Porter Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness Harvard Business School Cambridge‚ Massachusetts June 24‚ 2005 This presentation draws on Michael Porter‚ Klaus Schwab: The Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005‚ Oxford University Press‚ 2004 and other sources. For further information on the Report and on the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness see www.isc.hbs.edu 200506 GCR Vietnam – KC 2005.06.24.ppt 1 Copyright 2005 © Professor Michael E. Porter Topics for Discussion
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PSA 705 - Modification to the Opinion in the Independent Auditor’s Report • Deals with the auditor’s responsibility to issue an appropriate report in circumstances when in forming an opinion in accordance with PSA 700 “Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements” Modified Reports • Matters That Do Not Affect The Auditor’s Opinion a) Emphasis of matter • Matters That Do Affect the Auditor’s Opinion a) Qualified opinion‚ b) Disclaimer
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In more than one way‚ the film release of the Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise movie ’Minority Report’ could not have been better planned than what is based on a Philip K. Dick book of the same name. Compared to the Book‚ movie is more detailed‚ imaginative‚ creative and original. And on the other side the original book‚ that is serviceable but unpolished‚ it’s also a little clunky and short. The film renders a much more detailed view of a near-term future world than that present in the original book
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LABORATORY 3 The Effect of Temperature on the Rate of PNPP Hydrolysis Partners: Shelby Cruickshanks Alexis Williamson Introduction Most of the chemical reactions‚ which occur throughout our bodies‚ would proceed at a much slower rate of reaction without the presence of an enzyme. Cells can not wait for centuries for molecules to break down‚ if they waited for that‚ there would be no way for the organism to obtain energy or in turn survive. This is where biological catalyst comes into
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Ethical Issues in The 2002 Steven Spielberg Movie Minority Report Technology is progressing every day. We have come so far in the past ten years. Imagine life in 2054‚ and what life will be like. That is what Philip K. Dick did in 1956 when he wrote the short story Minority Report‚ which was later produced as a movie. In the movie Minority Report‚ a team of officers led by John Anderson (Tom Cruise)‚ work together in the precime division. They collect information given by precogs to find
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[pic] |THE MECHANISM FOR THE ACID CATALYSED HYDROLYSIS OF ESTERS | | | |This page looks in detail at the mechanism for the hydrolysis of esters in the presence of a dilute acid | |(such as hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid) acting as the catalyst. It uses ethyl ethanoate as a typical| |ester.
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Critical assessment of annual report of Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc Word count: 1711 words Table of Contents Introduction 3 1.0 Overview of the Annual Report of Morrisons 4 2.0 Performance and Strategy Review 4 3.0 Governance 7 4.0 Reliability of the Annual Report of Morrison 8 5.0 Conclusion 8 References: 9 Introduction An annual report is a portrait of the business of a firm. In fact‚ it is the most important way for a company to
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Corporate Annual reports are produced by companies every year to be filed at companies House by Law and they are sent to its shareholders in order to inform them on their success throughout the year of trading. All Corporate annual reports have similar structures and they consist of both non-statutory items which are the informational parts of the report and the statutory items which give some insight into the financial matters of the company. The report proposes to provide information that is useful
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Based on Philip Dick’s 1956 science-fiction novel‚ Minority Report is a film directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 2002. Set in the apparent utopian society of 2054 in Washington DC‚ murder has been virtually eliminated as a result of a specialised division of law enforcement known as “pre-crime”. Three children‚ called pre-cogs‚ with the ability to foresee murders allow them to arrest criminals before any harm is done. John Anderton heads up this department‚ until he is convicted of the future
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Non-Audit Services and Knowledge Spillovers: An Investigation of the Audit Report Lag Angela Walker and David Hay1 University of Auckland Acknowledgements: We gratefully acknowledge helpful comments by Robert Knechel‚ Yi-Hsing Liao‚ and participants at the International Symposium on Audit Research in Maastricht and the Australian National Centre for Audit and Assurance Research workshop at Australian National University. This research was supported by a grant from the University of Auckland under
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