SOX versus the Brooke Corporation April Mallari Accounting/291 February 2‚ 2012 Joseph Ori * The purpose of this article analysis is to identify situations that may lead to unethical practices and behavior in accounting. Brooke Corporation and founder Robert Orr are an example of how Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) laws have not been as effective as most want to believe as based on the article‚ “Eight Years after the Fact is SOX working? A Look at the Brooke Corporation” by Beth Hazels. Brooke Corporation
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Student’s Name | __________________ | Professor’s Name | __________________ | Course Title | __________________ | Date | __________________ | SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002(SOX) Introduction to SOX: Financial Analysis involves evaluation of business‚ budgets‚ projects etc to ensure stability‚ liquidity‚ and solvency and at last profitability of the business in presence of domestic and global macro-economic environment to determine suitability of investment. This evaluation is not completely
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4. Were they acts of vandalism/ mason marks? In 1567 A.D‚ 2 years after the Battle of Talikota and the sacking of the Vijayanagara imperial capital‚ Cesare Frederici‚ an Italian traveller‚ visited the city of Vijayanagara and documented Emperor Tirumala trying to repopulate the ruined capital city. For the purposes of this chapter‚ the failed attempt by Emperor Tirumala of the Aravidu dynasty to repopulate the capital after the defeat of the Vijayanagara Empire at the battle of Talikota will not
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§201 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 specifies those activities which a public accounting firm cannot do if they are performing an audit for a company. The firm cannot provide: “(1) bookkeeping or other services related to the accounting records or financial statements of the audit client; (2) financial information systems design and implementation; (3) appraisal or valuation services‚ fairness opinions‚ or contribution-in-kind reports; (4) actuarial services; (5) internal audit outsourcing services;
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region. However‚ others passed gradual emancipation laws‚ which took several decades for slavery to completely end. For those states‚ slavery didn’t end until the last slave died. The essential question is; how free were free blacks in the north? Free blacks in the North weren’t free‚ as they were denied many political‚ economic‚ and social freedoms. Politically‚ blacks had no freedoms to speak up in the northern states when it came to the government. According to Document A‚
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Cybercrime Law in the Philippines The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012‚ signed by President Benigno Aquino III on Sep. 12‚ aims to fight online pornography‚ hacking‚ identity theft and spamming following local law enforcement agencies’ complaints over the lack of legal tools to combat cybercrime. However‚ the law came with tougher legal penalties for Internet defamation‚ compared to traditional media. It also allows authorities to collect data from personal user accounts on social media and listen
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ASSIGNMENT 1 IMPACT OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT (SOX) Submit to: Outline three (3) ways in which your medium-sized private company may benefit from going public‚ providing a rationale for each. Supporters of companies going public suggest that gaining additional capital is one of the benefits medium sized companies gain by going public. The rationale for going public is to float the shares of the company through the stock market by starting an initial public offer
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Economic conditions 1933 Trade * Germany depended heavily on its ability to sell manufactured goods. * The demand for German exports declined and its sale of manufactured goods‚ collapsed * The value dropped from 13.5 billion Reischmarks in 1929 to 4.9 billion in 1933. Employment * The industrial contraction was mass long-term unemployment. * Even before the Great Depression‚ workers were being laid off and in 1929 the unemployment was 1.9 million * The length and severity
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Case questions: 1. What is POX’s core benefit proposition? What makes this game unique? 2. What are the pros and cons of the traditional ad campaign (based on TV and print advertising) and of the “take over the town” buzz event? 3. What other non-traditional marketing campaigns could Hasbro have followed (at the time of the case and today)? Subjects covered: Advertising; Consumer marketing; Gaming; Innovation; Marketing implementation; Marketing strategy; New product marketing; Product
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Religious Crises in the North: Which Way Out of this Quagmire? By Aliyu A. Ammani aaammani@yahoo.co.uk This essay is an attempt at identifying the remote and immediate causes of the incessant religious crises in northern towns and cities‚ if you’d rather the so-called middle belt political zone of the north. In expressing this view‚ there is no intention on my part to mock the bones of those who died so long ago and who tried‚ however ineffectually‚ to lead their people.
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