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Corporate Responsibility

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Ben Goldhirsh: Good Magazine, Great Business: Can you do good without being boring? Ben Goldhirsh is out to prove you can. He's founded Good magazine and Reason Pictures to celebrate "doing things for the right reasons." That means not only putting out a first-rate publication, but also helping corporate America think differently by creating "good" marketing...; Tags: marketing; Videos 2007-10-04
Trade Union and NGO Responses to the Phase-Out of the Multifibre Arrangement: This report aims to highlight some of the campaigns and initiatives that are being undertaken by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and trade unions in the face of the impending expiration of textiles quotas. The content is based on information available on the Internet and should not be considered exhaustive. Moreover, many...; Tags: trade union, Web site, Internet; White papers 2004-04-01
Communicating Corporate Responsibility to Investors: The Changing Role of the Investor Relations Function: Based on an inductive study this paper analyses the role of the investor relations (IR) function in the light of rising investor concern about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The study draws on interviews with IR professionals in twenty firms. It highlights their awareness of CSR issues as well as their...; Tags: Financial accounting, Business ethics, Corporate law, Leadership, investor relations, Corporate Social Responsibility, corporate responsibility, investor, broadcasting; White papers 2004-01-29
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A recent Act seeks to usher in fundamental changes in accounting and auditing practices. The Act also addresses issues like corporate responsibility and financial disclosures. The Act incorporates rules for corporate responsibilities and audit management. The Act contains several penalties for defaulting on any of the provisions of financial transactions...; Tags: Business ethics, Financial accounting, corporate responsibility, audit, auditing, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, financial, accounting; Presentations 2003-10-01
Sustaining Value Through People: Turning Corporate Responsibility Into Corporate Opportunity: Implementing a framework for measuring, reporting and then (most importantly) communicating the outcome of business' people policies can help to lessen conflict among stakeholder groups. Moreover, greater transparency will inspire loyalty, strengthen the brand and ultimately create value for shareholders and other stakeholders alike. PricewaterhouseCoopers Human Resource Services works with...; Tags: Business ethics, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, corporate responsibility, competitive advantage, shareholder, brand; White papers 2003-09-01

Section 307 Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act And Related SEC Rules: The provisions of a recent Act affect corporate responsibility and its disclosure. Accounting irregularities in the past necessitated such an Act. The Act seeks to streamline the audit management process in a company. The paper examines the reasons behind the release of the Act, general overview of the provisions of...; Tags: Business ethics, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, corporate responsibility, SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit, accounting, security; Presentations 2003-06-09
Sarbanes-Oxley Implications For Your Internal Processes And Systems: A recent Act seeks to bring sweeping changes in accounting and auditing practices. The Act also addresses issues like corporate and criminal fraud accountability, corporate responsibility, and corporate tax returns. The Act incorporates rules for corporate responsibilities and audit management. The paper examines the Act and discusses its implications on...; Tags: Business ethics, BearingPoint Inc., corporate responsibility, auditing, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit, accounting, tax; Presentations 2003-04-23
Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Compliance: A Different Kind of Pharmaceutical Merger: The resource document discusses a director's fiduciary obligations/duties, unique challenges faced by healthcare organization directors, and a list of eighteen questions, which Boards of Directors can use to further their understanding of their company's compliance program's scope and operations. This Alert provides a summary of the key "take-always" from the...; Tags: Benefits, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, corporate responsibility, compliance, director, merger, health care, board; White papers 2003-04-01
The New World Of Corporate Responsibility: Corporate Responsibility (CR) is the responsiveness of an organization towards society, at large. The CR paradigm has assumed lot of significance in modern business era. The provisions of a recent Act address the issues involved in issues related to CR and their disclosure. The paper presents an overview of CR...; Tags: Business ethics, corporate responsibility; Presentations 2003-01-01
Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 -Regulations Affecting Corporate Responsibility And Its Disclosure: The provisions of a recent Act affect corporate responsibility and its disclosure. Accounting irregularities in the past necessitated such an Act. The Act seeks to streamline the audit management process in a company. The paper examines the reasons behind the release of the Act, general overview of the provisions of...; Tags: Business ethics, Regulations, Knowledge@Wharton, corporate responsibility, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit, accounting, security; Presentations 2003-01-01
