restoration jobs obtained by ZZZZ Best (pronounced "zee best"). Located in the San Fernando Valley of southern California, ZZZZ Best had begun operations in the fall of 1982 as a small, door-ta-door carpet cleaning operation. Under the direction of Barry Minkow, the extroverted 16-year-old who founded the company and initially operated it out of his parents' garage, ZZZZ Best experienced explosive growth in both revenues and profits during the first several years of its existence. In the three-year
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Innocence Project Research Paper Since 1992 The Innocence Project has exonerated 289 people in the United States. To be exonerated of a crime means that a person is acquitted for their crime and released back into society. These wrongful convictions are due to unvalidated or improper forensic science, eyewitness misidentification, and false confessions. In this paper I am going to tell the story of Clarence Elkins and why wrongfully convicting a person is a problem in the United States. It
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Brief Overview of Primary Sources Leave it to Beaver, Season 1, Episode 12 “The Perfume Salesmen”, 1957. Brady Bunch, Season 5, Episode 19 “Top Secret”, 1975 After watching an episode each of Leave it to Beaver and Brady bunch, I believe that these sitcoms would serve as relevant primary sources in determining whether 1963 was a turning point in American cultural expectations of women as housewives or career women. In Leave it to Beaver I noticed that the women predominately stay in the
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presented during the 1964 U.S. presidential election campaign by future president Ronald Reagan on behalf of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. Many versions of the speech exist, since it was altered over many weeks. Contrary to popular belief, however, the speech was not given at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California as a nomination speech for Barry Goldwater. Richard Nixon gave that nomination speech. Reagan, though he campaigned for Goldwater, did not use "A Time for
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The “P” in SCAMPER refers to refers to “put to other uses” meaning how to put the current solution, product, or process to other purposes or uses, or what to reuse from somewhere else to solve the problem at hand. One classical manifestation of putting to other use is finding an alternative market for a product when one market dries up, or seeking a new client when the contract with one client terminates. Typical questions in brainstorming to this effect include: What are the other markets for
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world” as a “stage” where “men and women” are merely players with “exits”, “entrances” and “parts”, demonstrating his awareness that reality is as much a construct and not of our own making. Wag the Dog, an award-winning black comedy directed by Barry Levinson dramatises the consequences of a system that merges government and mass media. In the film, the vulnerability
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T.1.SAS No. 106 “Audit Evidence’, identifies the principal “managementassertions” that underlie a set of financial statements. The occurrenceassertion was particularly critical for ZZZZ Best’s insurance restorationcontracts. ZZZZ Best’s auditors obtained third-party confirmations tosupport the contracts, reviewed available documentation, performedanalytical procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of the revenuesrecorded on the contracts, and visited selected restoration sites.Comment on the limitations
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Barry Minkow created his own carpet cleaning business, ZZZZ Best, at the age of 16. “He seemed like a model young entrepreneur, except for the fact that he never actually ran a profitable business” (Ciulla). Instead of focusing on a carpet cleaning business, he focused on gaining capital in any way, including fraud. This fraud included forging money orders, adding “bogus charges to his customers’ credit card accounts,” and setting up a fake insurance company (Ciulla). He fooled the auditors by
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economic factors, the performance of long term economic growth and welfare of a country are related to its degree of financial sector development. Developed countries’ experience suggests that strong government bond market creates favorable environment for the development of an efficient corporate bond market although it is not always essential for a country to develop a government securities market. The financial markets, pivotal point of financial sector, execute a crucial role within the global economic
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but by 2000 had rebounded to 3 times, slipping again more recently. 2. The bond agreement specifies such basic items as the par value, the coupon rate, and the maturity date. 3. The bond agreement covers a limited number of items, whereas the bond indenture is a supplement that often contains over 100 pages of complicated legal wording and specifies every minute detail concerning the bond issue. The bond indenture covers such topics as pledged collateral, methods of repayment, restrictions
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