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was a role for Human Resources in this scenario. One technique used by Continental was to hire friends (Brenneman, 1998). This mig...

corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...

that other entity and realizes the accounting principle shift as discussed by Schmutte and Duncan (2005). The scope of variable i...

in an accounting system that made many of the concealments that took place legal, or at least borderline, and the attitudes of tho...

Enron International and Azurix Water, said Enron employees consisted of ex-military, Harvard Business School and ex-entrepreneurs ...

chief accounting officer and former Enron auditor from Arthur Anderson and a number of other executives (FOX News Network, 2005). ...

she was in the building in 1993 when another attack took place; and despite the fact that the building actually rocked from the fo...

For example, right after the CAIB issued its report, Sean OKeefe, the NASA administrator at the time, publically accepted all reco...

the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...

Technology advances in mediation software have increased the capability of companies to negotiate within a global business framewo...

quake it was estimated that at least 400 people had died. The conditions were relatively dire as almost freezing temperatures at n...

in the world. It is governed by a Board of Governors and operates under a legal Congressional charter. The Board conducts a self-a...

Mention the word "Enron" and what is likely to come to mind is "accounting scandal." Though the period between 2000-2002 brought i...

that the space shuttle Columbia had disintegrated. All seven members of the crew were lost. The Columbia had launched on January 1...

as individual isolated actors, but they acted as part of a group reflecting loyalties to colleagues and their commitments which we...

merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth in 1985. It was initially a gas pipeline operator and a national gas commodities trad...

well, which was located 41 miles from the Louisiana coast (Hoffman and Jennings, 2010). The disaster struck on 20 April 2010 durin...

mean they are not dangerous. Earthquakes, which are natural occurrences, kill hundreds if not thousands of people and ruin homes,...

timeline overview identifies who was involved and what was happening. Andrew Fastow was appointed finance executive in 1997 and sh...

certain cultural movements have made it such that the nature of risk management and disaster prevention in societies is now given ...

fraud when accounting (Miller & Bahnson, 2005). In addition to the GAAP standards, some businesses, especially those outside the U...

had its epicentre off Sunmatas west coast, between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia, 30 km below sea level and had a magnitude 9.3 ...

The writer analyses survey results provided by the student. The survey was undertaken to determine whether or not attitudes toward...

3). It is when stress exceeds the individuals ability to cope that it becomes destructive. These destructive effects can be modera...

she was pushing mud off the porch and wiping furniture. More volunteers followed helping all the people who lived on that street. ...

(Thomas). Employees who didnt do deals to post earnings ended up with higher score. The higher the score, the more likely the empl...

history of the United States, and New Orleans is still trying to recover from it. This paper considers three aspects of the storm:...

not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...

corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...

The American Red Cross, after an extensive peer review of the program, which was conducted in 2006, adopted Veenemas curriculum as...