Questions from Business Ethics

Q: 1. Why would Nortel Networks, a Canadian company, hire

1. Why would Nortel Networks, a Canadian company, hire a U.S. law firm to undertake an independent review of factors that led to restatement of accounting reports? 2. Why did the independent review f...

Q: 1. Football is big business, raising millions and millions of

1. Football is big business, raising millions and millions of dollars for American universities. Numerous administrators and officials at Pennsylvania State University put a higher value on college fo...

Q: 1. The senior executives at Siemens’ spent most of their working

1. The senior executives at Siemens’ spent most of their working environment that condoned bribery outside Germany but not inside. However, they failed to take notice of the changes that Transparency...

Q: 1. If selling pornography is legal, profitable, and readily

1. If selling pornography is legal, profitable, and readily available elsewhere, should Telus shut down its adult service? Why or why not? 2. Telus said that it wanted to be Canada’s premier corporate...

Q: 1. Describe the fraud that allegedly occurred through Sino-Forest

1. Describe the fraud that allegedly occurred through Sino-Forest Corporation Inc.? Who benefited and how? 2. Why did regulators not prevent this fraud from occurring? What were they relying on? 3. Wh...

Q: 1. Was this an ethically correct sales pitch? Were the

1. Was this an ethically correct sales pitch? Were the lenders taking advantage of financially naive customers? 2. Should the investors now be upset that, as a result of the subprime mortgage meltdown...

Q: 1. Should the chair of the board of directors be allowed

1. Should the chair of the board of directors be allowed to initiate investigations into weaknesses in a company’s internal control systems? 2. Is the strategy of pretexting an acceptable means in ord...

Q: 1. Why do you think that the doughnut chain continued to

1. Why do you think that the doughnut chain continued to sell only sugary soft drinks even though it was under pressure to sell diet soft drinks as well? 2. Was selling only sugary soft drinks ethical...

Q: Why have concerns over pollution become so important for management and directors

Why have concerns over pollution become so important for management and directors?

Q: The events recorded in this chapter have given rise to legislative reforms

The events recorded in this chapter have given rise to legislative reforms concerning how business executives, directors, and accountants are to behave. There is a recurring pattern of questionable ac...