ENGLISH BUSINESS WRITING [pic] MODULE BOOK AND READER Course of study: ICM / English Course title: Business Writing Year of study: term 4 ourse year: 2011-2012 Department of English School of European Studies and Communication Management The Hague University Course Information |Title |Business Communication
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Memo To: From: CC: Date: Re: Part I Team Paper Industry Background Cosmetics have been around almost since the beginning of time. In 4000 BC the Egyptians applied bright green paste made from copper minerals to their face to provide color and definition. They also painted on eyebrows with cream that came from sheep’s fat, lead and soot. Fast forward to the present time. In the 1970’s “certain ingredients were banned from use in cosmetics to protect endangered species, and
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FORTUNE -- It was a humiliating moment. Congressman Edolphus Towns was upbraiding a top Johnson & Johnson executive. Certainly Towns (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has browbeaten his share of CEOs and Wall Street titans. But it's not the sort of thing that usually happens to J&J. At this hearing in May, though, Towns laid into the health care giant. "The information I've seen during the course of our investigation raises questions about the
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Designing a Balanced Scorecard for a pharmaceutical company Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard (Abridged)14 Company Background Chadwick, Inc., was a diversified producer of personal consumer products and pharmaceuticals. The Norwalk Division of Chadwick developed, manufactured, and sold ethical drugs for human and animal use. It was one of five or six sizable companies competing in these markets and, while it did not dominate the industry, the company was considered well managed and was respected
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a Solutions for Chapter 4 Audit Risk, Business Risk, and Audit Planning Review Questions: 4-1. Business Risk - Those risks that affect the operations and potential outcomes of organizational activities. Engagement Risk - The risk auditors encounter by being associated with a particular client: loss of reputation, inability of the client to pay the auditor, or financial loss because management is not honest and inhibits the audit process. Financial Reporting Risk - Those
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CHAPTER 1 SUGGESTED ANSWERS TO CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS 1.a. What are the various categories of multinational firms? ANSWER. Raw materials seekers, market seekers, and cost minimizers. b. What is the motivation for international expansion of firms within each category? ANSWER. The raw materials seekers go abroad to exploit the raw materials that can be found there. It just happens that nature didn't place all natural resources domestically. Market seekers go overseas to produce and sell in foreign
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How investors, customers, and suppliers might fare under Chapter 11 After weeks of listening to analysts and pundits beat the drum about the possibility of a General Motors Corp. bankruptcy, Chairman and Chief Executive G. Richard Wagoner Jr. decided he had heard enough. On Nov. 16 he declared in an internal memo to his 325,000 employees that bankruptcy is "unnecessary." There is no plan to file for Chapter 11 protection, Wagoner said flatly, calling such an action "contrary to the interests of
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Substantive Procedures for Asset Irregularities University of Phoenix ACC/556 Substantive Procedures for Asset Irregularities In light of the substantive hurdles created by management at Apollo Shoes, Inc. (the “Company”), as the Auditors of the Company, it is incumbent upon us to develop and audit program to manage and perform the most thorough analyses of the books and records so that we can do a thorough job and offer an opinion on the quality of the financial well-being of the Company
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location of Employee Earnings Subsidiary Ledger in the SUA packet of materials SUA Instructions, Flowcharts and Ledgers location of Cash Receipts Journal in the SUA packet of materials SUA Journals location of General Ledger in the SUA packet of materials SUA Instructions, Flowcharts and Ledgers The reason for not permitting a person who has temporary or permanent custody of an asset to account for that asset is to protect the company against __________________________
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BOURBON BANK: SERVICE GUARANTEES “I know what we can do next, everything has been so successful so far, “said Kay Ebelhar, marketing services division manager. “How about offering a courtesy service guarantee? We will promise to greet the customer, give them our undivided attention, and then thank them when they leave. As with our other service guarantee, if we fail to deliver superior service encounters, we’ll give the customer $5.00! what do you think?” so the discussion began this Tuesday
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