Corporate finance

I always believed that interviews were only connected with the attempt to gain a position. Never have I heard of an interview taking place for any other reason. However, after completing my first informational interview, I learned there is much more to gain: connections, knowledge, and perspective. I was able to conduct my informational interview with Matt Smith, Lead Tax Services Director at Deloitte in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In reference to “Informational Interview” created by Eric Brown, my…

Due to its unethical actions by creating thousands of fake accounts, Wells Fargo was fined $185 million in penalties. “Federal and state investigators found that the bank boosted its sales figures by secretly opening the accounts — then funding them by transferring money from customers' authorized accounts without their knowledge or permission.” (McCoy, 2017) Moreover, an independent review of the organization was conducted in August, 2016, “which examined more than 165 million retail banking…

This department is ever vigilant in keeping current with the regulations and guidelines for keeping track of the money coming in and going out of the district as well as how that money is spent. The director of finance is required to meet with the state department regularly in order to stay current on financial compliance laws. The director also attends regional trainings regularly in order to make sure that the district is maintaining compliance with state and…

My educational goals are to graduate with a double majoring in Finance and Information Decisions Science. I plan to graduate with both majors as well as a few minors. My plan is to graduate with two – to - four minors which are; Entrepreneurship, Business Analytics, Business Operations, and Management Information Systems (MIS). I chose to double major because I have always had a love and interest in both the stock market and computer programing. As a child, my parents owned multiple buildings in…

Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Section 301: Public Company Audit Committees, is created to address systemic and structural weaknesses that affecting the US capital markets due to failures of audit effectiveness and corporate financial responsibility that could potentially “threatened the reputation of those markets for integrity (Tsacoumis, S, Bess, S, and Sappington, A, 2003).” Section 301 provided appropriate regulatory authority of the audit committee the power to overseeing the accounting and…

Over one million people required the protection of bankruptcy law in 2008. With economic conditions still deteriorating well over one million are expected seek bankruptcy protection this year. Bankruptcy is designed to decrease and in some cases even eliminate the burden of debt and to provide property protection from creditors. Pro Se - Self Filing If bankruptcy is seriously being considered then one of the most important decisions to make is whether to hire a personal bankruptcy attorney.…

The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research is a private operating foundation. It was founded in 1941 with two million US dollars in Electrolux and Servell stock with an original mission to promote “research, educational, technical and scientific work.” However, it rapidly became clear that the endowment was too small to compete with major foundations such as Ford or Rockefeller and its focus shifted to the then nascent field of anthropology. The founders’ original justification…

Acting as the judge in this case, we could not have possibly ruled in the favor of Check Investor’s. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), which Indiana uses in their own law, was created for a reason. That reason being to protect debtors from abusive collecting practices performed by debt collectors. Just because Check Investor’s found a thought-provoking and ingenious loophole in the code, our judicial system is set up in a way to fend off loopholes that infringe on the overall…

Although the defined-contribution gives more flexibility to the manager to manipulate the expense and liability, it requires lots of long-term complex assumptions and it raises concern that the annual pension expense is not the same as the annual pension funding contribution. For instance, CAM has doubled the pension plan within a year. This raised doubts from the employees on whether or not CAM has an ability to meet the commitment, as well as, it negatively affected the solvency of the entity…

Expanding quantities of two-wage family units is a monetary pattern in the United States. People put a premium on time. Enhanced client benefit, prompt accessibility, inconvenience free operation of items, and reliable support and repair administrations are turning out to be more essential. Individuals today are more ready than any time in recent memory to pay for good administration in the event that it limits burden. Financial elements directly affect the potential engaging quality of…