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Social Responsibility, Machiavellianism And Tax Avoidance: A Study Of Hong Kong Tax Professionals
This paper investigates the effects of attitudes toward the perceived importance of corporate ethics and social responsibility and Machiavellianism on professional tax practitioners' willingness to advocate aggressive avoidance schemes on behalf of corporate clients. We hypothesise that practitioners who perceive corporate ethics and social responsibility as more important will judge...
Tags: Practitioner, Ethics, Taxes, Free Trade, Business Ethics, Financial Planning, Finance, Leadership, Management
White papers 2006-11-01
How Mass Media Use Crisis Communications for Political Gain: the Broadcast Industry, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina
It's a common observation that crises such as wars, recessions, stock market meltdowns, ethics scandals, and natural catastrophes often drive the public policymaking process. A crisis reveals a problem and then a public consensus emerges that policymakers must do something about it. The policy debate then centers on the best...
Tags: Investment, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 commission, ethics, stock market, TV, stock, industry
White papers 2006-08-30
Sarbanes Oxley Ethical Hotlines: CNIL Publish Draft Guidelines
The CNIL recognises the recent development in France of procedures enabling employees to report their colleagues' alleged law or corporate policy breaching behaviours in the office and the CNIL recognises that such schemes are neither allowed nor banned under current labour code provisions. Many businesses have had in place whistleblowing...
Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Ethics, Scheme, CNIL, Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2005-11-07
Ethics and Creative Accounting: Some Empirical Evidence on Accounting for Intangibles in Spain
Recent research shows that financial reports are losing relevance. The paper surveys loan officers who were asked to assess the credit-worthiness of a hypothetical company. The only information given was a simplified version of financial statements. The findings show that capitalization was significantly more likely to attract a positive response...
Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, Financial accounting, intangibles, accounting, financial statement, ethics, financial, survey
White papers 2003-12-16
Work in Progress: As Mentoring and Ethics Training Evolve, Finance Learns How to Boost Team
While company finance departments use the Best Workplaces categories to put distinct elements of finance under the microscope, a clear conclusion from research is that no individual aspect of the finance workplace is totally discrete. Rather, there is interconnectivity across the five areas - manifested in intangible characteristics like team...
Tags: Financial accounting, Team management, CFO Publishing Corp., finance, ethics, team
White papers 2003-11-01
Managerialism, Legal Ethics, And Sarbanes-Oxley Section 307
From the executive summary: ‘The paper argues that, as a normative matter, Sarbanes-Oxley Section 307 was well intentioned. As a practical matter, however, Section 307 seems unlikely to effect significant changes in corporate governance. On the other hand, the problematic approach taken by the Securities and Exchange Commission in implementing...
Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Business ethics, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, ethics, corporate governance
White papers 2003-09-22
Managerialism, Legal Ethics, and Sarbanes-Oxley Section 307
This Article argues that, as a normative matter, Sarbanes-Oxley Section 307 was well-intentioned. As a practical matter, however, Section 307 seems unlikely to effect significant changes in corporate governance. In our view, the nature of legal practice, the largely unchanged relationship between lawyers and managers, and the problematic approach taken...
Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate governance, ethics
White papers 2003-08-14
Justice, Business, and the Ethics of Innovation in Canadian Nuclear Waste Management
This paper gives a number of ethical issues, which can be understood and addressed in terms of distributive justice. The functions of government should be directed at achieving distributive justice. The functions of government should be directed at achieving distributed justice even where those functions involve the devolving of responsibilities...
Tags: Vertical industries, public service, government, ethics, partnership
White papers 2003-08-02
Financial Experts and Codes of Ethics: SEC Adopts More Realistic Final Rules
In a substantial departure from its proposed "financial expert" definition, the SEC has adopted a more realistic final definition of "audit committee financial expert." The SEC final rules adopted pursuant to Sections 406 and 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 will require a public company to disclose, for fiscal...
Tags: Financial accounting, Policies and procedures, Reed Elsevier Inc., waiver, audit committee, code of ethics, audit, SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, board of directors, financial, board, ethics
White papers 2003-07-31
CFO Quarterly Roundtable: Ethics And Corporate Governance
This webcast tells about ethics and corporate governance. Corporate denizens are being bombarded with auditing rule change proposals at every turn. When all is said and done, audit committees will have been analyzed, internal audit teams--reorganized, external auditors—scrutinized. The trick, corporate finance executives, is to sort through the proposals, and...
