FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION - Gene Kranz‟s leadership in movie < Apollo 13> INTRODUCTION Apollo 13‚ the 1995 motion picture directed by Ron Howard‚ is the true story of Jim Lovell‚ Fred Haise‚ and Jack Swigert‚ a team of astronauts reassigned to a space flight with diminished preparation time. Apollo 13 Mission in 1970 was planning to land on the moon as a routine‚ but after astronauts found oxygen tank‟s explosion and leaking‚ this routine mission to the moon suddenly
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BA 105 OPERATIONS AUDIT BY GO‚ PARUNGO‚ SHIE‚ YU‚ ZARRAGA Introduction The Philippines is considered one of Asia’s top booming middle class. With the rise in status and disposable income of this emerging group‚ a change in purchasing patterns and brand preference can be observed. This is reflected in the industry of retail‚ specifically in women apparel‚ by a stronger volume and value growth. Global apparel industry will be valued at $1‚184.1 billion by 2013‚ a 15.4% since 2008. Within this
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Market failure happens – a situation in which economic efficiency has not been achieved because of imperfections in the market mechanism. These market failures consists of ; Externalities‚ public goods‚ merit goods‚ business fluctuations‚ legal system‚ re distribution of income..as clearly explained below. Business fluctuations are the ups and downs in overall business activity as evidenced by changes in national income‚ employment and prices. It is normal that a country passes through a recession
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Human Resource Audit – Case Study of “Ministry of Higher Education‚ Oman” By: Dr. Taraka Raghavendra Nanduru‚ Assistant Professor‚ Department of International Business‚ College of Applied Sciences‚ Ibri‚ Ministry of Higher Education‚ Sultanate of Oman GSM: 98823523 Email: raontr.ibr@cas.edu.om And Mr. Rashid Nasser Al Mataani Assistant Lecturer‚ Department of International Business‚ College of Applied Sciences‚ Ibri‚ Ministry of Higher Education‚ Sultanate of Oman GSM: 92672223
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Introduction Cognitive failure is defined as absent-mindedness‚ that is‚ mistakes or errors people make because of slips of attention or memory failure (Reason and Mycielska‚ 1982). Their origin has been traced to memory problems‚ attention problems errors in the implementation of intentions or errors caused by distractions. It also involves clumsiness and problems in social interactions or problems in processing information. Mostly students are prone to experience cognitive failure. If a person
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A. Define audit risk. Audit risk is the risk that the auditors may unknowingly fail to appropriately modify their opinion on financial statements that are materially misstated. B. Describe its components of inherent risk‚ control risk‚ and detection risk. The risk of material misstatement may be separated into two components-inherent risk and control risk. Both inherent risk and control risk exist independently of the audit of financial statements‚ or in other words‚ the risk of misstatement
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Question 1(12 marks) (1 mark for each relevant point) Scenario 1 o The auditor would need to confirm information provided by the CFO with the bondholder’s. o The CFO has classified the bond as current and provided a going concern note and therefore the financial statements are in compliance with GAAP. o The auditor would need to perform procedures as to the adequacy of the note disclosure. o If the going concern note disclosure is considered adequate‚ the auditor would issue an unqualified
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Bagranoff and Henry article‚ cited in footnote 3‚ and the list of GAS in the Sayana article‚ cited in footnote 1. Experts say that generalized audit software (GAS) is the most common computer-assisted audit tool (CAAT) used in recent years. There are many reasons today for IT auditors to use a GAS‚ but to quote an article from this Journal‚ "Performing audits without using information technology is hardly an option."1 This article will inform IT auditors of the profitable return on learning and using
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Michael Galindo Article #1 revised Common Experience “The root cause of Entrepreneurial Failure” The first article I read was written by Nicolas A. Bibby. His article title was named “the root cause of Entrepreneurial Failure”. I had a good feeling just by reading the articles name a few things he would be writing about. One reason we fail would be due to our lack of knowledge about the business‚ and dislike towards a chosen career. Another would be insufficient capital to hold venture
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succeed‚ try and try again” Failure is often a better teacher in life than success. Because we go through so many things in life‚ both good and bad‚ we have to learn from our mistakes and hope we won’t have to go through them again. One may consider success as being a major influence on whom we are to date‚ but in all reality it’s our own failures that help us learn‚ encourages us to keep going‚ and prepares us for future failures that are bound to happen. Failure is by far the only way we can
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