...In the wake of economic scandal and the downturn of America’s economy, the Sarbanes-Oxley act and the Dodd-Frank act have attempted to reinforce and uphold the single most important virtue that our capitalist society so desperately depends on, trust. Many of the following names are familiar to us all by now, and for the wrong reasons: Enron, Lehman Brothers, World-Com, and Tyco. So what have SOX and DOD actually accomplished for our capitalist society? What can they actually do to help avert such catastrophic situations in the future? Let us begin with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Under the watchful eye of the Securities Exchange Commission the Sarbanes-Oxley act strives to protect the investing public from fraudulent and erroneous accounting practices, in addition to improving the accuracy of public financial statements. The act has transformed the world of accounting by: creating the PCAOB (Title I), increasing an auditor’s independence (Title II), increasing the responsibility/liability of a company’s senior management (Title III), enhanced financial statement disclosure requirements (Title IV), eliminating analyst conflicts of interest (Section V), increasing corporate and criminal fraud accountability (Section VIII), enhancing white–collar crime penalties (Title IX), increasing the responsibility/liability for corporate tax returns (Title X), and increasing the responsibility for corporate fraud and accountability (Title XI). There are several more provisions that comprise...
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...REMINDER: 1. Submit timesheet to team leader by Saturday mid afternoon...if yet anyone is assigned (PLEASE) e-mail them to me, or better yet put it in these threads!! 2. Submit a second copy of your own time sheet to your dropbox 3. Submit the final contract (which I feel we can get done by today evening) to your own dropbox!!! 4. Review the summary/status report that is created by the leader for the week. I suggest that it be completed by early Sunday at the latest and then also make a copy of it to these threads for everyone else to see. Team A Team B Team C Team D . Hi Team, Here is the conference call number and pin # schedule for: Time: 9:00pm EST or 6:00pm PST Date: Thursday, September 6th Dial in Conf. #: 1-866-206-0240 Participant pin#: 969444 Remember to also log into Team A Chat simultaneously. Priority order Strategic management to do mission which thry lack Human resource issues Customer service Online gaming asrs Meeting minutes: Mayhew and I had a 25 minute telecom in which we discussed the major points of the team contract. This is a tentative list of what we thought to be good ideas. Keep in mind that these are open to amendment if anyone has any good ideas. Q: How work will be divided? A: Equally based on content Q: How decisions will be made? A: By consensus, but with the leader making the final call. Q: How disputes will be resolved? A: In a diplomatic fashion...
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...Dodd-Frank Act: Did it Work? Introduction “With the President’s signature, the [Dodd-Frank Act] will mark the greatest legislative change to financial supervision since the 1930s,” according to Margaret Tahyar, partner and member of the New York Financial Institutions Group (Tahyar). Officially signed by Barack Obama on July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act gave positive hope for the future for financial markets and institutions, being viewed as the “most comprehensive financial reform since the Glass-Steagall Act” (Amadeo). However, since the implementation of the bill, various differing opinions on whether the passing of the act has truly helped or hindered the overall financial economy have prevailed. Dodd-Frank Act Overview Officially signed as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the bill was implemented to change and supervise all financial institutions. More commonly referred to as the Dodd-Frank Act, named after the two legislators who proposed it, Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, the act was created in result of the Great Recession of 2008 and to rein in large Wall Street companies that contributed to the crisis in order to prevent future devastations (Peirce, Robinson and Stratmann). As of 2014, only a third of the nearly 400 required rules had been finalized and only one third had been proposed (Culp). Kimber Amadeo, a US Economy Expert, provides the eight major regulation changes that were brought about from the Dodd-Frank...
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...Betty Ford as First Lady: A Woman for Women Author(s): LEESA E. TOBIN Source: Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4, Modern First Ladies White House Organization (FALL 1990), pp. 761-767 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20700159 . Accessed: 05/04/2014 08:14 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . Wiley and Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Presidential Studies Quarterly. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 163.238.9.21 on Sat, 5 Apr 2014 08:14:55 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsBetty Ford as First Lady: A Woman for Women LEESA E. TOBIN Archivist Gerald R. Ford Library On April 4, 1954, the women's page of The Washington Post carried a fea ture story on Mrs. Gerald R. Ford, a young congressman's wife with a penchant for "quiet" suits and "slightly more talkative" hats...