Tags: Business ethics, Corporate law, CFO Publishing Corp., corporate governance, ethics, external auditor, audit, auditing, Webcast
Webcasts 2003-07-10
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
Is business malfeasance always the board's fault? Everyone has a stake in ethical behavior and moral reasoning. There is a need for the corporate world to take a clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the...
Tags: Investment, Financial services, Harvard Knowledgebase, equity, corporate governance, ethics, board
White papers 2003-05-05
Ethics and Leadership in Business Development
Business is in trouble. Even some of the most respected industries are not immune to this disease. Most agree that U.S and Global businesses are suffering a crisis in corporate leadership and ethical governance. Who's responsible? To find someone to blame, the general public looks right to the top of...
Tags: Strategy, leadership, ethics, business development, financial, industry
White papers 2003-03-02
Audit Committee Financial Experts And Senior Management Codes Of Ethics
The SEC recently adopted final rules relating to audit committee financial experts and senior management codes of ethics. This paper summarizes some of the major provisions of these rules. It explains the disclosure of audit committee financial experts, senior management codes of ethics required under the new rule and changes...
Tags: Business ethics, Financial accounting, ethics, audit committee, audit, financial
White papers 2003-03-01
Sarbanes-Oxley: Final Rules For Codes Of Ethics And Audit Committee Financial Experts
"Pursuant to Sections 406 and 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC adopted final rules on January 23, 2003 to implement the requirements of the sections. This article discusses the new rules and the potential implications for public companies. Final rules under Section 404...
Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Policies and procedures, Regulatory compliance, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, code of ethics, SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Section 404, internal control, ethics, audit
White papers 2003-02-20
SEC Adopts Final Rules Implementing Sections 406 And 407 Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002, Relating To Codes Of Ethics And Audit Committee Financial Experts
A recent Act entrusts audit committees with the job of establishing procedures for handling audit-related complaints. The Act requires a code of ethics for complying with the provisions given therein. It bestows more responsibilities on audit committees with regard to financial analysis and reporting in an organization. It accords independence...
Tags: Policies and procedures, Financial accounting, code of ethics, audit, financial analysis, ethics, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, accounting, financial, job
White papers 2003-02-14
SEC Adopts Final Rules Regarding Code Of Conduct For Senior Financial Officers
On January 23, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC released final rules implementing Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 the Act. In general, Section 406 requires the SEC to enact rules requiring public companies to disclose whether they have adopted codes of ethics for their respective senior...
Tags: Policies and procedures, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business ethics, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, financial officer, code of ethics, SEC, ethics, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., code of conduct, corporate governance, compliance
White papers 2003-02-07
Provisions Concerning Audit Committee Financial Experts and Company Codes of Ethics
"On January 23, 2003, the SEC issued final rules requiring public companies to disclose whether they have an audit committee financial expert and whether they have a company code of ethics. Given the public policy concern, the SEC decided to make audit committee financial expert disclosure applicable to foreign private...
Tags: Policies and procedures, Financial accounting, code of ethics, audit committee, audit, ethics, SEC, annual reports, financial
White papers 2003-02-01
Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
In view of recent corporate practices that have resulted in a negative impact on the stock market and a loss of investor confidence in corporate America and public company disclosure, Congress passed, and the President signed into law on July 30, 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the "Sarbanes-Oxley Act"),1...
Tags: Policies and procedures, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business ethics, Regulatory compliance, Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp., code of ethics, ethics, SEC, New York Stock Exchange, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., officer, compliance, code of conduct, director, st
White papers 2003-02-01
SEC Adopts Final Rules on Disclosure of Financial Experts and Ethics Codes and Records Retention by Auditors
The article explains that as part of its recent flurry of rulemaking activity, the SEC has adopted final rules on disclosures by public companies concerning audit committee financial experts and codes of ethics applicable to senior financial officers. It also contains the features related to act audit committee financial experts,...
Tags: Business ethics, Financial accounting, ethics, audit committee, audit, SEC, financial
White papers 2003-01-31
SEC Adopts Rules Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on Codes of Ethics and Audit Committee Financial Experts
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted final rules that were mandated by Sections 406 and 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and set out new requirements with respect to: codes of ethics; and financial experts on an issuer’s audit committee. The final rules implementing Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley...
Tags: Financial accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, audit committee, audit, designation, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, ethics, SEC, officer, Safe Harbor, code of ethics, financial, board of directors, accounting, board
White papers 2003-01-29
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