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    Diamond in the Rough

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    Diamond in the rough Why Master P is set apart from all the other hard-core rappers? He owns his own music company and built his empire around No Limit (the hottest in the business). He was almost a NBA player‚ and he owns his own line of dolls (the Master P doll). His company makes a net worth each year of $361 million. His record company sold 26 million records in 1998‚ more then any other rap company. He also has made a lot of money in staring and directing in movies that profit at

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    Hih Collapse

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    before submission. Marks will be deducted for spelling and grammar mistakes. Assignment: The collapse of HIH has served notice on ASIC and the Australian Government that insufficient attention is being paid on a continuing basis to the failures of corporate governance in Australia‚ especially from the perspective of directors’ duties. The situation does not seem to have improved since the collapse. Comment on this statement. Continued overpage: Caution: This is broader than just HIH.

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    The collapse of Enron

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    1. What led to the eventual collapse of Enron under Lay and Skilling? The collapse of Enron seems to be rooted in a combination of the failure of top leadership‚ a corporate culture that supported unethical behavior‚ and the complicity of the investment banking community. In the aftermath of Enron’s bankruptcy filing‚ numerous Enron executives were charged with criminal acts‚ including fraud‚ money laundering‚ and insider trading. Ben Glisan‚ Enron’s former treasurer‚ was charged with two-dozen

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    Enron Collapse

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    1.What are the main reasons that Enron collapsed? I think the reasons for the collapse are three fold. Firstly Enron’s accounting practices(mark to market accounting- companies estimate how much revenue a deal is going to bring in and state that number in their earnings the moment the contract is signed) Its managements goal was to maintain the appearance of value by always having rising stock prices rather than focus on creating real value for the company. Secondly its reliance on Special

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    A Diamond Personality

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    Belief : These is established perception about the attitude object. What you ❖   believe to be true.Intention to learn : Surajbhai has intention to keep on learning. This was the ❖   biggest factor in his success. He worked hard for receiving his Diamond & Diamondgrading certification from Gemological Institute. He also learned English Language toovercome communication hurdles.Hard working : He had determination to work hard. ❖ Clarity in goal : Suraj Bhai’s goal was very clear. ❖ Ready to

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    Banking Collapse

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    TWO DEPRESSIONS‚ ONE BANKING COLLAPSE Chay Fisher and Christopher Kent Research Discussion Paper 1999-06 June 1999 System Stability Department Reserve Bank of Australia We would like to thank Philip Lowe‚ Marianne Gizycki‚ David Merrett‚ Bryan Fitz-Gibbon‚ David Gruen and Peter Stebbing for helpful suggestions. Thanks to David Merrett and David Pope for early advice and encouragement. Thanks also to Adrian McMahon for help in preparing this document. Any remaining errors are our own.

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    Enron's Collapse

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    Enron’s Collapse In the case of Enron’s collapse‚ many would blame the external auditor’s collusion with the management‚ the aggressive accounting policy it had adopted to manipulate its earnings or the Special Purpose Entity (SPE) it had created as a sham to conceal its debts. However‚ everything began from an internal environment with weak controls. The internal environment is the capstone of all other components within an organization’s ERM framework‚ influencing strategy formulation‚ objective

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    The causes of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were that it had no popular support‚ political downfall‚ and economic problems. The fact that the USSR had gained all of its money from the Eastern European states (after world war 2)‚ Stalin’s paranoia of the West forced him to put all that money into defensive arms and therefore none of that money was being channeled into the country. Many historians would argue that it was at this point that the USSR began its downward spiral and this is

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    China approaching the turning point Anant Seksaria Professor Paul Schmitz Paper no. 1 8th February 2013 In the book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed‚ Jared Diamond throws light on the many reasons why ancient societies have been unable to survive: environmental issues‚ the wide disparity between resources required and the resources available and the making of incorrect decisions in terms of the utilization of resources and their opportunity cost. This is a result of its

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    Weber V. Diamond

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    Jared Diamond and Max Weber both are trying to answer the same question. How did the west become so dominate? Even though they both ask the same question they have very different theories as to how this came about. Weber has a very straight forward religious/cultural view on his theory whereas; diamond believes it all started with geography which lead to economic development. Weber’s argument is that capitalism flourished when the protestant (particularly Calvinism) ethic encouraged large numbers

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