Jennifer Arias Bus 131 Mr. Kuritzky Chapter 8: Foreign Direct Investment Closing Case Case Discussion Questions: 1. Why‚ historically‚ has the level of FDI in Japan been so low? The relatively low FDI stock in Japan is partly the result of a history of official inhibitions on FDI. In some industries‚ inward FDI penetration‚ as measured by the share of employment accounted for by foreign affiliates‚ in Japan in fact is on par with the United States. However‚ a large number of "sanctuaries" with almost
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Poverty and Homelessness Poverty and Homelessness After watching the film‚ Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story‚ I realized that if you try‚ you can do whatever you put your mind to. I believe that although the movie was sad it was very inspiring. Liz Murray was the product of a bad environment. Her parents were drug addicts and she felt like she single handedly had to hold her family together. She decided she was better off at home taking care of her mother who was legally blind‚ schizophrenic
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Case 8: The Controversial Job (chapter 11) 1. Do you feel that David was justified in insisting that the job‚ not the person‚ be evaluated? Discuss. In my opinion‚ David is acting professional and justified to insist that the job should be evaluated and not the person. The purpose of the committee was to review certain jobs and not an individual employee. The committee need to keep personalities out of the evaluation process. It is a formal method to estimate the payment rates of a company
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom 1) What are the pressures that lead executives and managers to “cook the books?” After the rapid evolution of the telecommunication industry in the 1990s‚ WorldCom shifted its strategy to focus on building revenues and acquiring capacity sufficient to handle expected growth. Their biggest goal was to be the No. 1 stock on Wall Street rather than capturing the market share. As a result‚ their Expense-to-Revenue (E/R) Ratio was their measurement for their main objective
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woman Liz Murray has been through countless circumstances. Murray saw herself wanting to be something more than just being homeless and a daughter of drug addicts. She turned around the odds that were against her. Learning about her and the horrific childhood she went through it shows people their present does not have to be their future. Liz Murray overcame drug addicted parents‚ exhibited passion to create a better future for herself‚ and displayed how independent she was. Liz Murray overpowered
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suspects that Biovail Corporation might have manipulated the result of their financial statement. This refers to fraudulent accounting of Biovail Corporation. David Maris‚ an analyst at Banc of America Securities (BAS) has investigate that Biovail might have significantly overestimated the amount of Wellbutrin XL on the truck. 1.2 PROBLEM / ISSUES OF THE COMPANY From this case we are defined some issue. First Biovail Corporation have their problem in using the contract of shipping the product
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Case Study 8: Tourism Holdings Limited (THL) 1. This case implies that the frequent acquisition and disposition of tourism brands poses problems for information systems. The information systems could be a type of pre-internet‚ e-commerce‚ web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0 which are inter-organizational information systems. The information technologies that the THL use include SharePoint‚ Microsoft Office SharpPoint Sevices‚ Microsoft Report Server‚ OLAP and data mining. The technologies create an excessive
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Case 3.1 Enron: Understanding the Client’s Business and Industry Price‚ Ria; Walters‚ Jessica 1. Inherent risk‚ a component of the audit risk model‚ refers to the susceptibility of the accounts to material misstatement‚ without regard to the systems internal controls. Inherent risk is a function of the nature of the client’s business‚ the major types of transactions‚ and the effectiveness and integrity of its managers and accountants. A clear understanding of the audit client’s business model is essential in assessing
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Henry A. Murray: Personology Personology is the science of people. It is used to interpret and organize the lives of humans. The central ideas of the science must be to "understanding of what we mean by the concept "person‚" and for development of methods of understanding the lives of persons as the "long unit for psychology"" (Barresi & Juckes 1988 pg 1). It is important to take accounts when studying personology from first person perspective instead of a third person perspective. Henry A. Murray
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Case 13-8: Accounting for a Loss Contingency for a Verdict Overturned on Appeal 1. According to the case‚ it shows that management of M determined that a loss would be “probable” and the estimate range would be $15 million to $20 million. However‚ they determined $17 million would be the “most likely” amount of loss. According to ASC 450-20-25-1‚ “When a loss contingency exists‚ the likelihood that the future event or events will confirm the loss or impairment of an asset or the incurrence of
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