businesses and product portfolio is a competitive advantageThroughout last fiscal year‚ Microsoft made important adjustments to the cost structure and streamlined internal business processes; along with strong pipeline of products‚ including new release of Windows and Office in 2010‚ Microsoft is well positioned to weather the current economic downturn. Due to decreased costs for legal settlements‚ Microsoft ’s legal expenses decreased $1.4 billion this year. This illustrates improved corporate
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How Enron Do Fraud Ken Lay (Founder and CEO)‚ Jeffrey Skilling (CEO) and Andy Fastow (CFO) found that Enron wasn’t making money so what they did is implemented along with the approval of Arthur Andersen the "future value accounting." This type of accounting was to predict the future profit that Enron was going to make and list it as part of there future profit to the shareholders. “Outside companies” This creative accounting lead to Fastow to create "outside companies" that were directly involved
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Question 2 (30 marks) You have recently been hired as an analyst with Triumvirate Brothers investment bank. As your first assignment‚ your manager has assigned you the task of examining several issues regarding Octavian Enterprises Limited (OEL)‚ company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). To assist you in this task the research department of the bank has gathered the following information: • On 24 September 2008‚ OEL commenced trading ex-dividend. The cash
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discovered that one of the suspects had an address book with the name and phone number of a White House official who could have been involved in the crime. The reporters suspected that the break-in had been ordered by other White House officials. In a press conference on August in 1972‚ President Nixon said that nobody on the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public accepted Nixon’s word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars went to trial four months later‚ the story
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Table of Content Content Page number 1.0 Overview 2 2.0 Time Plan 3 3.0 Links and Dependencies 4 4.0 Resource Requirements 4.1 Employee Resource Requirement 4.2 Training and Recruitment Resource Requirement 5 5.0 Financial Plan 5.1 Staff Costs 5.2 Training and Recruitment Costs 6 6.0 Staffing Plan 6.1 Training 6.2 Staff Assessment 7-8 7.0 Milestones 9 8.0 Risk Plan 9 9.0 Reference 10-11 1.0 Overview This venture demonstrates the idea of transforming
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lWatergate Scandal Timeline A Complicated President There have been many scandals throughout American presidential history‚ but only one has ever brought down a presidency. To understand Watergate‚ it is helpful to have an understanding of the culture of the administration‚ and of the psyche of the man himself. Richard M. Nixon was a secretive man who did not tolerate criticism well‚ who engaged in numerous acts of duplicity‚ who kept lists of enemies‚ and who used the power of the presidency to
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Apple’s financial 2013 Student name: Abdulrahman Alansari Student ID: 210118008 Apple Company Apple was incorporated in the state of California on January 3‚ 1977. The "official" mission statement on the Apple corporation website‚ however‚ is not really a mission statement at all‚ but rather a list of products and past accomplishments. As stated‚ Apple’s "mission" is… “Apple designs Macs‚ the best personal computers in the world‚ along with OS X‚ iLife‚ iWork and professional
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What is organizational culture? This indefinable combination of values‚ beliefs‚ and practice that a corporation posses‚ which makes the difference between surviving and thriving‚ succeeding and failing. Most large corporations typically have a strong culture with values and norms appropriate to the organizational purpose. In a big organization‚ sub-cultures also exist‚ division to division‚ office to office. In this part of this group assignment I will describe the organizational culture of one
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The Next Technology Revolution XML XBRL 1 Today’s Objectives • Overview of XML & XBRL • Show you how this technology makes doing EBusiness: – Faster – Cheaper – Better • Conclusion 2 Let’s move up the Value Chain Transactions Data Information Knowledge Decisions Transactions Data Information Knowledge Decisions Transactions Data Information Knowledge Decisions Transactions Data Information Knowledge Decisions 3 Evolution to Web
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Introduction. This deterioration seemed unthinkable just ten years prior to the scandal. According to polls from the 1950s two thirds of the nation believed in the government. Similarly‚ according to the Pew Research Report‚ in 1958 73% of Americans said‚ “They could trust the government just about always or most of the time.” The government had saved the country from the Great Depression and won World War II. The government was using its power to bring positive social change. However‚ by 1974
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