Something Went Sour at Parmalat Parmalat is a multinational Italian dairy food corporation that today represents one of the biggest fraud scandals that has marked history in Europe. What happened and why weren’t the scandalous activities detected beforehand? Parmalat’s investigation was triggered when it “defaulted on a $187 million bond payment in mid-November 2002.” This led to further revelation of the nonexistence of $4 billion worth of claimed bank deposits held by a subsidiary in the Cayman
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Truth Discovery with Multiple Conflicting Information Providers on the Web ∗ ∗ Xiaoxin Yin UIUC xyin1@cs.uiuc.edu Jiawei Han UIUC hanj@cs.uiuc.edu ABSTRACT Philip S. Yu IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center psyu@us.ibm.com of information on the web. Even worse‚ different web sites often provide conflicting information‚ as shown below. The world-wide web has become the most important information source for most of us. Unfortunately‚ there is no guarantee for the correctness of information
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AFM 351: Audit Strategies Satyam Fraud: A case of India’s Enron 1. Describe the governance structure at Satyam. What was the “tone-at-the-top” at Satyam during the fraud period? • • • • • • • 2. In terms of the confirmation of cash balances‚ what deficiencies can you identify in terms of the procedures followed in the Satyam engagement? • • • • 3. Ramalinga Raju was the Chairman of the Board His brother‚ Rama Raju‚ was the Managing Director and CEO They both had direct operational
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in order to reduce total dollar cost as well as total transfer latency of collective dataset. In this paper‚ we explore the problem of satisfying latency deadline (i.e.‚ transfer finishes within a day) while minimizing dollar cost and investigate heuristic algorithm for adjusting optimally the tradeoff between the cost and latency of internet and shipping transfer for large datasets under uncertainty of shipping time and size of data based on stochastic programming technique with two stage recourse
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value. Auditors would like to make sure that the transaction generating the accounts receivable actually occurs‚ and that the receivables are recorded at accurate value for the current reporting period. Usually they will send accounts receivable confirmations to client’s customers directly. b) The primary audit objectives of performing year-end sales cutoff tests include accuracy and timing‚ since the purpose of year-end sales cutoff tests is to check whether revenues and/or receivables were recorded
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examples (attention‚ perception‚ learning‚ | |memory systems and processes) 35% | |attitude models and use of examples (multi-attribute models‚ theory of reasoned action‚ heuristic models). 30%| |role of attitude in the decision making process and use of examples (consumer decision process‚ evaluation of | |alternatives‚ consideration set‚ categorisation process) 25% | Contents
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AP-3: ⇒Audit Program for Accounts Receivable Company Balance Sheet Date | | | The company has the following general ledger accounts that are classified in the accounts‚ notes‚ or other receivables captions of the | |balance sheet:
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Vocabulary/Terms: Memory- the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information. importance- research on a memories extremes has helped us understand how memory works.  Working Memory- a newer understanding of short-term memory that focuses on conscious‚ active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information‚ and of information retrieved from long-term memory. importance- better understanding of Atkinson and Shiffrin’s second stage‚ concentrates
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UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM The impact of computer technology on organization and society is increasing as new technologies evolve and existing technologies expand. Interaction and cooperation between people and machines is rapidly growing to cover more and more aspects of organizational activities. Thus‚ computerized systems assist managers in building‚ analyzing‚ and utilizing models‚ graphs and charts‚ managing time and projects‚ electronically writing and transmitting
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