Question No. | Answer | 1 | a. Well-developed equity market & dispersed ownership | 2 | c. Voluntary practices | 3 | a. Advertising | 4 | a. Monetary Policy | 5 | c. That portion of bank’s total cash reserves which they are statutorily required to hold with the RBI. | 6 | b. The Greenbury Committee, 1995 | 7 | b. Bank | 8 | d. Harshad Mehta scam, 1992 | 9 | b. Diffused Debt | 10 | a. Director | 11 | b. De Facto | 12 | b. Independent auditors | 13 | a. Ganguly Group |
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ASSIGNMENTS AND EXAM PURPOSES When answering assignment (and examination) questions, students should carefully read the requirements of the question. Marks are awarded for each valid point included in your answer. The specific terminology of the question is important. If the question asks for items to be “listed”, it is sufficient to list the items without explanation or elaboration. If, on the other hand, the question requires that items be described, a mere listing will not result in full marks
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Business Lessons from the Success & Failure Stories of Corporate Parenting | | Executive Summary The need and effectiveness of corporate parenting has been the center of numerous strategic decisions discussions for a multi-business organization for a long time now. The existence of a corporate parent, the management level which is directly not a part of consumer-facing and profit-making business units, carries a cost to the entire business. These costs that include corporate overheads due
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Amans, Patrick Hilario, Kedron ACTG 6650 Dr. Ward 29 July 2015 “Ethics and Its Ties to Earnings Management” INTRODUCTION Many professionals and accounting researchers have raised the question -Is ethics directly linked to the practice of earnings management? Earnings management is defined by Beaudoin, Cianci, and Tsakumis (2012, p.507), as “the manipulation of revenues and/or expenses to obtain a desired financial reporting outcome.” He and Yang’s article offers that the definition of earnings
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Financial Reporting Problems at Molex, Inc. (A) : . I n mid-November 2004, Molex's Board of Directors met to decide the future of Joe King and Diane Bullock, the company's CEO and CFO respectively. Molex's external auditors, Deloitte &c Touche, had accused both of failing to disclose an $8 million pre-tax inventory valuation error in a recent letter of representation to the auditors. In response, King and Bullock argued that at the time of their letter they had determined that the
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Underwriting in Health Insurance Module 5- Submission 10/22/2014 Health Insurance Management Group 3 Underwriting in Health Insurance Table of Contents Brief History of underwriting .................................................................................................................... 2 Definition of underwriting ......................................................................................................................... 2 What does underwriting entails? ....
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information in any portion of a financial statement (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners).” The Bre-X Minerals Case, provided false information that became detrimental to investors. The false information that harmed investors led to the analysis of how investigating management and directors would help in the determination of the company’s value of gold prospect’s. This also led to the ways in which investigating the company’s relationship with other entities, the organization and
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long-term success, profitability, good client relationship, corporate growth, competitive edge and trustworthiness. The initial intent of Mr. Goldman was to be trustworthy and build his company with good business ethics but mishaps set in. Discussion Question 1: Go back through the case and make a list of each action or practice that could be called a gray area: 1. Goldman’s initial investment strategy to use its own customers to make money in the 1920’s was one of the first shady things he did. The
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It is included for reference and explanation only.) 2002 saw an unprecedented number of corporate scandals: Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing. In many ways, WorldCom is just another case of failed corporate governance, accounting abuses, and outright greed. But none of these other companies had senior executives as colorful and likable as Bernie Ebbers. A Canadian by birth, the 6 foot, 3 inch former basketball coach and Sunday School teacher emerged from the collapse of WorldCom not only broke but
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Corporate Governance What is Corporate Governance? Corporate governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way a corporation is directed, administered or controlled. Corporate governance also includes the relationships among the many stakeholders involved and the goals for which the corporation is governed. The principal stakeholders are the shareholders, management, and the board of directors. Other stakeholders include labor(employees), customers
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