PRIVATE EQUITY – A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR GHANAIAN SMEs By Joseph Ciici Arthur Ghana’s workforce is predominantly employed by the informal sector. This sector of our economy is largely made up of Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) and sole proprietorships (“one man business”). This is confirmed by available data from the Registrar General which indicates that 90% of companies registered in Ghana are SMEs. Over time‚ this target group has been identified as the catalyst for
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elements of the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) and how these standards apply to financial‚ operational‚ and compliance audits‚ explain the effect that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) will have on audits of publicly traded companies‚ and discuss the additional requirements that are placed on auditors from this Act as well as the actions of the PCAOB. Auditing is the process by which economic events and processes are evaluated and
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Q1 : Five Organizations in Nairobi County and it’s Publics based on categories of Wragg. Unga Group Limited - Unga Group is a flour milling company in Kenya. Unga is headquartered in Nairobi with flour mills in Eldoret‚ Nakuru and Mombasa and is listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. The company was founded in the early 1900s. Its name is abbreviated to UGL. It is categorized as a company deals with Functional Publics as they are those publics which enable the organization to perform its chosen
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Medical studies suggest that smoking can lead to serious health problems for both the person smoking and the person sitting next to him. Keeping these statistics in mind‚ governments all over the world have implemented bans on smoking tobacco in public places‚ to the joy of non-smokers and the dismay of those for whom a cigarette is a permanent extension of the lips. Tobacco smoke contains carbon monoxide‚ a gas which – if inhaled – can severely reduce the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood
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Defining National Security VS Personal Privacy is a matter of looking at the basic nature of each. From research collected there is a consensus that we need balance. Too much of one hurts the other and vise versa. There are a couple of articles that range from Civil Liberties to the birth of public right to know that support the overall claim. Talks about the effects of censorship in different situations like war and peace will help prove that a balance needs to be forged. The problem here
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Advantages of a Agriculture society over a Hunter-gathering society In the prehistoric time‚ where mankind was just developing and we still looked like walking monkeys‚ people lived in small societies. But today I am writing about the Agriculture and Hunter-gathering societies‚ these two are different in many ways for insistence one hunts and the other grows crops and one is more likely to move and follow the herd of animals and is more settled. As I was saying in the first paragraph
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Staerklé‚ C. (2009). Policy Attitudes‚ Ideological Values and Social Representations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass‚ 3‚ 1096-1112. Policy Attitudes‚ Ideological Values and Social Representations Christian Staerklé University of Lausanne‚ Switzerland Address for correspondence: Christian Staerklé University of Lausanne Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Institute for Social Sciences Bâtiment Vidy 1015 Lausanne Switzerland christian.staerkle@unil.ch Author note: We thank
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was stated “The police at all times should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police (Schmalleger‚ 2017).” I believe that if officers upheld this standard it would make their job just a little bit easier. Many people feel that police culture has lost its way‚ officers seem to be in the news more now than compared to before for things that are tarnishing their reputation.
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Internet and its Uses in Our Daily Life How difficult our life would have been if there was no Internet. Think about it. To find some information‚ we all have acquired the habit of ’Google’ it on the web; within a few seconds the screen displays the desired information. You want to book tickets for a movie night with friends‚ and you can book them at the click of a button. Many of us cannot imagine life without the social networking sites. The Internet has indeed made the world a small place and
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Computer security and Network Security is the means by which business and governments are protecting against computer intrusions and attack to prevent loss of data‚ information and provided services. Everything is now on computers‚ peoples whole lives are documented on computers. Big business and the government rely on technologies that use computers‚ whether it is used for storage‚ a medium between the customers and themselves or actual work. With all this information and data being stored‚ transferred
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