INTRODUCTION Enron was formed during 1985. Enron was a very powerful company that was doing very well in the market. Enron had been a power supplier to utilities. Its business began through the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Omaha-based Inter North. In the following 20 years, Enron grew quickly and became the largest energy trader in the world. By the end of the twenty century, Enron had many honorable titles, such as “one of the world’s leading electricity, natural gas, and communications
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Xiamen University Title The Impact of Capital Account on Economic Grow Author : Yagoub Ali Elryah School of Southeast Asian Studies Faculty of International Relations Student number: 25520120254069 January, 2013 Correspondence Yagoub Ali Elryah, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Tel: 15860796370, E-mail: yagoubelryah@hotmail.com 1- Background: In the era of economic integration, most of the developing and developed countries not only open their borders for trade of goods and services
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A PROJECT ON CAPITAL MARKET GUIDE CERTIFICATE It is hereby certified that the project report on “CAPITAL MARKET”, being submitted by Shelly jumba student of the degree of Master of Business Administration (3rd Sem) of CT Institute of Management and Information Technology, Jalandhar which affiliated to Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar is an original work carried out successfully under my guidance and supervision and that no part of this project has been submitted for any other degree/
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number of ‘financial illusions’ in the current state of financial markets around the world casts doubts over the famous and widely accepted efficient market hypothesis. The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) indicates that, at any time, prices fully and instantaneously reflect all available relevant information on a particular stock or market (Fama, 1970). EMH also suggests that it is impossible to “beat the market” because stock market efficiency causes existing share prices to always incorporate and
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The Effect of Corporate Restructuring on the Shareholders’ Value: The Case of GEC/Marconi Magdy Abdel-Kader 1 * and Vagia Mentzeniot 2 1 Brunel Business School. Brunel University. Uxbridge. Middlesex UB8 3PH. UK * Corresponding author: Tel: +44 (0)1895 266739. Fax: +44 (0)1895 269775. Email: magdy.kader@brunel.ac.uk 2 Finance Division, Piraeus Bank Group, Headquarters, Stadiou & Amerikis 4, Athens, 10557, Greece Abstract GEC/Marconi’s transformation from a diversified conglomerate to a
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act through a study of market reactions to legislative events related to the Act. I find that the cumulative abnormal return around all legislative events leading to the passage of the Act is significantly negative. The loss in total market value around the most significant rulemaking events amounts to $1.4 trillion. I then examine the private benefits and costs of major provisions of the Act by investigating the cross-sectional variation in market reactions to the rulemaking events.
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in customer-supplier relationships this paper also gives some empirical evidence for the developed framework. It is argued that with regard to relationship management intra- and inter-organizational information technology deployment has different effects on relationship atmosphere (i.e. trust and commitment) and on the value creation in the relationship. The findings give new insights into the role of
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THE EFFECTS OF COMPUTER ON THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION NAMES MAT NO: OTOMEWO DANIEL WILLIAMS 6050 EKHATOR OSAYUWAMEN PRECIOUS 6951 ONI JOY ADELEMON 7029 EGBE PRINCE ISAIAH 7114 ODIASE PRECIOUS IYOBOSA 7033 EKUASE AUSTINE OSAMUDIAMEN 7031 ABSTRACT The aim of this study is the effect technology on accounting profession. The results of this study shows that technology causes decrease in book keeping. Also, it causes increase accuracy in accounting
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A s ae o . s h r d n. . Surname: ______________________ Given names: ___________________ Student ID number: ______________ Signature: ______________________ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOL OF BANKING AND FINANCE FINS2624 PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT FINAL EXAMINATION – SESSION 2, 2010 1. Time allowed – 3 hours 2. Reading time – 10 minutes 3. This examination paper has 22 printed pages 4. There are two parts. Part A has 70 multiple-choice questions, 1 mark each. Part B has
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CLUSTERS, NETWORKS, AND FIRM INNOVATIVENESS GEOFFREY G. BELL* Labovitz School of Business and Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth Campus, Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.A This paper extends current knowledge of industry clusters by disentangling the effects of networks from cluster (i.e., distinctly geographic) mechanisms on firm performance as well as by studying the influence of these different mechanisms on firms located inside and outside the industry cluster. It also highlights the importance of simultaneously
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