Enron’s Questionable Transactions 1. The special purpose entities (SPEs) got Enron into trouble. 2. It is debatable whether Enron’s directors knew how profits were being made through the SPEs. Speculation is that they did have knowledge‚ but did not question the questionable procedures. Evidence that indicates the directors knew how profits were being made includes the following: • Andrew Fastow’s role in establishing the SPEs and falsely creating 3% independent investors in
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Transaction Processing Systems A transaction is an elementary activity conducted during business operations. Transaction processing systems (TPS) process the company’s business transactions and thus support the operations of an enterprise. A TPS records a non-inquiry transaction itself‚ as well as all of its effects‚ in the database and produces documents relating to the transaction. TPS are necessary to conduct business in almost any organization today. TPSs bring data into the organizational
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Transaction Processing System of Aroroy Municipal Hospital A Capstone Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology In the College of Engineering & Computer Studies Of Divine Word College of Legazpi Legazpi City By: Mary Grace D. Bohol DIVINE WORD COLLEGE OF LEGAZPI College of Engineering and Computer Studies Legazpi City RECOMMENDATION FOR PROPOSAL DEFENSE In partial fulfillment of the requirements
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important strategic decisions of firms is to define their boundaries and under what circumstances should they consider using market instead of internal organisation to coordinate exchange. This essay is to try to describe the key characteristics of Transactions Costs Economics (hereafter TEC) and with real life examples given as how it affects the decision of using market vs. organisation. Also‚ by quoting the example of Sony (battery)‚ Apple (iPod) and firm that I am working with‚ we can see how firms
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Transaction processing system Transaction processing is a style of computing that divides work into individual‚ indivisible operations‚ called transactions. A transaction processing system (TPS) or transaction server is a software system‚ or software/hardware combination‚ that supports transaction processing. • History One of the first transaction processing systems was American Airline SABRE system‚ which became operational in 1960. Designed to process up to 83‚000 transactions a day‚ the system
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operating objectives by “providing the right information to the right people in the right format and at the right time.” (Stair & Reynolds 2014‚ pg. 295). One of the processes that I used while working at Citibank was a monthly review of teller transaction differences report (A form of scheduled report). The process was simple and merely required the download of the report for my specific branch and conducting a review to ensure that the differences were within guidelines. If the differences by the
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS‚ VOL. 59‚ NO. 7‚ JULY 2012 2745 Efficiency-Optimized High-Current Dual Active Bridge Converter for Automotive Applications Florian Krismer‚ Student Member‚ IEEE‚ and Johann W. Kolar‚ Fellow‚ IEEE Abstract—An efficiency-optimized modulation scheme and design method are developed for an existing hardware prototype of a bidirectional dual active bridge (DAB) dc/dc converter. The DAB being considered is used for an automotive application and is made up
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What is an OLTP System? Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems are one of the most common data processing systems in today’s enterprises. Classical examples of OLTP systems are order entry‚ retail sales‚ and financial transaction systems. OLTP systems are primarily characterized through a specific data usage that is different from data warehousing environments‚ yet some of the characteristics‚ such as having large volumes of data and lifecycle-related data usage and importance‚ are identical
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addition‚ DBMS provides centralized control of the operational data on other hand CDPS does not carry this feature at this level of efficiency. Redundancies and inconsistencies can be reduced in DBMS unlike CDPS. A DBMS is often used to provide better service to the users. In conventional systems‚ availability of information is often poor since it normally is difficult to obtain information that the existing systems were not designed for. Changes are often necessary to the contents of data stored in any
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Introduction Transactions are the routine day-to-day activities performed by most organisations. · some are commercial transactions (buying‚ selling products and services‚ paying bills etc) · others involve recording or retrieving data (making a booking‚ enrolling a student at university looking up results etc) Most individual transactions are relatively simple‚ but in most organisations‚ there are very large numbers of them - so speed and efficiency are important considerations. What is a TPS
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