Business and Professional Ethics 9th Edition by Leonard J Brooks, Paul Dunn ISBN 9780357441886 0357441885

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ISBN 10: 0357441885
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Author: Leonard J Brooks, Paul Dunn

Business and Professional Ethics 9th Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Ethics Expectations

The Ethics Environment for Business: The Battle for Credibility, Reputation, & Competitive Advantage

Environmental Concerns

Moral Sensitivity

Bad Judgments & Activist Stakeholders

Economic & Competitive Pressures

Financial Scandals: The Expectations Gap & the Credibility Gap

Governance Failures & Risk Assessment

Increased Accountability & Transparency Desired

Synergy among Factors & Institutional Reinforcement

Outcomes

New Expectations for Business

New Mandate for Business

New Governance & Accountability Frameworks

Reinforced Fiduciary Role for Professional Accountants

Responses & Developments

Emerging Governance & Stakeholder Accountability Models

Management Based on Values, Reputation, & Risks

Accountability

Ethical Behavior & Developments in Business Ethics

The Ethics Environment for Professional Accountants

Role & Conduct

Governance

Services Offered

Managing Ethics Risks & Opportunities

Developing a Culture of Integrity

Corporate Governance

Questions

Reading Insights

References

Case Insights

Cases Involving Improper Behavior

Advertising & Sales Promotion Cases

Cases Involving Financial Transactions

Cases Involving the Control of Information

Cases Concerning the Environment

Product Safety Cases

Accounting & Auditing Cases

Chapter 2. Ethics & Governance Scandals

Ethics & Governance: A Time Line of Important Events

Ethics & Governance: The Early Developments Prior to 1970

Ethics & Governance: 1970–1990

Ethics & Governance: The Modern ERA—1990 to the Present

Significant Ethics & Governance Scandals & Events

Enron—A Failure of the Board of Directors

Arthur Andersen—An Organizational Culture Gone Awry

WorldCom—Power in the Hands of One Man

Crisis of Confidence

Sarbanes-Oxley Act—Closing the Barn Door

Tax Shelters—Not in the Public Interest

Subprime Mortgage Meltdown—Greed without Due Diligence

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Bernard Madoff—If It’s Too Good to Be True

Public Disillusionment: The Occupy Movement

Shareholder Disillusionment: Shareholder Resolutions

The LIBOR Scandal: How Banks Manipulated a Benchmark Interest Rate

Bribery Attracts Prosecutions and Huge Fines

Automaker’s Sins Come Home to Roost

Drugmakers Raise Prices, Gouging Patients

New Emphasis on Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing

Panama Papers & Paradise Papers Eliminate Secrecy on Offshore Tax Evasion

Unethical Bank Cultures Produce Scandals

#MeToo Movement Reaches a Tipping Point

Harmful Products Draw Huge Settlements and Change Perspectives

Accounting Crises Lead to Reimagination of Professional Accountant’s Role

U.S. Business Roundtable Statement Signals Acceptance of Stakeholder Interests

Signs of Ethical Collapse

Ethics & Governance: Trends

Ethics & Governance: Timetables of Important Events, 1929–2019

Useful Videos & Films

Questions

Case Insights

Chapter 3. Ethical Behavior—Philosophers’ Contributions

Ethics & Moral Codes

Ethics & Business

Self-Interest & Economics

Ethics, Business, & The Law

Major Ethical Theories Useful in Resolving Ethical Dilemmas

Teleology: Utilitarianism & Consequentialism—Impact Analysis

Deontological Ethics—Motivation for Behavior

Justice & Fairness—Examining the Balance

Virtue Ethics—Analysis of the Virtue Expected

Moral Imagination

Questions

Case Insights

Useful Video & Film

References

Cases Involving Improper Behavior

Chapter 4. Practical Ethical Decision Making

Introduction

Motivating Developments for Ethical Learning

Ethical Decision Making Framework—An Overview

Philosophical Approaches—An Overview: Consequentialism (Utilitarianism), Deontology, & Virtue Ethics

Consequentialism, Utilitarianism, or Teleology

Deontology

Virtue Ethics

Sniff Tests & Common Heuristics—Preliminary Tests of Ethicality

Stakeholder Impact Analysis—Comprehensive Tool for Assessing Decisions & Actions

Overview

Fundamental Interests of Stakeholders

Measurement of Quantifiable Impacts

Assessment of Nonquantifiable Impacts

Stakeholder Impact Analysis—Modified Traditional Decision-Making Approaches

Modified 5-Question Approach—Decisions with Short-Term Impacts & No Externalities

Integrating Philosophical & Stakeholder Impact Analysis Approaches

Other Ethics Decision-Making Issues

Commons Problems

Developing a More Ethical Action Using Moral Imagination

Common Ethics Decision-Making Pitfalls

A Comprehensive Ethical Decision-Making Framework

Summary of Steps for an Ethical Decision

Conclusion

Questions

References

Illustrative Applications & Case Insights

Chapter 5. Corporate Ethical Governance & Accountability

Modern Governance & Accountability Framework—To Shareholders & Other Stakeholders

New Expectations—New Framework to Restore Credibility

Corporate Governance Overview

Accountability to Shareholders or Stakeholders?