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...Running head: OFF-BALANCE SHEET FINANCING 1 Leases: Off-Balance Sheet Financing and the Strive for Transparency Today Brian Edman A Senior Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation in the Honors Program Liberty University Spring 2011 OFF-BALANCE SHEET FINANCING Acceptance of Senior Honors Thesis This Senior Honors Thesis is accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation from the Honors Program of Liberty University. 2 ______________________________ Gene R. Sullivan, Ph.D. Thesis Chair ______________________________ James B. Shelton, Ph.D. Committee Member ______________________________ Stephen R. Bowers, Ph.D. Committee Member ______________________________ James Nutter, D.A. Honors Director ______________________________ Date OFF-BALANCE SHEET FINANCING Abstract In today’s world, leases appear far and wide; they are commonplace throughout the business and accounting frontiers. Accounting for leases, however, is not so clear cut. Since there are various ways to account for leases, many companies pick and choose which they feel best suits their situation, even when this sweeps dirt under the rug along 3 the way. The financial procedures for dealing with leases should entail benefits as well as limitations to ensure each company is fairly representing all of its financial information. Off-balance sheet financing is one of the hot topics in accounting for leases because of the implications...
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...North C arolin a Polic y Wa t c h Cru cial Co nv ersa tion The Trans-Pa cific Partnership: Worse than NAFTA? Septemb er 2013 Lori Walla ch Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Outcomes of 20 Ye ars of NAFTA, WTO, FTAs… Crushing of Americ an Middle Class: more than 5 million US manufa cturing jobs (1 out of 4) & 60,000 US manufa cturing fa cilities gone. Millions of service sector jobs offshored: c all centers, computer, programming, engineering, a cc ounting. Wage “arbitrage” in a ra ce- to-the- bottom. U.S. re al median wages at ‘70s levels. Income inequality at Robb er-Baron-era levels. When manufa cturing, good jobs go tax bases shrink – and schools, public services, infrastructure cut, and construction sector unemployment soars. Floods of unsafe imported food, products. Financial deregulation, instability and repe ated financial crises. He alth, labor, land use, other public interest laws around world atta cked in foreign tribunals. Some dump ed. Initiatives chilled. Billions extra cted from taxpayers and paid to corporations for violations of new “rights.” Drug prices up. In poor nations, de adly cut in a cce ss to meds. Rich nation higher prices slam poor consumers, govt budg ets as Big PhRMA profits soar. U.S. loses 170,000 family farms. In ‘12, volume of U.S. food exports only 1% higher than ’95 (when NAFTA-WTO started). Imports of food now 97% above ‘95 level. Livelihoods of tens of millions of pe asant farmers destroyed, mass migrations...
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...M A G A Z I N E FA L L 2 0 0 2 Volume 20 Number 2 SPANNING THE GLOBE Duke Leads the Way in International Law Teaching and Scholarship inside plus Duke admits smaller, exceptionally well-qualified class Duke’s Global Capital Markets Center to launch new Directors’ Education Institute from the dean Dear Alumni and Friends, It is not possible, these days, for a top law school to be anything other than an international one. At Duke Law, we no longer think of “international” as a separate category. Virtually everything we do has some international dimension, whether it concerns international treaties and protocols, commercial transactions across national borders, international child custody disputes, criminal behavior that violates international human rights law, international sports competitions, global environmental regulation, international terrorism, or any number of other topics. And, of course, there is little that we do at Duke that does not involve scholars and students from other countries, who are entirely integrated with U.S. scholars and students. Students enrolled in our joint JD/LLM program in international and comparative law receive an in-depth education in both the public and private aspects of international and comparative law, enriched by the ubiquitous presence of foreign students; likewise, the foreign lawyers who enroll in our one-year LLM program in American law enroll in the same courses, attend the same conferences...
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...M A G A Z I N E FA L L 2 0 0 2 Volume 20 Number 2 SPANNING THE GLOBE Duke Leads the Way in International Law Teaching and Scholarship inside plus Duke admits smaller, exceptionally well-qualified class Duke’s Global Capital Markets Center to launch new Directors’ Education Institute from the dean Dear Alumni and Friends, It is not possible, these days, for a top law school to be anything other than an international one. At Duke Law, we no longer think of “international” as a separate category. Virtually everything we do has some international dimension, whether it concerns international treaties and protocols, commercial transactions across national borders, international child custody disputes, criminal behavior that violates international human rights law, international sports competitions, global environmental regulation, international terrorism, or any number of other topics. And, of course, there is little that we do at Duke that does not involve scholars and students from other countries, who are entirely integrated with U.S. scholars and students. Students enrolled in our joint JD/LLM program in international and comparative law receive an in-depth education in both the public and private aspects of international and comparative law, enriched by the ubiquitous presence of foreign students; likewise, the foreign lawyers who enroll in our one-year LLM program in American law enroll in the same courses, attend the same conferences...
