SMART HIGHWAY FOR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM NEED:With the number of accidents occurring on highways increasing every year‚ a need to develop smart highways that are not only able to reduce the accidents but also provide a better management of the vehicles plying in an environmental friendly manner is need of the hour. Unlike the conventional highways‚ they require less human involvement by automating majority of the tasks. In this project we want to design the said highway showing a number
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Jacquelyn Przyborowski The Devil’s Highway The novel The Devil’s Highway by Luis Urea is based on a true story. It tells the tragic story of a group of Mexican immigrants who try to cross the United State border. Although many Mexicans have died in the desert trying to cross the border previously with this particular story is unique in that it was such a large group that traveled and so many of them died. The title‚ “The Devil’s Highway” is the name of the part if the desert these men crossed
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Part B: What role did the CFO play in creating the problems that led to Enron’s financial problems? In order to prevent the losses from appearing on its financial statements‚ Enron used questionable accounting practices. To misrepresent its true financial condition‚ Andrew Fastow‚ the Enron’s CFO‚ takes his role involving unconsolidated partnerships and “special purpose entities”‚ which would later become known as the LJM partnership. Taking advantage from the SPEs’s main purpose‚ which provided
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THE COLLAPSE OF ENRON August 11 2008 [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] FROM PERSPECTIVE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS PAGE NO. Introduction 3 Background of Enron 3 Enron Business Model 4 Summary of transactions & Partnerships
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Introduction Enron was one of America’s leading companies prior to its spectacular collapse in 2001. It was frequently named as one of America’s top 10 most admired corporations and best places to work‚ and its board was acclaimed one of the US’ best five‚ according to Fortune magazine. As America’s seventh largest company‚ Enron experienced explosive growth through the 1990s. It had revenues of US$139 ($184) billion‚ US$62 ($82) billion in assets and employed more than 30‚000 people across 20
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road plan has a target road length of 32 km per 100 square km. c) Second 20-year plan has provided 1600 km of expressways out of the proposed National highway. d) Second 20-year plan allowed deduction of length of railway track in the area while calculating the length of roads. 3. The sequence of four stages of survey in a highway alignment is a) reconnaissance‚ map study‚ preliminary survey and detailed survey b) map study‚ preliminary survey‚ reconnaissance and detailed survey
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The Enron Scandal One of the most popular business bankruptcies and collapses known to date is that of the Enron Corporation. Enron‚ once known as "America ’s Most Innovative Company" by Fortune Magazine six straight years from 1996 to 2001. Enron seemed to be doing very well until the summer of 2001 generating a lot of cash and new businesses‚ but in October of 2001 Enron was forced to disclose that their accounting practices had been very creative‚ and failed to follow generally accepted accounting
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Causes and Effects of the Enron Accounting Scandals Name: Do Minh Tam Class: MEP 100 Lecture: Karen Bird Date: December 24‚ 2010 Introduction Background From the 1980s until now‚ there have been a lot of accounting scandals which were widely announced on by media. The result of this situation is many companies were bankruptcy protection requests‚ and closing. One of the most widely reported emulation of accounting scandals is Enron Company. Enron Corporation is one of the largest energy
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Enron Corporation Before filing for bankruptcy in 2001‚ Enron Corporation was one of the largest natural gas and electricity companies in the world. In addition to being one of the largest bankruptcies in American history‚ Enron undoubtedly was the biggest audit failure. It was one of the most famous company in the world‚ but also one that fell down too fast. In 1985‚ Enron was created by a merge between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth by Houston’s Natural Gas’s CEO Kenneth Lay. It was
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very rotten in the state of Enron.” This quote by Michigan Senator Carl Levin is a twist of words from a famous playwright‚ Shakespeare’s Hamlet; “Something was very rotten in the state of Denmark.” From the play‚ this was recited because there was a lot of corruption in Denmark from the betrayal in royalty. In comparison to Levin’s quote‚ there was betrayal of Enron leaders to their employees‚ as well as the company itself. Between the years of 1979 and 2001‚ Enron was known for the largest market
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