Corporate crime

Lowering the Voting Age Does the legal age for voting at 18 really matter? This has been an ongoing topic for a long time but especially during these last few years. Politicians go back and forth trying to figure out what is best for the United States of America. Although many argue the topic there is many reasons why sixteen year olds should be allowed vote. In our country today, the government is letting teens drive and that is basically a pathway to death for them and everybody else on the…

I will be conducing a leverage-debt ratio. A leverage debt ratio is used to measure the degree to which a firm relies on borrowed funds in its day to day operations. Conclusively, a firm that takes too much debt could experience problems repaying lenders or meeting their promises to shareholders. The ratio measures to what extent the company is financed by borrowed funds that must be repaid. Per the financial statement of Canadian Tire, specifically the balance sheet Canadian Tire’s total…

As a pastor, my father has fairly complex taxes. Since he lives in a parsonage, he doesn’t rent nor own a house, he is considered by the IRS ‘self-employed’, and has an odd system of taxes. Considering his tax layout, I thought he would be an interesting interviewee for this assignment. Throughout the interview, it was clear he would prefer if the government would limit its spending, and pay it more directly to better causes. The first question was, “What percent of your total income do you pay…

How Tax Shelters Work kw: tax shelters Meta: You know that tax shelters are used to hide wealth, but that is about it. Find out how tax shelters work. Tax shelters are technically any kind of legal strategy that someone uses to limit the amount of taxes that someone owes. While many people think that a tax shelter is illegal, this is not always the case. You do not have to resort to breaking the law tax deductions or credits. Legally, there are a number of ways that you can shelter your…

He assists clients with election law, campaign finance, pay-to-play and PAC issues. He educates corporate executives and lobbyists the rules regarding Federal Election Campaign Act, the Lobbying Disclosure Act, the Ethics in Government Act, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s pay-to-play laws. Parks's goal…

Ohio laws from 1967 and 1974 were used to defend their cases in court. The laws state that giving away trade secrets is a crime and that employees could not give away important information without the employer’s permission. While these laws do protect trade secrets and such, it was found that reporters were protected by the First Amendment. Ohio courts found P&G’s complaints…

1. Poison pills Poison pills, first introduced in the mid -1980s, are the most effective takeover defense and thus warrant the most discussion. Poison pills are rights or securities that a firm issues to its shareholders, giving them valuable benefits in the event that a significant number of its shares are acquired. There are many varieties of poison pills, but all share the basic attribute that they involve a transfer from a bidder to shareholders who do not tender their shares, thereby…

The Marines and SEALs had successfully cleared the Aviation museum which allowed Captain O’Hara, Commander McDonald and the engineers in. The women that were found on the premise were being relocated to Oceana NAS for processing and relocation. Corporal Higgins was being sent back to Oceana by Captain Luxon with his wife and child. Captain Luxon was a firm believer in taking care of the family first, if his Marines knew their families were safe and taken care of they were far more likely to…

In 2002, Congress signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in response to several notorious corporate scandals, including those at Enron/Worldcom. The piece of legislation was aimed to hold corporate officers personally liable and to rebuild public confidence in the corporate sector. SOX, “requires violations of securities laws or breaches of fiduciary responsibility to be reported to either the chief legal officer or CEO of the company by-house attorneys or outside counsel (Reed, & Bogardus, 2015)…

“In Australia it is still impossible to discern any broad principle of company law indicating the circumstances in which a court should lift the corporate veil”.15 As illustrated, it can be quite difficult to list the cases in which the corporate veil will be pireced.16 Herron CJ contends that authorities in which the corporate veil has been pierced have not been of such consistency that any principle can be adduced. 17 Rogers AJA also takes a similar view, arguing that there is no unifying…