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...las afueras de la fachada de vidrio del edificio mientras todavía estaba oscuro y poco tiempo después el salón de actuaciones estaba abarrotado.1 A medida que la multitud entraba, un equipo de empleados de Starbucks repartía tazas de café caliente, mientras que otro grupo escribía en tarjetas blancas los comentarios de los accionistas sobre la compañía.2 Desde el horizonte de Seattle por la mañana hasta el grupo de trabajadores con delantales verdes, el ritual anual se llevó a cabo de acuerdo con la tradición de Starbucks. Pero para la compañía icónica, este no había sido un año común. Starbucks se inició en 1971 como una compañía tostadora de café con casa matriz en Seattle. En esa época, el mercado de café más grande estaba dominado por las marcas de supermercado, tales como Folgers y Maxwell House, y el consumo per cápita de café estaba cayendo.3 Sin embargo, durante las siguientes dos décadas los vendedores de granos de café especiales y de alta calidad comenzaron a atraer un séquito de nichos.4 En 1987, el empresario Howard Schultz compró Starbucks con el objetivo de introducir la cultura del café al estilo europeo en el mercado estadounidense. Bajo el amparo de Schultz, Starbucks difundió la cultura de bebidas de café personalizadas y de alta calidad en las áreas urbanas de todo el país. El entusiasmo de los clientes de Starbucks ayudó a la compañía a aumentar sus ingresos de casi 10 millones de dólares en 1988 a más de 1.300 millones de dólares diez años más tarde.5 En 2007...
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...GAME CHANGE OBAMA AND THE CLINTONS, MCCAIN AND PALIN, AND THE RACE OF A LIFETIME JOHN HEILEMANN AND MARK HALPERIN FOR DIANA AND KAREN Contents Cover Title Page Prologue Part I Chapter One – Her Time Chapter Two – The Alternative Chapter Three – The Ground Beneath Her Feet Chapter Four – Getting to Yes Chapter Five – The Inevitables Chapter Six – Barack in a Box Chapter Seven – “They Looooove Me!” Chapter Eight – The Turning Point Chapter Nine – The Fun Part Chapter Ten – Two For the Price of One Chapter Eleven – Fear and Loathing in the Lizard’s Thicket Chapter Twelve – Pulling Away and Falling Apart Chapter Thirteen – Obama Agonistes Chapter Fourteen – The Bitter End Game Part II Chapter Fifteen – The Maverick and His Meltdown Chapter Sixteen – Running Unopposed Chapter Seventeen – Slipping Nooses, Slaying Demons Part III Chapter Eighteen – Paris and Berlin Chapter Nineteen – The Mile-High Club Chapter Twenty – Sarahcuda Chapter Twenty-One – September Surprise Chapter Twenty-Two – Seconds in Command Chapter Twenty-Three – The Finish Line Epilogue – Together at Last Index Author’s Notes About the Authors Copyright About the Publisher Prologue BARACK OBAMA JERKED BOLT upright in bed at three o’clock in the morning. Darkness enveloped his low-rent room at the Des Moines Hampton Inn; the airport across the street was quiet in the hours before dawn. It was very late December 2007, a few days ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Obama had been sprinting flat out...
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...An Argument for Regulation of the Reciprocal Trade (Barter) Exchange Industry Daniel Evans, Ormita Commerce Network It is well known that trust is the corner-stone of the financial services industry. Keynote speech by Dr Prasarn Trairatvorakul, Governor of the Bank of Thailand, The Asian Banker Summit 2012 “Trust as a Pillar of the Industry”, Bangkok, 26 April 2012. Introduction Trust is a critically important ingredient in the recipe for well-functioning markets and a successful and vibrant economy. Unfortunately, due to market scandals, incompetence and fraud, trust in our neighbours is something that is in shorter supply today than any other time in history. As Alan Greenspan once remarked: "[O]ur market system depends critically on trust—trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business."1 Despite outward appearances, public confidence in the integrity of the reciprocal trade exchange industry is alarmingly low. While numerous factors have contributed to this problem, one of the most potent is the widespread failure of reciprocal exchange networks of all sizes over the past 30 years. These failures include the spectacular collapses of large commercial exchange networks such as Bartercard (in USA, Canada, India, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Turkey, South Africa, Jordan 2 3 ), BarterTrust/Tradaq (USA, UK, Canada) 4 , BarterNet/Intagio (Canada, Mexico, USA & Europe) and Bigvine (Australia, Canada, USA)5; through to the dramatic...
