Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Curse or Blessing for Financial Reporting? Yuliya M. Ford University of Maryland University College Introduction In response to public concerns regarding the accuracy and quality of reported financial information by publicly traded companies, in mid-summer of 2002 Congress passed Public Law 107-204, 116 Stat.745 which is commonly referred to as the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX or the Act). The law was passed in large part due to the public outcry of the numerous
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religious freedom, a safer environment, and freedom for their country. Many people emigrated from their homelands to settle in the United States for many different reasons. One reason why immigrants planned to settle in the U.S. was because of newer technology being created. Many inventions were designed and created during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, such as the telephone, and the light bulb. Another reason why immigrants planned to settle in the United States was because of the great democracy
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patterns, and use of harsh collection practices, all of which cause a negative reaction in the community. Also, Dr. Murphy’s efforts to become a comprehensive vertically integrated system have continued: establishment of a medical school partnership, expansion of its facilities, and increase in number of salaried physicians by purchasing private practices. Dr. Murphy asserts that the business plan of Carilion Clinic will moderate the effects of the “broken” U.S. healthcare system by integrating services
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examine how poeple respond to pictures of faces with different racial features. The experimental design is when the experimenter isolates and controls all the variables excpet one, he makes sure that variable is the only one causing the desired effect. The The independent variable, which is the variable that the researcher is manipulating, is computer program that he created that will randomly generate the faces as each subject comes in. In this study the researcher used random assignment
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one of the most outstanding of our time. Since its “reform and opening-up policy” in 1978, foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed a great deal to China’s economic growth by injecting capital into the economy, creating jobs, transferring technology and knowledge, enhancing trade, bringing in competition for local enterprises, improving the quality of local labor and intermediate goods suppliers, and connecting China’s gradually opening economy to the global market (Berthélemy and Démurger
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About thirty years ago in 1985, Neil Postman’s novel, Amusing Ourselves to Death, was published. At the time, the television was all the rage. Being a relatively new form of media, not many people stopped to think of the negative side effects of television, until Postman released his findings. His novel repeats the words “the medium is the message”, which means that the way that we receive messages is going to change the overall meaning of the message. This applied directly to television, as entertainment
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with our intellectual technologies. The tools of the mind amplify and in turn numb the most intimate, the most human, of natural capacities- those for reason perception, memory, emotion”(211). What Carr is saying is that the internet causes the brain to be affected more than any other form of technology. With the invention of the printing press, books has had a major impact on the mind, but between that time and the invention of the internet, no other device has had the effect that the internet has
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11/29/13 Eng 101 Argumentive Essay As technology has developed teenagers have the internet at their fingertips. Social networking has given teenagers the advantages of learning, socializing and endless entertainment. As years go by social networks keep growing, and proves to have many negative and positive influences on teenagers. While researching I learned that social networking is not just Facebook and twitter, social media is any web based platform that enables people to interact. Should
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thought to be one of the earliest appearances of tattoos came into question in 1991 with the discovery of Iceman (Lineberry, 2007). A pair of hikers in the Austrian Otztal Alps stumbled across the frozen tattooed corpse. Using modern carbon dating technology scientists found the corpse to be from the period around 3300 BC, making this discovery one of the earliest appearances of tattooing found to this day. Figure 2 The earliest tattooing took place with rudimentary tools and methods with a variety
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