The Shareholder Value Myth

Governance for Broad Stakeholder Accountability

Guidance Mechanisms—Ethical Culture & Code of Conduct

Threats to Good Governance & Accountability

Misunderstanding Objectives & Fiduciary Duty

Failure to Identify & Manage Ethics Risks

Conflicts of Interest

Key Elements of Corporate Governance & Accountability

Compelling Evidence for the Development of an Ethical Corporate Culture

Developing, Implementing, & Managing an Ethical Corporate Culture

Corporate Codes of Conduct

Ethical Leadership

Corporate Psychopaths

Director & Officer Liability

Public Accountability Benchmarks

Conclusion—Toward a Culture of Integrity

Questions

Case Insights

Reading Insights

References

Cases on Ethical Corporate Culture

Cases on Ethical Leadership

Cases on Bribery

Cases on Corporate Governance & Managerial Opportunism

Cases on Fraudulent & Questionable Financial Reporting

Stock Market Cases

Cases on Product Safety

Appendix 7A. Alternative Governance Theories

Chapter 6. Professional Accounting in the Public Interest

Professionalism for Accountants

Professional Accounting’s Traditional Role

Historic Shortfalls in Meeting Professional Expectations

Professional Accounting and the Public Interest

Public Expectations Control Reputation

Dominance of Ethical Values Rather than Accounting or Audit Techniques

New NOCLAR Standards

Guidance for Professional Accountants Discovering Actual or Potential NOCLAR Activities

NOCLAR Requirements for Professional Accountants Providing Audit or Nonaudit Services

NOCLAR Responsibilities of Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB)

NOCLAR Implementation Issues

Implications for Services Offered

Assurance & Other Services

Judgment & Values

Sources of Ethical Guidance

Professional Codes of Conduct

Purpose & Framework

Conceptual Framework for Assessing Threats to Compliance

Conflict-of-Interest Threats to Independence

Conflicts of Interest Affecting Services Offered

Laws & Jurisprudence

Moral Courage Is Vital to Professional Accounting: Globalization Heightens the Requirement

When Codes & Laws Do Not Help

Broadening Role for Professional Accountants

Conclusion

Questions

Reading Insights

Case Insights

References

Famous Cases

Professional & Fiduciary Duty Cases

Accounting & Auditing Dilemmas

Fundamental Accounting and Auditing Issues Cases

Tax and Regulatory Cases

Chapter 7. Managing Ethics Risks & Opportunities

Ethics Risks & Opportunities Identification & Assessment

Enterprise Risk Management Must Include Ethics Risks & Opportunities

Ethics Risk Review or Audit—A Comprehensive Approach

Searching for Specific Ethics Risks

Ethics Risks & Opportunities: Management & Mitigation

Ethics Risks & Opportunities: Effective Stakeholder Relations

Ethics Risks & Opportunties: Stakeholder Accountability

Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, & Corporate Citizenship

Ethics Risks & Opportunities: Key Risk Issues & Tools

Workplace Ethics

Whistleblower Programs & Ethics Inquiry Services

Fraud & White-Collar Crime

Bribery & International Operations

Crisis Management

Conclusion

Questions

Case Insights

Reading Insights

References

CSR Cases—Environmental Issues

Workplace Ethics Cases—Discrimination and Abuse

Workplace Ethics Cases—Spying

Workplace Ethics Cases—White-Collar Crime

Bribery & International Operations Cases

Risk & Crisis Management Cases

Appendix A. Ethics Audit Program Annual Audit Questions

Chapter 8. Subprime Lending Fiasco—Ethics Issues

The Economic Train Wreck—A Global Disaster

Stages of the Subprime Lending FIASCO

How Did the Subprime Lending Crisis Happen?

Subprime Lending Developments

Transfer of Risk & the Liquidity Freeze

Contributions of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac

The Conflicted Credit-Rating Sham

Regulators Looked in the Wrong Direction

Special Purpose Vehicles—Key to the Crisis

Unlimited Toxic Risk—Credit Default Swaps, Naked & Otherwise

Crisis, Bankruptcy, Bailouts, & New Regulations

Worldwide Contagion

Subsequent Events

Ethics Issues—The Subprime Lending FIASCO

Greed, Incompetence, Dishonesty, Conflicts of Interest, Non-Transparency, Lack of Moral Courage, & Poor Risk Management

Corporate Psychopaths—Potential Role in the Subprime Lending Crisis

Lack of Regulation & Sound Decision Making

Are Mark-to-Market (M2M) Accounting Standards to Blame?

The Ultimate Risk Bearers

Cynicism

Ethics Lessons

Questions

Case Insights

References

Cases

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