since we have known about the hazards of lead‚ tens of millions of children have suffered its health effects. Even today there are still at minimum more than four hundred thousand children under the age of six who have too much lead in their blood. Over the past few months‚ concerns about lead paint in children’s toys made by companies such as Mattel‚ Fischer-Price‚ and Hasbro have come up and stores have initiated several recalls of various toys. Lead‚ unfortunately‚ can cause serious health problems
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4.1 Enron Corporation and Anderson‚ LLP ----Analyzing the fall of two Giants This case results in the publishing of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and relevant to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Also‚ it is related to SAS 103: Auditing‚ Quality Control‚ and Independence Standards and Rules. [1] What were the business risk Enron faced‚ and how did those risks increase the likelihood if material misstatements in Enron’s financial statements? The business risks Enron faced are as following:
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1. Define the problem(s) Enron failed to record some of its transactions. Arthur Andersen did not allow the LJM financial statement to stay unconsolidated. 2. Analyze the situation - again‚ take a "lessons learned" approach. You might use the following questions as guides: A. What important internal controls were ignored when LJM1 was created? LJM1 ignored some of Enron’s entries in the books that were missing. Outsiders owned less than 3% of the Special Purpose Entities equities. There was
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The Lead is based on a true story‚ Antonio Banderas portrays Pierre DuLaine‚ a New York City dance instructor who gets the concept of teaching the beauty of ballroom dancing to a group of detention students in a troublesome inner-city Manhattan high school. Pierre Dulaine rides the streets dressed immaculate on his bicycle. One day‚ he observes a student named Rock (Rob Brown) striking a car with a golf club. Rock has his logics‚ but rather than calling the cops‚ Mr. Dulaine voluntarily takes leadership
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In the “Investigative Leads” section‚ we outline action items that could be performed to discover additional information pertinent to the investigation. If more time or additional resources were provided to examiner or investigator‚ these are the outstanding tasks that could be completed. To law enforcement The “Investigative Leads” section is often critical. To generate more compelling evidence to help your case is almost always the goal of your forensic analysis. Therefore‚ it is absolutely essential
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references. 7 1. Introduction. On March 15 March 2001 Australia’s second largest insurer‚ HIH collapsed with debts in excess of A$5billion. This report intends to discuss some of HIH’s business objectives and creative accounting practices that may have attributed to the collapse of the company. 1.1 History. HIH began operating in Australia in 1968 under the name C.E. Heath plc‚ an English based insurance company whose Australian operations specialised in the underwriting of workers compensation
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The Democratic Deficit and the Questionable Desirability of a Populist Alternative. “(...) the twenty-first century provides ample and ever-increasing opportunities for populist actors in Western Europe.” (Albertazzi and Duncan 2008‚ 219). This conclusion by Albertazzi and Duncan accurately describes the current political climate in Western democracies: Populist parties have become prominent as they respond to the increased cultural and economic insecurities of the twenty-first century (Albertazzi
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International Financial Management Homework 4 Chapter 16 Mini Case Enron Versus Bombay Politicians On August 3‚1995‚ the Maharashtra state government of India‚ dominated by the nationalist right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)‚ abruptly canceled Enron’s $2.9 billion power project in Dabhol‚ located south of Bombay‚ the industrial heartland of India. This came as a huge blow to Rebecca P. Mark‚ the chairman and chief executive of Enron’s international power unit‚ who spearheaded the Houston-based
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Enron “The Smartest Guys in the Room” The Enron: The smartest guys in the room it’s a documentary film based in an important and huge company that was involved in a huge scandal in the American history. The Enron Corporation when they first start was a successful company. In its beginning‚ Enron was a small company from Texas‚ after years Enron became in the seven largest business in the U.S. with a smarts an experts employees working for Enron. The founder was Ken Lay a smart executive. The company
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Reaction paper of the film Take the Lead Take the lead is based on a true story‚ the movie tells us of the struggle of a dance teacher‚ Pierre Dulain. It is the real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of problem kids. This film not only gives us a fun and relaxation but it also gives us knowledge about modern dancing and model dancing. Not only that‚ the film gives us the morality as teacher. How relationship between teacher and student should be in school
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