Essays on Bad Faith

(1.) While the streets, courthouses and jails are the areas and locations that are commonly associated with the workings of the criminal justice system; two less recognized but equally relevant locations are the labs, examination rooms and computers of the criminalist and the criminologist. A criminalist, more popularly known as the forensic scientist, is a person that employs science, technology and expertise to identify, examine, and analyze criminal evidence and present their findings to a range of information consumers (Kaci, 1998). For example, a criminalist’s analysis of evidence at a crime scene can assist police officers in determining ...

Corporate Social Responsibilities and Ethics

The concept of (CSRs) means that companies, organizations and/or societies have both societal and ethical responsibilities stretching beyond their existing economic responsibilities (Tuan, 2012). It requires these organizations to elaborate how they understand their responsibilities in efforts to including other stakeholders like customers, employees, local communities, customers, state governments, suppliers, international organizations among others. CSR stresses the need for organizations to behave like good corporate members of the society or citizens, by not only complying with laws and policies but also conducting their activities in ways protect the environment and other resources. Ethics may be seen as the fundamental ...

The issue of online credit card fraud has become one of the major crimes that can easily be committed using the internet. Due to the lack of policies and laws to prevent the crime, the number of victims continuous to increase since most sale transactions can be completed online using the internet. Online credit card fraud poses damage to the public but requires federal legislation to prevent future crimes. There is lack of corrective mechanisms to deter the proliferation of the online credit card fraud to prevent damage to future victims. The article of Segal, Ngugi & Mana (2011) explains ...

About the paper

Embezzlement, funds misappropriation, cheating! - Whatever the method or whatever the name you give it, corporate frauds are rampant and an ugly truth associated with the market around the world. As soon as the news of any such scandal is exposed, newspapers and social media turn aggressive on deciding what went wrong and who did it? Irrespective of the eventual outcome of such scandals, it is the shareholders that suffer the billion dollar losses and a lost faith in the Wall Street. Unfolding such events takes us to the traces of Enron and Wordlcom. However, there were also healthcare ...

Literature Review

Forensic accounting is currently being applied to tackle issues of fraud in the entire world. Various empirical studies have been performed on the use of forensic accounting methods in fraud investigation. For instance, Dube, Njanke and Mashayanye (2009) in their study regarding the effectiveness of forensic auditing in preventing, detecting and investigating bank frauds, wanted to establish the extent to which the forensic auditors can fulfill their mandate using the forensic accounting techniques. Their study used personal interviews, questionnaires and document review as the data collection instruments. Applying a sample of twenty forensic auditors from ten commercial banks, three ...

All humans lie. I do believe that. Can you tell when someone is lying? What do you do when you are lied to? Do liars have different brain structure? Why do we choose to deceive ourselves? The Radiolab broadcast entitled “Deception” addresses each of these questions. The broadcast consists of three sections: Catching Liars, People Who Lie, and Lying to Others. Each section explores deception through interviews with various professionals. In each section, many psychological perspectives can be detected. Although I found each section intriguing, it is the last section that really brought up thought-provoking questions in the area ...

How a Group of Students Sold Enron a year Before the Collapse

The article talks about how some students from Cornell University analyze Enron's stock using both technical and fundamental analysis. At the time, 1998, Enron was a high performing company, however, after taking on a project on financial analysis as part of their course work the students met inconsistencies in the annual report. These discrepancies suggested that something was amiss, and fraud was the likely reason. Cornell University has a live investment fund known as Cayuga fund with $650,000. The funds purchased Enron shares in December 1998 at $27 per share and more in October 1999. This totaled 720 ...

In his meditation, Descartes first admits that there are many opinions that he assumed to be true during his youth. Though he realized that the opinions were false, Descartes postponed meditation on these issues. He, however, believed that at the time of writing this meditation, his mind was free enough to delve into the destruction of these false opinions of the youth. This paper seeks to describe the beliefs that Descartes undermined. In doing so, the paper will critically describe the manner in which Descartes attacks those beliefs. Moreover, the paper will highlight the doubts that Descartes creates so ...

