your CPA Review videos first – before working any assigned homework questions. The CPA Review industry says to watch a section of CPA Review video and then work the accompanying MCQs. This perspective stems from the old-school approach to the paper and pencil exam where you had to sit in a live classroom and learn from an instructor on weekends. Today, there is a smarter way to study. You don’t have to go to a weekend live course. You can fire up the laptop on a Tuesday morning and knock
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points. This finding is consistent with the idea that, although the reduction in information asymmetry associated with SOX could prompt managers to increase equity financing, debt is still safer and less costly than equity in the SOX era. Further analysis shows that the increase in debt occurs in the two quarters prior to SOX, suggesting that firms anticipate a higher cost of debt after SOX and acquire debt while it is relatively cheap. Also, firms that heavily (lightly) manage earnings prior to
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Bangladesh are also being engaged in various social activities as a part of their responsibilities. In this study it has been tried to find out whether the Islamic Banks of Bangladesh are adhering to the prescribed forms of the CSR activities or not. This paper is mainly designed based on the CSR forms to be followed by Islamic banks as has been prescribed by Farook (2007) in his study “On Corporate Social Responsibility of Islamic Financial Institutions” under the light of Islamic Shariah. The research found
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Name____Morenike Onibon___________________________ Individual Learning 55 Question Form General Information ORACLE CORPORATION’S 2014 FINANCIAL STATEMENT WAS UNAVAILABLE AT THE TIME I WORKED ON THIS PROJECT: I THUS USED THE 2013-2012 FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 1. What is the name of your corporation? The name of my corporation is Oracle Corporation. 2. Where are the corporate headquarters? The headquarters of Oracle is in Redwood City California. 3. What is the corporation’s fiscal
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determining the enterprise value. Though measuring the value of intellectual capital is difficult, with the emerging of intellectual capital valuation models, a number of leading companies have decided to make additional intellectual capital disclosure. This paper discusses and illustrates the intellectual capital statement. How to effectively measure and disclose intellectual capital in external financial reporting and how the accounting rules for reporting intangibles limit the recognition of intellectual
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Running Head: Final Paper 1 Letter of Advice COMM200: Interpersonal Communication Marc McGrath October 26, 2015 Final Paper 2 Congratulations on your engagement and your decision to spend the rest of your lives together. I appreciate the fact that you would like my advice and recommendations on the most proficient method to utilize interpersonal communications to bond your marriage. I am most
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Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility: A Research Agenda By Amiram Gill* In the post-Enron years, corporate governance has shifted from its traditional focus on agency conflicts to address issues of ethics, accountability, transparency,and disclosure. Moreover, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has increasinglyfocused on corporate governance as a vehicle for incorporating social and environmental concerns into the business decision-making process, benefiting not only financial investors
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Executing IP Strategy with ICM Process Implementation By Bruce Story, Senior Advisor, ipCapital Group Introduction: Background from Dow While leading Intellectual Capital Management (ICM) in the Plastics Business at The Dow Chemical Company, I witnessed the value of having a business-aligned IP strategy, implemented early in the development of a new technology platform. The difference between leaving IP development to the ad hoc process dependent on the initiative of the inventor and using
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The Patriot Act and its Effect on Corporations SECR 5080 – Term Paper 9 May 2015 Table of Contents Abstract – page 3 Introduction – page 3 Current State of Affairs as by the law – page 5 Impact on computing – page 6 Surveillance on Businesses – page 9 Penalty on non-compliance – page 10 Internet Service Providers – page 10 Conclusion – page 12 References – page 13 Abstract The Patriot Act was written into law just a mere 45 days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on
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management frameworks and whether the David Jones board members even followed their own stated frameworks, as set out in their constitution and printed yearly in their annual report were followed to the best of their ability. Finally, continual disclosure as a provision of the Corporations Act and the issue of David Jones’ board decision not to disclose the merger offer with Myer constitutes a breach of the act. David Jones’ board were clear in their explanation that the merger offer was incomplete
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