Corporate Finance AIG Accounting Scandal Explained December 8th‚ 2012 ________________________________________________________________________________ On February 9th‚ 2006‚ the SEC and the Justice Department settled with AIG for an amount in excess of $1.6B related to alleged improper accounting‚ bid rigging (defined by Investopedia as a scheme in which businesses collude so that a competing business can secure a contract for goods or services at a pre-determined price)‚ and practices involving
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The Kardashian-Jenner family is a blended Armenian and Caucasian family that rose to fame in 2007 and have been considered reality television royalty ever since. Over the past 9 years the family has branched out from being just television stars‚ to become essentially pop-cultural icons‚ who inspire fashion and beauty trends around the world. Although many fans consider the Kardashians and Jenners to be trendsetters‚ deeper insight proves many of the trends they have been thought to start are actually
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Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms‚ I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end‚ I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger‚ I apply pressure‚ squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the “loser‚” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that‚ in general‚ the brown and red M&Ms are tougher‚ and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior
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Anand Mohan Goel Anjan V. Thakor University of Michigan Why Do Firms Smooth Earnings?* I. Introduction Corporate earnings management has been much in the news lately. For example‚ Business Week has recently run two cover stories‚ one titled “Who Can You Trust?” (October 5‚ 1998) and the other titled “The Numbers Game” (May 14‚ 2001)‚ that suggest that the credibility of earnings reports is being eroded by earnings management. Arthur Levitt‚ Jr.‚ chairman of the Securities and
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Psychopharmacology (1998) 135 : 319323 © Springer-Verlag 1998 O R I G I NA L I N V E S T I G AT I O N Allen T.G. Lansdowne · Stephen C. Provost Vitamin D3 enhances mood in healthy subjects during winter Received: 28 May 1996 / Final version: 6 May 1997 Abstract Mood changes synchronised to the seasons exist on a continuum between individuals‚ with anxiety and depression increasing during the winter months. An extreme form of seasonality is manifested as the clinical syndrome
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Disaster in the Forest* In 1755‚ General Edward Braddock famously led a British army to a costly and humiliating defeat about eight miles from the junction of the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers (the site of modern Pittsburgh.) In a passage from his autobiography‚ Benjamin Franklin offers his one explanation of what happened. This general was‚ I think‚ a brave man‚ and might probably have made a figure as a good officer in some European war. But he had too much self-confidence‚ too high an opinion
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12/11/13 D.A.R.E Essay Did you know that there are many negative causes for using drugs? Drugs are any substance other than food that affects the way our minds and body works. Smoking can cause lung cancer. Second hand smoke is just as bad. Some inserting facts that I have learned during D.A.R.E are there are about 75‚000 alcohol related deaths each year in the United States. Alcohol can give you poor judgment‚ memory loss‚ and loss of coordination. Alcohol weakens the heart muscle‚ reduces
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dramatic and theatrical modes as classical Greek drama‚ Shakespearean and Jacobean theatre‚ and modern European and American antirealist and avant-garde forms and techniques. Keywords: Theatre‚ Rituals‚ Myths‚ Soyinka Wole Soyinka is‚ no doubt‚ Africa´s leading playwright‚ but the African audiences for his major plays are very small indeed. He addresses himself to the reflection of an African sensibility and the creation of an African drama‚ but his plays have nonAfricans amongst their most ardent admirers
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consider the role of the primary care provider. I was stimulated to understand the prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF)‚ the standards of care for treatment of AF‚ and the role in primary care setting and the best practices for treatment. Prevalence and Screening In work by Raizada‚ Gonzalo‚ and Stanton (2015)‚ AF is the "most common arrhythmia" and the "lifetime risk over forty is one in four" (p. 209). This finding was enlightening. We should be considering this presence of AF with and without
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The warnings were sent. The preparations were made. Texas residents waited anxiously for days‚ and then it finally came: Hurricane Harvey. On Friday‚ August 25‚ Hurricane Harvey struck the shore Texas waging a war with the state in which 15-20 trillion estimated gallons of water were dumped and at least 60 lives were claimed. It seems high magnitude hurricanes are becoming more and more common‚ and it may be our fault. A large factor in the strength and commonality of hurricanes is the Atlantic
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