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Business Ethics Case Studies And Selected Readings 10th Edition Marianne M. Jennings - Solutions
USA Today had an article that listed several CEOs who made $9,000 per hour.32 The CEOs included Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, CVS’s Larry Merlo, and L Brands’ (the parent company of Victoria’s Secret) Leslie Wexner (now former CEO). The article ran during a time when the $15 minimum wage
Apply the issues of social responsibility and the regulatory cycle (Unit 3) to issues in executive compensation.? p-9687
Describe what ethical categories are involved in Sam’s behavior in”meeting” his goals.? p-9687
Into what ethical development category would you put Sam?? p-9687
Who are the stakeholders in this dilemma?? p-9687
What would happen if all employees at his company did what Sam was doing?? p-9687
Explain what VA employees were doing and why.Discuss the issues underlying the falsification of the wait times.? p-9687
Why were the whistleblower complaints ignored or minimized? What more could the whistleblowers have done?? p-9687
How do the VA operations and employee behaviors compare to the operations and behaviors of the for-profit companies that you have studied in this unit?? p-9687
Offer Dr. Shulkin some advice on making personal ethical choices based on what you learned in Units 1 and 2. What tests could he have applied in making his decisions about his travel? What rationalizations did he not recognize as part of his thinking processes?What are the categories of ethical
Given what happened with incentives and performance goals at the VA and the ultimate solution of private care, apply the models you studied in Unit 3 for social responsibility and explain what happened with the VA.? p-9687
Why did the cheating culture exist?? p-9687
What made the cheating culture continue?? p-9687
Explain how those who raised questions were treated.? p-9687
Make a list of all who were affected by the cheating and the consequences.? p-9687
Explain why teachers, principals, and administrators continued to participate in the cheating.? p-9687
What effect did the incentives have on the APS culture?? p-9687
Explain cross-selling.? p-9687
Make a list of the signals that Wells received in the years when its new-account achievements were increasing.? p-9687
Give examples of what happened when those within Wells raised issues, concerns, and questions about cross-selling efforts within the bank.? p-9687
What categories of ethical dilemmas do you find throughout the case study?? p-9687
Discuss why Wells has struggled so much to reform its culture after the fake accounts became public. Be sure to highlight any errors they made in handling the situation.? p-9687
List the resulting harms and costs to Wells.? p-9687
What should have been done during the years of cross-selling to prevent employee gaming of the compensation system for new accounts?? p-9687
If you were setting up an incentive plan for a fast-food franchise, what would you incentivize and why? What would you not incentivize and why?? p-9687
Explain why it is important to respond to unsolicited feedback from employees or other sources?? p-9687
What are examples of lagging indicator measurements in incentive plans?? p-9687
Is it impossible in some circumstances to effect a change?? p-9687
Was the top leadership a blockade at Wells for any possible change?? p-9687
What historically has happened in cases in which these types of items are not disclosed? In our company? In other companies?? p-9687
What are the financial implications if this item is not disclosed now?? p-9687
What are our motivations for not disclosing this item?153? p-9687
What are our motivations for booking this item in this way?? p-9687
What are our motivations for not booking this item?? p-9687
How do we expect this issue to be resolved?? p-9687
Are our expectations consistent with the actions we are taking vis-à-vis disclosure?? p-9687
If I were a shareholder on the outside, would this be the kind of information I would want to know?? p-9687
Describe the risks in earnings management.? p-9687
What are the motivations for moving around expenses and revenues in quarters and years?? p-9687
Don’t shareholders benefit by earnings management? Who is really harmed by earnings management?? p-9687
Put earnings management into one of the ethical categories you have learned.? p-9687
Make up a headline description of earnings management.? p-9687
How do you respond to a CFO who says the following? “Everybody does earnings management. If I don’t do it, I am at a disadvantage.? p-9687
Using what you have learned from the Wells case and this reading, describe how overdraft fee practices progressed through layers and became so pervasive in the banking industry.? p-9687
Explain what must be fixed at the company level that is different from the fixes for individual ethical lapses.? p-9687
Provide a list of other examples of peer pressure that result in industry-level choices.? p-9687
Refer back to Unit I to classify the cases there according to their layer type of ethical issue.? p-9687
Why do you think the officers and managers waited until the auditors required it to write off the $70 million loan? Review Reading 4.12. What kinds of accounting tools were they using to make their earnings and share price better? Given FINOVA’s fate and its free-fall in stock price to a final
Do you think the incentive plans had any effect on the reported earnings? Why or why not?? p-9687
Was FINOVA so generous with its perks for employees that there was a resulting loyalty that was blinding the employees to the real financial condition of the company and the financial reporting issues? Would these perks have had an effect on you if you worked for FINOVA?? p-9687
Was FINOVA forthcoming about the level of risk in its business?? p-9687
Discuss the actions of the audit firms in refusing to issue financials or in requiring restatements. Construct a decision process for those audit firms as they dealt with FINOVA in its last days. Should the objections to the failure to write down the loans have been raised earlier?? p-9687
What is troubling about Mr. Franek’s reflections on adding points to test scores?? p-9687
Why do you think the dean of admissions added on the points?? p-9687
Explain how the role of rankings would influence behaviors among employees at colleges and universities.? p-9687
Is this similar to earnings management by companies?Are they adding to their numbers?? p-9687
What category of ethical dilemma is involved when deans engage in numbers manipulation with ranking services?? p-9687
