Bauer Business Ethics

Student Resources - Codes of Ethics and Professional Conduct

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• Corporate codes of conduct
• Professional codes of conduct

Corporate codes of Conduct

Boeing

Boeing's Code of Business Conduct includes separate sections covering the actions of the board of directors and all employees.

1. http://www.boeing.com/corp_gov/index.html
2. http://www.boeing.com/corp_gov/conduct_employee.html

UPS Code of Conduct

http://www.ups.com/content/corp/code_conduct.html

Microsoft

1. Finance Code of Professional Conduct http://channels.microsoft.com/msft/governance/financecode.mspx
2. Standards of Business Conduct
   http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/legal/buscond/
3. Corporate Governance Guidelines http://channels.microsoft.com/msft/governance/guidelines.mspx

Other companies

List of Codes of Conduct for a variety of companies, including Baxter, Boeing, Compaq, Enron, HP, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Sara Lee, Texas Instruments, Verizon, and Willams-Sonoma, to name a few, can be found at this link.

http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm#codes

Professional codes of Conduct

Accounting

1. Texas State Board of Public Accountancy http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=3&ti=22&pt=22
2. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Mission Statement http://www.fasb.org/facts/
3. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rules of Practice http://www.sec.gov/about/rulesofpractice.shtml
4. Institute of Certified Management Accountants Rules http://www.cmawebline.org/

Finance

1. International Monetary Fund Code of Conduct for Staff http://www.imf.org/external/hrd/code.htm
2. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rules of Practice http://www.sec.gov/about/rulesofpractice.shtml

Marketing

1. American Marketing Association Code of Ethics http://www.marketingpower.com/AboutAMA/Pages/Statement%20of%20Ethics.aspx
2. The Federation Code on E-Commerce and Interactive Marketing http://www.fedma.org/img/db/Code_of_conduct_for_e-commerce.pdf
3. Direct Selling Association Code of Ethics http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/12/21/2091875.pdf
4. National Association of Realtors Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice http://www.realtor.org/mempolweb.nsf/pages/code

Management

1. International Association of Business Communicators http://www.iabc.com/about/code.htm

Internet

1. Internet Society's Internet Code of Conduct http://www.isoc.org/internet/conduct/

Law

1. Judicial Code of Conduct http://www.newshare.com/west/guidelines.html
2. American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/mrpc_home.html