Please send me the article selection before you make any slides for approval. Thank you..

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HOW TO CREATE YOUR POWER POINT SLIDES FOR A RECORDED PRESENTATION

1. Select a ‘current events’ article.
Find a news article on a topic we have studied or will study this semester. The publication date must be after the start of our long semester (or in summer semester, within the past 40 days from the start of the term). The article must describe a business situation with legal and ethical implications. The topic must be relevant to business professionals who will make corporate management decisions, or who practice a profession such as a CPA.

Ideally, use one of these publications: Bloomberg, The Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Houston Chronicle, Texas Monthly, or Wall Street Journal, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases.shtml), U.S. Dept. of Justice (https://www.justice.gov/news), or the Houston Business Journal. You may need to use the UHD Library to access these later publications. Get article approval first if using a different publication.

NOTE: If you do not know how to access the periodicals listed above, go on the Library homepage and attempt your search in Periodicals. If unsuccessful, contact the Research Librarian for assistance. The online chat function is usually available and is usually answered within a few minutes. https://www.uhd.edu/library/Pages/library-index.aspx

2. Create Power Point Slide #1: Include this information: your name, the course name and CRN, the article’s title and author (or publication source), date of article publication, and the working URL to the article. Lastly, your assignment submission date.

3. Create Power Point Slide #2: Describe the problem or dilemma or management decision presented in the article. What went wrong with the business decision(s) described in your article? Or what does the business need to decide, to change, to implement? Why is the company now in the public spotlight? Which laws and/or administrative agency regulations are involved? (You do not need to research the law itself. Example, you could say something like ‘the banking regulations under Dodd-Frank Act’ or ‘financial regulations from the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’). This slide will sum up these answers in brief bullet points.

4. Create Power Point Slide #3: Explain how current practices are a problem, and identify options/recommendations (2 or 3 ideas are sufficient) the company can do to fix them going forward. Put yourself in the role of consultant hired in to advise the company on its next steps. Which laws and regulations, if any, are violated or under investigation? Which ethical principles seem to be violated by current conduct? Why are current practices not in the company’s best interest? This slide covers the details of the conduct, and your ideas on management’s options for improving and/or solving the problems.

5. Create Power Point Slide #4: Select one ethics principle or theory from our text or print lecture to apply to the situation described in your article. This is your decision-making model. Explain the principle/moral theory to the audience, and state why you recommend using this decision-making model to fix current problems going forward. In other words, this slide covers the ethics principle or theory you believe will best address the problems. Regulators and shareholders alike now look for ethics to play a major role in management decisions.

6. Create Power Point Slide #5: Based on the decision-making model you select in Step 4, recommend one specific course of conduct for the company. Show how your model is applied to the current situation, and how it supports the course of action you recommend for going forward. In other words, this slide shows how your recommended course of action is derived from your decision-making model, how the ethical principle or moral theory supports/justifies your recommended course of action.