Hong Kong Baptist University Language Centre GCLA1009 University English II (2013/14) Assessment 2 – Synthesizing information (15%) ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE: Monday 24 March 2014 PROCEDURES: Submit to Turnitin on BU Moodle for plagiarism check. If Turnitin report shows over 20% similarity with other sources‚ re-do the assignment and re-submit (you can do this as many times as you wish). Do NOT copy the instructions as these will count as being “copied”. Print the Turnitin report along with
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Case 2-1 Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom Cynthia Cooper details her trials and tribulations about her experiences at WorldCom in the book Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. The following excerpts from the book describe the actions she took to uncover the fraud at WorldCom and reactions of key players in the accounting department‚ top management‚ the audit committee and the external auditors. Cooper was first alerted to the fact that there may have been a problem
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SPRING S E M E S T E R 2 0 1 3 MBA (FINANCE) C O R P O R A T E F I N A N C E C O U R S E L E V E L : G R A D U A T E C O N T A C T H O U R S : 48 C R E D I T H O U R S : 3 Course Instructor: Muhammad Akbar E-mail: akbar892@hotmail.com Office: Old Building (BAsement) [pic] D E P A R T M E N T O F M A N A G E M E N T S C I E N C E S (GRADUATE STUDIES) B A H R I A U N I V E R S I T Y I S L A M A B A D Course Description: In the ever
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Case Study 1: Martin Martin‚ a behavior analyst‚ is working with Sara‚ a 14-year-old girl with severe developmental delays who exhibits self-injurious behavior (SIB). The self-injurious behaviors included pulling her hair‚ biting her arm and banging her head against the wall. After conducting a functional analysis‚ Martin decided to employ an intervention program consisting of differential reinforcement of other (DRO) desired behavior. Martin collected data on Sara’s SIB before and during the intervention
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Part 2 – Contractual Formation A. Offer and Acceptance Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists The display of goods in a shop is only an offer to treat Australian Woollen Mills v Cth The offer must be in exchange for the other party’s consideration (quid pro quo). If it isn’t it is more likely a gratuitous promise Seppelt & Sons v Commissioner The use of the word “offer” is not conclusive Carlill v Carbolic An offer can be made to the whole world. Unilateral offers may require
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CASE STUDY 1 Exploring Innovation in Action: The Changing Nature of the Music Industry Question 3. Can you map the different kinds of innovation in the case study? Which were incremental and which radical/discontinuous? Why? Give examples to support your answer. The first innovation that was mentioned in this case was that of an Incremental Innovation. An incremental innovation is a series of small improvements to an existing product or product line that usually helps maintain or improve
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Chapter 4: Mini Case 1: Smith‚ Smith‚ Smith‚ and Smith is a regional accounting firm that is putting up a new headquarters building. The building will have a backbone network that connects eight LANs (two on each floor). The company is very concerned with network errors. What advice would you give regarding the design of the building and network cable planning that would help reduce network errors? I have to make some assumptions regarding the network design for this new building. Since they
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Fizza Mansoor January 24‚ 2012 Chapter 1 - Case Study 1 and 2 Questions Case Study 1 1. How does Accenture People site help Accenture better serve its customers? a. It helps in the sense that it makes the other people who are working in other countries to help with getting information easier. They are able to share information easily of different projects and are able to communicate directly rather than waiting. This will help consumers with their output and they will receive
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a) 1. To raise new equity capital. Because of preemptive rights‚ stockholders can maintain the percentage ownership interest in the company by buying new shares on a pro rata basis before they are issued to the public. It prevents existing stockholders from dilution in value or control. The warrants indicate how many shares can be bought. 2. The objective of issuing warrant to certain employees is that it can appeal them to have interests in management and let them join the growth of company. So
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Case study 1 clearly was a case in which fraudulent activity had clearly taken place. If it was not for the internal audit conducted by the ABC company‚ Hank Duckworth would probably still be getting away embezzlement. The clues that led up to Hanks demise was that Jane discovered that some of the accounts payable checks lacked complete endorsement by the payees. When Jane dug a little deeper she found five more checks made out to different people but all of the endorsement’s had the same handwriting
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