EMERGING TRENDS – BUSINESS ANALYTICS By 2018 US alone would have a shortage of 1.4 lacs to 1.8 lacs people with analytical skills. Data Scientist‚ Business Analyst‚ Business Intelligence are all alternate nomenclature for a similar skill set. The Need: The amount of data being generated globally increases by 40 percent a year‚ according to the McKinsey Global Institute‚ the consulting firm’s research arm. Gartner predicts that data will grow 800 percent over the next five years and 80 percent
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Answer 3 AUDIT FIRM As per the judicial obligation‚ Billabong International Limited appointed Pricewaterhouse Coopers as their audit firm. PWC is a London based multinational company known for its Professional Services. As an audit firm for Billabong‚ Pricewaterhouse reviews the company’s accounting statements and determines the company’s financial position. The lead auditor for Billabong is Steven Bosiljevac. Steven Bosiljevac is a partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. (Billabong Financial Report
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE WEAKNESSES AT TYCO 22 PERFORMANCE OF EXTERNAL AUDITORS 23 CONCLUSION 27 The Main Reasons for The Scandals 27 Steps taken afterwards-will they prevent similar events happening in the future? 33 END REFLECTION 36 Bibliography: 37 Appendices: 41 INTRODUCTION: Accounting and corporate governance scandals have been a growing problem in the recent years. Many believe that the blame for those scandals should be borne on two groups of people. Those responsible for managing a
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Enron case 1. What activities and practices of Enron’s management team do you believe were unethical and/ or illegal? Concealing debt By using SPEs‚ Enron’s balance sheet understated its liabilities and overstated its equity and earnings. Enron disclosed to its shareholders that it had hedged downside risk in its illiquid investments using special purpose entities which were lies. Enormous spending Extravagant expenses were rampant in the company which included enormous salary expenses
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How to Develop China’s Economy Effectively Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Main Issues 2 2.1 Baby Boomers: How to deal with the huge aging population 2 2.2 Gen Y: The second-generation migrant workers bring new challenge and opportunity for China’s urbanisation 3 2.3 Technological Issue: Quality and Innovation 4 2.3.1 Quality 4 2.3.2 Innovation 5 3 Conclusion 8 4 Recommendations 9 5 Reference List 10 1 Introduction Since opening and reforming the market in 1978‚ China has turned
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Master thesis Autumn semester 2007 Supervisor: Professor Tomas Blomquist Authors: Hoang‚ Thuy Vu Nga Lapumnuaypon‚ Kamolrat Critical Success Factors in Merger & Acquisition Projects A study from the perspectives of advisory firms ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all‚ we are grateful to our supervisor‚ Professor Tomas Blomquist‚ for his guidance and recommendations throughout the process of writing our thesis. His support is of vital importance to the successful completion of this thesis. We also
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Employer Branding: Super happy people 01/01/06 [pic] Recent research shows that employees at companies with the strongest brands are happier at work. But do brands really drive people - or do people drive brands? Caspar van Vark reports. If you want your employees to be happy‚ loyal and hardworking‚ there’s now a shortcut to achieving it. Get your company on the annual Business Superbrands list. Apparently‚ people employed by these companies go to work with a spring in their step. That’s according
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(http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/auditservices/publications/assets/pwc-fact-sheet3-eu-audit-reformsnas-june2014.pdf) Non-audit Services • Let’s look at a firm’s website to see what services they provide – http://www2.deloitte.com/us/en.html – MSFT Public Accounting Firms Public accounting firms range in size from a single proprietor to thousands of owners (or “partners”) and thousands of professional and administrative staff employees. Big 4 Mid-Tier PwC Grant Thornton EY BDO Seidman Deloitte Regional
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It was like riding a tiger‚ not knowing how to get off without being eaten B. Ramalinga Raju When Ramalinga’s once in a life time quote become public‚ somebody ridiculed – he should have figured out ‘the get off without being eaten’ problem before getting on the tiger. But then the other said –‘did not he know from the start that it was a tiger?’ The problem with ethics in business‚ or in more open words‚ the problem with fraud in business is that people know that they are coming fraud but they
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Coaching Men vs Coaching Women Research Summary – August 2007 BACKGROUND SKAI is a long established leadership development consultancy‚ that has coached 100’s of senior leaders‚ men and women‚ over the years. As an organisation founded by four women‚ we have always fought shy of any gender-based typecasting‚ taking the stance that all people are different‚ regardless of their sex. More recently‚ we have been asked to get involved in furthering the cause of women leaders‚ as many organisations
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