Use this website as the topic.
“Guild Mortgage Company”
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/guild-mortgage-company-pay-249-million-resolve-allegations-it-knowingly-caused-false-claims
Format. Organize your paper into the 3 parts below, using the subheadings and ABC formatting as shown below, starting with a title page with the following information:
Student Name:
Course Name and CRN:
Report Submission Date:
Title of Article and Date Article Published:
Articles Link:
Date Article Last Visited:
(Note: The title page is NOT one of the three pages of the report).
Part 1: The Relationship between Compliance, Ethics, and the Law
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Part 2: Recent Compliance Problem and Enforcement Action in the Article Selected
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Part 3: Compliance and Ethics Work as Professional Careers
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Content. Your content will answer the questions or directions below. Do not use Q&A format. Do not restate the question in your response. Use Times New Roman 12 point font and one inch margins. Your paper must follow formatting and content directions exactly or points will be deducted. Your content must address only the question asked or points will be deducted.
Part 1: Recent Compliance Problem and Enforcement Action in the Article Selected
Use your approved article to answer the following questions. If the article is silent, state that the article did not address this point.
A. Who is the person or company with the compliance problem? What is the industry this person or company is in?
B. Who is prosecuting this compliance failure? Which government agency or other person is prosecuting or suing?
C. What is the non-compliant behavior? What laws or regulations or ethical standards were not followed?
D. Who was injured by the compliance/ethics failure? How were they injured? Think beyond your article and consider all stakeholders this person or company impacts by the behavior described in the article. What are the impacts on society?
Part 2: The Relationship between Compliance, Ethics, and the Law
Based on the background articles posted in the assignment folder, your textbooks ethics chapter, websites visited, and other course materials, respond to the following items:
A. In your opinion, who in a business entity owns the duty to make sure the business is in full compliance with the law? The CEO, the Board of Directors, the Chief Compliance Officer, the Chief Legal Counsel, the lower level managers, the line employees? State the reasons that support your opinion. Cite at least one of the background articles in your response.
B. Describe your understanding on the relationship between corporate culture (ethical standards) and a companys efforts to comply with laws and regulations. Cite at least one of the background articles in your response.
C. In your opinion, can ethics ensure a companys compliance with all law, or is ethics something separate from complying with laws? State the reasons your opinion is based on. Does the textbook chapter help you form your opinion?
D. Assume you hold an executive management position in a company. What activities, programs, strategies or other approaches would you want to have in place to ensure compliance with all laws and regulations? What would you do to create and maintain the corporate culture you believe your company needs to succeed in todays environment?
Part 3: Compliance and Ethics Work as Professional Careers
Using the information you found on jobsites in Step 1 of this assignment, answer these following questions.
A. List 3 jobs with ethics in the title. For each, state (i) the job title, (ii) the educational requirements, (iii) desired experience, and (iv) the pay. (v) Give the website name and the date this information was retrieved for each job.
B. List 3 jobs with compliance in the title. For each, state (i) the job title, (ii) the educational requirements, (iii) desired experience, and (iv) the pay. (v) Give the website name and the date this information was retrieved for each job.
C. Would you consider working in any of the positions you listed? Why or why not? Would you consider becoming a Certified Compliance and Ethics Officer? Why or why not?