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Investment Banker Jay Cooke

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...

Capitalism and its Destruction

are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative." It does seem to be the case that for example the Republican party in the Unit...

Outline of Procopius of Caesarea and Hagia Sophia Collapse Applied to Reconstructing the Towers of the World Trade Center

the immediate and integrating architectural elements into the infinite. Further, Rauss argued that the development of architectur...

Economic Relations and the Economy of Argentina

Were the central bank of, say Ecuador, to fix the exchange rate of the Ecuador currency directly to the value of the US dollar, pr...

Enron's Conflict Management

Sadly, those pursuing the win-lose scenario often overlook simpler approaches in which everyone wins, thereby avoiding further pro...

Analysis of Enron

days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...

Not by Bread Alone by Melissa Caldwell

the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...

Collapse of HIH Insurance Ltd. and the Effects on Small Businesses in Australia

only a week before it was completed. Chief executive Ray Williams raised the issue with board members over dinner, telling the gr...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

The Balkans

that have been conducive to even more terrorist activity. The twentieth century both began and ended with bloodshed in the ...

Issues and Future of the World Trade Organization

himself in 1999 at the WTO talks in Seattle, when he was quoted as saying that high labor standards should be mandatory for trade-...

Accounting and Corporate Effects of Business Failures

in accountants and the way accounts were prepared was being shaken. The entire financial basis of the stock markets requires tha...

Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

2 Trade Textbooks on Investment and Mathematics Reviewed

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

Soviet Union's Downfall and Reports by American Intelligence

drop in performance indicators, might strengthen conservative opposition. Such trends, coupled with the continuing nationality tu...

The Purpose and Reason for the End of Communism

years. Why? "In 1961 the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, made a speech predicting...

Industrial Psychology; Explaining Enron

with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...

Is the Criticism Against Auditors Justified in the Light of Business Collapses such as Enron?

an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...

The Polish Free Elections and the Breakup of the USSR

control over the military.1 Thus, the nation faced dual rule, and was (and remains) in transition. This is relevant to our questio...

Trading Practices, the Barings Group, and Nick Leeson

As he has been pointed out in much of the financial media that has covered this issue, the derivative instruments that ended up ca...

Retail and Electronic Commerce

what customers will logically expect from these companies. As can be expected, new models are being created for these so-called "...

Enron and the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act

audit functions were in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), hiding debt in dummy corporations, as wel...

Second World War and Nazi Germany

said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...

Enigma of 1989 by Jacques Levesque

of the U.S.S.R. and what it all means. One is left with a sense that what occurred in the headlines is really more than the defeat...

Ongoing Debate Regarding WorldCom

disturbing facts is that the WorldCom documents that were released in July to the special Financial Services Committee of the U.S....

Korean Corporations and the Practice of Nepotism

Korean business - at one point, Hyundai, Daewoo, Samsung, LG and SK, the five largest chaebol, had hundreds of subsidiaries betwee...

Corporate Greed and its Psychosocial Effects

life savings and retirement plans of countless employees who had worked hard to save their funds - but because of corporate greed,...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Yugoslavian State Breakdown

Yugoslavia). Although the fighting stopped for the most part, there was no effort made for the various parties to actually resolv...

4 Accounting and International Finance Dissertation Topics

the news circulated of such a monumental occurrence, there was immediate reaction from several societal sectors, including small b...