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...'Vhat'Ve Can't A Guide J. Budzisze wski WHAT WE CAN’T NOT KNOW J. BUDZISZEWSKI WHAT WE CAN’T NOT KNOW A Guide Revised and Expanded Edition IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO First edition published by Spence Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas ©2003 by J. Budziszewski All rights reserved Cover illustration: Comstock/Fotosearch.com Cover design by Sam Torode ©2004 Spence Publishing Company Used by permission Published in 2011 by Ignatius Press, San Francisco ©2003, 2011 J. Budziszewski All rights reserved ISBN 978-1-58617-481-1 Library of Congress Control Number 2010927673 Printed in the United States of America To my grandparents Julian and Janina Budziszewski, long departed, not forgotten The mind of man is the product of live Law; it thinks by law, it dwells in the midst of law, it gathers from law its growth; with law, therefore, can it alone work to any result. —George MacDonald CONTENTS PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION A New Phase of an Old Tradition ix PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Whom This Book Is For xix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxiii INTRODUCTION The Moral Common Ground 3 I THE LOST WORLD Things We Can’t Not Know 1 2 What It Is That We Can’t Not Know 3 Could We Get By Knowing Less? II EXPLAINING THE LOST WORLD 4 The First and Second Witnesses 5 The Third and Fourth Witnesses 6 Some Objections vii 19 29 54 83 93 116 viii WHAT WE CAN’T NOT KNOW III HOW THE LOST WORLD WAS LOST 7...
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...millones de copias de la Guía del PMBOK®. A partir de la publicación de la Guía del PMBOK® – Cuarta Edición, el PMI ha recibido de parte de la comunidad global de la dirección de proyectos miles de valiosas recomendaciones en cuanto a mejoras y clarificaciones, que fueron revisadas y, según el caso, incorporadas en la quinta edición. La quinta edición se ha actualizado para incorporar los conocimientos y las prácticas más actuales en materia de dirección de proyectos. Se ha agregado una décima Área de Conocimiento para definir la participación adecuada de los interesados del proyecto en las decisiones y actividades clave. Se ha redefinido el flujo de datos e información del proyecto para aportar mayor consistencia y lograr una mayor alineación con el modelo de Datos, Información, Conocimiento y Sabiduría (DIKW) utilizado en el campo de la Gestión del Conocimiento. Se han agregado cuatro nuevos procesos de planificación para mejorar la consistencia, agregar claridad y reforzar el concepto de que los planes subsidiarios se integran a través del plan general para la dirección del proyecto a fin de orientar la planificación y ejecución del proyecto. La Guía del PMBOK® – Quinta Edición refleja la colaboración y los conocimientos de directores de proyecto...
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...of Difference. Place, Movements, Life, Redes. Primera edición en español Envión editores octubre de 2010 Traducción: Eduardo Restrepo Arte de la cubierta: Parte superior basada en un grabado producido por el programa Gente Entintada y Parlante, Tumaco, a comienzos de los noventa. Parte inferior, basada en una ilustración tomada de Los sistemas productivos de la comunidad negra del río Valle, Bahía Solano, Chocó, por Carlos Tapia, Rocío Polanco, y Claudia Leal, 1997. Mapas: Claudia Leal y Santiago Muñoz, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá Diseño y Digramación: Enrique Ocampo C. © Copy Left. Esta publicación puede ser reproducida total o parcialmente, siempre y cuando se cite fuente y sea utilizada con fines académicos y no lucrativos. Las opiniones expresadas son responsabilidad de los autores. ISBN: 978-958-99438-3-0 Impreso por Samava Impresiones, Popayán, Colombia. Contenido Prefacio Agradecimientos Introducción: regiones y lugares en la era global Lugares y regiones en la era de la globalidad Una ecología política de la diferencia Pensando desde la diferencia colonial Colombia como un teatro para la globalidad imperial Algunos contextos académicos Lugar Introducción: el Pacífico como lugar, “entonces y ahora” I. Notas en la historia geológica y biológica del Pacífico biogeográfico II. Poblamiento, hábitats y poblaciones del Pacífico colombiano...
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...critical theory today critical theory today A Us e r - F r i e n d l y G u i d e S E C O N D E D I T I O N L O I S T Y S O N New York London Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN © 2006 by Lois Tyson Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business Printed in the United States of America on acid‑free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 International Standard Book Number‑10: 0‑415‑97410‑0 (Softcover) 0‑415‑97409‑7 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number‑13: 978‑0‑415‑97410‑3 (Softcover) 978‑0‑415‑97409‑7 (Hardcover) No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data Tyson, Lois, 1950‑ Critical theory today : a user‑friendly guide / Lois Tyson.‑‑ 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0‑415‑97409‑7 (hb) ‑‑ ISBN 0‑415‑97410‑0 (pb) 1. Criticism...
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