Corporate law

HealthSouth Corporation, founded in 1984, is a company that offers both facility and home-based acute services through rehabilitation centers for patients in over 35 states, including Puerto Rice. The beginning stages of this national news accounting fraud began in 1996, where the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Richard Scrushy, and several of the company’s Chief Financial Officer’s stole more than 2.7 billion which surfaced in 2002 after the company’s CEO/Chairman sold over $100 million…

Brickley, Lease and Smith examine voting patterns of institutional shareholders on antitakeover amendments. The authors are particularly interested in institutional shareholders (i.e. mutual funds, pension funds, endowments) because they often do not take an active role in the voting process, but rather follow the Wall Street Rule (either voting with managers or selling their stock in the case of policy disagreements) when voting on antitakeover provisions. The authors find that that…

Internet traffic would double every 100 days “(Faber, 2003). Stluka concluded this by assigning variables parameters to “whatever we think is appropriate” (Faber, 2003). This also became a problem once it went from an exercise to being a part of corporate strategy. WorldCom continued to through its ethics out the door. As stated in Proverbs 22:1 “A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or…

Organization in the Workplace SirLinda A. Smith Argosy University As an Industrial Organizational psychologist it is extremely important to have a through understanding of how the workplace is structured and the responsibilities of the departments within. Depending on the size of the company the number of departments will vary, larger companies will have more departments than a smaller company. The size of the family would contribute to whether the senior level…

For people including me who does not support the more progressivity tax system, the main argument is that the rising of the marginal tax rate on upper income earner will stunt economic growth, decrease labour supply, reduce reported income and make Canada has less competitiveness. There are lots of research papers that evaluate the relationship between the high marginal tax rate and the economic and found that higher marginal tax rate is correlated with the drop in the economic growth. D. Romer…

paid $2.13 hourly, the Texas minimum wage for tipped employees (Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees, 2016). The assistant smoker and line cooks will be paid hourly, at an initial rate of $7.25, the minimum wage requirement of Texas (Texas Minimum Wage Law, n.d.). Subsequent wage increases will be based on the performance of the staff in addition to the performance of the restaurant as a whole. D. Describe what types of external advisors you will need and how they will be paid (e.g. lawyer,…

Kerrie Peterson had some hard decisions she had to make for the first time in two years after her promotion to General Manager. In her quarterly financial review and planning session with her Chief Executive Officer Tom Wilkes along with her coworkers the other general managers. In this meeting she and the rest of the team was given the news that due to the recession the third quarter forecast for their company was showing a decrease in revenues and they needed to cut their operating costs and…

JOEL LINZNER Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs Joel Linzner is currently serving as Senior Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs. He has been working in this position since April 2004. Prior to this position he served as Senior VP and VP of Worldwide Business Affairs. Before joining EA in 1999 he was an outside litigation counsel to EA along with other programmers in the videogame industry. He is a current member of the Bar of the State of California and he is…

Will be run buy one CEO and one CO-CEO and one Employee Top Manager & Proprietorship: CEO- Owner of the company and oversee the whole of the business and make all decisions, with the CO-CEO to have and run a successful business. Middle Manager: CO-CEO- Responsible for supervising all employees. Responsible for hiring and firing, and over seeing that the business run smoothly. Driver: Responsible for all truck maintenance before work shift start and after work shift end.…

As long as the IT Audit director meets AT §101.51, they should have the ability to reject any change. If the IT audit director can provide sufficient evidence to prove a reasonable basis for wanting to delay implementation of a change, she should have that power. With that said, there needs to be a policy in place to govern changes to production. Changes need to be properly evaluated and authorized before implemented. This is not an appropriately designed control procedure. The IT Audit Director…