Summary

According to the article by SmartCEO (2014), occupational fraud remains a big issue in today’s business. Occupational fraud generally refers to intentional employee misdemeanor which results in loss of money by a business. In most cases, such frauds go unnoticed and are usually discovered either accidentally or through the actions of a whistleblower. The article suggests that smaller entities are at a higher risk compared to larger ones. Occupational fraud also occurs across all industries and geographic areas. It means that this issue not only affects businesses in a particular industry but all industries in general. Business owners ...

According to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary «to plagiarize» means to use someone else’s words or scientific ideas and present them as one’s own, without providing proper citation and acknowledgment of the original source. It is strictly forbidden to plagiarize, because the person, who plagiarizes another researcher’s work, commits literary theft ("Plagiarize"). Plagiarism is considered to be a fraudulent act, since it involves stealing someone else’s ideas and lying about it ("What is Plagiarism?"). If the original research was recorded in a book, article or any other source, it becomes an intellectual property of the author, which ...

Abstract

Executive Compensation is too high in almost all cases. This level of compensation affects all the levels of the company as there is a great disparity in the level of CEO compensation and the other employees of the company. In some cases employees have been let go because the CEO is the first to receive the large salary. Executive compensation is determined in some cases by the competition. Consultants are used to extrapolate the compensation at various companies and relate it to the other CEO's as an effort to level the playing field. However many times a consultant uses ...

Introduction

Different offenses are usually characterized by different characteristics. These are traits that have been found in most of the investigations of the crimes. In this essay the crimes discussed include sexual assault, murder, terrorism, acquisitive crime and organized crime. It also explains the ethical considerations for psychological interviewers and criminal investigators, the collateral information needed in investigations and offers recommendations to the criminal investigation process. Sexual assault is a type of crime that involves forced sex or non-consensual sex. Sex assault differs from sexual harassment since sexual harassment doesn’t necessary involve having of sex that is, it involves ...

Virtue Ethics

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary interprets the words “truthful” and “truthfulness” as such which “contain, tell, or express the truth” (n.d.). Basically, the word “truth” stands for a situation where something or someone depicts sincerely any unfolding of events free of deception or fraud which cannot be told about Enron’s business. The story states that the first stage of the company’s business engagement involved the energy market and in particular, trading in gas (specifically, it included a commercial chain of purchasing gas from producers and then selling it back to utilities companies) (Healy & Palepu, 2003). In other words, Enron ...

Collectivist and Individualist Cultures

Introduction Cultures are naturally grouped into two: individualist and collectivist. On most of the occasions, cultures differ regarding the importance of individual welfare and group welfare. Societies where personal welfare is cherished nurture members who are more of self-promoting and dependent naturally. In contrast, collective societies highlight the significance of group welfare over the individual desires and needs, thus creating a more inter-dependent society. Because not every individual within a given society will be affected in precisely the same way, each individual claims a cultural personal-identity, which manifests some culturally recognized values. An individual’s cultural identity then offers ...

Introduction:

This paper seek to address the concept of outsourcing information and technological products and services, as a structural business change that will enhance the delivery of quality and tailored insurance products and services to our clientele. This report substantiates the economic benefits of outsourcing information and technological products from India, against the risks involved and the best recommendations that will effectively guide the process.

IT needs in the insurance industry:

Across the insurance industry, there are a number of important IT needs, which include systems maintenance and repair, system development, training, research and development, data engineering and consultancy services, data mining, network management and others ( ...

Change of Business Entity

Introduction Starting a business as a sole proprietor has its advantages and disadvantages and with development, it is normal for entrepreneurs to consider converting to other business types that have better terms. Some of the primary benefits of this sort of business include; the owner has full control of the company operations, can sell or transfer ownership, and does not incur tax whatsoever. Furthermore, the entrepreneurs spend less on acquiring the legal documents as compared to the other types of business. However, entrepreneurs operating in sole proprietorship are held responsible for any business debt or liability unlike the other ...

1. Introduction Undeniably, the heart of the corporate business world is accounting; however, auditing plays an indispensable role in accounting. It serves as the watchdog for all the stakeholders against any malpractices. In a nutshell, auditing serves to protect the interest of the stakeholders. However, the practice is not without some regulations and standards for quality and performance measurement and control. Auditing standards generally form the basis against which audits’ quality are not only performed but also judged. Almost all institution have adopted some forms of auditing standards and principles. A notable feature, however, is that such standards vary ...

