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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Argentina STUDENT’S VERSION Original investigators: Rodrigo G. Villar, MD,1 Roger L. Shapiro, MD,1 Silvina Busto, MD, MPH,2 Clara Rive-Posse, MD, MPH,3 Guadalupe Verdejo MD, MPH,4 Maria Isabel Farace, DVM,5 Francisco Rosetti, MS,5 Jorge A. San Juan, MD,6 Carlos Maria Julia, MD,MPH,3 John Becher, RPh,1 Susan E. Maslanka, PhD,1 David Swerdlow, MD1 1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2Ministero de Salud-Region V, 3Ministero de Salud y Accion Social, 4Pan American Health Organization, 5Departamento
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increasingly fierce market competition and the internal management problems such as poor accounting standards, the stock price of the company collapsed. Some shareholders had lost faith in the company. A major shareholder of the company was urging the CEO to sell the company. So the company faced two alternatives, one alternative was to sell the company to meet the demand of shareholders; the other alternative was to strengthen its internal control system to remedy the management fault. In this way
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3rd Course No. COM604 Course Title: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT L: 4 T: 1 P: 0 Textbook: 1. Hunger J. D. and Wheelen T. L. , Strategic Management & Business Policy, Pearson Education, New Delhi, 8th Ed., 2006 Other Specific Books: 2. Kazmi, A. Business Policy and Strategic Management, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2nd Ed. 2007 3. Jauch, R. Lawrence, R. Gupta and W.F.Glueck, Business Policy and Strategic Management, Frank Bros.&Co., 7th Ed.,2007 Other readings:
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investigates the benefits and supports provided by project management methodologies (PMMs) to project managers for the management and delivery of information technology/ information system (IT/IS) projects. Using a qualitative approach, through case study strategy, the role of PMMs is examined in different business and project contexts. This article evaluates the benefit of PMMs based on their traits and characteristics and investigates PMMs in their operational context: where PMMs come from
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CORE CONCEPTS OF Accounting Information Systems Twelfth Edition Mark G. Simkin, Ph.D. Professor Department of Accounting and Information Systems University of Nevada Jacob M. Rose, Ph.D. Professor Department of Accounting and Finance University of New Hampshire Carolyn Strand Norman, Ph.D., CPA Professor Department of Accounting Virginia Commonwealth University JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. VICE PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER SENIOR ACQUISITIONS EDITOR PROJECT EDITOR ASSOCIATE
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Chipping Away at Intel Case Study In today’s economy, corporations are consistently experiencing pressures to change. With pressures both internally and externally, leaders must constantly reassess who, what, when, where, why and how they do business. In light of these obstacles, they strive for the highest possibility of success by taking risks and pushing limits that others may question as extreme. We are going to review the “Chipping Away at Intel Case Study” to examine the different changes
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body should be an independent third party. AR = Audit risk: is the risk that the auditor will incorrectly issue an unqualified opinion. IR = Inherent risk: is the risk of material misstatements absent any internal controls or testing. CR = Control risk: is the risk that internal controls will fail to prevent or detect material misstatement. DR = Detection risk: is the risk that audit tests will fail to detect material misstatement. i) In this planning of the audit, the three audit areas
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RESEARCH CARRIED OUT ON THE SEPARATION AND TRANSMUTATION OF LONG-LIVED RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS, AND ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW GENERATION OF NUCLEAR REACTORS 1 4th GENERATION SODIUM-COOLED FAST REACTORS THE ASTRID TECHNOLOGICAL DEMONSTRATOR 1 2 FOREWORD The objective of the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), in which France is actively involved, is to prepare the future nuclear sector in an international framework by jointly developing the R&D of 4th generation reactors, based on
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characteristics that define a successful entrepreneur. These include innovation, leadership and internal locus of control as characteristics I see in myself. Risk-taking, self-confidence and self-determination are three that I must develop further. I will define each characteristic, explain its relevance to entrepreneurship and link it to either my personal experience or an example of an entrepreneur. 2. Strengths 2.1. Innovation In his “Theory of economic development”, Schumpeter (1934) states
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