Zone Analytical Procedures – A Powerful Tool for Auditors (Relevant to Paper 8 – Principles of Auditing and Management Information Systems) David Chow FCCA‚ FCPA‚ CPA (Practising) Audit tests Auditors normally carry out the following types of audit tests to determine whether financial statements are fairly stated: (i) procedures to obtain an understanding of internal control (ii) tests of controls (iii) substantive tests: • substantive tests of transactions; • analytical procedures;
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Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall. 1-1 The Tools of Strategic Analysis Walt Disney Company 1984 Profits: $242 Million Theme Park Operations: 77 percent of profits Consumer Products: 22 percent of profits Filmed Entertainment: 1 percent of profits Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall 1-2 The Tools of Strategic Analysis Walt Disney Company Hired Michael Eisner - 1984 1. Increased admission prices at theme
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Industry and Competitive Analysis Analysis is the critical starting point of strategic thinking. Kenichi Ohmae Awareness of the environment is not a special project to be undertaken only when warning of change becomes deafening ... Kenneth R. Andrews Crafting strategy is an analysis-driven exercise‚ not an activity where managers can succeed by sheer effort and creativity. Judgments about what strategy to pursue should ideally be grounded in a probing assessment of a company’s external environment
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SWOT Analysis and Tools SWOT is analysis of company. It is opened as Strengths‚ Weakness‚ Opportunities and Treats. With this model you can analyze what can or cannot do the company‚ and also what are the potential opportunities and threats. This is environmental analysis‚ which include external and internal issues. As the pioneer of this analysis‚ and one of the first strategy theorists Ken Andrew was the first who analyzed the strategy with considering capabilities and resources with the external
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Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility as a Strategic Tool for Competitive Advantage Dr. Parul Khanna MBA‚ Ph.D Assoc. Prof. & Dean R&D Institute of Management & Technology‚Faridabad drparulkhanna07@gmail.com Ms. Chhavi Mathur Research Scholar Global School of Business ____________________________________________________________ ______________________________ Introduction: Today‚ we live in an age in which companies‚ businesses and society are more connected and interactive than
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Analytical Analysis of The Tempest In William Shakespeare’s‚ The Tempest‚ we set a foundation of analyzing two aspects of a literary work: the role of a character and character transformation. As the first literary work that our class analyzed‚ The Tempest‚ helped introduce the idea of “alchemy‚” a magical form of changing elements into a purified form yielding what is known as‚ “The Philosopher’s Stone (purified state of being).” This idea of alchemy can be seen in characters’ role‚ as well
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page no. 1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY 3 2.1 Price ‘n Pride 3 2.2 Electric Express 4 2.3 Morkels 4 2.4 Barnetts 4 2. CONTACT DETAIL OF THE COMPANY 5 3.5 Figure 1 5 3. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OFFERED BY THE COMPANY 6 3.1 Table 7 4. MANAGEMENT PROFILES OF THE COMPANY 8 5.6 Executive Directors 8 5.7.1 David Sussman (Executive
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LECTURE 4 TOOLS OF STRATEGY ANALYSIS ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT 1 Analysing resources and capabilities: the interface between strategy and the firm 2 Mario Calderini‚ Alessandra Colombelli TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY AND MARKETING 2 Resource-based view of the firm Firm is a pool of resources and capabilities that are the primary determinants of its strategy Capabilities are the “roots of competitiveness‚” source of new products‚ and foundation for strategy The greater
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Table of Contents Introduction/History…………………………………………………………….……………….1 Competitive Advantage…………………………………………………………………………2 Environmental Analysis - SWOT…………………………………………………………………………………….4 - BCG Matrix………………………………………………………………………………7 - PESTLE…………………………………………………………………………………..9 - Porter’s 5 Forces……………………………………………………………………....11 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………...13 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………….14 Introduction "Viacom’s
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Analysis Tools Comparison: R Language‚ Matlab‚ esProc‚ SAS‚ SPSS‚ Excel‚ and SQL The interactive analysis is a circular analytics procedure comprising assumption‚ verification‚ and calibration by the analyst to achieve the fuzzy computation goal. For specifics and details‚ please refer to another article I composed: Interactive Analysis and Related Tools. Because there are so many tools for interactive analysis that not everyone can know all of them‚ I will only focus on and compare the most
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