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Research Findings. The phenomenal rise and downfall of WorldCom will go down in history as one of the most turbulent times witnessed in corporate America. The issues related to WorldCom, brought to light many ethical dilemmas, which professionals in the Accounting and Internal Audit functions face, in their working life. The internal auditing function is an activity which helps an organization, by improving its operations and achieves that by implementing systematic processes and a disciplined approach to risk management, control and governance. ...

Background

Earnings Management Earnings management could be defined as activities that involve legal and reasonable management the ultimate aim of which is to achieve financial results that are not only predictable but also very much stable. We wouldn’t be wrong if we said that earnings management is the complete opposite of management which involves illegal activities and financial representations which do not reflect the true and accurate economic state of the company. These types of activities are also very commonly phrased as ‘cooking the books’. Earnings management could ultimately turn into a problem with the money making goals set ...

The world of finance and accounting is ever and continuously growing. This is thanks to the solid trend of globalization or the interconnectivity of countries and the number of people who are becoming more financially proficient. In this paper, the author argues why the world needs a universally accepted accounting theory. In the most basic sense, accounting theories are sets of principles or frameworks used to study and explain the application of numerous financial concepts. There are, of course, mainstream and alternative theories of accounting. The importance of accounting theories can be emphasized in the process of financial reporting— ...

INTRODUCTION

There are several advantages of doing an analysis of a business before taking the business online. The first and foremost is to verify that the business is one that is suitable for online sales. A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunity, Threats) analysis will give a good indication of the fit for the products in that market environment.

Advantages versus disadvantages

A SWOT analysis takes time and money to perform. Some entrepreneurs are not capable of doing the analysis on their own so they have to pay for a consultant. If the owner is familiar and does not have the time to dedicate the ...

Interpersonal physical violence (committed against women and children)

Human trafficking and concomitant criminal sexual exploitation of women and children in the XXI century is becoming the fastest growing and highly lucrative activity for transnational organized crime. Statistical data of different sources irrefutably specify on the tendency of increasing human trafficking in many countries of the world. It is necessary, to mark that this crime is not a problem of one state and an issue that has gained an international dimension. The danger of human trafficking is that the buyer gets as a result of the deed of sale full control over the victim and may dispose of ...

Find and explain three advantages and three costs of utilizing websites like Alibaba to export and import.

Benefits “E-commerce, by changing the way companies around the world do business, makes trade easier and cheaper” (Daniels, Radebaugh, & Sullivan, 2013, pp. 560-562). You or goods will be publicized especially rapid through Ali’s engine. No matter that you are ‘Not so great’ in Information Technology, what you do are simply provide your information and images, and then the remainder will be arranged and accomplished through Alibaba. Promptly you will have your website and what more? You and your goods will spontaneously be in the Top World Class Search Engines others search tools links that you still never understand ...

Communication with insureds as well as settlement of cases is considered to be the fundamental duty of an insurer. In actual fact, failure of an insurer of insurance entity to inform insureds or to communicate settlement offers might result into serious harm to the insured. “This duty to communicate most often distills to the insurer timely conveying the plaintiff's settlement offers or demands to the insured. The insurer's fulfillment of its duty to communicate allows the insured to take reasonable steps to protect its interests” (Richmond, 2014, p. 500). For example, an insured or indemnified person that is conusant ...

Introduction

The misappropriation of assets involves the misuse or theft of the organization’s cash or non-cash assets by the fraudulent organizational leaders or employees. On the other hand, financial statement fraud involves deliberately misstating or omitting information in the financial reports of the organization. These economic crimes have numerous undesirable impacts on the businesses. For instance, the companies, which fall victim to asset misappropriation suffer huge losses. Financial statement fraud and asset misappropriation also undermine the integrity, credibility, transparency, and quality of the process of financial reporting (Vlad, Tulvinschi, and Chiriţă 268). As an outside consultant to Hollate Manufacturing, ...

