risk or they have to face a consequence because they have to be held accountable to a law. Saying so‚ that same law can prevent people from calling for help. With that being said‚ why people in life-or-death situations should not be held accountable for their actions because people do not wish to get themselves in a life-or-death situation and it would be too difficult to hold people accountable The first reason people shouldn’t be held accountable in life-or-death situations is because people don’t
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Should auditors be held more accountable in uncovering financial fraud? Table of Contents Introduction Currently in the United States‚ the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) the International Auditing and Assurance Board (IAASB) are the most influential accounting standard boards able to influence fraud detection standard setting in financial reporting. In recent years‚ there has been a growing trend in financial scandals such as WorldCom‚ Enron and Madoff
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CHAPTER 1 ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS: AN OVERVIEW SUGGESTED ANSWERS TO DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1.1 The value chain classifies all business activities into two categories: primary activities and support activities. The five primary activities are: inbound logistics‚ operations‚ outbound logistics‚ sales & marketing‚ and service. The four support activities are: firm infrastructure‚ human resources management‚ technology‚ and purchasing. The inbound logistics function at S&S includes
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changing. As strong as they are they are never constantly the same. As people grow so too does their personality and interests‚ these changes in a person’s life will often form and develop an old relationship once shared into a new one. In the story “Outside Edges” you see how a relationship between family members can change when David at the age of 8 discovers his new interest in maps of Canada. The author “Ivan Dorin” develops the idea how David’s obsession with maps creates a new relationship and a
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EXAMPLE EXAM Student number: PART 1: AIS/APM CONCEPTS AND TYPOLOGY (12 POINTS) Question 1. The Accounting Information System (12 points) a) What are the purposes of an audit trail (2 points) b) What is meant by a defective audit trail? (2 points) c) How can a defective audit trail be prevented? (2 points) d) Discuss the independence issue when audit firms also provide consulting input into the development and selection of new AIS (3 points) e) Explain how a production quota
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want. Even if all of the states decided to officially legalize gay marriage‚ or ban it‚ there will always be individuals with logical and moral conflicting thoughts on same-sex marriage. The main argument is what the actual definition of marriage should be. A good portion of the population believes that marriage is a union strictly between one man and one woman. These people believe that a family needs both a mother and a father in order to be complete. The union between one man and one woman
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HAPTER 10 The Revenue Cycle: Sales to Cash Collections • Questions to be addressed in this chapter include: – What are the basic business activities and data processing operations that are performed in the revenue cycle? – What decisions need to be made in the revenue cycle‚ and what information is needed to make these decisions? – What are the major threats in the revenue cycle and the controls related to those threats? 1 of 160 © 2008 Prentice Hall Business Publishing Accounting Information Systems
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stimulate antibody production. Even though the first vaccine was created 215 years ago in 1796‚ many people today are still apprehensive about vaccines due to fear of vaccines’ negative side effects. This investigation studies whether vaccinations should be made mandatory or otherwise‚ considering both the negative and positive impacts of vaccines. To produce a vaccine‚ the antigen that stimulates the immune response is first generated. Viruses are grown on primary cells‚ bacteria in bioreactors and recombinant
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AI FOR COGNINITIVE RADIO Abstract: Cognitive radio (CR) is an enabling technology for numerous new capabilities such as spectrum access‚ spectrum sensing‚ spectrum decision‚ spectrum sharing and self organizing networks. This paper reviews several AI techniques used in cognitive radios such as : artificial neural network (ANN)‚ hidden Markov models (HMMs)‚ metahueristic algorithms‚ these techniques are proposed to provide the cognition capability in a cognitive engine. The modern
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The iPremier Compant (A): Denial of Service Attack Summary of the case: iPremier‚ a Seattle based company‚ was founded in 1996 by two students from Swathmore College. iPremier had become one of a few success web-based commerce‚ selling luxury‚ rare‚ and vintage goods over the Internet. Most of iPremier’s goods sell between fifty and a few hundred dollars‚ and the customer buys the products online with his or her credit card. iPremier’s competitive advantage is their flexible return policies
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