{"id":217037,"date":"2018-09-15T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/fin-571-week-2-individual-assignment-ethics-and-finance\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:01:47","slug":"fin-571-week-2-individual-assignment-ethics-and-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-571-week-2-individual-assignment-ethics-and-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics and Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was passed as the result of the Enron scandal and other instances of accounting fraud. This act was passed to strengthen the role of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).\tResearch a case of corporate financial abuse related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and apply this to your current work or desired place of employment.\tCreate a 1,400-word analysis of the application of SOX in which you include the following:\t\t\tDiscuss the mistakes made by the company and their leadership.\t\t\tDiscuss the steps leadership could have taken to prevent or mitigate the repercussions.\t\t\tExplain the role of market pressures on unethical behavior.\t\t\tExamine the influence of the basics of finance and how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 changed things.\t\t\tEvaluate the influence of Sarbanes-Oxley Act on ethical behavior.\u00a0 Are businesses more ethical since the enactment?\t\t\tExplain the changes companies needed to make in how they use and present financial statements.\t\t\tDiscuss how SOX has affected your current place of employment if at all, and if not, how it has affected others in the same industry.\tCite a minimum of 2 scholarly sources.\tFormat your paper consistent with APA guidelines.\tClick the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was passed as the result of the Enron scandal and other instances of accounting fraud. This act was passed to strengthen the role of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Research a case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-571-week-2-individual-assignment-ethics-and-finance\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}