No. 2005–57 ROYAL AHOLD: A FAILURE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND AN ACCOUNTING SCANDAL By Abe de Jong‚ Douglas V. DeJong‚ Gerard Mertens‚ Peter Roosenboom March 2005 ISSN 0924-7815 Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance and an Accounting Scandal Abe de Jong* Department of Financial Management Erasmus University Rotterdam a.jong@fbk.eur.nl Douglas V. DeJong Tippie College of Business University of Iowa douglas-dejong@uiowa.edu Gerard Mertens Department of Financial Management Erasmus
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company‚ based in Paradise‚ Nevada‚ is the largest gaming company in the world‚ with yearly revenues around $10.8 billion. Harrah’s is owned by Hamlet Holdings (Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group). While Apollo and TPG own a large majority‚ Blackstone Group LP owns a minority stake in Harrah ’s. The company known as Harrah ’s Entertainment was founded on October 30‚ 1937 as a small bingo parlour in Reno‚ Nevada operated by William F. Harrah. He went on to buy ’The Mint Club ’ on North Virginia
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Doli Incapax - The Criminal Responsibility of Children A paper by Matthew Johnston‚ barrister Forbes Chambers‚ Sydney for the Children’s Magistrates’ Conference 1 February 2006 “ ‘No civilised society’‚ says Professor Colin Howard in his book entitled Criminal Law‚ 4th ed. (1982)‚ p343‚ ‘regards children as accountable for their actions to the same extent as adults’ ... The wisdom of protecting young children against the full rigour of the law is beyond argument. The difficulty lies in determining
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Accounting Theory Assignment Executive Compensation [pic] Introduction Executive compensation together with corporate governance systems has received an increasing amount of attention- from the press‚ corporations‚ financial academics and also the government. An executive compensation plan is a major application of the agency theory study and‚ thus‚ an agency contract between the shareholders and CEO’s of the business‚ which attempt to align the interests of the owners and the managers
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HBR CASE STUDY Indispensable DANIEL VASCONCELLOS Edward Bennett is a talented CEO with a lot on his plate. But he’s not getting any younger‚ and his board can’t get him engaged in succession planning. T om Calloway‚ nonexecutive chairman of Astar Enterprises‚ put the phone back in its cradle as gently as he could‚ given the circumstances. He had just finished yet another difficult and unsatisfactory conversation with Edward Bennett‚ Astar’s CEO‚ about succession planning.
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1. Introduction The American novel reached one of its highest peaks during the life of writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens‚ better known by his pen name‚ Mark Twain. With its late development with a self-established status‚ the American novel appeared in the late 18th century‚ one of its first creators being considered‚ although debated along time‚ Washington Irving. Before Irving‚ the American novel didn’t have a voice of itself‚ but always had a tendency towards borrowing from the European form and
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Logistics Management in China: A Case Study of Haier Jason C.H. Chen School of Business Administration Gonzaga University Spokane‚ WA 99258‚ USA (509) 323-3421; chen@gonzaga.edu Binshan Lin* College of Business Administration Louisiana State University in Shreveport Shreveport‚ LA 71115. USA (318) 797-5025; blin@pilot.lsus.edu Lingli Li School of Business Administration Gonzaga University Spokane‚ WA 99258‚ USA lli@gonzaga.edu Patty S. Chen School of Business Administration
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LIKE MANY EXECUTIVES‚ YOU KNOW A LOT ABOUT NEGOTIATING. BUT STILL YOU FALL PREY TO A SET OF COMMON ERRORS. T H E BEST DEFENSE IS STAYING FOCUSED ON THE RIGHT PROBLEM TO SOLVE. • LOBAL DEAL MAKERS did a Staggering $3.3 trittion by James K. Sebenius APRIL 2001 worth of M&A transactions in 1999-and that’s only a fraction of the capital that passed through negotiators’ hands that year. Behind the deal-driven headlines‚ executives endlessly negotiate with customers and suppliers
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“Comparative study of different financial instrument in Indian market” Submitted to: Prof. Jitendra Sharma Prof. Daisy Kurien Submitted By: Radhika Khant Date of Submission: May 18‚ 2012 Xcellon Institute- School of Business Project report on “HR Policy in HDFC Bank” Submitted to: Prof. Jitendra Sharma Prof. Daisy Kurien Submitted By: Radhika Khant A report submitted In a partial fulfillment for the award Of the Post Graduate Programme in General
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A Study of Recent Development in the Grounds for Judicial Review: Where are we heading? BY LO HOI CHUN 03004864 Accounting Option An Honours Degree Project Submitted to the School of Business in Partial Fulfilment of the Graduation Requirement for the Degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong April 2006 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am grateful to Mr.Barreira‚ Antonio J.‚ Associate Professor‚ Department of Accountancy and Law at
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