Chapter 10 Discussion Questions Be prepared to discuss the handout I gave you entitled “Take the Road to IT Value” Be prepared to discuss the mini-case “Budgeting at Performance Boards‚ Inc.” For each category of IT governance risk‚ come up with at least one control. Be prepared to discuss the pros and cons of each of the three main methods of “Funding Information Systems” What are the three characteristics that effect project risks? Look at the IT project portfolio profiles and be ready to
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Management Control Homework 2 Azizi Nabil Le 10/01/2014 Houston Fearless 76 Inc 1. Why are Houston Fearless 76‚ Inc. (HF76) managers unhappy with the company’s existing sales incentive plan? Are weaknesses in this plan a major cause of the company’s performance problems? We see on the text that the CEO is unhappy about some problems in the company. We see in the text in the first page that the CEO isn’t happy about the sale ‚ we see that the company need revenue
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meeting our goals is not to expand in the market locally (Tampa/St. Pete) as well as online. Chateau Chic‚ Inc. is not able to grow into Men’s fashion as it promises to do hopefully in the future. The business must establish a footprint amongst the Ross’‚ Marshall’s‚ and larger discount stores but not having that discount store feel at the same time‚ which makes us different. Chateau Chic‚ Inc. can potentially pull away Macy’s‚ Lord and Taylor’s‚ and Nordstrom’s by offering high-quality goods but without
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This case begins with the relationship between California and Hawaiian Sugar Company (C&H)‚ the purchaser‚ and Sun Ship‚ Inc.‚ the contractor for the design and delivery of a vessel to ship raw sugar for C&H from Hawaii to California. Sun Ship went into contract with C&H on November 14‚ 1979 and agreed upon the delivery of the vessel on June 30‚ 1981‚ one and three quarter years‚ for the agreed upon amount of $20‚405‚000 . According to Cheeseman (2013) a liquidated damages clause‚ defined as “damages
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Case Study #10 - Sue Summery Sue comes to us today reporting an incidence of abuse in her current same-sex relationship with a woman named Marsha. Sue is an out of state college freshman currently enrolled at a local university. The client reports‚ she chose to attend this particular college in order to keep her parents in the dark about her sexual orientation fearing they would cut her off financially based on their strict religious values against homosexuality. Sue claims‚ she was previously
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CASE OVERVIEW Valley Technology Inc. is a part of the computer storage industry that initially offered a tape drive portfolio of products‚ which provides backup and recovery capabilities‚ and it has recently introduced a network attached product which is dedicated to file sharing only. The company encountered dilemmas regarding the most appropriate alternative that would be best to resolve their plan of reducing the company’s overall cost‚ specifically with the tape storage division
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LP8 ASSIGNMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM DESIGN By: Jeffrey L. Blake Course: MT4210 Quantitative Analysis Instructor: Paul Larson Distribution System Design 1. If the company does not change its current distribution strategy‚ what will its distribution costs be for the follow quarter? Original shipping plan model MIN 3.2x1+2.2x2+4.2x3+3.9x4+1.2x5+0.3x6+2.1x7+3.1x8+4.4x9+2.7x10+4.7x11+3.4x12+ 2.1x13+2.5x14 DISTRIBUTION CONSTRAINTS 1. x1+x2+x3≤30‚000 2. x4+x5≤20‚000
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Case 3.5 Goodner Bothers Inc. 1. Internal controls should have included these controls; -Adequate security for the inventory -Better periodic verification of inventory -Segregated duties when it comes to inventory -Proper supervision for sales transactions and the procedures that they employ to record them -Proper authorization by management for inventory transactions 2. Internal control weaknesses - Lack of segregation of duties involving sales and recording -Security controls over
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Koger Properties‚ Inc The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims that Michael Goodbread had violated independence rules set forth by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) Professional Code of Conduct and generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS). AICPAs Professional Code of Conduct considers an impairment of independence if during the engagement an auditor has “any direct or material indirect interest in the client.” (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants‚ 1988) Because
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According to the study based on Livent‚ Inc.- An Instructional Case‚ The former senior management of Livent engaged in a multi-faceted and fraud accounting since eight years. As a further result of the scheme‚ Drabinsky and Gottlieb’s elaborated their Fraudulent Kickbacks‚ Fraudulent Manipulation of Livent’s Books and Records to accomplish in quarterly periods and meet the earnings which they provided to Wall Street analysts. Further more three Accounting Manipulations were found by transferring
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