[pic] ACCTG 312 SC 2012: Assignment 1 Current issues – scandals in auditing Introduction • For this assignment‚ you are required to research and report back on one of four well known scandals that involve auditors in some way. • It can be commenced after week 1 lectures are completed‚ so gives you a chance to get part of your semester’s work done early. It is due in week 3 (Thursday at 4 pm). • You will also be required to very briefly report to your tutorial group on one interesting
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“Obando Fertility Rites” The Obando Fertility Rites is a Filipino dance ritual. Wherein every year during the month of May there will be musical instruments made out ofbamboo materials‚ the men‚ women and children of Obando‚ Bulacanwear traditional dance costumes and then dance on the streets and form a religious processionfollowed by the images of their patron saints “San PascualBaylon”‚ Santa ClaraandOur Lady of Salambao ‚ Most participants of the fertility dance ask the patron saints for a
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watched The Rite of Spring and The Nutcracker‚ the music is very different. Knowing time period these two ballets were written in I sort of expected it. The Nutcracker has a lot of musical melodies and themes from the Romantic Period. The Rite of Spring has very aggressive dynamics and very sharp rhythms. The music in The Nutcracker helps the audience set a tone and understand the season that the performance is taking place in as well as what is going on in during the ballet. The music in The Rite of Spring
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Jordan Pickens Professor Scott Wilson Anthropology 120 17 October 2012 Baptism: My Rite of Passage In life everyone experiences some type of rite of passage and many of us go through multiple including things such as religion‚ school‚ jobs‚ marriage and joining the armed forces. I went through a rite of passage known as a baptism when I was eighteen years old. This rite of passage changed dramatically the way that I was living. I went from a way of death and sinfulness into becoming born
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A Scandal of Bias and Fact Over the past few years the NSA (National Security Agency) has been collecting massive amounts of phone call data from Verizon without the public’s knowledge. This information has just come to the public’s attention earlier this year‚ and has been covered by many news sources. Some sources stick strictly to the facts of the story and nothing more. However‚ other sources tend to focus more on their own bias rather than talking about the actual events that happened. There
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A rite of passage that I remember was when I was taught how to drive. At the end of my ninth grade year‚ my mom took me in a church parking lot and that was my first practice I had driving. I was always a little nervous when it came to driving; however‚ I had to face my fears because I knew that I would start driving more often as I got older. I thought that I was not going to be a good driver‚ but the more I practiced the better I became. The day I got my license I was very excited‚ even though
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Ballet and War: Review on Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age The Rite of Spring by Modris Ekstein examines the cultural history at the start and in World War I and the consequences that would follow after the end of the war. Ekstein separates his book into three acts- pre-war‚ during the war and then after the war. Act One takes the reader first to Paris and the premier of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet‚ Le Sacre du primtemp translated to the Rite of Spring. Choreographed
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The Watergate Scandal The Watergate Affair‚ is the worst political scandal in U.S. history. It led to the resignation of the president‚ Richard M. Nixon‚ after he became implicated in an attempt to cover up the scandal. "The Watergate Affair" refers to the break-in and electronic bugging in 1972‚ of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment‚ and office building complex in Washington D.C. The term was applied to several related scandals. More than thirty
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The Adelphia Scandal The Dawn of Adelphia Adelphia was founded in 1952 by John Rigas and his brother Gus Rigas in Coudersport‚ Pennsylvania with the purchase of their first cable franchise for $300. After 20 years‚ the Rigas brothers incorporated their company under the name Adelphia which derived its name from a Greek word which means brothers‚ an apt corporate title for a business that would employ generations of the Rigas family. Adelphia was a cable television company and built its success
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What exactly was the "mensalao" scandal? It was an alleged scheme that embezzled public funds to buy political support for the then Lula government and to pay off debts from election campaigns. The central accusation was that politicians from coalition parties were given large payments each month to support the minority government led by the Workers’ Party. The scandal nearly caused the Lula administration to collapse. How did the affair come to light? The scandal broke in 2005 when a congressman
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