On this age in 1959‚ the first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Eleven inches tall‚ with a waterfall of fair hair‚ Barbie was the first mass-produced sport doll in the United States with matured features. The feminine behind Barbie was Ruth Handler‚ who co-based Mattel‚ Inc. with her lord in 1945. After seeing her young daughter ignore her baby dolls to execute make-expect with papery dolls of adult females‚ Handler net there was an necessary niche in the bazaar
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INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Sofia “Earnings management‚ in exchange listed companies‚ is not fraud but a case of caveat emptor for investors” Coursework in BUSINESS FINANCIAL CRIME Student registration No: 479866 Program: International Finance and Trade‚ Level 2 Lecturer: A. Paparizov “Earnings management‚ in exchange listed companies‚ is not fraud but a case of caveat emptor for investors” With the development of the stock markets and the huge grow in the volume of money traded
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Extract from the 3rd Edition of Lacey‚ Wells and Quick‚ Reconstructing Criminal Law (CUP 2003) Chapter 4 II.a.i. The History of Theft William Blackstone’s Commentaries‚ written in the middle of the eighteenth century‚ represent one of the first systematic expositions of the common law. His volume on criminal offences included a substantial section on ‘offences against private property’: William Blackstone‚ Commentaries on the Laws of England 1765 Vol. IV p.230 ’Simple larciny then is the
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Running head: ETHICS AND ORGANIZATIONS 1 Ethics and Organizations Case Study 1 Vernon Tilly Jr. University of Central Oklahoma ETHICS AND ORGANIZATIONS 2 In reference to the Aaron Beam and the HealthSouth Fraud case in our text Velasquez (2012)‚ the following questions from the text and my answers to these questions are provided as requested. 1. Which of the "obstacles to moral behavior do you see at work in Aaron Beam’s behavior and thinking? In Scrushy’s? The obstacles I see
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Archimedes: An Incredible Man or An Incredible Fraud? Archimedes was considered throughout his lifetime as “the great geometer”‚ but did a man as great as this truly exist? Should he be ranked with Newton and Gauss? Archimedes was born 287 BC in Syracuse‚ Sicily‚ which was a Greek City at the time. No one knows his last name or much about his family life because there are no official records. He was educated by a man named Euclid in a school located in Alexandria‚ Egypt. Archimedes lived in a
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thriving at its highest level back in the year of 2000. Enron employed approximately 22‚000 associates and was named “America’s most innovative company” by Fortune. However‚ under all of the bliss‚ revealed was a substantial amount of corporate fraud and corruption. The Enron scandal involved both illegal and unethical activity. Enron’s executive chose deception of the stakeholders and short-term financial gains for themselves. They were willing to destroy their personal and business reputations
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Ideal Hero or Freudian Fraud? The entire cast of characters in the Scandinavian epic tale Beowulf all possess archetypal qualities that make them less complex in psychological development than the standard characters in the majority of literature in existence. Beowulf‚ the hero from the land of the Geats‚ acts as a representation of good‚ while each of the monsters he consecutively faces are forms of evil. Since Beowulf appears to be an unstoppable force for the good of the people‚ it would be
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2070-0083 (Online) Fraud and Fraudulent Practices in Nigeria Banking Industry (Pp. 240-256) Owolabi‚ S. A. - Accounting Department‚ Babcock University‚ Nigeria E-mail: emilagab05@yahoo.com Abstract The paper reviews the various forms of fraudulent practice their impact and inducement for various reforms in banking industry. It also mentions various legislations targeted at reducing fraud and introducing some forms of control and reporting systems. Various theories of fraud are examined and detailed
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FRAUD PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC SERVICE: THE NEED FOR A DIMENSIONAL APPROACH BY BELLO SABO Department of Business Administration‚ A.B.U. Zaria ABSTRACT This article addresses some fundamental issues on fraud prevention and control and their implications on socio-economic development of Nigeria using its public sector machinery. Using the records compiled from early study covering 637 reported fraud cases in Nigeria‚ which were committed between 1970-1990 in respect
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READINESS OF GOVERNMENT AUDITORS IN FRAUD DETECTION IN MALAYSIA 1.0 PROBLEM STATEMENT 1.1 Public sector governance requires the controlling and accounting officers to discharge their responsibilities of stewardship of public resources by being open‚ accountable‚ prudent in decision making‚ managing and delivering results. The provision of the Financial Procedure Act 1957 also places a high premium for controlling officers to be personally responsible and accountable for propriety and accountability
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