March 2012 This Auditing and Assurance Bulletin has been prepared by Auditing and Assurance staff. It has not been issued under the authority of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB). This Auditing and Assurance Bulletin is intended to help raise practitioners’ awareness in a timely manner of significant new or emerging issues or other noteworthy circumstances related to engagements addressed by the AASB pronouncements. It is also meant to direct practitioners to relevant requirements
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STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL Serial No. NNNNNNNNNN UNITED GROWTH BERHAD (Company No. 739648-W) Islamic Medium Term Notes pursuant to an Islamic Medium Term Notes Programme of RM2.2 billion under the Shariah principle of Musharakah Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Lead Managers CIMB Investment Bank Berhad HSBC Amanah Malaysia Berhad (Company No: 18417-M) (Company No: 807705-X) 13 June 2012 IMPORTANT NOTICE Responsibility Statements This Information Memorandum
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* Step one: Identify Potential Red Flags After analyzing Wal-Mart’s annual report for 2010, attention has been brought to several items that require closer examination. A common “red flag” to questionable accounting has been found within Wal-Mart’s statement of cash flows and income statement. There is an increasing gap between the company’s reported income and the cash flow from operating activities. In the year 2008 reported income and cash flow from operating activities differed by $484 million
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visible Enron and WorldCom fraud cases. Both companies filed for bankruptcy and constituted the largest companies in American history to do so. The extent of the accounting irregularities and fraud being investigated and disclosed brought into question the effectiveness of financial statement audits. In addition, the criminal conviction of Arthur Andersen, LLP, one of the then Big 5 accounting firms, on charges of destroying documents related to the Enron case brought into question the ethical
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Soil Conservation Working Group Report This report provided content for the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts first report, Wisconsin’s Changing Climate: Impacts and Adaptation, released in February 2011. THE WISCONSIN INITIATIVE ON CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS 1st Adaptive Assessment Report Contribution of the Soil Conservation Working Group July 2010 Contour stripcropping in central Wisconsin Photo by Ron Nichols, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Participants
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Journal Of Financial And Strategic Decisions Volume 10 Number 3 Fall 1997 STRATEGIC ASSETS, CAPITAL STRUCTURE, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE Rahul Kochhar* Abstract Possession of strategic assets is a necessary condition for sustained competitive advantage. This condition is, however, not sufficient. Firms require financial management capability to realize the rents present in their strategic assets. The firm-specific nature of strategic assets implies that they be financed primarily through equity;
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Fair Value Accounting: The Road to Be Most Travelled By Rock Lefebvre, Elena Simonova and Mihaela Scarlat Fair Value Accounting: The Road to Be Most Travelled By Rock Lefebvre, Elena Simonova and Mihaela Scarlat December 2009 Sponsored by the Certified General Accountants Association of Ontario Introduction ................................................................................................................................ Fair Value Accounting – An Overview.............
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THE SUBPRIME CREDIT CRISIS AND CONTAGION IN FINANCIAL MARKETS Francis A. Longstaff∗ Abstract. We conduct an empirical investigation into the pricing of subprime assetbacked CDOs and the resulting contagion effects on other markets. Using data for the ABX indexes of subprime CDO prices, we find strong evidence of contagion effects. In particular, we find that contagion effects spread first from lower-rated ABX indexes to higher-rated ABX indexes, and then from the subprime markets to the Treasury bond
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Principles and Misconceptions in Communication This paper will explore effective communication, some of the principles and misconceptions, some of the barriers that we face in our communication skills, as well as how our words have the ability to affect our attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions. Effective communication, whether it is to a nation, people in different cultures, or in the privacy of our homes, can be used to tear people apart or hurt someone; it can be full of bitterness and
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Contents ANNUAL REPORT 2011 2 7 8 15 16 17 20 6 14 Notice of Annual General Meeting Corporate Information Corporate Governance Statement Statement on Corporate Social Responsibility Statement on Internal Control 24 26 27 87 92 25 Chairman’s Statement Corporate Structure 86 Financial Statements 91 List of Group Properties 94 Analysis of Shareholdings Proxy Form 19 Directors’ Profile 23 Audit Committee Report 2 UMS HoLDINGS BeRHAD (74125-V) ANNUAL RePoRt 2011 notice of ANNUAL GeNeRAL MeetING
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