AUDIT FAILURE OF WORLDCOM Group 1 Background • WorldCom‚ first named LDDS (Long Distance Discount Services)‚ grew largely by aggressively acquiring other telecommunications companies in 1990s. • For a time‚ it was the United State’s second largest long distance phone company (after AT&T). Background However‚ the year 2002 comes… • In March‚ the SEC began to investigate WorldCom as it reported large profit while AT&T reported loss. • In May‚ Arthur Anderson was replaced by KPMG
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Failure in Care Homes Every year there are around 800 fires in homes providing care for older persons in the UK. On average 5 people die each year and a further 90 are injured.Over the past 10 years 45 people have died and 1000 have been injured. Added to this is the true cost of pain‚suffering and impact on families and careworkers. Primary causes of fires in care homes are faulty electrical appliances or wiring‚ cooking facilities‚ smoking related combustion‚ misuse of equipment and deliberate
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Failure: The Modern Interpretation Failure‚ what is failure? How do we determine who is achieving to their maximum potential and who is failing? All questions that are not easily answered‚ due to the inability of creating an efficient nonbiased system of measuring someone’s success/failure. As the Encyclopedia of Britannica would put it‚ failure is “omission of occurrence or performance and/or a state of inability to perform a normal function.” This definition only satisfies the most basic principles
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IT Project Implementations Failures Joseph Garcia HCS/483 7/4/2011 Eric Rios IT Project Implementations Failures There are many factors that play into failures of implementing an IT project. As in the Case Study – Memorial Health System CPOE Implementation there were clearly barriers set in place that affected leadership and staff. The purpose of this paper is to examine CPOE implementation barriers within the Memorial Health System and to determine possible methods to overcoming these challenges
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Examining a Business Failure: WorldCom WorldCom was one of several large companies that failed because of inadequate organizational leadership‚ fraud‚ conspiracy‚ falsifying documents‚ and embezzlement. WorldCom has been classified as being “one of the biggest corporate scandals in Unites States history” (Zekany‚ 2004‚ p. 101). In 2001‚ the company’s financial condition began to decline due to the slowing telecommunications industry‚ which eventually put pressure on the company’s executive
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WorldCom Failure in relation to its Organizational Behavior LDR/531 - Organizational Leadership October 7‚ 2010 WorldCom Failure in relation to its Organizational Behavior INTRODUCTION Year 2002 saw an unprecedented number of corporate scandals: Enron‚ Tyco‚ Global Crossing‚ etc. In many ways‚ WorldCom is just another case of failed corporate governance‚ accounting abuses‚ and outright greed. Many people may question if there is a secret to operating a successful business in modern times.
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26 September 2012 Failure Failure is an ambiguous term. Each person can define what it means to “fail” in a different way. Just as someone has their own standards of leading a successful life‚ they also have their own standards in terms of maybe leading a not so successful life. Within the word “failure” therein lays a few different meanings that may differ from person to person depending on his or her own opinion. Each person may have had a different experience with failure‚ which led him or
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Nov 2013 Outline 2/83 Design of Machine Elements‚ July - Nov 2013 Failure of materials Outline I 1 2 Failure of materials Classification Failure of Materials Ductile materials Von-mises criterion Factor of safety in Von-mises criterion 3 4 Mohr and Mohr-Coulomb theory for Ductile materials How to decide if material is ductile or brittle? Brittle materials Dowling factors to predict failure in brittle materials 5 6 7 Stress concentrations Stress concentrations
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Question 5 Was this truly a disaster? What lessons can be learned from this case and similar disasters‚ particularly regarding the importance of such “human factors” as courage‚ truthfulness‚ and open communication? The Vasa was built as a symbol of Sweden’s naval supremacy. Unequalled in size‚ ornamentation and firepower‚ the Vasa was intended to project might and to intimidate the nation’s enemies. Of course‚ the reality of Sweden’s many conquests in the Baltic region was not lost on its
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EXPATRIATE FAILURES "The internationalization of business has proceeded at a rapid pace as the world has become a global economy."(Mathis‚ Jackson 2000) This is the very reason why companies now have the need for international executives. As all aspects of a business spread worldwide‚ so must the employees. An expatriate by definition is a home-county national‚ usually an employee of the firm‚ who is sent abroad to manage a foreign subsidiary. (Rodrigues‚ 2001) A successful expatriate generally
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