Introduction

The Bernie Madoff scandal was a Ponzi scheme involving Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. The company was a Wall Street investment firm that was founded by Bernie Madoff himself. This scandal is considered the largest Ponzi scheme ever that ended up costing investors $64.8 billion. The main people involved were Bernie Madoff, his accountant David Friehling, and Frank DiPascalli. The three were responsible for paying investors with the investors own money rather than the profits. Madoff ended up telling his sons about the scandal. They reported him to the authorities and Madoff was arrested the next day. Madoff ...

Introduction

The Kudler Fine Food Virtual Organization is comprised of the various department that includes sale, accounting, operation, marketing, finance, and customer service, etc. the paper aims to offer a change proposal for accounting and sale department of Kudler. The objective of this proposal is to convince the top management for the implementation of the change management program in accounting and sale department. Therefore, for the attainment of the objective the paper has been set out into four segments. First identifies the need for change and in result opportunities. The second segment demonstrates the dimensions of change. The third section ...

Internal Controls

The recent journal article under consideration is titled, “Internal Control and Audit Program Effectiveness: Empirical Evidence from Jordan”, by Fawzi Al Sawalqa and Atala Qtish. The authors investigate the association between some elements such as control environment, risk assessment, and control activities of the modern internal control system used in organizations and the effectiveness and accuracy of audit procedures in Jordan. The authors use 43 usable questionnaires to get responses from professional auditors across Jordan. The study results indicate that the risk determination through internationally acceptable procedures does not necessarily mean an effective audit program (Al Sawalqa & Qtish 128). ...

In the modern world, there is an increasing demand for well-organized and motivated teams. People who work in teams are really efficient within the business environment. Usually, good teams are chosen to perform the tasks rather than single individuals, especially in the innovative spheres. Such groups include professionals with different skills who seek to achieve the best general results. Through the team cooperation it is easier to avoid serious mistakes. That is why employers prefer to hire teams for working on some specific projects. Therefore the best teams are more likely to get the jobs, but let us to ...

Introduction

In the recent years, forensic accounting has acquired a great deal of attention from scholars belonging to several countries. Forensic accounting is a specialty in the field of accounting, which involves professional accounting skills for resolving potential civil or criminal litigation, such as lost profit and loss accounts, income statements, assessment of internal controls, assets, fraud and other finance-related transactions (Ozkul & Pamukcu, 2012, p. 23). The word ‘forensic’ refers to any information meant for use in the courts as evidence. Forensic accounting has become a limelight due to an increase in white-collar crimes as law enforcement institutions have failed ...

Online Credit Card Fraud

Importance Online credit card fraud happens when someone steals other’s credit card information to make purchases. The online credit card fraud is important because it is easier to fraud anonymously, or tracking someone over the internet and prosecuting them is complicated and requires technical knowledge. Online credit card fraud can hit anyone who makes their payments online. The problem is greater for digital products as credit card companies refuse to provide much needed protection to the sellers (Brabazon et al., 2007). As credit card transitions are prevalent for global payments, there have been increased cases of online credit ...

What are the main problems of the US Health Care System?

The U.S. government and many organizations in the country are working on the betterment of the healthcare system. Most of the healthcare facilities are owned and run by private sector organizations. The U.S. spends a huge amount on healthcare per capita and on healthcare as percentage of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Baumol and Blinder 467). However, the country is still facing many problems in healthcare system. Lack of health insurance coverage is one of the most important problems faced by healthcare system in the U.S. It has been reported that in 2011, the U.S. healthcare expenditures were about ...

Wilde in his debut performance, “in the importance of Being Earnest” invokes the use of language in representing different language choices and the dramatic techniques. In all these careful language choices and manifestations, Wilde maintains the high level of wit and satire in portraying his protagonist and the antagonist. This is a summary of how Wilde employs the use of language in this work. The first motif, and an apparent language constructs that Wilde applies is the inversion of the gender roles and relationships between his major protagonists. This fact is manifest in an encounter between Jack and Gwendolen, ...

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide a reasonable explanation on the right of the injured party in a commercial contract to file for damages on the breach of contract. The applicable Incoterm contract was also discussed based on the non-delivery of goods as stated in the contract. The article discussed the rights available to the buyer or the seller for the failure on the part of one of the parties to the commercial contract to fulfill their obligations that were previously agreed upon. The valid grounds that will allow the parties to recover for damages were also ...

