Corporate governance compliance could be separated into legal and ethical compliance, and it has been argued that both aspects are important. You are required to work with your assignment partner to analyse, debate and make your stand on the topic below using appropriate examples. “Legal corporate governance compliance is essential but insufficient to guarantee corporate responsibility, one needs to take into consideration ethical corporate governance compliance as well.” Legal compliance / Student 1: Legal corporate governance compliance has greater impact corporate responsibility. Ethical compliance / Student 2: Ethical corporate governance compliance has greater impact corporate responsibility. Page 2 of 3 In your written debate, you are required to research and support your argument with cases and theories where applicable. Below is an example of the order/format and guideline of a written debate, headings such as Introduction, Rebuttal and Conclusion of student 1 and 2 are required: Introduction: Establish your case (student 1) Establish your case (student 2) Rebuttal: Address issues brought up by your opponent and further support your argument (student 1) Address issues brought up by your opponent and further support your argument (student 2) Conclusion: Further rebuttal and make a stand on your point (student 1). Further rebuttal and make a stand on your point (student 2). (Angie Williamson, librarian, email: [email protected] is available to assist students with research and debate queries.) Part 2 (1,500 words; 10 marks): There have been numerous corporate fraud cases in the past decades, some of which caused by overoptimism and over-expansion of company’s business. Managers believe that when they have increased the size of their companies, they become “too big to fail”. You are required to research on two different fraud cases which took place in Australia or in the U.S. that are related to over-expansion and discuss the fraud types, reasons behind their fraud and provide your views on how they could have been prevented. Three (3) marks will be awarded for overall grammar and expression. Three (3) marks will be awarded based on teamwork evaluation (use the template provided on page 4 of this document). (14 + 10 + 3 + 3 = 30 marks) Submission Instructions • Provide a table of contents (excluded in word count) and ensure all questions are clearly labelled. • Ensure you have successfully enrolled in the same group with your assignment partner on Cloud site and submit one assignment per group into ‘MAA763 assignment 2 – group’ dropbox and each student is to complete and submit a peer ‘teamwork evaluation form’ into ‘MAA763 assignment 2 – teamwork evaluation form’ dropbox. Use the peer teamwork evaluation template provided at the end of this document. • Harvard style of referencing to be employed (reference list is excluded in word count). • Written in font size 12 for body writing; headings and block quotes may have different sizes. • Include page numbers • Line spacing of 1.5 or double spacing Page 3 of 3 You must keep a backup copy of every assignment you submit, until the marked assignment has been returned to you. In the unlikely event that one of your assignments is misplaced, you will need to submit your backup copy. Any work you submit may be checked by electronic or other means for the purposes of detecting collusion and/or plagiarism. When you are required to submit an assignment through your CloudDeakin unit site, you will receive an email to your Deakin email address confirming that it has been submitted. You should check that you can see your assignment in the Submissions view of the Assignment dropbox folder after upload, and check for, and keep, the email receipt for the submission