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Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

The Board of Directors of the company is one of the two organs of the company that is charged with running of the affairs of the company. The other organ is the General Meeting. This paper will constrict its discussion to the roles played by the Board members. Towards the end of the discussion, the paper will advance the argument that the roles played by the board members of the company are likely have changed dramatically due to the enactment of the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. The paper ...

Issue: Criminal Accountability of UN Officials on mission

Position: Head Chair/Co-Chair
Introduction
The criminal accountability of the UN Officials on mission is one of the legal issues, which has been debated through the Legal Committee for numerous years. The legal gaps make it difficult for the UN to hold personnel accountable for crimes committed in the missions under its jurisdiction. The UN personnel are being currently accountable only to their countries and their legislation or being protected by the international legal statute of immunity. The lack of accountability makes the whole organization less credible and reliable. With two different groups of UN personnel the troop contributing countries ...

The public company accounting oversight board (PCAOB) is a non-profit making corporation. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act led to the creation of the board in 2002. The aim of the formation of the board was to provide guidelines on how auditing of public companies should be carried out. Its purpose was to protect the shareholders and investor’s interest. Public companies practice stewardship accounting. In stewardship accounting, the shareholders provide resources to an organization. The management of the public company should invest in projects that are going to maximize on shareholders’ wealth. Shareholder’s wealth is the product of the number of ...

easyJet Plc’s Governance Disclosures: A Critical Evaluation
1. Introduction
The concept of corporate governance has gained considerable significance since the collapse of a series of corporate giants including banks worldwide followed by the global financial crisis 2008-09. The global financial crisis led to huge financial losses and massive job cuts across the globe, particularly in United States and United Kingdom. Official investigations following the crisis revealed that accounting fraud and other top management malpractices contributed notably to high-profile corporate scandals. In response to these reports, the UK government designed and enacted the UK Corporate Governance Code that specifies ...

List of Tables

List of Figures
Figure 1: Product Breakdown Structure for SST BI Phase I 9
Figure 2: Deliverables Typically Produced for Each PMBOK Knowledge Areas 12
Figure 3: Summary Gantt Chart for SST BI Phase 1 18

SCOPE MANAGEMENT

This section gives a high level description of the scope covered by this project. The items that are in scope have been allocated to either BPC or to SST.

STRATEGY

For the SST BI Phase I project, SST will outsource certain aspects of the development to Business Process consulting. These are mentioned in the scope definitions section of this document. BPC will work independently ...

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT IN UK, SOUTH AFRICA, AND MEXICO

Business environment in UK, South Africa, and Mexico
Introduction
The purpose of this report is to analyze the business environment in South Africa and Mexico to help Gem Leathers Limited in establishing a joint venture. Also, the report will examine the issues of trademarks, trade secrets and patents in the U.K, Mexico, and South Africa.

Financial incentives
Mexico offers numerous incentives in various sectors with an aim of creating employment, improving infrastructure, enhancing productivity, and boosting exports. The Maquiladora is the most significant incentive that is offered to foreign companies in Mexico. The benefits of Maquiladora incentive include duty-free ...

Introduction.

Columbus Day celebration is an affront to the Native Americans as this is inconsiderate of what transpired after Columbus arrived in the country. The continued explorations and colonization’s of these individuals is a primary oversight for the native people. Parallel celebrations by cities that recognize the Native Americans have been instrumental in ensuring that the importance and periods of colonization that the individuals were subjected to be not overlooked (More Cities Are Recognizing Native Americans on Columbus Day 1). Native Americans need to be honored and remembered for the acts to which they were subjected to due to ...

History

Food for the Poor is an interdenominational, Christian charity whose core undertaking is to provide food, medicine, and shelter among other services to poor people living in the Caribbean as well as Latin America regions. Food for the Poor is among one of the largest international relief non-profit organizations in the United States. The company was started in the early months of 1982 by Ferdinand Mahfood with the purpose of strictly aiding the poor who were living in Latin America as well as the Caribbean (Dear 1). Soon after, clergy members drawn from many Christian churches and denominations joined ...

Amazon.com Inc.

Description

Amazon.com Inc. is a worldwide online retailer company that has an international presence. It was started in 1994 in the state of Washington and later reincorporated in Delaware in 1996. The operations of Amazon are premised on retail through online orders and follow up by physical deliveries for goods and online service delivery for services transferable online. Amazon.com Inc. specializes in four broad categories of consumers; retail consumers, sellers, content creators and enterprises. The company has a number of services aimed at diversifying their investment through an expansive portfolio. Other than retail sales, revenue generating sources include marketing and ...

PPP Contracting options

PPP, an acronym for public-private partnership, describes a venture that is financed and operated via a partnership between the government and a company in the private sector. In the contractual agreement, the private entity offers a public service and assumes a significant technical, financial and operational risk. For a contractual agreement between the government and the private entity, the following options are available.

1. Design-Bid-Build: - Firstly, an engineering design firm is contracted to establish guidelines on the required materials, equipment and the potential costs to complete the project. The private sector is then invited to bid on the provided specifications with the winning contractor ...

Table of contents
1. Outline
2. Introduction
3. Recent issue facing corporate governance
4. Relationship between corporate governance and business ethics
5. Review on ASX Corporate Governance Council’s “Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations”. The key principles that focus on ethics
6. Summary.

In many large and well established businesses and enterprises, corporate governance is a common term used when in any conversation or explanation that may include the company’s operation and governance. The term corporate governance refers to a wide aspect the processes, law, or rules by which a business is regulated, controlled, and ...