Discussion - Week 5

During the year ended December 31, 20X1, Greenacre Hospital received the following donations stated at their respective fair values: Essential specialized employee-type services from members of a religious group $100,000 Medical supplies restricted for indigent care from an association of physicians and used for such purpose in 20X1 30,000 How much total revenue from donations should Greenacre report in 20X1?   A. $130,000 B. $100,000 C. $30,000 D. $0V

Explain the unified code of conduct for business (integrity initiative)

Please discuss the legal and ethical status of the physician's actions in the following case.  Include in your analysis any relevant laws  A complainant alleged that a private practice physician denied her access to her medical records, because the complainant had an outstanding balance for services the physician had provided. The physician openly admitted that the complainant was not given access to her medical record because of the outstanding balance.  The physician noted that it is clearly spelled out in the information given to patients that access to their records is contingent on payment in full.

Section 139, Disaster Relief Payment, was enacted by Congress in 2001 to ensure that victims of a qualified disaster would not be required to include in gross income payments received for funeral expenses resulting from a terrorist attack.    True   False

Over the years, the Red Cross has been guided in its use of donations by honoring donor intent. This policy helped the organization deal with a major ethical challenge after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The Red Cross received more than $1 billion in donations and initially diverted some money to ancillary operations, such as creating a strategic blood reserve. After donors objected, however, the organization reversed its decision and – honoring donor intent – used the contributions to directly benefit people affected by the tragedy. Should the American Red Cross have reversed its initial decision to divert some of the money donated for September 11 relief efforts to pressing but ancillary operations? Support your chosen position.

Mark Young is the head of the painting department in a large hospital; 20 union employees report to him. Before coming on board at the hospital, he had worked as an independent contractor. At the hospital, he took a position that was newly created because the hospital believed change was needed in how painting services were provided. Upon beginning his job, Mark did a 4-month analysis of the direct and indirect costs of painting services. His findings supported the perceptions of his administrators that painting services were inefficient and costly. As a result, Mark completely reorganized the department, designed a new scheduling procedure, and redefined the expected standards of performance. Mark says that when he started out in his new job he was “all task,” like a drill sergeant who didn’t seek any input from his subordinates. From Mark’s point of view, the hospital environment did not leave much room for errors, so he needed to be strict about getting painters to do a good job…

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the U.S. government that assists other federal agencies in hiring new employees, conducting background check investigations, and managing pension benefits for retired federal employees and their families. The agency maintains data on millions of federal government employees, retirees, contractors, and prospective employees. These data were recently compromised in two separate but related data breaches at the OPM, raising concerns not only about potential identity theft and blackmail but also about the possible use of that data in intelligence operations launched against the United States. Early in 2015, OPM discovered that the personnel data (full name, birth date, home address, and Social Security numbers) of 4.2 million current and former federal government employees had been stolen. Then, in June 2015, OPM announced that the background investigation records of 21.5 million current, former, and prospective…

What are good examples of disciplinary actions for breach of the code by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Professional Code of Conduct.

Discuss the key provisions of the Provident Fund Act and explain how it aims to protect the rights and interests of employees in relation to their provident fund contributions.

As a risk advisory consultant, you are asked to evaluate and recommend improvements for the employee onboarding process for Swiftly Tech. During your evaluation you discover that Swiftly Tech's employee data was part of a data breach from a third-party background check provider. What action do you recommend that Swiftly Tech take?   Swiftly Tech should require employees to acquire and provide their own background check data.   Swiftly Tech should forgo background checks to avoid sharing confidential employee data with other companies.   Swiftly Tech should require background check providers to have their own internal controls to ensure confidentiality and security of data.   All of these answer choices are correct.

The Common Interest Community (CIC) Board is a separate agency within the DPOR. The board was established to regulate CIC managers by means of a licensure program. Under the CIC Board are four acts:

What is the purpose of the AICPA Code of Professional Conductrestriction on commissions as stated in Rule 503?

Red Cross insurance company provide 8 million Americans with health-care financing.  They paid millions of dollars for care attributable to illnesses related to tobacco use.  In 1998, to recover some of this money, they sued the tobacco companies alleging fraud. They claimed that since 1953 the defendants conspired to addict millions of Americans to cigarettes and other tobacco products by misrepresenting the safety of nicotine and its addictive properties. The defendants’ success caused lung, throat, and other cancers, as well as heart disease, stroke, emphysema, and other illnesses to members of Red Cross plans, which Red Cross was required to pay. At trial, the defendants asked the court to dismiss the case on the ground that the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue.  Does Red Cross have standing in this case? © a.     No, Red Cross does not have standing because their claim should be filed against the insured who chose to smoke and risked these illnesses.     b.…

A borrower has committed fraud if they: A) receive gift money from a family member as down payment for a purchase loan. B) intend to occupy a property as their primary residence for a reverse mortgage loan. C) borrow the down payment from the seller through a non-disclosed second mortgage. D) inform the mortgage loan originator that they will be changing jobs before the loan closes.

Long-term care facilities provide both medical and personal support services to patients who are unable to live independently. Thus, independent living and group homes or assisted living communities are long-term care organizations but not healthcare organizations. For example, assisted living communities may offer coordination of healthcare-relevant services such as medication administration, incontinence program or physical therapy. Identify one federal, state or local regulation affecting a long-term care facility regulated by the Department of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).   Discuss the importance of facility compliance with the regulations and the impact of non-compliance on facility operations.

