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¶ … Profit Organization Interest
Identify the core functions of each department, their strengths and weaknesses, and make recommendations for improvement, as appropriate.
In the case of Rambus (the for profit organization we are investigating) there are conflicting accounting standards between: pro forma and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). As Rambus is focused on three different areas to include: Digital Edge Clocking, the production of DRAM and LED chips. The strengths of these different segments are: the company is major component supplier to some the major electronics / computer manufacturers and they are diversified between different areas inside semi-conductors. The weaknesses include: they are using a pro forma based accounting system, they have no effective internal controls and their business model is not protected against sudden shocks to the economy. Possible recommendations to improve these issues are: the company should reduce their overall amounts of debt, they should switch to GAAP-based standards and...
("Rambus 10Q," 2010) ("Rambus 10K," 2009)
Identify and describe the underlying problem or conflict
The area of conflict that Rambus is facing is that there is a lack of internal controls for employee compensation. In this case, the company was improperly awarding employees stock options, where the fair market value was above the price of the common stock. This is a conflict of interest, as it not recording this as an expense, which means that earnings are falsely being inflated. At the same time, it is giving these employees the advantage of: purchasing call options that are at lower than the price of the stock. This is problematic, because the pro forma accounting standard that the company is using allowed for more flexibility, in determining what transactions would be recorded. When you put this with the lack of internal controls, it means that this created a situation where the company reported higher earnings than they actually made for several years.…
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Rambus 10Q. (2010). Rambus. Retrieved from: http://investor.rambus.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=950123-10-98137
Rambus 10K. (2009). Rambus. Retrieved from: http://investor.rambus.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=917273-10-14
Mullins, R. (2010). Rambus Takes $200 Million Stock Option Hit. Tech World. Retrieved from: http://news.techworld.com/storage/7150/rambus-takes-200m-stock-option-hit/
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