Coping with Financial and Ethical Risks at American International Group (AIG) 1. Discuss the role that AIG’s corporate culture played in its downfall. The corporate ethical culture at AIG was far from a good one. The corporate culture focused on high risk taking schemes that were only there to focus mostly on short-term financial gain. The AIG Financial Products unit specialized in derivatives and other complex financial contracts that were tied to subprime mortgages or commodities. While its
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The financial crisis of 2007-2009 is an economic fiasco of global magnitude. It affects everyone. To understand how it happened one needs to go back a few steps. Years ago‚ after the dot-com bust and 9/11‚ borrowing money was cheap. Federal Reserve Bank chairman Allen Greenspan lowered interest rates to 1% to keep the economy strong. Treasury Bills were considered the safest investment‚ but due to low return‚ investors stayed away. Banks however were able to borrow enormous amounts of money on credit
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Coping with Financial and Ethical Risks at American International Group (AIG). Abstract American International Group‚ Inc. (AIG) reported bogus transactions that hid losses and inflated its net worth. AIG inflated reserve funds that were to be used for paying claims by millions of dollars and that AIG’s CEO Maurice Greenberg repeatedly directed AIG traders late in the day to buy AIG shares to prop up its price. However‚ aside from AIG’s corporate financial reporting errors or outright fraud
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2011 Trustees’ report and accounts Patron Her Majesty The Queen President His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales KG KT GCB OM Deputy presidents Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra The Hon Lady Ogilvy LG GCVO The Countess Mountbatten of Burma CBE CD JP DL Honorary vice-presidents Lord Barnard TD The Rt Hon Baroness Chalker of Wallasey Sylvia‚ Countess of Limerick CBE Professor John McClure OBE Mrs Elspeth Thomas CBE DL Vice-presidents Mr Anthony Andrews Ms Angela Rippon OBE Mrs Maria Shammas
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AirAsia Berhad | annual report 2007 Our Dreams and Aspirations To be the largest low cost airline in Asia serving the 3 billion people who currently are underserved with poor connectivity and high fares. G G 2 4 7 8 12 20 22 24 26 30 32 34 36 40 42 43 44 46 47 48 52 53 54 56 60 62 66 68 72 76 81 82 83 152 156 157 G Our Dreams and Aspirations Corporate Profile Five Year Financial Highlights Share Performance Chairman’s Statement Group Chief Executive Officer’s Report AirAsia’s Strategy for
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ANNUAL REPORT 2007 Nordstrom‚ Inc. Annual Report 0 207 DAR e customers‚ employees and shareholders‚ On behalf of everyone at Nordstrom‚ I am pleased to share with you our company’s 2007 performance and outlook for 2008 and beyond. Overall‚ we realized a number of top performances in 2007‚ thanks to the hard work of more than 55‚000 Nordstrom employees. Let’s review the highlights: • Total sales increased 3.1% to a record high $8.8 billion and comparable sales increased 3.9% — our
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FINANCIAL PROJECT REPORT ON RABAXY DRUGS Ltd. Submitted By – Divey Yadav (12609016) Abhita Singh (12609021) Hina Gupta(12609013) Acknowledgements Every endeavour has to have a front to precede its valuable culmination. The front can be put into words‚ which once uttered absolves the speaker of every sense of gratitude with which they were uttered. We take this opportunity to express sincere gratitude and respect to all those who played an important role in giving us the right direction
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INDUSTRIES BHD (156148-P) CONTENTS 02 Corporate Information 03 Group Structure 04 Statement From Managing Director 06 Directors Profile 08 Financial Highlights 09 Statement On Corporate Governance 14 Statement On Internal Control 16 Audit Committee Report 20 Other Information 21 Directors Report 26 Statement By Directors 27 Statutory Declaration 28 Report Of The Auditors To The Members 29 Consolidated Balance Sheet 30 Consolidated Income Statement 31 Consolidated Statement Of Changes In Equity
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Johns’ “Flag” Created in the age of McCarthyism‚ Jasper Johns’ “Flag” was the first and perhaps most popular version of his flag paintings. Johns is said to have first dreamed of the flag before painting it‚ but John’s painting was rich in symbolism as he liked it to the use of things the mind already knew. Done in 1954‚ when flag’s seemed to be everywhere in the news and as the McCarthy hearings were going on questioning the loyalty of citizens to their government‚ as symbolized by the flag were
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Group paper Red Bull Building Brand Equity in Non-Traditional Ways Marcin Dubinski 24768; Stella Smejda 24518 Damian Bukowinski 25478; Michal Kaminski 24510 25-11-2012 Academic Year 2012/2013 Semester: Fall We hereby certify that We are the authors of this paper and all sources We used have been reported. -------------------------------------------------- Signature © Kozminski University 2012 Question 1: Describe Red Bull’s sources of brand
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