English 135 Instructor: Fawn-Bragg David Ross 15 February 06 Sarbanes-Oxley Act The "Sarbanes-Oxley Act" is a comprehensive corporate reform package that was signed into the US law on July 30‚ 2002. The passage of the Act has been heralded by some as a historic occasioncalling it the most significant accounting legislation since 1933‚ while others have severely criticized the Act either as a "too little too late measure" or as a hasty knee jerk reaction to a temporary situation. Without
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Order Code RS21135 February 4‚ 2002 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web The Enron Collapse: An Overview of Financial Issues Mark Jickling‚ Coordinator Specialist in Public Finance Government and Finance Division Summary Only months before Enron Corp.’s bankruptcy filing in December 2001‚ the firm was widely regarded as one of the most innovative‚ fastest growing‚ and best managed businesses in the United States. With the swift collapse‚ shareholders‚ including
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1. Name of Course/Module: Research Method 2. Course Code: BT 21603 Research Method 3. Name(s) of academic staff: Dr. Janice L. H. Nga (Room No. 10‚ Level 3‚ SPE. Ext. 1640‚ Email: janice@ums.edu.my;janicenga@yahoo.com) Dr. Zakariya Belkhamza (Room No. 26‚ Level 3‚ SPE. Ext. 1555‚ Email: zakariya@ums.edu.my) 4. Rationale for the inclusion of the course/module in the programme Doing research is an important activity of the for today’s business environment. Business and economics
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dares wins (or: s/he who wins dares) sedit qui timuit ne non succederet. He who feared he would not succeed sat still. tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito Yield not to misfortunes‚ but advance all the more boldly against them dum vita est spes est While there’s life‚ there’s hope una salus victis nullam sperare salutem The one safety for the vanquished is to abandon hope of safety (knowing that there is no hope can give one the courage to fight and win).
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Brief Summary Sollicitudo Rei Socialis seeks to joyfully proclaim moderate‚ left of center‚ and nonpartisan social and political principles from the perspective of Catholic social thought‚ especially as defined by the pastoral constitution Gaudium et Spes and by the Holy Spirit speaking to us through tradition‚ scripture‚ and the sense of the faithful. Sollicitudo Rei Important Teachings/Decisi ons 1. The Dignity of Human Person Human beings are created in the image of God and‚ therefore‚ are
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Stanford Prison Experiment SPE The Stanford Prison Experiment has given a strong hint about how influential the society and situation can be. The experiment was originally designed to test whether the tension in prison was a cause of inmates’ inherently flawed personality; however‚ the result has revealed that any healthy human being can be transformed into a violent figure after being assigned a specific role and put in a designed situation. Indeed‚ the result was shocking‚ and the procedure
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The MSAH (The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health) is responsible for social and health policy and preparing associated legislation. Public authorities in Finland must guarantee for everyone adequate social‚ medical and health services and promote the health of the population. In Finland the aim of health care is to maintain and improve people’s health‚ wellbeing‚ work and functional capacity and social security‚ as well as to reduce health inequalities. The health care system is based on preventive
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Savage In “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”‚ Benjamin Franklin opens by saying “Savages we call them‚ because their manners differ from ours‚ which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs” (Franklin‚ 2008‚ p. 226). When Franklin wrote this‚ he had no idea that our society would continue to complicate the differences between cultures to the extent they exist still today. Many of the colonists attempted to convert Native Americans to Christianity but failed because
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Enron exposed the company to much additional risk‚ which created pressure to adopt aggressive financial reporting practice. Enron acted as a broker of speculative energy futures‚ offered financial hedges. Further many of Enron’s deals (including the SPEs) depended heavily on a high and raising stock price. The company had guaranteed its obligations with stock and had contractually agreed that those obligations would become immediately due and payable if the stock price fell below certain levels. If
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itself to be a dramatic struggle between good and evil‚ between light and darkness. Indeed‚ man finds that by himself he is incapable of battling the assaults of evil successfully‚ so that everyone feels as though he is bound by chains» (Gaudium et Spes‚ no. 13). Since man finds himself in a state of disharmony due to the original sin‚ even
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