ideas and opinions as a means that individual or organization share meaning and understanding with one another. In other words, it is a transmission and interacting the facts, ideas, opinion, feeling and attitudes. It is the ability of mankind to communicate across barriers and beyond boundaries that has ushered the progress of mankind. It is the ability of fostering speedy and effective communication around the world that has shrunk the world and made ‘globalization’ a reality. Communication had a
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Hogan, C.E., Z. Rezaee, R.A. Riley Jr., and U.K. Velury (2008). Financial Statement Fraud: Insights from the Academic Literature. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 27 (2): 231-252. 1. There is a significant amount of literature on the characteristics of fraud firms, providing support for the fraud triangle classifications and the list of “red flags” used in both SAS No. 82 and SAS No. 99. a. Pressures to meet analysts’ forecasts, rapid growth, compensation incentives, stock options, the
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right or wrong doing and choosing to the right thing. In today’s corporate America, ethics program has become one of the integral parts of the organization as it helps to communicate the vision, mission and the direction of the company. It also helps to restore trust among all stakeholders – employees, investors, regulators, suppliers, buyers, distributors etc. Part A – Standards and Procedures 1) Accountability and Responsibility: All employees of company X should perform their task with
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Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 3 1.1. Background of the study 3 1.2. Hypothesis 4 1.3. Aim 4 1.4. Objectives 5 1.5. Structure of the dissertation 5 1.6. Summary 7 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 8 2.1. Introduction 8 2.2. Comparison of traditional and online sales 8 2.2.1. The individual businessman segment 9 2.2.2. The business group segment's sales channels 10 2.2.3. Individual travellers' sales channels 10 2.2.4. Sales channels of leisure group travellers 11 2.3. Sales and
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IMPROVING QUALITY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS Portfolio presented on 29th October 2004 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (DBA) JOHN PANIL MIEM, PEng (Msia) Bsc. (Hons) Civil Eng. MBA (Tech. Mgmt.) International Graduate School of Management Division of Business and Enterprise University of South Australia DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PORTFOLIO/DISSERTATION SUBMISSION SUPERVISOR
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air-conditioning are interconnected, as it provides livable temperature in an indoor facility within reasonable installation, operation, and maintenance costs. Basically, VAC systems is designed to provide ventilation, reduce air infiltration, and maintain pressure relationships between spaces. The ventilation and air conditioning (VAC) industry is indeed a very large industry that covers operation and maintenance, system design and construction, equipment manufacturing and sales. Going forward, the demand
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Janice Keefe John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This book is printed on acid-free paper. ● ∞ Copyright © 2005 by Word Association, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United
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financial reporting review and banking activity oversight.” This also includes white collar crimes such as embezzlement, stock market manipulation and price fixing schemes. This can include the financial impact of marketplace events, such as intellectual property infringement, anti-trust actions, financial reporting fraud, asset impairment and business valuation (Neumann, O'Connor, 2008). It also includes matters of family law, such as matrimonial disputes. In short, "Forensic accounting is the use of accounting
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most people think about hospitality industry, they have visions of hotels, airlines, cruise ships, restaurants, health spas, and the like, based on their personal experiences. All aspects of the industry are involved in business processes at the operations level. Business processes consist of transactions and interactions with guests or customers, employees and even other businesses. A transaction is an activity such as checking in to a hotel or placing an order in a restaurant. Interactions include
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Marketing and the Marketing Environment What is marketing? * “The activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering and exchanging offers that have value for customers, clients, partners and society at large” * Marketers need to learn what customers, clients, partners and society want * Marketers use information, develop new ideas and offer something unique/special * Ongoing process Why study marketing? * Market orientation firms have better
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