IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA AUDIENCE: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION THESIS: THE IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THIS ERA OF GROWING BUSINESS‚ EDUCATION AND THE MEDICAL FIELD IN GHANA The term ’information technology’ (IT) evolved in the 1970s and if we consider a medium or large company providing goods or services‚ its IT department will be responsible for storing‚ protecting‚ processing‚ retrieving and transmitting the information. The Information
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Role of Information Technology in Business Since we live in the “information age‚” information technology has become a part of our everyday lives. It plays a key role in today’s business environment. Many companies greatly rely on computers and software in order to provide accurate information to effectively manage their business. It is becoming increasingly necessary for all businesses to incorporate information technology solutions to operate successfully. The fundamental reasons for the popularity
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Reassessing Impacts of MDGs in Nigeria A Global Partnership for Development was adopted by 189 nations‚ signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. Bill Gates has called them "the best idea for focusing the world on fighting global poverty that [he has] ever seen." The signing of the partnership was the beginning of the process towards the establishment of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Nigeria was among the countries to establish an
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I have been working in the banking industry for over fifteen years. Nowadays‚ the banking industry has changed so much in comparison to the banking industry a decade ago. Technological advances have revolutionized people’s banking habits. Advance technology has given people more options than just coming in physically into the bank to conduct account transactions. In this paper‚ I will compare banking in the past versus banking today and how technology has played such an enormous role in creating
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With the improvement of technology continuously growing every day‚ privacy has become one of the most important issues in today’s society. Privacy refers to one’s right to control how your personal information is collected and used by financial institutions. It is the financial institution’s responsibility to provide security to your personal information. Security refers to the obligation of the company that collects and uses your information to ensure that your information is safe against unauthorized
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IMPACT OF ICT IN BANKING AND FINANCE As in a pendulum movement‚ the reflections about the impact of ICTs in the Economy have swung from enthusiasm to realism and back to optimism‚ being each of these states really subjective and implying a wide range of shades within. After a first period of cyberoptimism‚ people that “wanted to see” and people that thought “waiting to see” was a bad strategy because “it will then be too late”‚ followed a timespan where scientists — mainly economists — stuck to strict
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Leading Determinants of Dividend Policy: A Case Study of Indian Banking Industry ABSTRACT: Dividend policy is a critical decision area in the field of finance. The subject of corporate dividend policy has captivated finance scholars for a long time‚ resulting in intensive theoretical modeling and empirical investigation. But several questions related to dividend decisions remain perplexing because of diverse and conflicting theories and evermore due to diverse empirical results. This paper attempts
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INDUSTRY ANALYSIS An analysis of banking sector in India Introduction The liberalization brought in 1991 has swept the economic landscape of thecountry. The automobile industry is one of the invisible faces of liberalization .For the people who were used to many years of Ambassador cars with various models notdifferent in anyway except a few changes in every model‚ the arrival of Maruti heraldedthe beginning of a new experience in automobile comfort. It was the same with BajajChetak. Its obnoxious
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INVESTMENT INDUSTY ANALYSIS Investment Industry EXECUTIVE SUMMARY We chose to do our analysis on the Investment Industry. The companies that we have chosen to analyze are Bank of America Merrill Lynch followed by Goldman Sachs Group‚ Morgan Stanley‚ and JP Morgan Chase and Co. These companies are known as investment banks. An investment bank is a financial institution that assists individuals‚ corporations‚ and governments in raising capital by underwriting and/or
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What case can be made that it was the lack of regulation of the banking sector that led to the financial crisis of 2008-9? What are the new regulatory structures that are being proposed in the US and UK? The preconditions of the 2008-9 crisis were high unemployment‚ high growth which was stimulated partially by foreign investment caused by imbalance of current accounts on the international arena (ie. Huge debt of US and the UK and surplus of China‚ Korea‚ Japan). Large part of the problem was
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