Mistakes Were Made Have you ever wondered what kind of actions would be classified as a mistake? When are you able to actually say that it was a “mistake?” As the days go by‚ we watch as others make mistakes or even experience them ourselves. A mistake can be as simple as something said to someone or one stupid decision that can change everything. Everyone makes mistakes‚ no one is perfect. We all have friends that we watch make stupid decisions everyday. You can tell them time after time that they
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Wheelen and Hunger’s text[1]: cost leadership. This strategy focuses on “a lower-cost competitive strategy that aims at the broad mass market and requires efficient scale facilities‚ cost reductions‚ and cost and overhead control. This strategy avoids marginal customers‚ and aims for cost minimization in R&D‚ service‚ sales force‚ and advertising.” If used effectively‚ this strategy should reduce and control your labor and overhead costs. This would in turn decrease variable expenses and simultaneously
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Which segment of its operations got Enron into difficulties? The fall of Eron has understandably generated significant interest in the professional literature as well as in the popular press. The activities and events underlying Enron’s collapse are manifold‚ but several stand out as particularly noteworthy. One is the use of special purpose entities (SPEs). Although SPEs often serve legitimate economic purposes and are still in use today‚ Enron used several of them to hide debt and to overstate
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Enron was once one of the world’s leading electricity‚ natural gas‚ pulp‚ paper and communications companies. However‚ in December 2‚ 2001‚ Enron suddenly filed for bankruptcy. During the ten years before Enron¡¦s went bankrupt‚ Enron¡¦s management had started transferring Enron¡¦s funding to personal accounts and made fake balance sheets‚ which provided investors information about how this company goes. (Gibney‚ 2005) These illegal actions‚ performed by certain individuals‚ finally led Enron to
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been interested in being an Art Director for a while now. I have always been interested in what Art Directors did and what they could achieve. I would want to pursue in being a music art director if I had to choose one. Art Directors have many responsibilities and have get put into difficult situations. Also‚ I haven’t fully decided if I wanted to pursue this career‚but I am very interested in what Art directors do. The Tasks that I would have to do while being an Art Director would have to with
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Case summary – Enron Corporation’s Weather Derivatives Steve Haik‚ Dan Sleker and Bas van Bellegem – March 2003 Background In October Mary Watts‚ CFO of Pacific Northwest Electric (PNW) reviewed the forward plan for PNW’s 200-2001 season. PNW’s has been experiencing nearly no EPS growth since 1995 due to deregulation and warmer-than-average winter climate. The stock price had suffered accordingly‚ but there maybe a way to hedge the weather risk via a new “weather derivative” being proposed by Enron’s
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Many of us can relate to feeling regularly frustrated‚ thinking‚ “Why is it so hard for us to admit our mistakes?” Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson’s book‚ Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)‚ focuses on why people justify bad decisions‚ beliefs‚ and actions. It also offers suggestions about how we might be able to challenge ourselves to honestly reflect on our choices and take responsibility for our actions. In the beginning of the book‚ the authors introduce the theory of cognitive dissonance and
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If you have an eye for detail than the role of an art director maybe the perfect fit for you. Art Directors are responsible for putting together advertisements after all the information is gathered. They create the virtual aspect of an advertisement and make it effective for readers. So‚ to do this they come up with multiple concepts to show the client. As an art director you could choose to work for newspapers‚ magazines‚ films‚ advertising industries and many more. So‚ pretty much any place that
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ENRON: The Idiocy and the Irony Introduction Red flags were blinding as Enron learned about possible corruption with Enron Oil Trading in Valhalla‚ New York. After the merger between HNG and InterNorth‚ the Valhalla office‚ originally established by InterNorth seemed all but forgotten until quarterly and annual reports were due. Supervisors Tom Harding and Steve Sulentic were rarely on-site‚ preferring the comfort of offices in Houston. Louis Borget who established and operated the trading
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction..........................................................................................1 Who Committed Fraud?.....................................................................1 - 2 How Was Fraud Committed?...............................................................2 - 4 Why Was Fraud Committed?...............................................................4 - 5 Penalties Of Committing Fraud.............................................................. 6
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