Development of sciences, broad distribution of scientific methods make academics mediate about research ethics. The ethic problematics gains a special acuteness and popularity with the rapid growth of the qualitative research methods. Researching various sensitive topics in the scientific world, the ethical divisiveness quite clearly manifests itself with multiple methodological decisions. Ethics (from Greek “etika”) is a philosophical discipline learning morale and virtues. In the sphere of modern scientific activity, ethics deals with peculiarities of moral relations inside the scientific community, determining codes of conduct, norms and rules. Social sciences worldwide accumulated substantial experience in dealing with this problem. ...

Organizational Culture

Introduction Over the years, culture has shaped human existence as well as all the other aspects of human life. Culture can be defined as the set of moral values, beliefs and understanding that is mutually understood by the members of an organization. As such, organization culture relates to what members of an organization share in common. An organization culture can be revealed easily by observing what members of an organization wear to work, the time they report and leave work, behavior at work, what they talk about and even how the office space is divided among many other aspects ( ...

Impact of Data analytics over the Banking Industry (global)

Answer. Data analytics can be defined as a scientific process for scrutiny of raw data to gather conclusive patterns and reports with respect to the desired contexts. The use of data analytics in business owes its origin to the need of analyzing collected data by business for finding patterns, trends, correlations and cause interpretation regarding business practices. The primary challenge of data analytics comes in terms of the speed, variety, and size of data gathered by business and required analytical tools for facilitating decision making on the basis of such analytics. Hence, we can say that along with the ...

ANALYSIS OF SPORT SPONSORSHIP AND EVENTS

Analysis of Sport Sponsorship and Events Introduction In this world driven by globalisation, there are various ways through which people can release their stress originating from over-burdened personal and professional endeavours. One of such ways concerns sport that is included in the entertainment industry. This is because though majority of people no longer indulge in sports due to their bust schedules and work load. Therefore, sport business and events have emerged as an entertainment to these as something to talk and gossip about. Apart from this, as much of the audience attention is given to sports organisation, teams, players ...

Introduction

It was in 1993 when dozens of girls in Chihuahua, Mexico were murdered and dumped around the city to be left out as if they were garbage (Wright, 2011, p.707). The number of murders grew over the years, as police officers proved unable to control and find the perpetrators, until the protesters had become the activists. The town became a place of femicide, and currently, it has become a place of Narcopolitics. In this area, the connection between drugs and the dynamics of power appeared to be relentless. This took place even during the opium trade when Western imperialism ...

Ethical and legal issues are among the most important elements to consider in designing marketing communication strategies. In many instances, the success or failure of marketing communication strategies is largely influenced by ethical and legal issues that may arise. There are many ethical and legal issues that need to be considered when designing marketing communication strategies. Since marketing communication pertains to promoting products primarily through advertisements, marketing professionals should avoid exaggerated or misleading statements about their products. Many pharmaceutical companies who engage in direct-to-consumer marketing approach, for instance, are guilty of misleading consumers into buying their drugs without revealing ...

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Becoming an attorney was never a professional path that I considered as a young girl growing up in Armenia. I spent the first 17 years of my life in a beautiful and ethereal Eurasian country that has the distinction of possessing a rich and diverse cultural history that predates to ancient times. In 2010, my family and I made the difficult transition of immigrating to the United States (U.S.). Suddenly, I was an Armenian teenager living in the fast-paced and cosmopolitan New York City, quite ...

It has been close to two years since Malaysian Boeing MH17 being downed over the disputed territory of eastern Ukraine. In the early hours and days of the tragedy, the media of most world countries, whether print, online, or television, seemed to be trying nothing else other than to cover the continuous story. While journalists are not tripping over each other in a bid to publish the sensational materials presently, the interest in the story has not ceased completely, neither has the investigation that is still to name the guilty party. Until it has, media will continue their coverage ...

