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The Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility ranked The Home Depot and Wal-Mart recently as among top Fortune 100 companies excelling in inclusion of the Hispanic community in the areas of corporate executive leadership, corporate governance, work: The Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility ranked The Home Depot and Wal-Mart recently as among top Fortune 100 companies excelling in inclusion of the Hispanic community in the areas of corporate executive leadership, corporate governance, workforce representation, Hispanic community reciprocity and minority supplier outreach and development. IBM claimed the No....; Tags: corporate governance, corporate responsibility, Home Depot Inc., leadership, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; Research articles 2005-06-27
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: Corporate Responsibility, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Knowledge@Wharton, Regulation, Act, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management; Presentations 2003-01-01
Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002: New Corporate Responsibility And Disclosure Requirements: A recent Act seeks to overhaul the nation's securities laws. It establishes a new, independent board for the accounting industry, creates higher standards for corporate governance and audit committees and ushers in transparency in corporate transactions. The paper focuses on the corporate governance framework and financial disclosure obligations for public...; Tags: Corporate Responsibility, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Fulbright & Jaworski, Act, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Business Ethics, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, Finance; Presentations 2002-08-13
The Risk Intelligent Approach To Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability: Risk intelligent executives know that both threats and opportunities will present themselves in this new era of corporate responsibility and sustainability. These business leaders plan not to merely survive the rising ocean of change, but to sail purposefully through it. They realize that the circumstances are not analogous to developing...; Tags: Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Leader, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management; White papers 2008-09-29
Measuring Multiple Bottom Lines: The prime aim of any organizational entity is to maximize its shareholders' returns. The organization has a major responsibility towards primary stakeholder groups. They include customers, shareholders, and employees. There are two main approaches towards measuring corporate responsibility viz. internal assessment and external assessment. The issue of profitability and the...; Tags: Corporate Responsibility, McGraw-Hill Companies, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management; Presentations 2002-01-01

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 Responsibility, Ethics, Organization, McGraw-Hill Companies, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Business Operations; Presentations 2003-01-01
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: Audit, Corporate Responsibility, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SEC, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Act, Business Ethics, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Management, Finance; Presentations 2003-06-09
Financial Reporting- Getting It Right The First Time: 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 best finance executives have always treated financial reporting as a key activity. Now all CFOs and finance departments must do so, or they will...; Tags: Financial Reporting, Corporate Responsibility, Financial, Penton Media Inc., CFO, Business Ethics, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Management, Finance; White papers 2002-11-01
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: Corporate Responsibility, Board, Board Of Directors, Faegre & Benson, Corporate Governance, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Leadership, Management; White papers 2003-01-01
Corporate Responsibility In Difficult Times - Why Employee Engagement Is Crucial: Many have suggested that the current US economy is the result of a series of bad decisions and unregulated wheeling and dealing, which led to the collapse of what was essentially an economic house of cards. Despite a slight rise in consumer confidence, public trust and confidence in corporate America...; Tags: Corporate Responsibility, Trust, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, Business Ethics, Construction, Workforce Management, Leadership, Management, Human Resources; White papers 2009-06-18
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: Corporate Responsibility, Knowledge@Wharton, Lawyer, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management; White papers 2002-08-14
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: Financial Reporting, Corporate Responsibility, Financial, Penton Media Inc., CFO, Business Ethics, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Management, Finance; White papers 2002-11-01
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: Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Responsibility Paradigm, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management; Presentations 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: Accounting, Corporate Responsibility, Arnold & Porter, Act, Business Ethics, Taxes, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Leadership, Management, Financial Planning, Finance; Presentations 2003-01-01
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: Audit, Corporate Responsibility, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Auditing, BearingPoint Inc., Act, Business Ethics, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Leadership, Management, Financial Planning, Finance; Presentations 2003-04-23
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: Corporate Responsibility, Bangladesh, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management; White papers 2002-12-01
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: Corporate Responsibility, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Business Ethics, Branding, Strategy, Leadership, Management, Marketing; White papers 2003-09-01
Accounting Oversight and Corporate Responsibility Reform Also Amends ERISA: On July 30, 2002, the President signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 into law. After providing an overview of the Act, this article focuses on the new rules that require advance notice of blackout periods for 401k and other defined contribution plans, bar insider trading during blackout periods, restrict loans...; Tags: Aon Consulting, ERISA, Accounting, Corporate Responsibility, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Business Ethics, Payroll Solutions, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Human Resources, Benefits, Leadership, Management, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Policies And Procedures; White papers 2002-08-02
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: Corporate Responsibility, Merger, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Compliance, Director, Resource Document, Business Ethics, Benefits, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law; White papers 2003-04-01
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: Corporate Responsibility, Trade Union, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management; White papers 2004-04-01