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Homeland Security: DHS Needs to Improve Ethics-Related Management Controls for the Science and Technology Directorate
The Department of Homeland Security's DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate was established to focus on areas such as addressing countermeasures for biological threats. To do this, it hired experts from the national laboratories under the authority of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act IPA. This paper examines the management controls established...
Tags: Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, homeland security, ethics, R&D
White papers 2005-12-01
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
Leadership, Ethics, and Business
What should business leaders do about the crisis in ethics that pervades America? The front pages are filled with articles chronicling the business leaders who demonstrated a crass disregard for anything other than their own egos, reputations, and bank accounts. The concern over the impact grows daily as elected officials,...
Tags: Business ethics, Regulations, ethics, regulation, leadership, industry, bank
White papers 2004-10-04
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
The Ethics of Quality Improvement: Practitioners’ Perspectives
Innovation is an essential component of quality improvement QI activities that aim to improve the provision of health care. These projects, however, engender ethical and regulatory issues around human subjects’ protections. The author compared findings from the literature review with interviewees’ perspectives. Participants’ perspectives differed most from the literature...
Tags: quality improvement, practitioner, ethics, health care
White papers 2003-09-03
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, ethics, government, partnership
White papers 2003-08-02
The Ethics of Government and Business: What Is Valued Most
This paper addresses the issue of similarities and differences between the ethics of government and business concentrating on values. It examines what is valued most by public servants and which values prevail in the private sector. It attempts to find out the core values of both realms and how does...
Tags: Business ethics, ethics
White papers 2003-07-01
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 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, Business ethics, Sarbanes-Oxley, 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
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 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, code of ethics, Safe Harbor, financial, board of directors, accounting, board
White papers 2003-01-29
Fraudulent Use of Corporate Funds
In this article, a recommendation is made that the company strive to comply, where appropriate, with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. That legislation contains several logical approaches to enhancing internal controls in a corporate environment. The concerned person is facing several serious issues at BMI. The most...
Tags: AICPA, internal control, ethics, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, environment
White papers 2003-01-01
Sarbanes-Oxley And "Whistleblowing" By Corporate Lawyers: The Untold Story
This article discusses the SEC's proposed regulations under Sarbanes-Oxley Section 307. It enumerates that how that issue has rocked the American Bar Association for decades, and how corporate lawyers both inside and outside must already wrestle with the ethics of "whistle blowing." The state ethics rules the ones that lawyers...
Tags: Business ethics, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, American Bar Association, ethics, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, lawyer, wrongdoing, regulation
White papers 2003-01-01
Advice For Lawyers: Navigating The New Realm Of Federal Regulation Of Legal Ethics
The advent of 21st century brought with it highly publicized scandals, bankruptcies, and pension losses. The upheaval in the economic sector resulted in the formulation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Act was designed to keep a check on the fraudulent working of the organizations. The paper discusses the provisions of...
Tags: Business ethics, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Litigation, Thomson Corp., ethics, lawyer, bankruptcy, Sarbanes-Oxley Act
White papers 2003-01-01
Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Internal Controls, Codes Of Ethics And Financial Experts
Pursuant to Sections 404, 406 and 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued Release Nos. 33-8138 and 34-46701 on October 22, 2002, proposing new rules to implement the provisions of these sections. This article discusses the proposed new rules contained in the release and...
Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, internal control, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SEC, Section 404, annual reports, financial reporting, ethics, financial, accounting
White papers 2002-11-05
Ethics And Legal Mandate: Survival In The Sarbanes-Oxley Era
A growing divide between organizations and the investor community continues to have a far-reaching impact on the U.S. economy. In response to this, the most sweeping change in American investment laws since the securities laws were first passed in the 1930s, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was passed. Included in...
Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, BetterManagement.com, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, class action, ethics, video
Webcasts 2002-10-12
SEC Release Implementing Sarbanes-Oxley Provisions
"Companies will soon be making new disclosures about their internal controls, their ethics codes, and the “financial experts” serving on their audit committees, according to proposals recently published by the SEC.1 This Alert summarizes major provisions of the SEC’s proposal in order to help readers determine whether...
Tags: Business ethics, Financial accounting, KPMG Consulting Inc., ethics, SEC, internal control, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit, financial
White papers 2002-10-01
The Ethics of Innovations in Alternative Service Delivery: The Case of the Management of Canada's Irradiated Nuclear Fuel
The basic ethical assumption of this paper is that public sector innovations based on values of business ought to be coupled with legislative or regulatory assurances that values of distributive justice will be upheld in the delivery of public services. Where the responsibility for the delivery of a public service...
Tags: public service, public sector, ethics
White papers 2002-02-10
Using Deferred Compensation to Strengthen the Ethics of Financial Regulation
Defects in the corporate governance of government-owned enterprises tempt opportunistic officials to breach duties of public stewardship. Corporate-governance theory suggests that incentive based deferred compensation could intensify the force that common-law duties actually exert on regulatory managers. Because government deposit insurance enterprises are purveyors of credit enhancements for which private...
Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Financial accounting, National Bureau of Economic Research, financial regulation, compensation, reinsurance, corporate governance, government, ethics, accountability, incentive, theory, insurance, financial, performance
White papers 2001-07-01
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