WorldCom: internal audit lessons to be learnt On June 9 2003‚ the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of New York issued a report on the WorldCom accounting fraud that expands on the court’s earlier findings of mismanagement‚ lack of corporate governance‚ and concern regarding the integrity of the company’s accounting and financial reporting functions. Supervised by former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh‚ the study was commissioned by the court to investigate allegations including fraud‚ mismanagement
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Failures A. Cedillo POS-355 Failures In this paper I will be discussing the issue of failures in a distributed system‚ and to understand the different failures I will write about four failures that occur in and affect a distributed system. Also‚ I will be discussing and writing about how to isolate and fix two out of the four failure that can occur in the distributed system. In a distributed system nothing is set in stone or perfect‚ so there are some issues that can arise‚ and the issues
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Business Communication OMGT 302 The Complete Effects of Decreased Full-Time Equivalencies on Budget and Productivity Review of the effects on organizations and employees when the workforce is reduced and workload is increased. 2012 Jess Hennessey Hewlett-Packard 1/1/2012 Business Communication OMGT 302 The Complete Effects of Decreased Full-Time Equivalencies on Budget and Productivity Review of the effects on organizations and employees when the workforce is reduced and workload
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COMPREHENSIVE PROBLEM 2 Music-Is-Us A mini-practice set illustrating numerous aspects of the accounting cycle for a merchandising business organized as a corporation. Students are expected to: (1) prepare a bank reconciliation‚ (2) make adjusting entries—including adjustments related to marketable securities‚ uncollectible accounts‚ inventory shrinkage‚ and depreciation‚ (3) prepare an income statement‚ a statement of retained earnings‚ and a balance sheet‚ and (4) assess the financial condition
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1) What is the intended role of each of the institutions and intermediaries discussed in the case for the effective functioning of capital markets? The main role of intermediaries is to fill the information gap between the investors who wish to invest money for higher returns and companies who need financing. Role of Venture Capitalists: The main role of VC is to screen good business ideas from the bad ones‚ invest in a good firm and nurture them until the company exits through a trade sale or
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What are Communication skills? Communication skills are nothing but sharing thoughts or opinions through shared symbols‚ by language‚ words and phrases. It further explains conscious listening is with the mind hearing with senses and expressing the ideas‚ attitudes and emotions in an active process of eliciting information. Role of communication skills in daily life: Communication is important for different reasons‚ depending on the context and quality. It limits misunderstanding‚ ensures accuracy
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| Electronic Business Managment | Case Study The Failure of Boo.com | | | Brief Introduction Boo.com‚ which was founded by two Swedish entrepreneurs: Kajsa Leander‚ a fashion model‚ and Ernst Malmsten‚ launched during the end of 1999. It was an e-tailing site which positioned as fashion merchandise seller (B2C). Business Model Boo. Com mainly sold its products. The source of income was only the sales of its products online. There were no links to small boutiques where customers
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Dot-com bubble The dot-com bubble was a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1997 – 2000 (with a peak on March 10‚ 2000 during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields. While the latter part was a boom and bust cycle‚ the Internet boom is sometimes meant to refer to the steady commercial growth of the Internet with the advent of the World Wide Web‚ as exemplified by the first release of the Mosaic
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Chapter case: the Failure of Boo.com MBA 612- International Management Submitted to Charls Habis Submitted by Bijaya shrestha Date: April 7‚ 2009 Chapter case: the failure of Boo.com Question 1: was Boo.com doomed more by its faulty strategy or by its poor implementation? Boo.com was a European company founded in 1998 and operating out of a London head office‚ which was founded by three Swedish entrepreneurs. Boo.com is the first European global e-commerce entity. The company is
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file of COM 220 Entire Course comprises: COM-220 Grammar Exercise 1.pdf COM-220 Grammar Exercise 2.pdf COM-220 Grammar Exercise 3.pdf COM-220 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT.doc COM-220 WEEK 1 CHECKPOINT.doc COM-220 WEEK 2 DQS.doc COM-220 WEEK 2 CHECKPOINT.doc COM-220 Week 3 Annotated Bibliography.doc COM-220 WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT.doc COM-220 WEEK 4 CHECKPOINT.doc COM-220 WEEK 4 DQS.doc COM-220 WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT.doc COM-220 WEEK 5 CHECKPOINT.doc COM-220 WEEK
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