Caribbean Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CPI) recently released a revolutionary new cancer drug (Vincenzio), which has the potential to change the entire health landscape. With the need to promote the drug in new and existing markets, CPI had to increase its sales staff and train them on all aspects of the drug’s efficacy. Because of industry regulations, the company (CPI) designed a blended learning programme, which included teaching sessions with instructors covering the information sales reps would need to know in order to be able to explain the drug to the company’s customers (i.e., prescribing clinicians, pharmacists and other medical practitioners). The blended learning format adopted by CPI facilitated access (on the company’s intranet), to more than 100 hoursof videos, doctor interviews; and 2,000 pages of text about the results of in-depth drug trials. This blended learning approach to the delivery of the training programme, also included a 3-day face to face intensive classroom…

Caribbean Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CPI) recently released a revolutionary new cancer drug (Vincenzio), which has the potential to change the entire health landscape. With the need to promote the drug in new and existing markets, CPI had to increase its sales staff and train them on all aspects of the drug’s efficacy. Because of industry regulations, the company (CPI) designed a blended learning programme, which included teaching sessions with instructors covering the information sales reps would need to know in order to be able to explain the drug to the company’s customers (i.e., prescribing clinicians, pharmacists and other medical practitioners). The blended learning format adopted by CPI facilitated access (on the company’s intranet), to more than 100 hoursof videos, doctor interviews; and 2,000 pages of text about the results of in-depth drug trials. This blended learning approach to the delivery of the training programme, also included a 3-day face to face intensive classroom…

You are an engineer and it is known that your project activities/plant production had caused an adverse health, safety and/or environmental (HSE) impact. To improve the HSE quality, you must cease your project activities/plant production for a period, resulting in the inability to meet the required schedule and targets.(i)Ethical behavior (ii)Identifying the moral issues

Write a letter of complaint to the Castle Bruce Secondary, a secondary school in Dominica, addressing the issue of Safety and security of management, staff and students of the school as a result of the inadequate fencing of the facility and security guards.

You are a consulting project manager and have been contracted by an investment bank to run a large information technology project that is expected to last 15 months. During the Direct and Manage Project Work process, you discover that several regulatory requirements have not been addressed in the project management plan. Failure to meet these requirements could result in legal action against the company. However, implementing the technology to comply with these regulations exceeds the budget and scope of the project, and could result in the cancellation of the project. As a project manager what are some of the critical issues that you will undertake?

Pollution remediation obligations should be recognized if which of the following obligating events has occurred?   Multiple Choice A violation of a pollution prevention permit has occurred. All of the given items are obligating events that would require recognition of a pollution remediation obligation. The government is compelled to take remediation action due to imminent endangerment to the public health. The government is named or will be named as the responsible or potentially responsible party to a remediation.

Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxely Act requires A the establishment of procedures to accept employee compliants B D the principle executive to certify they have reviewed the financial statements C a report of the company's internal control over financial reporting code of ethics requirements for senior officers.

DQ3: Corporate Ethics: Discuss the situations in which the corporate entity should be disregarded. De­scribe any situations they know of in which the behavior of a company was so socially repugnant that the own­ers should have been held personally liable.

State law trade secret protections cover confidential information relating to: Group of answer choices -formulas, customer lists, methods, and processes -business tax returns and “tax return information” as defined under federal law -articles of incorporation, corporate bylaws, and board resolutions -All of these

Global Crossing   The company was founded in 1997 to provide a trans-Atlantic cable to carry telephone and data traffic. Using high-bandwidth optical fiber, the company was able to sell capacity at less than half the price of existing competitors. After six months of operations, Global Crossing offered stock to the public, and the resulting price valued the firm at an astounding $19 billion. Six months later it was valued at $38 billion, more than the Ford Motor Company.   The cable technology was not proprietary and data-carrying capacity was a commodity. That meant that customers could easily switch from one supplier to another, putting them in a   powerful bargaining position. Furthermore, customers were price-sensitive. Even worse, the threat of entry was high, and other companies were entering the business, fueled by easy financing. High fixed costs but near-zero marginal costs (the cost to carry one more piece of data) led to fierce price competition within the industry. As new…

outline the consequences of a business implementing redundancy

Noura Company owns an entire building with 20 offices. It insured the building against fires with GG Insurance Company, providing a warranty that it will prevent the use of candles in the offices and will conduct inspection tours of the offices every month to ensure there are no candles. However, after 3 months of signing the policy, they did not make any inspection tours of the offices. Six months after signing the policy, a fire occurred because an employee forgot a lit candle in the office, which led to a fire in the building. Noura Company filed a claim for damages against GG Insurance Company, but the company refused compensation. How do You find the Noura Company's behavior?

John is now in trouble for not listening to Susan's instructions. She is threatening to suspend him for disobedience. John thinks he did the right thing and now is tempted to make his findings public. The CEO is concerned that if this information comes out, the company will be disgraced and they may lose revenue, which could result in subcontractors and employees losing their jobs. He is also worried that if they stop using Vail as a supplier, they may not be able to continue their philanthropic endeavors. Step 2: Complete the Ethics/Social Responsibility Case Study Paper The purpose of this paper is to evaluate ethical dilemmas and formulate a defensible resolution. You should support your resolution based on your understanding of rules for ethical decision-making and reflection of your own academic and civic life. Reference a minimum of three scholarly journals, as well as the competency readings. You should clearly identify the stakeholders and assess how the business dilemma…