Business Ethics
Implementing appropriate business policies and practices with regard to arguably controversial subjects.
What is business ethics?
Increased transparency, investment in green technologies, and diversity and inclusion.
What are three important trends related to ethics and corporate social responsibility?
The stock market and the bond market.
What are the most common capital markets?
Use different financial instruments to earn a rate of return to accomplish financial goals and objectives.
What is an Investor?
Was developed to ease the handling of money.
What is our banking system?
Educating employees, managers leading by example, and through various informal and formal programs.
What are ways that businesses can reduce risk related to unethical business practices?
Businesses, in addition to maximizing stakeholder value, must act in a manner that benefits society.
What is social responsibility?
The collection of markets and exchanges where regular activities of buying, selling, and issuance of shares of publicly-held companies take place.
What is the stock market?
Impose penalties for non-compliance.
What are regulators?
Anything that is acceptable as payment for goods and services.
What is money?
Can create legal problems, poor employee performance, and poor company credibility.
What is how ethics can affect a business?
What are corporations on Forbes 2019 list of top 100 socially responsible companies in the world?
Venues where savings and investments are channeled between the suppliers who have capital and those who are in need of capital.
What are capital markets?
A legal entity that develops, registers and sells securities to finance its operations.
What is an Issuer?
The federal government controlling the amount of money in circulation.
What is promoting economic growth and stability.
Sets the tone for business ethics, providing a basic guideline that businesses can choose to follow to gain public approval.
What is the law?
A party that has an interest in a company and can either affect or be affected by the business.
What is a stakeholder?
Corporate, government, municipal, mortgage-backed, and emerging.
What are types of bond markets?
Has the prospective to boost additional investors to participate, and contribute in, promoting the development of the economy.
What is a well regulated market?
Both require money to finance their operations.
What are businesses and governments?
Sentenced to 150 years in prison for swindling clients out of more than $65 billion.
Who is investment advisor Bernard Madoff?
What are keys to Managing a Socially Responsible Business?
Locally issued by states, cities, special-purpose districts, public utility districts, school districts, publicly-owned airports and seaports, and other government-owned entities who seek to raise cash to fund various projects.
What are Municipal Bonds?
Serve as middlemen for financial transactions, generally between banks or funds, and help create efficient markets and lower the cost of doing business.
What are financial intermediaries?
Scarcity, durability, portability and divisibility.
What are the characteristics of money?