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    The most expensive and best-publicized incident of computer sabotage happened at Omega Engineering Corp of Bridgeport‚ New Jersey. It was a classic example of inside hack attack‚ whereas a former employee intentionally launched a logic bomb that permanently caused irreparable damage‚ destroying more than a thousand programs in the matter of a few seconds. Omega Engineering was a thriving defensive manufacturing company in the 1990s; it used more than 1‚000 programs to produce various products with

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    President of LBJ Re: Internal Controls My Recommendation Impact of going public Public companies‚ as the result of the passing of Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002‚ are necessary to document their controls‚ assess the documented controls and have their external auditors examine their testing of controls and note down a report about the efficiency of controls surrounding financial reporting.  As a result‚ there will be supplementary work on designing‚ testing and auditing of controls if you come to a decision

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    Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) Internal Control Framework’s Components of Internal Control Requirements 1. There was a lack of proper authorization in the budget process. The superintendent Spigot committed several projects that were not on the budget. For example‚ rent expenses were not budgeted in that fiscal year‚ which caused the budget to overrun and increase expenditures for custodial services. Also‚ the unbudgeted projects ran by the superintendent were not approved by the

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    Joy Ihuoma Accounting Department Are Babalola University ABSTRACT The Central Bank of Nigeria reported that the backward development of Nigeria was attributable to weakness in the internal control systems of the banks. This has clearly pointed out the picture of how fraud is being penetrated in the financial strength of Nigerian banks. In a nut-shell ‚ the damage which the menace‚ called fraud has done to the banks is innumerable and needs urgent attention. Internal control are measures

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    may make a company more attractive to potential buyers‚ investors‚ and other capital sources. Under SOX Section 404‚ all publicly traded U.S. corporations are required to maintain an adequate system of internal controls. Corporate executives and boards of directors must ensure that these controls are both reliable and effective. Public Offering The transformation of going from a private to public requires some extensive planning and preparation. It is recommended that LJB‚ being a relatively

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    Characteristics of an Effective System of Internal Control 

1.) In accounting systems‚ certain controls are needed to ensure that employees are doing their jobs properly and ensure that the system runs properly. These checks are in the best interest of the organization. These controls come in the form of internal controls for the system. The internal controls are the checks that are placed in the system by the company’s own management to prevent the intentional misrepresentation of financial data

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    THE IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS ON GROWTH OF SMES A CASE STUDY OF KONYOKONYO MARKET -JUBA BY TABU FLORENCE S09B24/801 A RESEARCH PROPASAL SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE AWARD OF DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF PROJECT PLANNING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY MARCH 2012 LIST OF ACRONYMS MFIs Microfinance institutions

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    THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING IN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL By: Abdur Rehman (IIUI) Table of Contents Introduction 3 Accounting 4 Key Theories in Organizational Control 6 * Key Theories 8 Role of Accounting in Organization’s Control 10 * Working of Control Theory at Workplace 12 Conclusion 13 References 14 online sources 15 Introduction Accounting is the gathering and compilation of information for decision makers – including investors

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    Case Study 2 – Internal Control 1. Inform the President of any new internal control requirements if the company decides to go public. As per the accident that happened in the company about some employees was viewing pornography on company computer and he had a hard time to get his employees admitted that they were the one who doing it. He should use limit access by individual passwords for each person to log in the computer systems. To make sure that which person was log on in the computer and

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    Table of Contents STAGE B: ASSESSING THE PRELIMINARY LEVEL OF CONTROL RISK 2 ASSESSING CONTROL RISK 2 Assessing control risk below the maximum level 5 Assessing Inherent Risk …………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………5 Relationship Between the Assessments of Inherent and Control Risks…………………………..……..……6 Identifying Specific Controls Relevant to Specific Assertions………………………………………………..……..6 Types of Control Activities that Relate to Financial Statement Assertion……………………………..……..7 STAGE C: OBTAINBING

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