WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on BUSINESS and ECONOMICS Elissaveta Gourova‚ Albena Antonova‚ Yanka Todorova Knowledge audit concepts‚ processes and practice ELISSAVETA GOUROVA Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics Sofia University 125‚ Tzarigradsko shosse Blvd.‚ bl. 2‚ Sofia BULGARIA elis@fmi.uni-sofia.bg http://www.fmi.uni-sofia.bg ALBENA ANTONOVA Centre for Information Society Technologies Sofia University 125‚ Tzarigradsko shosse Blvd. bl. 2 fl. 3 BULGARIA a_antonova@fmi.uni-sofia.bg http://www-it
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT COURSE NOTES Pearce II and Robinson Jr (1997) define strategic management as “the set of decisions and actions that result in the formulation and implementation of plans designed to achieve a company’s objectives”. Critical tasks: Formulate the company’s mission including broad statements about its purpose‚ philosophy and goals Develop a company profile that reflects its internal conditions and capabilities Assess the company’s external environment‚ including both the
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portioned depends on the actual situation. The specific audit procedures to obtain evidence regarding the opening balances include: Current assets and liabilities. Audit evidence about opening balances for current assets and liabilities may be obtained as part of the current period’s audit procedures. For example‚ the collection (payment) of opening account receivable (account payable) during the current period will provide some audit evidence of their existence‚ rights and obligations‚ completeness
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Henri Fayol was born in Istanbul in 1841. When he was 19‚ he began working as an engineer at a large mining company in France. He eventually became the director‚ at a time when the mining company employed more than 1‚000 people. Through the years‚ Fayol began to develop what he considered to be the 14 most important principles of management. Essentially‚ these explained how managers should organize and interact with staff. In 1916‚ two years before he stepped down as director‚ he published his
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Post completion audit aims to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the capital budgeting decision that the management has implemented. It compares between the planned and the actual outcome‚ costs and the use of resources‚ results and benefits. It contains all assumptions that were made during the decision-making period. It is one of the ongoing continuous processes through which the organisation learns and improves. Recent research suggests that capital budgeting involves far more than
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calorie drinks. In this report‚ Euromonitor International assesses The Coca-Cola Company’s chances of succeeding in its quest for growth. © Euromonitor International SOFT DRINKS: COCA-COLA CO PASSPORT 2 Downloaded from www.warc.com STRATEGIC EVALUATION COMPETITIVE POSITIONING MARKET ASSESSMENT GEOGRAPHIC AND CATEGORY OPPORTUNITIES BRAND STRATEGY OPERATIONS RECOMMENDATIONS STATEGIC EVALUATION Key company facts Coca-Cola Co‚ The Headquarters: Regional involvement: Georgia‚ US
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Presented to: Dr. Laura Pogue Chadron State College Organizational Behavior Audit for Nike Inc. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Company Overview 2. Body of report 2.1. Introduction to Organizational Behavior [general OB attributes] 2.2. Individual Behavior‚ Values‚ and Personality 2.3. Perceptions and Learning in Organizations 2.4. Workplace Emotions‚ Attitudes‚ and Stress 2.5. Employee Motivation: Foundations and Practices 2.6. Individual Decision Making 2.7. Team Dynamics 2.8. Communicating
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Executive Summary The purpose of this brief is to evaluate the strategic position of Intercontinental hotels group (IHG) PLC and to make recommendations to the Board of Directors. This brief highlights the environmental audit of IHG. Key drivers of IHG are huge number of hotels‚ largest in terms of number of rooms and members in Loyalty Rewards club scheme all over the world. The external environmental analysis is done using PESTEL analysis followed by Porters Five forces and Industry Life
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London-UK 15th May 2014 CONTENTS 1. NESTLE HISTORICAL 5 2. PEPSICO HISTORICAL 5 3. FINANCIAL INFORMATION 6 4. FINANCIAL RATIOS 9 4.1 Profitability 9 4.2 Liquidity 12 4.3 Efficiency 13 4.4 Gearing Ratios 15 4.5 Investment 17 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 20 POST REPORT REFLECTION 22 REFERENCES 23 APPENDIX 24 01. NESTLE 24 02. PEPSICO 29 TABLE OF FIGURES Figure 1 - Financial Highlights PepsiCo 2013 9 Figure 2 - Nestlé’s Share Price and Volume Graph - 2009 to 2013
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Audit Quality and Audit Firm Size: Revisited by Dan A. Simunic The University of British Columbia December‚ 2003 Background: 1. Audit quality is an important element of corporate governance – although it’s unclear whether audit quality and other aspects of corporate governance (e.g. director knowledge and independence) are fundamentally complements or substitutes. 2. Notion that audit quality varies systematically across classes of audit firms (now Big 4 vs. non-Big 4) has been
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