Assignment 1: Scandals in Auditing Fortex Introduction Fortex was regarded as one of New Zealand’s top companies. They used innovative technology to add value to their product. They won awards‚ looked after employees‚ and paid suppliers well. But when the company collapsed in March 1994 it was revealed that the success was all based on false accounting. The management team was able to fool a company of respected auditors as well as everybody else for more than three years. Thousands
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Is Religion Useful? The author argues that individuals have two general attitudes that discourage them from taking religion seriously or from practicing it. Some individuals have a “Ho Hum” attitude towards religion which means that individuals believe that while in principle religion’s teachings are the way we should conduct our lives‚ following every teaching is impractical. Other individuals have a “watch out” attitude where people think that religion is dangerous and can lead to bad rather
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Perception and Attention Paper In the exploration of cognitive psychology‚ the theory of cognitive processes has been brought to light. These processes could include attention‚ memory‚ perception‚ sensory‚ and visual perception. Memory is composed of different factors such as short-term memory‚ long-term memory‚ screen memory‚ remote memory‚ replacement memory‚ and immunologic memory. Visual perception deals data intake from a visual standpoint. The five senses‚ touch‚ taste‚ smell‚ sight‚
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The Bofors scandal was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India’s 155 mm field howitzer. The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before‚ and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi’s ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections. It has been speculated that the scale of the scandal was to the
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The biggest problem facing our generation is fixing the mistakes that our fearless leaders have made. George W. Bush had made many mistakes while in office from 2001 to 2009. One of the most controversial issues that he had completed related to the signing of a report endorsing outsourcing with thousands of American workers having their jobs shipped overseas. He may have had good intentions‚ but all that was lost after the signing of this bill that took 2.6 million jobs away from the people of the
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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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Unit 2 Chapter Focus Questions Chapter 6: The Duel for North America 1. “Why was the French empire ultimately so much less successful than either the Spanish or the British empires?” France was a late player in the settling game of the New World. During the 1500s it was ravaged by wars and internal conflict‚ most of these were caused from the Roman Catholics at odds with the Protestant Huguenots. Also‚ once the colonies were created settlers did not stay‚ many either came home or never
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Poetic Analysis on Because I Could Not Stop for Death It is known that Emily Dickinson had a natural fear and obsession for death and her contemplation of her death is reflected in her poem‚ Because I Could Not Stop for Death. In Dickinson’s works‚ she personified death‚ the central theme of the poem. Instead of describing death as a place of being or a state of mind‚ she describes death as a person or spirit coming to retrieve her soul. This poem reflects her inner thoughts on her own death and
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Assignment 2: focus on the learner 1- Background to the learner: My student is called Samir Salem Abdullah Al-Ahsani. He is an Omani student working as an employee in the Bouhelba Company. He speaks Arabic which is his mother tongue and a little English. He’s at the elementary level at Polyglot Institute. He first studied English in the Omani public schools where he didn’t learn much according to him. He felt he couldn’t respond ‚when talked to in English‚ and needs to improve his speaking
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HIH Insurance Company Background HIH was originally found in 1968 by Ray Williams‚ then was acquired by British company CE Health PLC in 1971‚ and renamed as "HIH" in 1995. Before its collapse‚ HIH was the second largest insurance company in Australia‚ and covered several insurance segments‚ including worker’s compensation‚ public and private liability‚ property‚ industrial and commercial insurance. It also expanded globally into the US and UK markets. On March 15‚ 2001‚ HIH insurance was
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