Internal controls are methods or procedures adopted in a business to: -Assist in achieving the businesses’ objectives - Ensure financial information is correct and reliable - Ensure cooperation with all operational and financial requirements - Protect its Assets They are essentially checks and balances within a business. It’s objective is to reduce errors‚ limit financial losses and prevent fraud. They also segregate duties within the company and limit one persons control over an entire area
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INTRODUCTION Fire is one of the original perils insurance was designed to protect against. Current building codes and many nearby fire departments make it easy to forget about the catastrophic damage fire can do. However the damage caused by fire and the fire departments effort to put out a fire is all too real. It happens in just an instance. Smoker falling asleep in a chair‚ an unattended candle‚ paper or clothing too near the stove or a heat generating source‚ or a spark caused from an
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Industry Profile * History of Insurance * Types of Insurance * Life Insurance * Non Life Insurance | * Development of Life Insurance in India * Development of Life Insurance in Rural India * IRDA (Insurance Regulatory Development Authority) * Advantage of Life Insurance * Limitation of Life Insurance | The History of Insurance Although insurance may have been used by the Babylonians‚ the Greeks and the Romans‚ insurance in the modern sense originated
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Insurance Envoy system is an intranet based private web application‚ which is designed by a group of insurance broker agents‚ to make their application work of insurance policies and claims process easier and flexible. The web based application is used within their organization under the distributed accessibility to check the status of the customers who have taken new policies and their proper track and reminding of policy premium payments and claim conditions. The system is actually developed to
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health insurance that must meets certain basic requirements. Beginning in 2014‚ individuals who do not acquire health insurance will be subject to a fine. This fine will rise over time‚ reaching $895 per person or 2.5 percent of income‚ whichever is greater‚ by 2018. Beginning in 2014‚ each state is to establish an Affordable Insurance Exchange. Separate exchanges are to be established for individuals and small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. The intention is that private insurance companies
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UNIT 3 GENERAL INSURANCE General Insurance: Principles‚ products (Fire‚ Marine‚ Motor vehicles‚ public liability‚ third party insurance‚ medi-claim and health policies‚ group insurance‚ burglary insurance). 1 Sunil Kushwaha INTRODUCTION Insurance is an important aid to minimize the effect of uncertainties of life as well as property. With the increasing complexities in our personal and professional life‚ the range of risks that the insurance companies accept has also expended
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Justification for an Internal Control System ACC/544 April 22‚ 2013 Christine Errico Justification for an Internal Control System Over the past years many organizations have fallen because of inadequate financial reporting and ineffective controls. To overcome this dilemma‚ the creation of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 requires corporations to take full control over its financial reporting and accounting by placing internal controls within its organization. Internal controls not only establish
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INTRODUCTION Insurance is a form of risk management in which the insured transfers the cost of potential loss to another entity in exchange for monetary compensation known as the premium. Insurance allows individuals‚ businesses and other entities to protect themselves against significant potential losses and financial hardship at a reasonably affordable rate. We say "significant" because if the potential loss is small‚ then it doesn’t make sense to pay a premium to protect against the loss. After
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Insurance & technology to better serve Emerging Consumers: Learning to improve access & service Zurich Financial Services Group Contents Acknowledgements A note on the authors Introduction I. A new data universe: understanding customers better Data mining Monitor behavior and trends Implications for insurance The bank in your hand: providing financial access through mobile phones Branchless banking SMS advertising and sales Implications for insurance 1 1 2 3 4 4 5 II. 6 6 8 9
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Case Study Progressive Insurance Table of contents: Page I. Brief Description of the case…………………………………………………………………………………… II. Statement of the Problem……………………………………………………………………………………… III. Objectives of the case study…………………………………………………………………………………… IV. Methodologies………………………………………………………………………………………………………. V. Analysis………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. A. SWOT analysis B. VI. Significant Findings……………………………………………………………………………………………….. A. Positive
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