applying various approaches. Some merely cut costs and anticipate preserving sales/ revenue. Others cut production and channel the savings to the customers in an effort to radically increase sales to surge profit. As in our scenario above Grosgover Ltds decision to change from a local to an overseas supplier is projected to drop 10% in material cost‚ a variable cost. Variable costs are contingent to sales since they rely on costs of direct materials as well as labor; it is pertinent to mention that
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PART 1 SWOT Analysis 1.1 Industry Analysis Porter’s five forces analysis is presented as below for industry analysis of Kathmandu: Industry Competition→High | * Leadership in clothing and equipment retail in Australia and New Zealand. * Competitors within this area include | Barriers of entry→Medium-High | * Relatively low level of product design differentiation * High barriers for technically credible products | Threat of substitutes→Medium-High | * A wide variety of other
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May 2011 pp. 19–50 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-50009 Financial Statement Fraud Detection: An Analysis of Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms Johan Perols SUMMARY: This study compares the performance of six popular statistical and machine learning models in detecting financial statement fraud under different assumptions of misclassification costs and ratios of fraud firms to nonfraud firms. The results show‚ somewhat surprisingly‚ that logistic regression and support
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bottled watre per capita. But this consumption is still significant lower than the consumption of the top 10 global bottled water consuming countries & other similar markets (US‚ Italy‚ France..). This suggests that the Australian market has potential for higher rate of consumptions and sales growth. - Its strong growth rate also be shown clearly through its fastest growing rate in the non-alcoholic beverage industry. Table 1 shows that it has significantly increased its market share
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The Bible & Accounting Fraud Liberty University Abstract Accounting is an information and measurement system used by mainly all businesses and organizations to provide relevant‚ reliable and comparable information about its business activities‚ (Wild‚ & Shaw‚ & Chiappetta‚ 2011‚ p.272). Accounting Information Systems is a fundamental part of determining the success of an organization. An effective information system provides Internal
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Healthcare Fraud and Abuse As we head into the next four years under the Obama administration‚ many Americans are hearing more and more about healthcare reform and what needs to be done to fix the ailing healthcare system. Part of the dramatic increase in healthcare costs is due to Medicare fraud abuse. Healthcare fraud is defined as making false statements or representations of material facts in order to obtain benefits or payment. Healthcare abuse is defined as practices involving the overuse
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must remain ethically cautious to circumvent falling into such a trap. Accountants need to be educated on what forms of financial statements frauds can be committed and ways to prevent financial statement fraud. A strong system of internal controls helps companies deter employees from committing fraud. Financial Statement Fraud Categories Financial statement fraud is deliberate misrepresentation‚ misstatement or omission of financial statement data for the purpose of misleading the reader and creating
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Fraud in the Business World Sean P. Dixon Business 670: Legal Environment Instructor: Jennifer Stephens April 4‚ 2011 Abstract Americans lose hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fraud. Billions more are lost world-wide to con artists touting the next great investment idea‚ guaranteed loans and diets that can ’t fail. These con artists do not discriminate between the rich and poor‚ the young and old‚ nationality or race. They target the well-educated‚ so-called smart individuals
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Abstract A fraud is an act of deceiving others for personal gain but is not usually followed by a crime. The symptoms of fraud or the red flags help understand the slight difference between a corporate fraud and a corporate crime. The continual financial frauds leading to corporate collapse and the failure of the statutory audit to detect and prevent fraudulent activities of the perpetrators lead investors and the firms and individuals to suffer. This contributed to the increased need for investigating
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Credit Cards Fraud Nowadays‚ computer technology is growing bigger and bigger. This tremendous and powerful improvement has its good and bad connotations. Credit cards are one popular invention of the computer era. According to www.1stamericancardservice.com‚ a credit card is a plastic card bearing an account number assigned to a cardholder with a credit limit that can be used to purchase goods and services and to obtain cash disbursements on credit‚ for
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