The answer to this question will vary. Some people are moral realists and hold that moral facts are objective facts that are out there in the world, these people believe that things are good or bad independently of us. Moral values such as goodness and badness are real properties of people in the same way that rough and smooth are properties of physical objects. This view is often referred to as cognitive language. Those who oppose cognitivists are called non cognitivists and they believe that when someone makes a moral statement they are not describing the world, but they are merely expressing their feelings and opinions, they believe that moral statements are not objective therefore they cannot be verified as true or false.
‘Our ethical decisions are merely the result of our social conditioning’. Discuss. The base of our ethical decisions can only be described as a mystery to a non-philosopher, but debates have taken place between many philosophers determining whether our decisions are due to having free will, or if everything we do is pre-determined anyway. Libertarianism is the view that human agents can, when faced with a moral choice, freely act and retain moral responsibility for that act. However determinism take an opposite view to this; hard determinism is the theory that everything in the universe, including all human actions and choices has a cause which proceeds it.
While the Winklevoss twins originated the idea and had begun executing it, they had taken no steps to protect their intellectual property and had no formal arrangement with Zuckerberg. It is likely that they made several missteps that led to the loss of billions of dollars. The first misstep was their assumption that their idea would be protected from theft. Their second misstep was not taking action to protect their idea, which led to the false assumption about Zuckerberg. For his part, Zuckerberg conducted himself with weak moral standing, having stolen a valuable idea and taken steps to register and launch it without stating his position to the Winklevosses.
Working Computers needs to make a capital budgeting decisions regarding their Bernoulli division. The choices are: 1) invest $18 million and keep division; 2) invest $18 million and sell the division 3) Make no investment and keep the division; or 4) Make no investment and sell the division. Bernoulli Device (PDA), which makes small computer devises, faces losing market share and increasing competition. Their PDA can only be uploaded and download from a Working-brand computer. Also, their competitors are developing software outside the US, which is lowering the competition’s cost.
Many argue that they are an economic benefit. This economic opinion makes no sense because it assumes that illegal worker's jobs would go away if they were not accessible. For sweatshop and subsidiary labor this may be correct but not for actual economic activity. Many of those workers that are and “economic benefit” are being exploited. This situation is not one to rationalize about.
Previously recorded expenses were reversed to overstate income. “Gross profit entries” were made to reduce COGS and A/P. Rite Aid was also guilty of undisclosed markdowns and creating vendor rebates to hide its “gross profit entries.” A litigation settlement was also prematurely recognized to boost revenues. Rite Aid had been capitalizing expenses for new sites for their stores. However, they did not write-off the expenses when they had a “dead deal” and did not build a new store.
1) I think one of the mistakes Livingston made was to assume the source of the company's problem was the old computer financial reporting system. The old financial reporting system is only part of there was no collaboration to determine if the MCCS was the core problem of the company. Livingston made the determination that the MCCS was the root cause of losing contracts without other input. I would have gathered my team and perform an impact analysis to determine if there was any hidden problems with the current system that could be fixed in a faster cheaper way. Another issue is earlier on the meeting the MIS manager stated that he guessed the feasibility study would be the first step in the design, development and implementation of the new MCCS.
This cost Pfizer $2.3 billion dollars. If Pfizer hadn’t off-labeled their drugs, a chance of making more of money would not have been presented (Torrey). Another way that the companies profit is by not taking the drug back into the lab to find out new uses for it since they have off-labeling to fall back on. Going back in the laboratory and doing further research costs a great deal of money that doesn’t need to be spent when you can say that the drug can be “used for a different treatment.” The practice of this is not right, playing guessing games with others lives so that you can reap the benefits of their recovery or their
There is anti-piracy laws promulgated but unfortunately not observed strictly enough to control piracy. In the case of Microsoft who is now suffering a tremendous lost of profit due to incessant act of copyright infringement, Microsoft seems to be soft in pursuing corrective action against piracy I believe due to fear of losing current trade position with the country. 2. Increased digital communication may pose a threat to intellectual property because technology allows people to create perfect clones of original works. How do you think the Internet is affecting intellectual property laws?
This would not add to the burden of the entrepreneurs as they had no money to pay the hefty amount since the business never took-off. The loans could have been recovered from insurance companies in case of default. d) Political parties: As the industrial minister changed the focus shifted from Basti to Saharanpur. Question 3. It is right on the part of the government and promotional agencies to woo entrepreneurs by promising facilities and incentives which they are not sure of being able to provide?