Ripple Effects Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: A recent Act seeks to bring sweeping changes in accounting and auditing practices. The Act also addresses issues like corporate and criminal fraud accountability, corporate responsibility, and corporate tax returns. The Act incorporates rules for corporate responsibilities and audit management. The Act, however, has certain unintended and unforeseen consequences. The...; Tags: Business ethics, corporate responsibility, auditing, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit, accounting, tax; White papers 2003-01-01
The New World Of Corporate Responsibility: A recent Act bestows more responsibilities on audit committees with regard to financial analysis and reporting in an organization. It accords independence to the auditor on certain accounting issues. Apart from the auditing and accounting issues, the other issues addressed by the Act include corporate and criminal fraud accountability, corporate...; Tags: Business ethics, Financial accounting, corporate responsibility, financial analysis, accounting, auditing, tax, financial; Presentations 2003-01-01
Corporate Governance and the Nonprofit Board of Directors: This article is about “Corporate responsibility” which is not a new concept for nonprofit boards of directors. But a series of high-profile Wall Street accounting scandals that have focused attention on standards of corporate governance, not just among public companies, but also among private companies and nonprofits. In light of...; Tags: Business ethics, Corporate law, corporate responsibility, corporate governance, board, director, accounting, environment; White papers 2003-01-01
Overview of Business and Corporate Governance: Although "Corporate Governance" has received, a great deal of media attention lately, the term is still relatively new. The term corporate governance is used to refer to a much broader range of rules, regulations, and policies and practices that boards of directors use to manage themselves and fulfill their responsibilities...; Tags: Corporate law, Business ethics, corporate governance, corporate responsibility, board, accountability, compensation; White papers 2003-01-01
Ethics And Corporate Responsibility: Business ethics consists of a set of moral principles and values that govern the behavior of the organization with respect to what is right and what is wrong. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) spells out an organization’s commitment towards society and is a measure of the organization’s social responsiveness. Ethical issues...; Tags: Corporate law, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, McGraw-Hill Companies, Corporate Social Responsibility, decision-making, corporate responsibility, business ethics, ethics; Presentations 2003-01-01
Corporate Responsibility Practices in Bangladesh: Results From a Benchmark Study: The rapid pace of globalization of markets over the last few decades have added new dimensions to the concept of corporate responsibility in the context of the market economy. In most of the developed countries multinational enterprises are required to respond to the OECD Guidelines and work with unions and...; Tags: Business ethics, corporate responsibility, Bangladesh, globalization, incentive; White papers 2002-12-01
Sarbanes-Oxley And Corporate Responsibility: How To Practice Good Corporate Governance: This webcast tells about Sarbanes Oxley Act and its impact on financial management. The certifications needed for the same; financial reporting responsibilities and internal control responsibilities are discussed in this regard. The section 906 of this act makes an impact on the financial management. The companies must accompany any periodic...; Tags: Financial accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley, Financial Planning, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Penton Media Inc., financial reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, financial management, financial, corporate responsibility, Section 404, financial statement, audit, Webcast; Webcasts 2002-11-06
Financial Reporting: Getting It Right the First Time 2: Now that CFOs are, in effect, signing off on financial statements to the SEC rather than to auditors, it's crucial that financial reporting be spot-on. The article infers that the best finance executives have always treated financial reporting as a key activity. Now all CFOs and finance departments must do...; Tags: Business ethics, Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Penton Media Inc., corporate responsibility, financial reporting, CFO, SEC, financial, finance, financial statement; White papers 2002-11-01
Accepting Corporate Responsibility: From the executive summary: ‘Corporate counsel are likely to be too protective of their clients’ confidences to blow whistles, but the magnitude of recent misbehavior and the threat of greater Federal oversight has forced lawyers to reexamine what actions they should take in the face of client misconduct.’ If lawyers...; Tags: lawyer, corporate responsibility; White papers 2002-11-01
It’s About Time: Corporate Responsibility Law Finally Makes Lawyers More Accountable: The current corporate scandals have taken the toll on CEOs, accountants, bankers, analysts, and even consultants. But the lawyers, lurking in the shadows of every story, have escaped so far. The paper discusses the two models of the lawyer’s role in business, the Trusted Counselor model and the Legal Enabler...; Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, lawyer, corporate responsibility, job; White papers 2002-08-14