Head: EVALUATING INTERNAL CONTROLS Evaluating Internal Controls Internal Control Systems – ACC/544 Stephanie Booth Robert Cornett University of Phoenix September 29‚ 2014 Evaluating Internal Controls An organization’s internal controls are comprised of five components‚ which include: the control environment‚ risk assessment‚ control activities‚ monitoring‚ and information and communication. The five components
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More than 2‚000 public companies exist in Canada. Public companies can offer shares for sales to raise financing‚ and in return they provide detailed financial information in their annual reports and make timely disclosure of significant corporate events. Private companies are not required to do this. All corporations have a board of directors‚ selected by shareholders and given responsibility of overseeing the activities of the corporation. The legal separation of ownership and management
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Corporate Strategy Analysis Discussion SummaryMaliaka M. McClendonMGT/230October 27‚ 2014Leslie HallCorporate Strategy Analysis Discussion SummaryCorporate strategy identifies the set of businesses‚ markets‚ or industries in which the organization competes and then distribute the resources among the businesses. With four basic alternatives when using corporate strategy in the planning function of management are concentration‚ vertical‚ integration‚ concentric diversification‚ and conglomerate diversification
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Corporate governance Two definitions: ASX CGC: rules‚ relationship‚ systems and processes help a company to monitor and assess risk‚ optimize performance‚ create value and provide accountability. A narrow definition which consistent with agency theory focuses on relationship between company and shareholders. OECD: a system a company can be directed and controlled‚ specify rights‚ responsibilities and rules; set and achieve objectives and monitor performance. A board definition consider relationship
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Corporate Restructuring: Corporate restructuring is one of the most complex and fundamental phenomena that management confronts. Each company has two opposite strategies from which to choose: to diversify or to refocus on its core business. While diversifying represents the expansion of corporate activities‚ refocus characterizes a concentration on its core business. From this perspective‚ corporate restructuring is reduction in diversification. Corporate restructuring is an episodic exercise‚
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Strategic Finance Reflective Paper: Corporate Governance Siddharth Menon 13200701 What is Corporate Governance? Corporate Governance defines the methods‚ structure and the processes of a company in which the business and affairs of the company managed and directed (Khan‚ 2011). It deals with ways in which suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investment. Corporate Governance can also be defined as the whole system of rights‚ processes
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We’ve seen that the financial manager acts in the best interests of the stockholders by taking actions that increase the value of the stock. However‚ in large corporations ownership can be spread over a huge number of stockholders. This dispersion of ownership arguably means that management effectively controls the firm. In this case‚ will management necessarily act in the best interests of the stockholders? Put another way‚ might not management pursue its own goals at the stockholders’ expense?
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MGMT640 – Textbook Notes PART 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE Chapter 1 – The Financial Manager and The Firm 1.1 The Role of the Financial Manager * financial manager should make decisions that maximize value of owners stock/wealth – wealth is the economic value of the assets someone possesses * stakeholders – anyone other than an owner (stockholder) with a claim on the cash flows of a firm‚ including employees‚ suppliers‚ creditors‚ and the government * productive
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Six Components of a Great Corporate Culture by John Coleman | 3:00 PM May 6‚ 2013 The benefits of a strong corporate culture are both intuitive and supported by social science. According to James L. Heskett (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/what_great_companies_know_abou.html) ‚ culture “can account for 20-30% of the differential in corporate performance when compared with ‘culturally unremarkable’ competitors.” And HBR writers have offered advice on navigating different geographic cultures
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Corporate Corruption In today ’s world it is all too prevalent to see more and more people hungry to gain success at an ever-increasing rate. Modern culture can and indeed is labelled greedy ’ and thoughtless ’. Through my relatively short time spent in business‚ I have encountered many of these types of people. But who are they hungry for? Who benefits from their thoughtlessness‚ and why do they do what they do? More importantly‚ who is to blame when things don ’t go according to plan? These
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