Arthur Andersen: Shredding the Reputation and Viability of a Once Venerable Accounting Firm |CASE SUMMARY | Four days before the high-flying‚ energy-trading giant‚ Enron‚ disclosed a $618 million loss for the third quarter of 2001‚ an attorney for Arthur Andersen‚ the accounting firm that audited Enron’s books‚ wrote a memo to Andersen employees directing them
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workplace‚ verbal and written. Both of these formats are important‚ but written communication takes more effort to be clear‚ brief and informative. There are various styles of written communications‚ and each style has a purpose and audience. Written communication can have significance as in legal documents and manuals‚ and it provides function in the workplace in the form of reports and presentations (Suttle‚ n.d.). Depending on the writing skills of the writer‚ the written communication can negatively
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RESEARCH PAPER: The Analysis-criticizing Method of Written Sources (Through surveying Kautilya’s Arthashastra) BY NGUYEN THI THANH MAI Department of South Asian Studies Faculty of Oriental Studies University of Social Sciences and Humanities Vietnam National University December‚ 2012 Abstract Historians have used different kinds of sources to reconstruct the narratives of the past or to create a complete and accurate picture of what happened in the past on such aspects as politics‚ economy
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double-digit growth rates year over year‚ we can only assume that the company will have a even larger financial burden when those same normal‚ growth rates slow. I have outlined three scenarios‚ all of which will benefit Cape Chemical almost immediately‚ and most importantly‚ benefit and lower their financial stress in the long run. I also have left an open mind about the possibility of a combination of scenarios as being Cape Chemical’s best option going forward. The three scenarios are all relatively simple
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Case Study: Nature of CPA Firm For this case study I looked at a broad range of CPA firms’ websites from the large national firms such as Deloitte‚ PWC and Ernst & Young to the smaller local firms including KDV‚ Copeland Buhl & Co and Schechter‚ Dokken & Kanter. While examining these websites‚ the first thing that became apparent to me is that the content and functionality from website to website is very similar. All of the websites I looked at include an ‘About Us’ page explaining who
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Department of Accounting Detailed Syllabus of Third Year Four-Year B.B.A. (Honours) Course Effective from the Session: 2009–2010 National University Syllabus for 4 years BBA Honours Course Subject : Accounting Third Year (Honours) Third Year: 32 Credit Hours Course Code COURSE TITLE Marks Credit Hours Audit and Assurance 100 4 Advanced Accounting-I 100 4 Cost Accounting 100 4 Management Accounting (in English)
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Anand Mohan Goel Anjan V. Thakor University of Michigan Why Do Firms Smooth Earnings?* I. Introduction Corporate earnings management has been much in the news lately. For example‚ Business Week has recently run two cover stories‚ one titled “Who Can You Trust?” (October 5‚ 1998) and the other titled “The Numbers Game” (May 14‚ 2001)‚ that suggest that the credibility of earnings reports is being eroded by earnings management. Arthur Levitt‚ Jr.‚ chairman of the Securities and
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Quirky We make invention accessible. * Quirky – Brain Child of Ben Kaufman a Social Entrepreneur. Quirky is a platform for product ideas that are not generated as part of formal Business and Technology incubation process. But it is a platform where anyone can present his/her idea by paying consideration of USD 10. Basically many people get ideas while actually delivering the tasks and Quirky brings such people together. * It uses crowdsourcing to develop the product‚ by engaging participants
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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME HANDBOOK 2014 – 2015 ACCOUNTING & FINANCE BSc Accounting (N400) BSc Accounting and Finance (N490) BSc Accounting and French (N410) BSc Accounting and German (N4R2) BSc Accounting and Spanish (N4R4) BSc (Econ) Accounting and Economics (Joint Honours) (LN14) BSc (Econ) Accounting and Management (Joint Honours) (NN24) BSc Finance and Management (NN23) INTERCALARY YEAR ©2014 Cardiff Business School Version control: v1.0: Initial version published to students CBS0422 Created
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pay its obligations. (C) Creditors 3. Trying to determine whether an advertising proposal will be cost-effective. (B) Marketing Manager 4. Trying to determine whether the company’s net income will result in a stock price increase. (A) Investors in common stock 5. Trying to determine whether the company should employ debt or equity financing. (D) Chief Financial Officer Do It! 1-1 Identify each of the following organizational characteristics with the organizational form or forms with which
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