NIKE INC. 1. HISTORY 1960s Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight founded Nike Inc. as Blue Ribbon Sports with a handshake and only $1‚000 in capital in 1964. The partners first began their relationship at the University of Oregon where Bowerman was Knight’s track and field coach. While attending Stanford University‚ Knight wrote a paper about breaking Germany’s domination of the U.S. domestic athletic shoe industry by distributing low-cost‚ high-quality Japanese athletic shoes to American consumers.
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Subject: Auditing‚ share-based payment and SPE reporting A publically traded company offers challenges to auditing when it comes to shared-based payment reporting and special-purpose entities (SPE) reporting individually. The most basic principle of GAAP at risk is the qualitative characteristic of reliability. Shared-based payment and SPE reporting individually has been broken down to better equip the audit for our client. It is important to notice that Special Purpose Entities should be carefully
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Contemporary Issues in Auditing Contents 1. INTRODUCTION Basically the audit was originally described as to ascertaining whether the resource managing party had properly accounted for all receipts and payments on behalf of his principal. Modern audit considers whether all the information provided to the users of accounts are true and fair. Audit is‚ therefore‚ an examination of accounting records undertaken with a view to establishing whether they correctly
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Running head: Nike and the Sweatshop Debate Nike the Sweatshop Debate Shelia D. Marshall Global Strategies MGT 448 Shabbir Karim October 12‚ 2009 Nike the Sweatshop Debate Beneath all the hoopla and controversy about Nike being a successful company in the United States in which its earnings in 2009 according to Hoovers Inc.‚ 2009‚ Nike’s revenue for 2009 was $19‚ 176.1 million and their gross profit was $8‚604.4 million‚ made possible by the hands of women and underage workers
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Chief Auditor It is a distinct pleasure to speak to this group that uniquely blends a passionate interest in auditing standards‚ practice‚ and education. I have the honor of being the first Chief Auditor of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board – the primary advisor to the Board on policy and technical issues related to the auditing of public companies‚ including auditing standards‚ and the head of the PCAOB’s professional standard-setting division. However‚ the views I express today
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company is Nike‚ one of the largest supplier of sportswear which include shoes and apparel. Implementation of CRM programme is a essential for every successful company. Customer Relationship Management is the core business strategy that integrates internal processes and functions and external networks‚ to create and deliver value to targeted customer at a profit. It is based on high quality customer-related data and enabled by information technology. (Buttle‚ 2009) The main reason for Nike to implement
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PSYCH 103N (EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY) RESEARCH ETHICS REPORTED BY: Jonairah D. Alingan Cherry Mae B. Balingit III – BS Psych Stuents INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Cora E. Lim CHAPTER 2: RESEARCH ETHICS * The Researcher’s foremost concern in recruiting and using subjects is treating them ethically and responsibly * Research that is harmful to participants is undesirable even though it may increase wisdom * A researcher is legally responsible for what happens to research participants * To protect
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Statement ShuffleClick T echnologies believes in Excellence and Innovation and this is the reason we continuously endeavour to facilitate business from zero to excellence. We are in the field of T echnology‚ Outsourcing‚ Consulting‚ Industries and High End Web Designing/Developing projects. We have marked our presence with many successful projects in various disciplines by rendering the customized services based on latest technologies. Mission Statement The mission of ShuffleClick is to make
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Auditing Theory 1. A control which relates to all parts of the EDP system is called a(n) a. Systems control c. Applications control b. General control d. Universal control 2. Which of the following is not an output control? a. Proper authorization of transaction b. Control totals c. Check digits d. Adequate documents 3. Should the auditor feel‚ after obtaining an understanding of the EDP internal control structure‚ that control risk cannot be reduced‚ he or she will a. Issue a disclaimer b. Issue
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At the very beginning of my eighth grade science class‚ while discussing the topic of genes‚ my teacher‚ Mr. Jibon Saha explained why we look similar to our parents and how genes flow from generation to generation. That day‚ for the first time‚ I found the real answer to my question “why do I look like my father?”. He also described the great phenomena of environments‚ how environments help us by providing all needs. All of his story and discussion sparked new thought and I found a real desire to
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