Still archrivals, the USA and Russia have not only the different perception of the political world making for their incompatibility, but also quite different political cultures. Liberty-wise, the USA is an oasis of human rights and liberties while, in Russia, people are sometimes not even at liberty to leave the country for a holiday. The USA scores much higher on the index of equal money-earning and political opportunities. Russia tops the USA with regard to corruption and the lack of the rule of law, the latter being important in the west. Beyond that, the USA is a resident’ centric, ...

Netsky and Sasser Worms

The earlier versions of the Windows operating contained several network-based vulnerabilities. On many occasions in the 2000s malicious scripting programs commonly known as worms exploited these vulnerabilities. The most prolific of these worms were Netsky and Sasser Worms. Although these worms were differently functioned, their basic structure was the same. Evidently, both worms shared the same creator in Sven Jaschan. The Netsky worm’s distribution depended on email communications. It was an attachment will be active if opened. Once opened, it would search all the email addresses and dispatch copies of itself to all the addresses. The damage was ...

The genre of dark comedy is a fascinating subset of the standard comedy film, combining elements of drama and dark subject matter with comedic elements of the absurd and ironic to create unique works that poke fun not only at the foibles of mankind, but the inherent silliness of extremely serious things. Dark comedy can take many forms, and both American and English sensibilities in particular have their own attitudes and characteristics in their own examples. Two of the most well-regarded dark comedy films of recent years are 1996’s Fargo (directed by the Brothers Coen) and 2008’s ...

Voting Machines

An election is the primary means by which the voters give their mandate towards the formation of a government as a whole. In this sense elections are the means of communication between the government and the people who are governed. An election allows the citizens of a nation to be represented inside the political institutions. In democratic societies the citizens have their constitutional right to vote. In democratic systems the voting is a fundamental right of the citizens, and the right to vote symbolizes the expression of sovereignty of the people in the management of the public affairs. An ...

Historically, the church held considerable power over believers and the country as a whole, a fact that automatically bestowed a status of sainthood to religious leaders. The renowned Enlightenment era questioned the foundations of the church’s reasoning and even its power over the people. With that in mind, the portrayal of the theme of religion in Moliere’s “Tartuffe” ought to explain the banning of the play immediately after its first presentation. While some thought the play mocked religious beliefs, Moliere evidently attacked the roots of tradition as she shows the absurdity of refusing common sense in favor ...

The issue of digital crimes and terrorism has been on the increase as a result of technological advancement. A number of forecasts on digital crime and terrorism have been made. These forecasts include:

The issue of espionage will continue to widen into arenas of economics, information warfare, and intellectual property theft.

The use of networking by terrorist to accomplish their missions will continue to increase. Uses of technological-based instruments to surreptitiously get information, or destroy information and technological communications by criminals and terrorists and also by anarchists and patriots will continue to increase rapidly.

Computers will increasingly be used by entrepreneurial crime groups as their criminal instrument

Computer hackers will continue to emerge around the world, thus increasing the risks of malicious attacks. Virtual crimes against people will increase rapidly ...

What is management override?

 Management override is typically used in internal controls. It is, therefore, referred to as the potentiality of an organization’s management to control accounting records. A governance body also can effectively monitor and manage accounting reports. Management override is also used in fraud prevention. Furthermore, it is the responsibility of an organization’s management to establish fraud-related financial statements. 

What is earnings management

Earnings management is an accounting technique. As a technique, it is typically used to aid in the production of financial statements considered ideal to a business. That is, the statements are supposed to ...

Instrumentation for the Detection of Deception

Instrumentation for the Detection of Deception Specialists in the area of criminal law often face many challenges related to human factor. Deception is one of such challenges that hinder the process of solving the case. For this reason, certain techniques and instrumentation for the detection of deception were developed. Polygraph is probably the most known instrument created for such purposes. However, even the polygraph does not give the results of 100% accuracy. The test on polygraph is based on the physical reactions of an individual to one or another question that may indicate whether this individual is lying ...

Virtue Theory

As a human being like Bernard Madoff, he is a businessperson with immoral business conduct. His immoral business conduct is a result of his defective character. He desired for power, fame, money, and abundant lifestyle. All his ambition became a vanity that created a trap and nothing left for him is the difficulty to break free. Moral philosophers categorized his character as vices. Vices are the perfect opposite of virtues. Vices are bad habits of character with its ...

