27 Sep Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse

CASE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

OVERVIEW

The student will write two separate Case Assignments from the Ferrell textbook. There must be a clear thesis statement with an introduction that provides a clear overview of the paper’s contents. The issue(s) raised in the topic must be treated objectively. The conclusion must offer a robust summary of the issues treated in the paper and suggestions for further study. The paper will be written to cover the topic to sufficient depth for an upper-class research paper and provide a substantive evaluation of the ethical issue(s).

INSTRUCTIONS

You will research what the literature says about the issues in each case and what the secular worldview suggests would be the course or courses of action that decision makers within the organization should have taken to remedy the dilemma. You will also research the Bible for remedies that a Christian or follower of God should have taken. Make recommendations from both worldly and biblical views that decision makers should have implemented to avoid the ethical situation. Support your recommendations using content from the selected scholarly resources.

Your assignment must include evidence of the following:

• Identify Ethical Issue(s) and Stakeholders, Evaluation of Ethical Implications, Develop Plan of Action, Integrate Biblical Worldview in Value Judgments, Research Support in Application of Ethical Solution(s), and Writing Style (APA formatting), grammatical errors and sentence structure.  

• Each assignment should be between 5-6 pages not including the title and references pages 

• Each assignment must be written in current APA format 

• Each assignment must include 5 peer reviewed, scholarly sources. All sources must be of a scholarly nature, either textbooks or journal articles from peer-reviewed journals and the Bible. All citations should be in the References section and included in-text. As this is a paper that requires research, it must be written in third person. 

Case: Monsanto Assignment can be found in the Ferrell textbook, “Monsanto Attempts to Balance Stakeholder Interests.” The paper must use the following (3) Level 1 headings that correspond to the case points: 

• Monsanto’s Ethical Culture and Stakeholders 

• Evaluation of Ethical Implications of Growing GMO Seed 

• Recommended Plan of Action

• Integration of Biblical Worldview and Value Judgments 

Case: Enron Assignment can also be found in the Ferrell textbook, “Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse.” The paper must use the following (3) Level 1 headings that correspond to the case points: 

• Enron’s Ethical Culture, Stakeholders, and How it Contributed to its Bankruptcy? 

• Evaluation and Implications of Enron’s Unethical Behaviors

• Recommended Plan of Action

• Integration of Biblical Worldview and Value Judgments 

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool. The tool is a starting point for instructors to check overall Academic Integrity and higher scores generally indicate a higher probability of Academic Misconduct. The higher a score the higher the probability that there are too high a percentage of quotations included in the narrative, and/or there are passages that have not been properly cited.