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Frameworks for defensible ethical analysis and decision making;
The functions of the corporate governance system, and challenges it must deal with.
Some of the major ethics pitfalls to be faced by professional accountants, and how to deal with them, and how to develop a governance system to:
Develop a corporate culture to guide and manage employee behaviour;
Provide ethical assurance for officers, directors and other stakeholders, and consider the important aspects of workplace ethics, international operations, social accountability and audit, as well as crisis management and ethics risk management?
This course introduces competing expectations about the purpose of corporations and hence raises questions concerning the appropriate responsibility of their directors and managers to various stakeholders. It develops the position that the responsibility of managers for effective action extends not only to the familiar economic and market milieu, but to the wider social/public arena as well.
Students will learn to analyse, question critically, challenge ethical and moral viewpoints. There have been many business scandals over the years and here are a few that have been investigated. Remember though these are not academic sources, however, do cover the Presentations please add the week you can present A3 (Tom Friday only)
There is a maximum of 5 student presentations in week 12. We will not have time for more than 5. If you do not present you will not receive a mark for the presentation. Please ensure you know what you are presenting as reading directly from a PPT is not considered a passing standard.
About our subject
Trust is fundamental to the profession of accounting, of assurance providers, and of businesses that expect to build a positive reputation. Ethics are fundamental to developing and maintaining trust, and ethics and governance are vital to the development and understanding of the role and accountability of corporations, and of the accounting professional in today's changing times and future challenges. Ethics are therefore critical to professional accountants and to corporations in the future. Specifically, this course covers:
The emerging ethics environment for business and the accounting profession;
Ethics tragedies and trends, and the resulting new expectations for governance and ethical behaviour of directors, managers and professionals;
Frameworks for defensible ethical analysis decision
Here are some more, Bernie Madoff, Melissa Caddick, Nortel, Foxconn suicides 2010, 2019 Shell Nigerian scandal, Turing
Pharmaceuticals, Luckin Coffee, Libor rate manipulation 2015, Phone hacking in the UK,
FIFA 2015 scandal, BP Deepwater Horizon, VWDieselgate, Mossack Fonseca Panama papers, Boeing 737Max, Well Fargo,
Facebook- Cambridge Analytica
scandalWirecard, scandal and many more.
Assessment Business Report
academic sources, however, do cover the timeline content well. 4 Corners (ABC TV) has many notable scandals i.e.look at some of the 2021 Scandals, Obied Inc or the Pandora Papers. If you find another report and wish to unpack it to give you the background of the scandal (i.e. Lex Greensill) then by all means thats acceptable, however, remember to use academic sources in your assignment.