What would be the organizational factors that influence their decisions to submit incorrect information?List factors that could influence their conduct.? p-9687
What did they miss in their analysis of their decision to submit incorrect information? Could there be industry factors at play?? p-9687
Was this an example of how ratings can be gamed?b. Fundraising efforts are no longer part of coaches’performance evaluations.c. Verification of source of donations by development officers.d. Coaches must flag applicants who have come to them from a third party.e. Coaches should elevate concerns
Go back to Unit 1 and compare Ethics in Practice 1.1 with what the parents in OVB did. A mother misrepresented her address to get her children into a better public school district and was charged with a felony and convicted. Are they the same or different?? p-9687
Vince Cuseo, an admissions official at Occidental College, got a call from Rick Singer in 2012. Mr. Singer asked that Mr. Cuseo reconsider the denied application of an academically challenged daughter of a wealthy family. Mr. Singer suggested that the parents could give money to Occidental above
List the seven areas in which leaders make ethical missteps and give an example from Units 1–4 of leaders who have made such missteps.? p-9687
Why is the oversight of leaders and their expenses so critical in culture?? p-9687
Explain how hires and terminations affect culture.? p-9687
In companies under consent decrees, corporate integrity agreements, or deferred prosecution agreements, explain how leaders undermine their own successful completion of these civil forms of plea bargains.? p-9687
Bookkeeping and other services related to the accounting records or financial statements of the audit client? p-9687
Design and implementation of financial information systems? ? p-9687
Appraisal and valuation services, fairness opinions, and contributionin-kind reports? p-9687
Actuarial services? p-9687
Internal audit outsourcing services? p-9687
Management functions and human resources? p-9687
Broker or dealer, investment adviser, and investment banking services? p-9687
Legal services and expert services unrelated to the audit?? p-9687
Many convicted executives allowed pressure (financial, for goals, for recognition) to be the sole factor in processing their decisions and actions, which actually defeated the very purposes of their jobs and their companies. What have you learned in Units 1, 2, 3, and this unit that could help you
As you proceed through the cases in this Section, try to connect the provisions of SOX and Dodd–Frank that were passed as a result of the conduct of executives and companies in the case studies.? p-9687
Discuss the issues in audit firms’ culture that would contribute to the ongoing problems with cheating.? p-9687
Explain why so many in the audit firms were willing to go along with the cheating schemes.? p-9687
Discuss what options he had. What pressures was he feeling?? p-9687
What information would have helped him in that situation?? p-9687
Just because we cannot find a crime to fit the activity does not mean the activity was ethical. Into what ethical categories did the conduct of the PCAOB employees and KPMG partners fall?? p-9687
What information in the case allows you to conclude that they all knew that what they were doing was wrong?? p-9687
Is this gaming the PCAOB system?? p-9687
Consider the following statement by a government official. Securities Exchange Commissioner Cynthia Classman included the following in a speech she gave to the American Society of Corporate Secretaries on September 27, 2002:[T]he distribution of securities by companies that had not made a previous
Consider the following:This phenomenon of confusion ruling in a bullish market is not unique to the 1990s stock market.Following the 1929 stock market crash, one of the biggest collapses, and a shocker to the investment world, was the bankruptcy of Middle West Utilities.The company was run by
Bill Parish, investment manager for Parish & Co., explained the collapse of Enron, World Com, and others with this insight: “There’s massive corruption of the system. Earnings are grossly overstated.”426 Accounting Professor Brent Trueman at the University of California, Berkeley, added,
WorldCom was eerily meeting its earnings targets precisely. One analyst did, however, notice that WorldCom was making its targets for several quarters in a row within fractions of cents.“When you see that they’re making it by one onehundredth of a penny you know the odds of that happening twice
Mr. Ebbers’s conduct before and after the trial showed that he still believed he had done nothing wrong. At church services in Mississippi immediately following the revelation of the WorldCom accounting impropriety, Mr. Ebbers arrived as usual to teach his Sunday school class and attend services.
What did Scott Sullivan miss in making his analysis to capitalize ordinary expenses? What skills that you learned in Units 1 and 2 might have helped him see the decision and the impact of his decision differently? Why did he not listen to employees and block questions?? p-9687
Even when the first multibillion-dollar restatement came, many near Clinton, Mississippi, appeared to be more in mourning than angry. One employee, sharing the shock with bar patrons at Bravo Italian Restaurant &Bar, said, “People are taking it with exceptional grace. In my experience with MCI, I
“If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.” Apply this to WorldCom and the other cases you have studied. Does this old adage still apply?? p-9687
Discuss the issue of following orders at a company when those orders violate the law.? p-9687
Explain why the conviction of the CEO is said to be an important step in corporate accountability. Why do you think the jury struggled with the case?? p-9687
Describe the culture at Massey and the mine.? p-9687
What would have made the board stronger?? p-9687
Make a list of additional actions that Mr. May and Mr. Blanchard could have taken in their jobs that might have prevented the explosion.? p-9687
In Mr. Blankenship’s run for the U.S. Senate, he ran ads on mine safety and how he would work to improve it for the miners. A couple, caring for their grandchild, whose father had been killed in the Upper Big Branch disaster, said, “We’re sitting here in our living room with our grandson, and
What was not clear to investors in subprime mortgages?? p-9687
Was this an industry pressure issue? Why did some succumb to “what everyone else was doing” and others did not?? p-9687
How could the adage “If it sounds too good to be true . . . “influence the structure of an investment portfolio?? p-9687
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