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    A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation

    A GUIDE TO FORENSIC ACCOUNTING INVESTIGATION THOMAS W. GOLDEN, STEVEN L. SKALAK, AND MONA M. CLAYTON JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. A GUIDE TO FORENSIC ACCOUNTING INVESTIGATION THOMAS W. GOLDEN, STEVEN L. SKALAK, AND MONA M. CLAYTON JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 2006 by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. PricewaterhouseCoopers refers to the individual member firms of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organization. All rights reserved. Published

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    Enron

    & the Common Good/Bien Commun, Supplement no. 2, 2001 Bonvin, J.-M. Debt and the Jubilee: Pacing the Economy Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun, Supplement no. 1, 1999 Dembinski, P. H. (leading contributor) Economic and Financial Globalization: What the Numbers Say United Nations, Geneva, 2003 Enron and World Finance A Case Study in Ethics Edited by Paul H. Dembinski Carole Lager Andrew Cornford and Jean-Michel Bonvin in association with the Observatoire de la Finance Selection

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    International Business Responysibilit

    Rights, Responsibilities and Regulation of International Business Sol Picciotto* This essay discusses the paradox of the emergence of corporate codes of conduct in the 1990s, following pressures from consumer and labor activism, in a period of more general liberalization of international investment leading to deregulation. It suggests that the advantages of flexibility and adaptability to specific circumstances offered by such codes are counterbalanced by their self-selected content and

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    The Impact of Pension Sector Reforms on the Financial Viability of Pension Plans in Kenya

    THE IMPACT OF PENSION SECTOR REFORMS ON THE FINANCIAL VIABILITY OF PENSION PLANS IN KENYA   By Akwimbi Ambaka William March 12, 2011 Department of Business Administration, School of Business, University of Nairobi, Kenya Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1784297 TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration List of Tables List of Figures Appendices Abbreviation CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.0. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 1.6. Background of the Study The Conceptual Basis of Social Security

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    Mckesson Annual Report

    Annual Report Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2011 “Our results in fiscal 2011 extend our track record of growing EPS, which we have increased at a 13.9% compound annual growth rate since fiscal 2007.” John H. Hammergren, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, McKesson Corporation Financial Results Five-Year Total Revenue (in millions) Five-Year EPS* *Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations, as displayed above, excludes adjustments for litigation charges (credits)

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    The Best

    FINANCIAL FRAGILITY THE CAUSES OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS AMONG LOCAL BANKS A. B. C. D. IV. V. VI. Insider lending Lending to high-risk borrowers Macroeconomic instability Liquidity support and prudential regulation 1 2 7 9 11 13 15 15 16 18 21 23 WHAT BENEFITS CAN LOCAL BANKS PROVIDE AFRICAN ECONOMIES? IMPLICATIONS FOR BANK REGULATION AND SUPERVISION CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES ***** ABBREVIATIONS BOU BOZ CBK CBN FI K KSh MNC N NBFI

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    Secular Sagnation

    twofold: to promote world-class research, and to get the policy-relevant results into the hands of key decision-makers. CEPR’s guiding principle is ‘Research excellence with policy relevance’. A registered charity since it was founded in 1983, CEPR is independent of all public and private interest groups. It takes no institutional stand on economic policy matters and its core funding comes from its Institutional Members and sales of publications. Because it draws on such a large network of researchers, its

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    Amn Healthcare Annual Report

    The Innovator in Healthcare Workforce Solutions ANNUAL REPORT I N N O V AT I O N I N H E A L T H C A R E W O R K F O R C E S O L U T I O N S Dear AMN Healthcare Shareholders, 2011 was a year of continued market recovery, solid execution, and evolution. Our clients’ desire for more workforce solutions and innovative service offerings, coupled with AMN’s leading position in this space, has more clearly differentiated our value proposition and put us at the forefront of growth and thought leadership

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    Business

    current financial crisis presents a case study of a “financial tsunami” (as former federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan recently called it) on what can go wrong. its ramifications are far-reaching and the lessons learned will be embedded in risk management practices for years to come. As one of the premier enterprise risk professions in practice today, the actuarial profession is sharing its substantial insight into what went wrong and the implications for the future. on behalf of the society of Actuaries

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    New Growth Theory

    report on the Nigerian energy sector was compiled as part of the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP). NESP is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The authors would like to thank the GIZ Nigeria team for having entrusted this highly relevant subject to GOPA-­ International Energy Consultants GmbH, and for their extensive and dedicated

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