Ashford University

In the analysis of personal organizational ethics, it is important to consider the identification of the key problems that relates to the business ethics of the organization. With these two organizations, the Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc and Jollibee Foods Corporation, both have its key problems. The key problems are the core targets to evaluate the stands of the organizations, how they responded to the problems legally, socially, and politically. Consequently, from the individual responses of the organizations on legal, social, and political perspectives, ethnographic researchers can provide reflections and criticisms of their actions based on the ...

There are different levels of inherent risk in the different business process in Helecom. Inherent risk that could be caused as a result of the organizations’ management structure are low. The structure is well defined with the normal managerial positions of a telecommunications company. No added questionable positions that could be a means of carrying out fraudulent activities are added upon the organizational structure. The possibility of inherent risk is average when it comes to the financial analysis. The financial statements have been prepared according to the normal accounting standards and there is a good chance they were done by a professional. This further ...

ABSTRACT

Frederick Douglass was a great man and truly brilliant public speaker, who spent his life working to abolish slavery and guarantee equal citizenship rights for blacks. He did not make a moral argument for nonviolence although he strongly denounced the United States for betraying its own principles of liberty and democracy for all. In his rhetorical situation, he was addressing white audiences that he hoped would be sympathetic to their cause, and had strong criticism for white Christians who had often been indifferent to the situation of blacks and failed to live up to the highest principles of their faith. ...

Amidst controversies on the use of electronic voting machines, the 2012 Presidential Elections pushed through with reports of computer glitches occurring in several voting precincts across the United States, raising alarm as citizens lined up to cast their votes. One such occurrence happened in Pennsylvania where the voter reported about a faulty voting machine that highlighted Romney's name when selecting Obama's name (Jauregui). Although the malfunctioning voting machine was immediately fixed, residents recall Gov. Tom Corbett's comment that although Obama leads by almost five points in state polls, "[Pennsylvania's] electoral votes would go to Romney" (qtd. in Jauregui). Similar happenings ...

What is Card Not Present fraud? This is a kind of fraud that involves the unauthorized use of a debit or credit card details to perform a transaction in a non face-to-face setting. This unauthorised activities are usually done without the knowledge of the actual owner of the card. Today, majority of the CNP fraud occurs via the internet while a few occur via call centers operations and through mail. The fact that the merchant doesn’t have the opportunity to inspect the credit or card physically is the reason while it is named “card not present”. Who bears the risk of loss ...

White collar crimes are unethical or illegal acts that infringe public trust or the fiduciary relationship that exists between members of public and organizations or individuals in organizations for the benefit of the organizational or personal gain. Ponzi schemes are white collar crimes because they are often committed by people within organizations or people who create organizations with the aim of committing financial fraud.

A Ponzi scheme is a fraud relating to investment where investment organizers make payments of alleged returns to current investors from funds that new investors contribute. The investment organizers usually attract new investors by undertaking ...

Introduction

This chapter gives an analysis of the results of the study to derive insights on why insider threats remains to be one of the leading and challenging security issues to deal with. The results of the study present a vague picture of what motivates insider threats in private organizations. The questions of why, what and how will be answered with references to the data obtained from the study. This section also demonstrates the actions taken by organizations and tries to link it with theoretical frameworks and pool of knowledge developed by earlier scholars.

Analysis

The belief that insider threats ...

Introduction

Physicians, health care centers; other health providers conduct their businesses of medicine provisions in a more efficient, and effective manner through engaging and managing their businesses and health care data documents to inform them of everything they do. When health care businesses engage their business using the information, technology they make their business operation more efficient and effective. Through use of health care It solutions, the health care providers make their health provisions quality. The results of using IT solutions in health care include improvement access to patient health care data. The data concerning patients such as their personal history ...

Introduction

The importance of the legal environment in business is not only paramount to functioning as a watchdog for unethical, and harmful behavior by big corporations and governmental figures today, but also serves as setting the climate to reduce or deter felonious operational practices. In other words, persons in positions which gives them easy access to abuse funds, lie in accounting records, or devise fraud schemes involving illegal acts, laws help accomplish order and administer proper conduct. Everyone remembers the insalubrious case of the Enron Corporation. This case involved gross ...