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State Of Nature Morally Acceptable
1,880 wordsEthics, July 1999 v 109 i 4 p 739 Justification and Legitimacy ( ). (philosophy of the state) A. John Simmons. Abstract: Different arguments are needed to show that a state is justified and that it is legitimate. Justifying the state is associated with the treatises of 18 th-century philosophers. The Lockean approach to this issue captures features of institutional evaluation that the Kantian approach does not. Standard justifications of the state are offered to those motivated by objections to ...
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Board Of Directors Stock Price
357 words(A Short Essay for a Intro to Bussiness Class) In the October 14 th issue of Businessweek there is an article entitled "Caveat Entrepreneur" by Michael Schroeder. This article details how modern day stock fraud scams are committed and it details one such example. In brief, the content target a small, non-public company that has the prospects of growth. They promise its managers financial assistance by merging it with a public company in financial trouble, getting the public listing with minimal ...
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Cable Modem High Speed
794 wordsAT&T v. City of Portland; what is the significance of this case? -AT&T Corp. v. City of Portland No. 99 - 35609 U. S. Court of Appeals 9 th Circuit, 216 F. 3 d 871; 2000 U. S. App. Lexis 14383 -"Citing Pro-Competitive Benefits to Consumers, Commission Approves AT&T-TCI Merger. " Report No. CS 99 - 2 FCC News web -Mosquera, Mary. "FCC Approves AT&T/TCI Merger. " Technology News 17 February 1999 web -"AT&T/TCI Merger Wins FCC Approval. " Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) 18 February 1999, Metro Editi...
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United States Of America Flag Of The United States
927 wordsFlag desecration is not American. People who burn the American flag lack respect for themselves, America, and the many people who have died to preserve American freedom. The people who desecrate the American flag have no right to call themselves Americans. They are unpatriotic, two faced, cowards, and worse of all un-American (communist). To be patriotic a person must love and defend his own country against all foreign and domestic threats. These unpatriotic people are two faced. They live in Am...
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Unethical Behavior Mutual Fund
1,447 words... , it is absolutely certain that the SEC frowns on this kind of activity and that market-timing harms long-term investors. Therefore, even if Janus did not break the law, they still violated the ethical and fiduciary duty owed to existing shareholders. Once news of these activities and Spitzer's complaint hit the press, Janus Capital shares tumbled. Wall Street had big concerns about the fund companies named in Spitzer's report, and for good reason. The mutual fund industry is built on trust,...
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Accounting Standards Accounting Profession
1,841 wordsThis report discusses the accounting practices of the following countries U. K, U. S. A and China. An analysis of these different accounting systems will be conducted on issues such as the growth and background, social, economic and fiscal pressures that have led to each nations current characteristics. Concluding on the direction each nations accounting systems and practices seem to be heading towards. Introduction The main characteristics of U. K accounting is that it is highly dominated by or...
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Enron A History And How The Company Imploded
1,282 words... and Electric Company is one of the three major utility companies in the region, along with Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Company. August 14, 2001 CEO Jeff Skilling resigns stating "personal reasons. " October 12, 2001 Enron announces that it made a US $ 638 million loss during the third quarter of the fiscal year 2001. October 24, 2001 Andrew Fastow is ousted as the chief financial officer because of his involvement into questionable business transactions and pa...
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Separation Of Church And State
1,569 wordsPresently in America there are serious concern about issues dealing with the church and the state. The main issue is the separation of church and state within the United States, dealing with predominantly with the First Amendment and how Americans respond to this amendment. Throughout history, there have been many court cases dealing with the separation of church and state. The Engel vs. Vitale court case also deals with the First Amendment and, the on, that I will address the case of Engel vers...
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Stock Options Fair Value
617 words1. Should stock options be counted as an expense? Stock options should be counted as an expense for the fact that they represent something of value, even though this value is not always precisely estimated. a. Make the argument for counting them as expenses. The company gives the owners of call options the right yet not the obligation to buy the specified stock at a certain time at a certain price. The reasonable owner of stock options will buy the stock at the specified price only if it is less...
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206 Electric Cars Ad Campaign Strategy Part 2
2,163 words... to this in a creative brief. It should be mandatory. Measurement criteria are not only essential for determining whether or not the campaign has succeeded, they also focus the mind on how the advertising is expected to work. We should make sure there are metrics to measure not only the sales effect but also the effect the campaign has had on the brands image or reputation (brand equity). Too often there is tracking in place, but it tracks standard measures, not the elements of our strategy. ...
