Advanced Auditing Shams Kamal Assignment 1 Professor Whisenant MEMORANDUM September 14, 2011 TO: Johnny Whisenant FROM: Shams Kamal SUBJECT: Summary of John C. Coates article, “The goals and the promises of Sarbanes-Oxley Act”. On July 25, 2002 the date when stock market indices were making a new history against over publicized corporate scandals, bankruptcy and accounting misstatements, the new legislation
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FINANCIAL RISK MEASUREMENT FOR FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT Torben G. Andersen Tim Bollerslev Peter F. Christoffersen Francis X. Diebold Working Paper 18084 http://www.nber.org/papers/w18084 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2012 Forthcoming in Handbook of the Economics of Finance, Volume 2, North Holland, an imprint of Elsevier. For helpful comments we thank Hal Cole and Dongho Song. For research support, Andersen
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International Journal of Production Research, 2014 Vol. 52, No. 16, 4820–4834, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2014.890757 Development of a multi-scale model for customer perceived value of electric vehicles Rui Miao*, Fasheng Xu, Kai Zhang and Zhibin Jiang Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (Received 22 June 2012; accepted 23 January 2014) Electric vehicles (EVs) are now widely acknowledged as a potential ideal
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Stage 2 Developing Table of Contents Stage 2 DevelopingTable of Contents 0 Table of Contents 1 1.1 Key factors in case study 2 1.2 Likely financial needs of the clients 7 1.2.1 Savings 8 1.2.2 Insurance 8 1.2.3 Investment 8 1.3 Suggestions how the needs can be resolved 9 1.4 Likely providers 9 1.5 Relevant products and services 11 1.5.1 Savings 11 1.5.2 Insurance 14 1.5.3 Investment 15 1.6 Reviewing the customer service
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Investigation into Biometric Technologies and the Development of a Fingerprint Recognition Application . . . . . . . . . . Note: Incomplete, this document is currently in draft Abstract This preliminary document covers the presentation phase of a final year BSc (Hons) computing science project aiming to investigate biometric technologies and develop a fingerprint recognition application to allow logging of student attendance at lectures. The introduction offers some background
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Learning OpenCV Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler Beijing · Cambridge · Farnham · Köln · Sebastopol · Taipei · Tokyo Learning OpenCV by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler Copyright © 2008 Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available
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they earn $648.58 a year and Liberia where people earn $ 716.04 on average. The first non-African country on the list is Afghanistan, which comes in the 10th place. It is also the first country where the average annual income passes the $1,000 threshold with $1072.19. Other non-African countries on the list of the poorest 23 countries in the world are Nepal, Haiti and Myanmar. Haiti, a country in America whose 77% population live below poverty line. More than 46 million people out of a population
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J Happiness Stud (2011) 12:323–341 DOI 10.1007/s10902-010-9190-1 RESEARCH PAPER A Different Rationale for Redistribution: Pursuit of Happiness in the European Union John Cullis • John Hudson • Philip Jones Published online: 3 March 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Abstract This paper considers the role of redistribution in the light of recent research findings on self reported happiness. The analysis and empirical work reported here tries to relate this to a representative
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available for forecasting volatility, with extraordinary diversity of procedure such as the Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) models, Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (ARCH) models, Stochastic Volatility (SV) models, regime switching and threshold models. (Xiao and Aydemir, 2007:1) A broad division between the techniques is based on primary assumptions of constant variance i.e. homoscedastic e.g. AMA models, or non-constant variance i.e. heteroscedastic or time-varying e.g. GARCH models. The
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THE NERVOUS SYSTEM The nervous system allows the animal to quickly detect, communicate and co-ordinate information about its external and internal environment so it can make efficient appropriate responses for survival and/or reproduction. The two major parts of our nervous system are the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS is made of the brain and spinal cord. The cranial nerves, spinal nerves and ganglia make up the PNS. The cranial nerves connect
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