company. It has employed over 96‚000 people. Strategic decisions are usually long term decisions which are often risky and speculative. A strategic decision made by British Petroleum was to make redundancies of up to 620 from their solar power business to make the cost of solar power cheaper. ‘…part of the strategy to “reduce the cost of solar power to that of conventional electricity’. ‘BP blamed the cutbacks on the credit crunch and lower-cost competition saying its global manufacturing capacity
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Engineering Imam Hossein University‚ Tehran‚ Iran E-mail: Jmahmoodi@ecommerce.gov.ir Gholamreza Jandaghi Corresponding Author‚ Department‚ Faculty of Management‚ Qom College University of Tehran‚ Tehran‚ Iran E-mail: jandaghi@ut.ac.ir Abstract ERP systems have been considered by Iranian great organization in recent years. To that end‚ many large organizations in this country try to run ERP implement projects. Number of projects failed because of challenges and difficulties which were faced in way
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15-1 A. What is information overload? : When information comes in faster than our brain can process it. Information overload occurs when the volume of the information supply exceeds the limited human information processing capacity. What causes it? : Personal factors‚ information technology‚ organizational design‚ task and process parameters‚ and information characteristics. What are its affects? : Stress and confusion are some of the results. How can decision makers deal with
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arrangement. 19.3 In what situations would you expect to model a relationship between an agent and a resource? Relationships between agents and resources can be modeled for two reasons. Relationships between resources and suppliers provide information about preferred and alternate suppliers. Relationships between
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Dr Fang (to be used in the workshop in week 1) Month-end balance sheet amounts for the dental practice of Dr Fang‚ a local dentist‚ for three consecutive months are presented below. The information is complete except for the balance in the owners’ equity account. Cash Accounts receivable Prepaid insurance Surgery equipment Building Land Accounts payable Wages payable Mortgage payable Owners’ Equity 31 October $ 9 100 16 100 700 29 800 81 000 33 000 10 100 5 100 34 700
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COVENANT UNIVERSITY‚ COLLEGE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES‚ SCHOOL OF BUSINESS‚ DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING COURSE: FORENSIC ACCOUNTING COURSE CODE: ACC 416 WEEK: 10 TOPIC: FORENSIC ACCOUNTING AND FRAUD AUDITING OBJECTIVE: To acquire the knowledge and skills about forensic audit‚ its reporting and documentation. THE CONTEXT OF FORENSIC AUDITING Forensic audit encompasses the examination of evidence regarding an assertion to determine its correspondence to establish criteria carried out in a manner
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KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT SYSTEMS THE AMPLIFICATION FOR CONCEPTUAL OF CREATIVITY DESIGN: From: AAAI Technical Report SS-93-01. Compilation copyright © 1993‚ AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. ERNEST EDMONDS and LINDA CANDY LUTClll Research Centre Department of ComputerStudies Loughborough University of Technology Lougtdgorough Leicestershire UK Abstract. The paper is concerned with computer-based support for conceptual design and‚ in particular‚ with the support of creative design
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Vanessa Gail Woods Strayer University Connor-Green/ACC 576 March 21‚ 2010 Accounting Fraud at WorldCom The break up of AT&T opened the long distance service market to small companies during the mid- to late-1980s and 1990s. Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS) opened in 1983 with moderate growth until its stock went public in 1989. CEO Bernie Ebbers decided to grow the organization through acquisitions (70 companies over the course of its lifetime)
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Computer and Information Science; Vol. 7‚ No. 2; 2014 ISSN 1913-8989 E-ISSN 1913-8997 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education A Fraud Detection System Based on Anomaly Intrusion Detection Systems for E-Commerce Applications Daniel Massa1 & Raul Valverde2 1 Information Technology and Services‚ Betsson‚ Malta 2 John Molson School of Business‚ Concordia University‚ Montreal‚ Canada Correspondence: Raul Valverde‚ John Molson School of Business‚ Concordia University‚ Montreal‚ QC.‚
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Fraud in the Business World Sean P. Dixon Business 670: Legal Environment Instructor: Jennifer Stephens April 4‚ 2011 Abstract Americans lose hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fraud. Billions more are lost world-wide to con artists touting the next great investment idea‚ guaranteed loans and diets that can ’t fail. These con artists do not discriminate between the rich and poor‚ the young and old‚ nationality or race. They target the well-educated‚ so-called smart individuals
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