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Human Resource Professionals Securities And Exchange Commission
1,539 words... it immediately jumps out. If you put a frog in cool water and slowly heat up the water, you can eventually boil the frog. In other words one doesn't seem to notice the adverse changes in its environment, until it is too late. The last myth in Managing Ethics in the workplace has little practical relevance. To manage ethics in the workplace one must identify and prioritize values to guide behaviors of the organization and its employees. Then policies and procedures must be established to ensu...
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S P 500 Campbell Soup
1,242 wordsYahoo case 1. Should stock options be counted as an expense? Stock options should be counted as an expense for the fact that they represent something of value, even though this value is not always precisely estimated. a. Make the argument for counting them as expenses. The company gives the owners of call options the right yet not the obligation to buy the specified stock at a certain time at a certain price. The reasonable owner of stock options will buy the stock at the specified price only if...
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Human Resource Professionals Securities And Exchange Commission
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People Were Killed Drug Testing
1,904 wordsDrug Testing in the Workplace Welcome to our team Mr. Dave Matthews. Here at Vandalay Industries, we take pride in hiring the highest caliber of workers such as yourself, and to ensure the safety of all our employees in the latex factory, we ask that you pee in to this plastic cup. While this may not be the best way to bring about a companys drug testing policy to a new hire, the fact remains that in most every position today, if no urine sample is given, it translates into no job for you! Drug ...
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Financial Fraud Station Overtime
234 wordsHow to Judge Age Bias In contrast to all the glamorous cases on the U. S. Supreme Courts plate this term, a homely challenge, in the words of one litigator, could transform the landscape of job bias litigation in this country. But the homeliness of the case is certainly not in its facts. Faltering Net Firms Will Find Bankruptcy Lawyers Reluctant Sooner or later, the bottom will fall out for many of the Internet companies struggling to make a buck in the already cluttered World Wide Web. But dot-...
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Illegal Immigrants Illegal Aliens
1,220 wordsLEGALIZING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS- A PROPOSED SOLUTION TO A GROWING PROBLEM? With a quick glance around any busy area in America today, one would notice the many different races of people. Almost everyone who now resides in the United States is a descendant of an immigrant from another country. During the 1900 - 1920 s, people migrated to the states by the thousands. At that time, the major port of entrance was Ellis Island. Immigrants were made to take a 29 question test that included things like n...
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Technological Advancements Labour Force
2,332 wordsJeremy Rifkin's The End of Work Assignment # 2 by Sugar Sivagnanam 233722 Sec. C Dominic Load 228223 Sec. B Mike McDonald Sec. C Presented for M. N. Kiggundu Business 42. 210 Individuals tend to develop a false sense of security concerning the certainty of their jobs. After working for an organization for fifteen or more years, it is difficult for them to understand that their employers may no longer need their service. Jeremy Rifkin wrote The End of Work in order to warn people about what he fo...
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Imperial Intelligence Officer Pilot In The Squadron Coruscant
874 wordsBook Report: Star Wars: X-Wing: Wedge? s Gamble Author: Michael A. Stackpole Characters: Lieutenant Corran Horn: The main character of the book. He? s an ex-security man (a police force called Cor Sec) from the planet Corellia. Finally after going through the galaxy under aliases he joins Rogue Squadron to fight the Empire. He fights for freedom, but his main vendetta is more personal. He went into Cor Sec because his father did before him. An Imperial Intelligence Officer was also stationed the...
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Arthur Anderson Financial Statements
1,173 wordsCertified Public Accountants are expected to conduct themselves at a higher level than most other members of society and are held to the highest of ethical standards. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides general accepted auditing standards and the code of professional conduct as a framework of guidance for CPAs to follow in performing audit procedures. The following audit case demonstrates potential problems that can occur when the client, Mattel, and the auditing firm...
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School Year School Day
462 wordsI really do not think that the U. S. (United States) school year or school day should be changed for the fact that it would take quality time away from their parents and tradition away from what the people know. Quality time is the most important between a parent and a child. If the person who makes the decision to make the school year longer or school day longer goes through, then there will be a lot of upset parents and a lot of upset children. Some parents do not want their children to go thr...
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