The Ponzi scheme Bernard L. Madoff entered a federal courtroom back in March of 2009 to admit that he had run a vast Ponzi scheme that robbed thousands of investors of their life savings. A Ponzi scheme is when potential investors are wooed with promises of usually large returns‚ usually attributed to the investment manager’s savvy skill‚ or some other “secret sauce”. Returns are repaid‚ at least for a time‚ out of the new investors principal‚ not from profits. This can continue as long as new
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Bankruptcy America: Fraud‚ waste‚ abuse and the federal deficit “The American republic will endure until the day congress discovers that it can bribe the republic with their money” as stated by Alexis de Tocqueville. We as Americans take many privileges for granted. We want so much and will do the least amount of work to get it-and our government does the same. Fraud‚ waste‚ and abuse has made this country engulf itself into self pity and has conned the government into thinking that this method
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ACCT Internal Report Korea Auto Insurance Co. Inc. is one of the largest liability insurance companies in Korea. In the mean time‚ the Taejon City branch experience severe competition and make efforts to capture greater market share. However the current overhead allocation system is based on revenue amounts which penalize the branch performance. A direct proportional overhead allocation method should be set in order to provide employee higher incentive and more appropriate resource allocation. This
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Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) Internal Control Framework’s Components of Internal Control Requirements 1. There was a lack of proper authorization in the budget process. The superintendent Spigot committed several projects that were not on the budget. For example‚ rent expenses were not budgeted in that fiscal year‚ which caused the budget to overrun and increase expenditures for custodial services. Also‚ the unbudgeted projects ran by the superintendent were not approved by the
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the vibrant outcome will make our work effective and efficient. Computer technology is very important especially in the business field. It can help to make work easier. Computer is a powerful tool‚ allowing you easily extract data in order to prepare reports and analyze the information. Computers can help a business stay in contact with its customers as well. Computers can help managers keep track of the financial status of the company on a yearly‚ monthly or even day-to-day basis. Companies can
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Case Study Report Introduction This case is about Zenova ’s project team‚ Ryan Douglas is a manager who works at a multinational company called Zenova which makes health and beauty products. Four months ago‚ Ryan led his project team which integrated 16 members come from 5 different countries was ordered to perform a significant survey about job satisfaction of employees in all the subsidiaries and completed in 18 months. However‚ there are some problems about Ryan ’s team and how to deal with
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Due Date: Nov 07‚ 2012 23:59:59 Max Points: 100 Details: Write a 500-750-word paper that analyzes the two leadership case studies‚ "Coach Knight: A Will to Win" and "Coach K: A Matter of the Heart." Introduction: Leadership research has been extensively done to improve leaders in the way they lead. There are two researchers that have formed models to guide leaders in different approaches or behaviors according to the situation that he or she is in. Address the following questions
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security‚ especially the prevention of computer fraud‚ have attracted increasingly attentions (Romney and Steinbart‚ 2009). However‚ it seems that perpetrators can always find new techniques to theft invaluable business secrets stored‚ processed or protected by those information systems. Moreover‚ some abuse techniques have been used in economic espionage‚ which causes a yearly loss of $250 billion (ibid). Oracle Corp vs. SAP AG could be one of the relating cases occurred in the recent 2007 and is not yet
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For Case Study 9 (Apple Inc. in 2011)‚ the following questions are to be answered within 4-6 pages: 1. What are the chief elements of Apple’s overall competitive strategy? How well do the pieces fit together? Is the strategy evolving? 2. What are the key elements of Apple’s strategy in computers‚ personal media players‚ tablet computers‚ and smartphones? Have its strategies in its core businesses yielded success? Explain. 3. What does a competitive strength assessment reveal about Apple’s
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Case Study 2 – Internal Control 1. Inform the President of any new internal control requirements if the company decides to go public. As per the accident that happened in the company about some employees was viewing pornography on company computer and he had a hard time to get his employees admitted that they were the one who doing it. He should use limit access by individual passwords for each person to log in the computer systems. To make sure that which person was log on in the computer and
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