The applicant flow sheet was very revealing. The greatest disparity is seen at the store manager level where no African-Americans were hired (internally or externally). There were also no African-Americans hired from outside to fill the assistant store
• They did not identify, and manage, risks relating to the health, welfare and safety of patients. • They had not responded to or considered complaints and views of people about the service. • Investigations into the conduct of staff were not robust and had not safeguarded people. • They did not take reasonable steps to identify the possibility of abuse and prevent it before it occurred. • They did not respond appropriately to allegations of abuse.
There were no brainstorming sessions, no meetings, no request for ideas or suggestions. It seems that the board had not considered the possibility that their plans and actions might create stress among the staff. If someone at the Concord board had studied and applied change theory, the transition might have helped during the transition at the concord bookshop. In 1951, Kurt Lewin, developed a three staged model for organizational change. The stages include unfreeze, change, and refreezing.
|LO 5 | |PROBLEM 6-3 THE DESIGN OF INTERNAL CONTROL DOCUMENTS | 1. The old system of allowing each motel to buy supplies from local distributors offered very little internal control. For example, the corporate office had no control over the amount paid by each individual operation for its supplies. The new system will allow the company to buy in larger quantities, hopefully at better prices. Also, with the old system, there was no physical control over the supplies.
As a member there are certain criteria and professional standards that we must uphold. CPAs have auditing and assurance standards that must be followed to ensure valid and accurate information from company to company. Pronouncements are often issued to keep all CPAs informed on industry changes. Compilation and review standards provide the same value as auditing standards, to ensure services are provided in a similar fashion by all CPAs. Other attestation standards include specific guidance on other attestation services, again to ensure each CPA practices applicable accounting procedures.
There is no proper linkage between corporate HR structure and operations at the plant level. In other word there is no chain of command kind of linkage between them. It seems that operations office can do the HR functions by themselves like hire and fire which is in fact corporate HR department’s sole function. The leave reason seems to be written by the supervisor not the employee, this is not logical. 2.
There are not enough regulations and monitoring system for the daily accounting activities. For instance, management and auditors spend very little time reviewing the insignificance of petty cash account. So the five elements of internal control is not work well in this company. The control environment was not effective; there was no effective risk management, which helped the company to realize its objectives; control activities and monitoring are lack. Moreover, the CEO is ultimately responsible for the internal control who assumes primary responsibility for the system of internal control.
* Complete – ensure all required information is in the report * Correct – every piece of information must be accurate and verifiable. 5) List the 4 most important standards you need to work to in your worksite * The Disability Services Standards * Home and Community Care Standards * Aged Care Accreditation Standards * Housing Regulation and Standards 6) Do you know what to so if a breach of confidentiality should occur? * Make sure that you consider issues of confidentiality * Take steps to record your actions and the reasons for them
The company focuses on all perspective which allows the firm to treat each functional perspective with the uniqueness necessary and communicate each perspective to other functional areas within the organization. FedEx understands that quality equals profit. Therefore, the company emphasizes quality in each area of the business. Quality control in each area ultimately allows the firm to deliver a high quality of service to their
* Lack of inventory Management Lack of inventory management and standardized parts not being used in manufacturing, due to unrelated inventory procurement of Zing PC. * Ineffective collaboration with the suppliers No or little communication with key suppliers, hence effecting quality and quantity of shipments. * Poor Internal communication Lack of internal communication causing disruption of business processes / operations. * Manufacturing bottlenecks Lack of inventory management / loss of inventory causing manufacturing delays, hence creating bottlenecks / in efficiencies. * Assembly Lines Faults Poor design of assembly floor line is causing manufacturing delays as inter related task are done separately.