May 3‚ 2013 Comp 110 Technology dependency In current times people are becoming lazy and dependent due to the advancement in technology in education‚ business‚ and social entertainment. Almost everything we do and every aspect of our life is affected by modern technology with computers at the top. This issue interests me because even though we have the luxury of computers to help us‚ it seems that it causes us to be lazy human beings. For example‚ googling things rather than going to the library
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1. Lack of controls that prevent and/or detect fraudulent behavior 2. Inability to judge quality of performance 3. Ignorance‚ apathy and incapacity 4. Lack of an audit trail ” Sullivan directed subordinates to book certain fraudulent adjustments and entries in WorldCom’s general ledger to mask WorldCom’s true performance. The fraudulent adjustments and entries were designed to falsely increase WorldCom’s reported revenue and to falsely decrease WorldCom’s reported expenses Sullivan directed
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ENGLISH 68 November 9‚ 2010 Final Draft PRESENTING THE MODERN TECHNOLOGY Technology is not something that one can ignore‚ as it is being developed all the time around us‚ and is included everyday of our lives. Technology shapes the world and has both positive and negative effects. Technology has made huge advancements in society. People can save more time‚ receive better education‚ faster communication‚ advance health services‚ as well as many other benefits. However‚ modern technology might
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Case2 Remote environment- PESTEL Industry environment-five forces Internal environment- strategic driver (industry/market‚ product/service‚ customer‚ channel‚ competitive advantage)‚ operational driver‚ (cost‚ revenue‚ growth)‚ people and organizational driver (structure‚ skill‚ capability)‚ SWOP analysis and GAP analysis Product/market development Strategic development Vision: SEC aims to act as an agency that was high functioning‚ agile and intelligent‚ and committed to investor protection
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Once I was training in my boxing gym and I was lifting 18kg weights. The other weights were set out on the floor for when I needed them. I was on my last set of ten when I fell back and the weight came crashing down and landed on my leg. I couldn’t feel my left leg. I twisted my ankle and then I was rolling around in excrushiating pain. My manager came in once he heard my call of pain. He sat me up and I hobuld over to the ring. He sat me down on the side of the ring and got me a glass of warter
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From the Desk of: Imran Omer Case Study: WorldCom From its beginnings as a long distance call player to handler of Internet data traffic‚ WorldCom was a spectacular firework in the sky before it crashed out as one of the biggest bankruptcies America has witnessed in its corporate history. WorldCom carried more international voice traffic than any other company. It carried a large amount of the world‟s Internet traffic. WorldCom owned and operated a global IP (Internet Protocol) backbone that
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Questions 1. Research recent developments involving this case. Summarize these developments in a bullet format. 2. Suppose that a large investment firm had approximately 10 percent of its total assets invested in funds managed by Madoff Securities. What audit procedures should the investment firm’s independent auditors have applied to those assets? 3. Describe the nature and purpose of a “peer review.” Would peer reviews of Friehling & Horowitz have likely resulted in the discovery of the
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Copyright Financial Times Information Limited Jul 9‚ 2002 Ron Beaumont‚ chief operating officer of WorldCom‚ is one of several senior executives who should have been aware of discrepancies in the telecommunications company’s books before the near-$4bn fraud was revealed last month‚ according to people close to the company. The fraud that was allegedly engineered by Scott Sullivan‚ the chief financial officer who was fired the day the scandal was announced‚ led to a massive overstatement of WorldCom’s
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In her 1964 book Virtue of Selfishness‚ Ayn Rand mentioned that her ideal form of capitalism is one which is “a full‚ pure‚ uncontrolled‚ unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics.” Indeed‚ this Objectivism viewpoint has been used by many conservative policy makers‚ such as Malcolm Fraiser ‚ the former Prime Minister of Australia‚ and esteemed economists such as Alan Greenspan and Martin Anderson to craft policies that reduces the intervention of the government
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VERTIGO Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a thrilling film filled with mystery and suspense. However‚ Hitchcock left many unsolved issues at the end of this film. In contrast‚ when comparing Vertigo to more recent films of similar genre’‚ mysteries are usually always solved and thoroughly explained by the end of the film. Ironically‚ Hitchcock’s failure to explain everything to the audience in Vertigo is one of the film’s best attributes. This lack of knowledge allows the viewer to use their own
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