In: Raimo P. Hämäläinen and Esa Saarinen, eds. 2007. Systems Intelligence in Leadership and Everyday Life. Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo. CHAPTER 11 Reasons of Systemic Collapse in Enron Matti Rantanen This article studies the moral development at Enron from the perspective of its long-term CEO and chairman Ken Lay. I focus on some critical decisions in the early years of Enron and speculate why Lay chose in favour of non-systems intelligent solutions
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Leandro Cruz Fua WHAT’S NEW IN ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS? Cloud Computing—Impact for Accountants According to Ron Gill, cloud computing is a way of using business applications over the Internet—such as the way you use the Internet for your bank transactions. Think of cloud computing as a way to increase IT capacity or add capabilities without investing in new infrastructure, training new people, or licensing new software. Mostly, we’re talking about a subscription-based or pay-per-use service
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Federal Government 01JUN2014 Practical politics are as old as the beginning of time. 1) Practical politics are about trying to make people do what they want to do. a. George Washington Plunckit senator of Tammany Hall, named after a chief Indian. He believed in honest graft” and meant that he would be able to take a little bit of the wealth from the people. b. Kick back scheme is about giving out contracts and then they give money of the government money back
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like so many others in life that have had to downsize their income ended up working two jobs just to keep his home. They refer to this as “Underemployed”, in 2008, over 35% of college graduates were underemployed, by June of 2013 the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported that 44 % of graduates were underemployed (Bowyer, 2014, para 3). . This is something
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NIGERIAN BUDGET FROM 1999 – 2013 ONOWA SIMON +2348064034407 Simoncy2k@gmail.com ABSTRACT This study examines the Federal Government budget in Nigeria between 1999 and 2013. The analysis of this study showed that for more than a decade of democratic dispensation in Nigeria, there has been a consistent increase in the total recurrent expenditure of the Federal Government. This has led to budget deficits. Thus a key macroeconomic issue addressed in this study is
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Corruption in Leadership: Public Service and Government Cynthia Klecha Abstract Corruption throughout the world is extensive. Corruption is defined as the twisting of integrity. A corrupt individual is an opponent of the truth; their virtues and ethics are deficient. In the United States, people in all positions of private district, public assistance, and government bureaus have been entangled in varieties of
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Term paper On “Credit Risk Management Analysis of United Commercial Bank LTD” [pic] Submitted To: Fahmida Israt Jahan Lecturer Department Of Finance and Banking Dhaka Commerce College Submitted By: Fahim-Ul Kabir Khan Roll No: 978 88 76 Registration No: 185 86 89 B.B.A (Hons.) Part 2 Session 2010-2011 Department Of Finance and Banking Dhaka Commerce College Date of Submission: May 31, 2014 [pic] National University
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consider the immense emotion writers could stimulate. Often overly dramatic with its supernatural, horrific, and suspenseful material, this melancholy form of literature prompted the use of darkness and mystery in order to spawn feelings of obscurity, secrecy, and trepidation. Gothic literature operates as a pulp genre that was often seen as an intense type of romance with its stylized, non-realistic, idealized or emblematic tales presented in the form of an adventure through the use of a discovery quest
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THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE ORDINANCE, 1969 (ORDINANCE NO. XVII OF 1969). [ 28th June, 1969 ] 1 An Ordinance to provide for the protection of investors, 2[ regulations of capital markets and issue] and dealings in securities. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the protection of investors, 3[ regulations of capital markets and issue] and dealings in securities and for matters ancillary thereto; AND WHEREAS the national interest of Pakistan in relation to the achievement of uniformity
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OECD countries stand to gain a lot of profitable business. The encouragement of privatization by the World Bank, and the economic benefit to OECD multinationals from this business, mean that effective action against corruption has to involve effective sanctions by developing countries against multinationals which engage in corrupt practices; greater political transparency to remove the secrecy under which corruption flourishes; and resistance to the uncritical extension of privatization. Corruption
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