Category: Ethics
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Perhaps my Dean of Students at Texas State was right when she remarked, Dennis I don't think it will ever be for them like it was for us. What she was referring to was the low tuition that made college a do able adventure as opposed to what it has become, a financial chore. While…
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Friday Jan 15 2010 Google is having second thoughts in its China involvement. While the internet is open in the US, at least so far, this is not the case in China. There the Chinese govt acts as a censor for comments it discourages about the government, which after all has never stood for election.…
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Wed Jan 13, 2010 THis articles analyses the reasons for Sarah Palin taking a position as analyst at Fox News, now the most watched news station in America. I am not making this post necessarily in support of Sarah, but to point out she is doing the same thing that Barack did in leaving Hillary…
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Sarbanes Oxley created new bureaucracies and made auditors, who were guilty of many things, billions of dollars. And then we had the worst financial crash ever. Swell, that worked didn't it? Please read this article about SARBOX. This will be required reading in the Ethics Class.
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Gilbert Arenas was suspended by the NBA for bringing a gun into the locker room. Fox News Sunday reports that just four years ago, Arenas was their Person of the Week! Arenas was then distinguishing himself by taking care of a young boy who was the only family survivor of a fire. Socionomics holds that…
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San Antonio Charter Schools were found lacking by the US Education Dept. the Texas Education Agency, and a local CPA firm needed a year to complete what should have been a three month audit. If this was a private company would it still be in business? Or would the Board be replaced? Why do these…
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Sat Dec 26 2009 They just fail to plan, so goes the axiom in the life insurance industry. Arrow Trucking of Tulsa OK apparently did both, Arrow cancelled the gas credit credit cards of its truck drivers this past Tuesday.This left drivers stranded across the country. Worse, drivers received bus tickets to get home As…
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Now CPA seeks $32 B from former, am I reading this right, partners? this is shaping up like a great potential ethics class, no lack of things to discuss…
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Bexar County Democrats are coming to grips with a bad decision. Dwayne Adams has apparently embezzled $200,000 of his party's money. As I put together the syllabus for the Accounting Ethics class, It is always interesting that there are plenty of current ethical failings to serve as examples. I never need to go back to…
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Tuesday Dec 15 2009 The Visual Science Lab posted some interesting comments concerning ethics and the internet. This was his post for Monday Dec 15. He deconstructs a Tom Friedman column. As he says, will Friedman think this is such a great idea when the NYT starts outsourcing his column to anyone that bids cheaper? This…
