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An Audit of a Meat Department

well as product safety in terms of handling. Productivity involves workers activities of course, but also whatever initiatives th...

Increased Corporate Governance and Auditor Independence

At the time, the SEC had examined the reports of many publicly-held companies and had required more than 100 to restate their resu...

Post WorldCom and Enron International Accounting Standards

a result of ending some of the companys more obscure partnerships (Leonard, 2001). And, it was these partnerships that severely h...

Strategic Audit of Sears

on the Internet (Halligan, 2002). * This marriage also gives Lands End face-to-face consumer exposure wherein consumers can try on...

Accounting Audits, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the Sarbanes Oxley Act, Statements on Auditing Standards 99

the creation of a Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). One year later, during 2003, the American Institute of Ce...

Effective Strategic Human Resources Planning

abilities. Of course it requires a full complement of management, accounting and sales personnel; it also employs many types of e...

Walt Disney's Strategic Management

Clearly, competitors in those industries with greater rivalry will need to keep closer tabs on their own competitors. Pizza deliv...

Auditing Risk Scenarios

is the risk that certain transaction types or an account balance may be misstated, either due to individual transactions or as the...

Australian Corporations Act of 2001 and Public Company Directors

that this move was constitutional (Lexis, 2004). The idea may have been to increase protection for shareholders and develop unifor...

United Kingdom Business and Environmental Issues

demand for development and the protection of the environment" As such this can be seen as an attempt to regulate and bring togethe...

Increased Corporate Governance Effects Assessment

the long term. A third hypothesis is that these sustainably-minded organizations outperform non-Index firms over the long t...

Auditing Problems and Solutions

done to detect fraud (Calderon & Green, 1994)? It is obvious that there is no simple answer or the problem would not persist; one...

Marketing Audit Design

customer is satisfied and sees value in the product or service that the organization offers. The "product" arm of the marketing m...

Impact of Audits on Accident Rates in Hong Kong/A Research Proposal

for all industries the rate is only 17.7 accidents per 1,000 workers (LegCo Panel on Manpower, 2004). The improvement should not...

Project Process and Stages of Time Estimates and Attendance

and documentation to be given to owner, review each requirement against finished product. Project acceptance criteria review betwe...

Strategic Audit Analysis of Wal Mart

and grocery stores and 540 Sams Club warehouse stores (Biesada, 2004). Despite the sluggish economy, Wal-Mart realized a 4.8 perce...

Internal Control and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

demands by the federal government to comply with the internal control systems which were really designed with the larger publicly ...

Digital Technology's Pros and Cons

fact play a significant role in terms of the emerging 3G wireless appliances. It could in fact be that telephones could double as ...

SAS 99 Compliance and Lucent

financial information and balance sheet, its first a good idea to examine what, exactly, compliance means under Sarbanes-Oxley and...

Factors That Influence Strategic Implementation

that value is added to the customer and more custom gained. If a weakness is location then this may be the opportunity for change....

New Businesses, the European Union, and the IPPC

by the relevant regulatory bodies in each country. The approach is different in each country due to the principle of subsidiary. T...

Society and Technology

of political life" (1969, 55). Mesthene sees technology as detrimental and provides examples. For instance, cities have mass trans...

Current Status of Internet Telephony and Its Future Potential

the telephone communication infrastructure. IP Telephone can be defined in the following way; "Internet telephony (IPT) is tra...

U.S. Bancorp, Goldman Sachs, and Uses of Technology

also building for the future. Current Issues and Trends Today, office automation and the use of Internet and Intranet appli...

Security and Wireless Technologies

issues of concern include: authentication, authorization, encryption, misuse and abuse in addition to hackers (Posluns, 2002). One...

What is Bluetooth Technology

Interestingly enough, the Bluetooth technology was named after Harald Bluetooth, who was King of Denmark during the 10th century ...

Introducing Technology and Defining Positive Change

also a paradox in itself as for every $1 spent on IT we can see that there will be an associated increase in market value of the c...

Student Posed Questions About United Parcel Service

solutions," which is reinforced with principles of "First in Coverage, First in Confidence, First Thing in the Morning." The overv...

Success Factors, Technology, and Knowledge Management at Price Waterhouse Coopers

able to communicate with one another -- and that transparency of information between the communities was important (Anonymous, 199...

William Gibson's Cyberfiction Novel Johnny Mnemonic

The new literary genre dubbed 'cyberfiction' is considered in a five page research paper that discusses how technology's complicat...