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A Synopsis of the Case Facts Tony Menendez was an auditor with Ernst & Young before he began working for Halliburton as their Director of Technical Accounting Research and Training in March 2005. He was told by his new boss, Mark McCollum, the Chief Accounting Officer, that he was needed to be the “Smokey the Bear” in the accounting team (Eisinger, 2015). They had just gotten over a two-year accounting probe from the SEC shortly before Menendez was hired and he was supposed to do an assessment…

will analyse the structure of IPSO – its Board, funding body and the appointment methods. To begin with, The Sun’s Trevor Kavanagh was a member of the Foundation Board responsible for appointing the panel, which selects the Board members, and Kavanagh is now on the IPSO’s Board (Barnett, 2016). This appointing process is contradictory with Leveson’s recommendations for an open and transparent way of appointing the members of a new regulator. Moreover, The Board itself consist of twelve members.…

Moral Hazard and the Principal-Agent Problem Defined: Moral Hazard can be easily defined as an individual or business will be more likely to take risks because the negative consequences of the risky behavior will be felt by another individual or business (Hill). For example an individual who gets their automobile insured might start speeding or other reckless driving behavior. That same person might let their insurance lapse and will continue to start driving safe once again. However, the…

Section 1: Identification and evaluation of sources My investigation is on the Hong Kong Handover, which is about the transfer of Hong Kong from British rule to Chinese rule. The question I will analyze is “To what extent did Hong Kong retain its original government immediately after the Hong Kong handover in 1996?” The method I will use to answer this question is by researching facts about the government before and after 1997 and analyzing what changed or stayed the same. In this section, I…

of a balance in the interests of stakeholders such as management, shareholders, government and even the community. Board of directors are responsible for the governance of their companies (The Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance 1992). -The shareholders hold the right to appoint directors and auditors and to ensure that a good corporate governance structure is in place. -The board of directors have the responsibility to set up long terms, strategic aims, make provision for resources and…

In this case there is an owner Jay Carlos is faced with a major dilemma. He has opened up a business that house the mental retarded and he learned that he is not prepared to handle the heat that is coming from OSHA. The representative comes to the facility and he thinks that his contacts including his attorney have the power to override the demands of the OSHA representative. In the 1970’s when things started to change he learned that in order to operate that facility he needs to provide state…

He had never heard of most of the board games housed on its shelves. Laurence pulled a particularly aged box from the faded cardboard stack, the game was called: The Exciting Game of Career Girls, and Laurence thought this was a game his mother would have a hard time cheating at. He placed the board game on an adjacent table and began to read the instructions on the box. Many of the words were obscured by time, chipped…

Lockheed Martin’s board of directors is currently comprised of 12 members who come from various backgrounds of business and management experience. The members of the board as listed on Lockheed Martin’s website are Daniel F. Akerson, Nolan D. Archibald, Rosalind G. Brewer, David B. Burritt, Bruce A. Carlson, James O. Ellis, Jr., Thomas J. Falk, Marillyn A. Hewson, Gwendolyn S. King, James M. Loy, Joseph W. Ralston, and Anne Stevens. However, board members change frequently due to ethical…

proved that the focus on the impact of management monitoring. In particularly, factors which are turnover of CEO, Equity-based board of directors (BoDs) compensation, board independence and innovative knowledge assets could have correlation…

wide selection of backgrounds, talents, and perspectives to the table, we have yet to see that advantage fully translate to the boardroom, the pinnacle of power in the corporate world. The problem is that many of the white male members who sit on the boards of the biggest companies in the U.S. do not view diversity as relevant at the organization’s decision-making level. In fact,…