Assignment 2

Ethics is the guiding force in any respectable organization. With a moral compass, especially in the leadership of organization, a company can become compromised and fall into a quagmire of legal issues, a tarnished reputation, and devaluation of company stock if it is a publically traded company. In pursuit of examine my own ethical lens I will analyze the ethical traits of an admired leader, my own traits as exhibited in the Ethical Lens Inventory, and how I make a decision concerning a particular ethical dilemma.

7. In capitalism, most businesses have a profit motive. Describe at least one reason that businesses with a profit motive may be helpful for society and at least one reason that they may be harmful for society. Then, explain whether you think profit motive is a good thing or a bad thing for society. (4-7 sentences. 2.0 points)

a. According to the bank statement, how many checks were written from this account during the statement period? (0.5 points)

a. What is the total balance of Jessie Robinson 's real estate account? (0.5 points)

CEO compensation has been a heated debate for many years recently, and it can be argued

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. --

Looking back from when I began my career, I can say I came a long way learning the concepts of understanding the expectations that arose from all my positions. In my first job just after graduating, I was appointed as a Business Accountant of a multinational company. Since then, I was caught in the myth that people who were in leadership positions or high ranking were leaders. Being in a junior position, I could have the least effect on any new ideas as my voice seems to have landed in deaf ears. I have seen how those businesses were not in line with their Missions and Values only to find later that many of the staff had left the company.

I believe that Excel can enhance the younger generations math learning skills. I think that as long as the basic math skills of calculating numbers are learned and mastered first, then Excel can be of a great benefit in the development of the critical thinking skills that are necessary to implement all of the different formulas. I believe that this kind of critical thinking that is required to realize how to formulate the data is a very important skill to develop. I do think that the younger generations and everyone else's calculating skills become a "little rusty" because of continually relying on Excel to do all of the calculating instead of doing the math out longhand, but this can occur even through the use of calculators. I think Excel

B.should put this money in the trust account because it belongs to the client until it is earned.

Policy and procedures are often changes in light of new evidence based practice. After education myself on the Safe to Sleep initiative, I set out to educate others. Knowing that many policy and procedure changes must go thru the quality council I began my education there before moving on to staff education.

4. Was the Barings board of directors culpable for the losses of Nick Leeson? What is a fair way to evaluate the performance of Barings’ board of directors?

$8.81 per hour, according to IBIS World, an independent market research group. This translates to annual pay of $15,576” (makingchangewalmart.org 2014) and not 12.20 average as the book states and nowhere near 25k a year. So knowing how much Wal-Mart’s workers are getting paid and looking at what the CEO made that year that’s 1,201 times the annual income those of other Wal-Mart associates. Now I know CEO position is one that comes from work and education not something you just come out of high school and obtain, however I believe a CEO pay should also be based on how well his company does in every aspect. If your turnover rates are extremely high, you’re being investigated for more than violation of the law, your workers are setting up food drives for themselves then yes I don’t think the pay he received was fair as it’s the general sales associates that are the backbone of the company. They are the first face that every customer sees, they are the ones responsible for the upkeep for all the stores, they are the ones to make sure to keep driving sales up and maintain the image Wal-Mart has always set for itself, and they should be taken care

2. Ethical Issues in Business. It seems that every day in the news we are hearing of new company that has acted at least unethically and possibly illegally in the operation and financial reporting of their company's business dealings. There are many ethical issues in business. One major issue that we see is over and under reporting net income. Companies like to show that every quarter the net income of the business has an increase or profit. In order to show this they adopt unethical or illegal means in the operation and financial reporting. One such method is the indiscriminate use of stock options for employees that enable companies to take employment costs off balance sheet and inflate earnings. With the recent ethical issues we have

This report explores the issue of the pay that top executives make, and the reasons why they do. It also suggests improvements that can be made to make the system better. High Pay Seems Small When Compared To Company Profits Many companies pull in profits that are extremely high. When an employee of such a companies salary is compared to the amount of profit that the company earns, it starts to seem reasonable. It only makes sense that if the employee is directly responsible for the success of their company, then they deserve to get their payback. It seems ironic, but many salaries even look small once compared with a companies profits. Top Executives Are Under A Lot Of Pressure Being the CEO of a

In 2003 the average pay for CEOs at 200 of the largest U.S. companies was $11.3 million--but there are a good number whose compensation packages approach the $100 million mark. Faced with these figures, Americans from all walks of life--who revile CEOs as greedy fat cats--are overcome with bewilderment and indignation. Astonished to learn that what an average worker earns in a year, some CEOs earn in less than a week--people ask themselves: "How can the work of a