New Leaders of Financial Giants – Case of Citi Group and Merrill Lynch: Question 1: Introduction This report will review the precarious positions of Citigroup Inc. and Merrill Lynch at the beginning of the subprime mortgage crisis. Both companies had been hit hard by the recent economic problems, and both had recently hired new management in an attempt to navigate through these difficult times. Since risk management failures were viewed as the primary catapult of the crisis, the thinking
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Lecture 1 NATURE AND SCOPE OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Q1.1 Is it appropriate to view firms primarily as economic entities? Q1.1 ANSWER Yes. Firms represent a combination of people, physical assets, and information (financial, technical, marketing, and so on). People directly involved include stockholders, managers, workers, suppliers, and customers. Businesses use scarce resources that would otherwise be available for other purposes, pay income and other
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Lecture 1 NATURE AND SCOPE OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Q1.1 Is it appropriate to view firms primarily as economic entities? Q1.1 ANSWER Yes. Firms represent a combination of people, physical assets, and information (financial, technical, marketing, and so on). People directly involved include stockholders, managers, workers, suppliers, and customers. Businesses use scarce resources that would otherwise be available for other purposes, pay income and other
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Whistleblowing and ethics helplines in the 1Modes of Managing Morality Model Leon J van Vuuren Department of Human Resource Management University of Johannesburg Abstract The Modes of Managing Morality (MMM) model provides a heuristic device to assist business ethics scholars and practitioners to make sense of the differences that exist in the ways in which different organisations manage their ethics. Although it is difficult to demonstrate a clear distinction between ethics advice and whistleblowing
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The Moral Compass nd understand moral theory. In fact, you have a moral philosophy – but you may not think of it that way. Every time you have a conversation about what someone “should” or “ought” to do, you doing moral philosophy. Your moral converations may be very personal – whether you should return the five dollars extra change the clerk gave you at the video store – or very broad – whether national security is more important than personal freedom. Whatever your moral conversations are about
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FORENSIC AUDITING As stated by Gordon Brown, the former Prime Mister of the United Kingdom, “what the use of fingerprints was to the 19th century and DNA analysis was to the 20th century, forensic accounting will be to the 21st century”. When people first see the word “forensic”, they naturally categorize it into a science-related field. According to Webster’s Dictionary, the term “forensic” is defined as “belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussions and debate”
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Fourth Edition Financial & Managerial Accounting for MBAs Peter D. Easton Robert F. Halsey Mary Lea McAnally Al L. Hartgraves Wayne J. Morse Cambridge Business Publishers To my daughters, Joanne and Stacey —PDE To my wife Ellie and children, Grace and Christian —RFH To my husband Brittan and my children Loic, Cindy, Maclean, Quinn and Kay. —MLM To my wife Aline. —ALH To my family and students. —WJM Cambridge Business Publishers FINANCIAL & MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
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A.1 Horizontal, Vertical, Trend and Ratio Analysis Executive Summary The financial assessments of Competition Bikes, Inc. (CB) are based upon the income statements and balance sheets from Calendar Years 6, 7 and 8 to gauge the operation efficiencies of the company. In general, the analysis shows that, between Year 6 and 7, Competition Bikes, Inc. had a large growth in new earnings that was not capitalized in Year 8. The Net Earnings has moved from a positive 313.4% down to a -81.6% loss
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crore in the year 2011 due to various frauds which have taken place in the life and general insurance segments. The losses work out to about nine per cent of the total estimated size of the insurance industry in 2011. Enron, Worldcom and more recently, the Libor manipulation scandals, have
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International Journal of Business and Management December, 2009 Auditor Independence: Malaysian Accountants’ Perceptions Nur Barizah Abu Bakar (Corresponding author) Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences International Islamic University Malaysia PO Box, 10, 50728, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: 60-19-288-4540 E-mail: nur.barizah@gmail.com Maslina Ahmad Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences International Islamic University Malaysia
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