a situation, if you want. You should give enough detail about each situation so that you have enough information to work with when you apply your code of ethics to the case study situations, and choose situations that require you to make decisions that are ethically challenging, or at least, where the right or best decision is not obvious or intuitive.

Your discussion post draft and final submission should use proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, and word usage and should give credit to any source you considered, paraphrased or quoted in APA citation format

My Business I would like to open is a Tax service that charges no more then $100 a return and that is including business returns. Personal returns will be no more then $79 dollars. It will be structure a LLC cause and LLC gives a lot more options. An LLC will start as a single member and hopefully grow as the business does. Ethics is very important in the tax business here is an example of my business Code of ethics

1. Employees will always abide by the provisions of the Dept of Treasury’s Cir 230

2. Employees will demonstrate Honesty,Integrity and objectivity in all Business matters

3. Employees will maintain the confidentiality of all client relations and findings

4. Employees will not knowingly misrepresent or omit information when preparing or approving and filing tax returns

5. Customers most respect the Employees right not to prepare a return the Employee feels is against IRS or This companies Code of Ethics.

6. Employees will conduct Due-Diligence on all returns and interviews with customers.