GLOSSARY OF TERMS 1 (August 2013) Access controls—Procedures designed to restrict access to on-line terminal devices, programs and data. Access controls consist of “user authentication” and “user authorization.” “User authentication” typically attempts to identify a user through unique logon identifications, passwords, access cards or biometric data. “User authorization” consists of access rules to determine the computer resources each user may access. Specifically, such procedures are designed to
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EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNAL CONTROLS IN THE FORESTRY COMMISSION OF GHANA A CASE STUDY ATEBUBU FOREST DISTRICT. A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARDS OF MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. (FINANCE OPTION) KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KUMASI GHANA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS COLLEGE OF ART AND SOCIAL SCIENCE BY PRINCE KWAKU ASARE PG8365312
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ABSTRACT Electronic banking is a subject receiving great attention in the banking industry and the regulation agencies. It is a driving force that is changing the landscape of the banking industry. It has blurred the boundaries between different financial institutions, enabled new financial, products and services and made existing financial services available in different packages. Some analysis argue that electronic banking is revolutionizing the banking industry, others see it as simply complementing
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Social class and crime Most studies in sociology suggest that the most serious and frequent offenders are young working class males. However, there may be a bias in the statistics that results in the idea that ‘white collar crime’ is underestimated... * WHITE COLLAR CRIME - middle class members of the business world - invisible and complex. * BLUE COLLAR CRIME - working class members in society - often visible and more likely to be punished. Sutherland (1949) first used the term ‘white
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Principles of Information Security, Fourth Edition Chapter 3 Legal, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Information Security Learning Objectives • Upon completion of this material, you should be able to: – Describe the functions of and relationships among laws, regulations, and professional organizations in information security – Differentiate between laws and ethics – Identify major national laws that affect the practice of information security – Explain the role of culture as it applies
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Similarity based Analysis of Networks of Ultra Low Resolution Sensors Relevance: Pervasive computing, temporal analysis to discover behaviour Method: MDS, Co-occurrence, HMMs, Agglomerative Clustering, Similarity Analysis Organization: MERL Published: July 2006, Pattern Recognition 39(10) Special Issue on Similarity Based Pattern Recognition Summary: Unsupervised discovery of structure from activations of very low resolution ambient sensors. Methods for discovering location geometry from movement
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institutions are: 1. Cash to satisfy reserve requirements enforced by the Federal Reserve System and to accommodate withdrawal requests of depositors; 2. Mortgages where the real estate represented serves as collateral to guard against default risk; 3. Mortgage-backed securities issued by other savings institutions that were in need of funds; 4. Investment securities like Treasury securities and corporate bonds that provide savings institutions with liquidity; 5. Consumer and commercial
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BUSINESS ETHICS | | | | | | 5/7/2015 | | Introduction This Presentation will describe about our group opinion that business ethics are important it is not a dispensable. It is the connecting point that organization work within a legal and fair.Because of the fierce competition between organizations ethics are in a declining theses days. But organization tries to protect them because it is the tool that builds good relationships between employees and management as well as
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University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Honors Theses Student Scholarship Fall 2012 An Analysis of Fraud: Causes, Prevention, and Notable Cases Kristin A. Kennedy University of New Hampshire - Main Campus, kaj79@wildcats.unh.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholars.unh.edu/honors Part of the Accounting Commons Recommended Citation Kennedy, Kristin A., "An Analysis of Fraud: Causes, Prevention, and Notable Cases" (2012). Honors Theses. Paper 100. This Senior Honors Thesis is
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an arduous hindrance but the confidence he showed and the way he motivate us develop perk in us and we are finally able to complete this initially abstruse looking assignment. 1. INTRODUCTION Web Banking or Internet Banking is a term used to describe banking transactions that are performed via a secured Internet application. Web Banking transactions include such things as paying bills, transferring funds, viewing account statements and paying down loans and mortgages. Although Web Banking
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