revenue. Notably‚ The Sign of the Cross‚ released in 1932‚ was a biblical epic that stunned the audience with the king’s implied relationship with a slave boy‚ erotic dancing between two women‚ and frequent nudity (Presley & Viera). As a result of World War II‚ directors made homosexuals German effigies- beating them with sinister‚ perverse stereotypes‚ making it easier for the audience to hate gays and lesbians when associated
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CASE 4-1: Bessrawl Corporation Reconciliation of net income from U.S. GAAP to IFRS 2011 Net Income according to U.S. GAAP attributable to equity holders of Bessrawl Corporation ………… $1‚000‚000.00 IFRS adjustments: Add: Reversal of inventory cost written down to replacement cost….. 10‚000.00 Less: Additional depreciation of building after 2011 revaluation……..
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How did the corporate culture of Enron contribute to its Bankruptcy? Once a sound company listed in fortune 500‚ Enron‚ lead to downfall because of deceptive accounting system incorporated within the organization. Enron’s dubicious finance finally collapsed in Dec 2‚ 2001 as it filed Bankruptcy in New York Bankruptcy court. The corporate culture of Enron focused on financial performance neglecting the stakeholder’s value .The relentless emphasis on the importance of the shareholder’s value created
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Parmalat Finanziara‚ the Italian dairy and food giant‚ is fast joining Enron and WorldCom as a household name for corporate scandal. The alleged financial fraud at Parmalat spans more than a decade and involves sums whose estimates have ballooned from EUR 4 billion to more than EUR 8 billion. Founder‚ chairman‚ and chief executive Calisto Tanzi has been ousted from the company and board and is under arrest. Enrico Bondi‚ who replaced Tanzi in December‚ has been given new authority to act as sole
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National Identity in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four" by Agnieszka Jasnowska is relative to The Sign of Four by relating it to the fears the British had of foreign customs corrupting their own. Agnieszka Jasnowska’s argument is agreeable because The Sign of Four played off the fears the British had about foreign customs making its way into their political systems and causing changes to their own established customs. Several of the characters were influenced by foreign customs and this drove
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. Enron senior management gets a failing grade on the truth and disclosure and a passing grade on arrogance and greed. For Fifteen years Enron was a paper tiger with few questions ever asked concerning its earnings profitability or business practices. The deceit and deception by Enron management seems to be the environment of a divisive marketing campaign that Kenneth Lay‚ Jeffery Skilling and Andrew Fastow hide while touting Enron. In reality Enron was one of the greatest Ponzi schemes to date
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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
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Cigarette Warning Labels Work? Cigarette warning label is a legal formality fulfilled by the cigarette manufacturers. The fact is that cigarette warning labels do not affect the smokers. Warning labels were adapted in the late 1960s with a minor note saying "Smoking can be Hazardous to Health". It was only the 1970s that confirmed‚ smoking could kill. And‚ in 1985 other labels including warnings for Lung Cancer‚ Heart Diseases‚ Emphysema and that Smoking during pregnancy is Dangerous‚ were added
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The guest lecture done by Rahul K. Bhardwaj along with the Toronto Vital Signs report were both interesting and insightful ways to learn a bit about the city. The report is an overview of the quality of life in the city of Toronto and‚ like the vital signs of an individual‚ this report gives the residents‚ businesses‚ communities and philanthropists of the city of Toronto an idea of the health of the city. It takes all the research and data done on the city’s performance in safety‚ education‚ economic
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Piumi Perera 11/18/09 Period 7 The Suitors Demise and Odysseus’s Revenge: Justified? I: Thesis: “They’d no regard for any man on earth-good or bad-…” (Fagles pg.452). Using these words Odysseus says that the suitors deserve to get murdered or slaughtered in the halls because of their actions. The gods bring death on the suitor through Odysseus because they do not care for anyone but themselves. In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ Odysseus is justified in his actions toward the suitors because society
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