No. 2005–57 ROYAL AHOLD: A FAILURE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND AN ACCOUNTING SCANDAL By Abe de Jong‚ Douglas V. DeJong‚ Gerard Mertens‚ Peter Roosenboom March 2005 ISSN 0924-7815 Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance and an Accounting Scandal Abe de Jong* Department of Financial Management Erasmus University Rotterdam a.jong@fbk.eur.nl Douglas V. DeJong Tippie College of Business University of Iowa douglas-dejong@uiowa.edu Gerard Mertens Department of Financial Management Erasmus
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centuries. WOMEN’S RESISTANCE Female slaves on plantations‚ adopted some of the same methods as men to crush slavery. They employed quiet‚ subtle and almost negative methods of protest. Some on the other hand used positive or violent methods. These included running away‚ revolt ‚ pretend to be ill and other methods peculiar to them as females. Women however rarely used active resistance because they had harsher penalties. One of the most popular methods of slave resistance used by enslaved
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Peaceful resistance to laws‚ or civil disobedience‚ has a place in our society. Peaceful resistance if used correctly can be very motivating. Peaceful resistance when used correctly can cause people to look at something in a different light and it can cause people to change the way they have been doing things. Peaceful resistance can cause someone to look at something in a different light than they have been before. Peaceful resistance has to be done and yet showing peace at the same time. Whenever
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Peaceful resistance is exhibited in many world leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. ‚Mahatma Gandhi‚ and Nelson Mandela and many others. Peaceful resistance positively impacts a free society because it allows violent resistors to see another way to protest‚ it saves lives‚ and finally it keeps an unjust government in check. Peaceful resistance allows for violent protestors to mend their ways and protest peacefully. Protesting violently accomplishes nothing and only leads to death.Peacefully protesting
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Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. In our world‚ civil disobedience is important in showing mass beliefs of all people. If any person doesn’t agree with a law‚ they should have the right to peacefully resist the law as long as they accept the consequences. Resistance that is not peaceful is the problem in today’s society and causes tension between people and the law. For example‚ Rosa Parks is a name that is important in history and will never be forgotten. “You must never
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Love is shown throughout many different stories‚ and everyone feels love at least one point in their lives. A current issue in the news is the “Royal Wedding” and“Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are getting married in may”. This surprises everyone because no one expected a prince to fall in love with a commoner like Meghan Markle. Not everyone agrees with their decisions‚ but Prince Harry and Meghan Markle don’t care‚ as they will be going on with the marriage. Because Prince Harry is well‚ “a prince”
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turn brings to light another question in how successful are the resistors’ approaches in dealing with oppression. There are two main distinct approaches to oppression which are violent resistance and non-violent resistances. Since there have been many oppressed groups that have seen success from nonviolent resistances to oppression‚ the focus of this paper will be taking a stance in proving that the oppressed do see success in nonviolent approaches. In analyzing this notion‚ I will discuss the forms
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If I had to pick one out of the many stories that we have read and say that it moved me the most‚ I would have to say that the story would have to be "Battle Royal". The reason that the story did move me so was because of the author’s keen use of symbolism‚ the author portrays a larger meaning than what is initially implied to the reader who does not thoroughly analyze the text. Initially‚ the story seems to be about one black boy’s struggle to get ahead in a predominately white society. He tries
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Charlemagne was born into a royal family which means he was destined to become royalty later on. He was born around 742 and was the son of Bertrada of Laon and Pepin the Short who became king in 751. Pepin divided the kingdom equally between him and his brother. After his brother died and it was passed on to his nephews‚ Charlemagne murdered them and seized their territories. As an adult‚ Charlemagne displayed a talent for languages and could speak Latin and understand Greek‚ among other languages
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Backwoods is a company that specializes in outdoor supplies and apparel‚ and conducts its business through telephonic and mail order means. Backwoods employs forty people in the customer orders division who are primarily responsible for taking customer orders‚ answering questions and complaints‚ processing returns‚ and the like. The operating manager of Backwoods’ customer service department is Gerald Banks. Banks is interested in conducting a training program for his department in an effort
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