structure creates economic incentives for managers to focus on their own interests and neglect those of shareholders. Following decades of exponential organic growth Parmalat stepped up its acquisition programme in the 1990s crossing many time zones using an aggressive and heavily leveraged strategy. By the end of the decade Parmalat was a complex web of 170 companies which had hid losses overstated assets/sales‚ understated its debt‚ and diverted company cash to Tanzi family members. In their 2004
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Epidemiological studies A. Descriptive studies 1.) Case Control Study Title: Determinants of Malaria Program Expenditures during Elimination: Case Study Evidence from Select Provinces in the Philippines. Even though eliminating malaria from the endemic margins is a part of the Global Malaria Action Plan‚ little guidance exists on what resources are needed to transition from controlling malaria to eliminating it. Using Philippines as an example‚ this study aimed to (1) estimate the financial
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Mary Thompson Executive Summary In order to further our understanding of the decisions of Mary Thompson involved in the case Mary Thompson‚ we conducted a study and selected detailed analysis to gain insights for her dilemma. Mary Thompson had had been conducting fieldwork in a Southeast Asian community for 18 months. Her house was ideally located on the edge of the village plaza‚ allowing her to readily observe daily activities that took place in the plaza. In addition to gatherings of women who
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Discourse Community and Language Choice: Study of language choice in a gay community in particular area in Malang. Hima Luluk Il Jannah English Language and Letters Department‚ Faculty of Humanities and Culture‚ Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University‚ Malang‚ Indonesia terumbukayu@gmail.com June 2013 Abstract Language choice in gay community that has many unique kind of language. Keyword Gay ‚ gay 1. Background of Study Nowadays‚ there are many varieties of community
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SLIDE 10 Bailey (1984)‚ Crider (1990)‚ Lisk (1991)‚ and Hofmeister (1982) each emphasize the importance of providing students with opportunities to listen for interference beats. In fact‚ Edgar Miles’ 1972 study‚ which examines whether beat elimination can be used to improve the pitch matching ability of beginning wind students‚ confirms the effectiveness of this teaching technique. Miles’ findings reveal: 1. All beginning wind students can learn to perceive beats. 2. All beginning wind students
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This paperwork comprises BSHS 462 Week 4 Individual Assignment Case 10 Evaluating the Consultation and Education Department Paper General Questions - General General Questions Resource: Case 10 of Ch. 10 of Management of Human Services Programs Write a 1‚050- to 1‚750-word paper which addresses the following in reference to the case study: Develop at least one process evaluation measure and at least one outcome evaluation measure that you suggest for the Consultation and Education
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internationalization motives and entry modes - Eight cases from Sweden 1. Abstract The firm internationalization literature is extensive‚ but dominated by studies of technical‚ often large‚ firms. The service firm internationalization literature is slowly growing. Few international contributions are found investigating the advertising industry and no such studies focus on the Swedish market. The PR industry has been internationally neglected. This study investigates four advertising agencies and four
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D Journal of Literature and Art Studies‚ ISSN 2159-5836 February 2012‚ Vol. 2‚ No. 2‚ 323-328 DAVID PUBLISHING Idiosyncratic Differences Between the Eames House and the Vanna Venturi House: A Case Study Kyuho Ahn University of Oregon‚ Oregon‚ USA In architectural fields‚ it is often unclear where to draw the line between Modernism and Postmodernism that often represent political debates between the ideology of orthodox modernity and the anti-ideology movement against Modernism as a social
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Managua‚ Nicaragua Sept 28th‚ 2013 ENRON Background In 1985 Kenneth Lay merged his company‚ Houston Natural Gas‚ with Nebraska’s InterNorth to create the Enron; a company to be the biggest natural gass corporation to exist in the U.S. During the 1980’s‚ under the presidency of Ronald Raegan‚ there was a considerable lack of regulations regarding the energy markets‚ thus allowing the company to buy and sell contracts for a delivery at some time in the future. By 1990 Jeffery Skilling joined as
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What specific audit procedures might have uncovered the Parmalat fraud earlier? Parmalat went from recording annual sales of 7.6 billion euros in 2002 to being declared insolvent a year later. The collusion at Europe’s Enron made it possible for Parmalat to defraud its investors of billions. The auditing procedures used by Grant Thornton and Deloitte were inadequate. Many of Parmalat’s assets were overstated and its liabilities understated. The auditors did not adequately test the Special Purpose
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