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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...

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...

Information Warfare versus Information Intelligence

from the Cold War. While some of the information in this article is outdated, i.e. the section pertaining to Y2K, the majority of ...

Auditing Process and the External Auditor's Role

appears to be a prevalent theme in almost all of the recently profiled collapses (2002). In other words, even if there are proble...

Auditing Profession and Its Problems

rules laid down to create a separation and independence between the auditor and the company. The regulatory framework in the Unite...

Marketing Audit and New Product Marketing

we consider McDonalds there is a corporate strategy where the brand is important. The products are all designed to be easy to prep...

Internal Audit and ISO 9000

quality because with such an auditing system, the company will monitor all its functions on a continual basis (Barnes, 1998). The...

Issues Pertaining to SAS 85

/ Single-audit quality concerns by AICPA NEWS: Explains the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public...

Fraud and the Ethics of Internal Auditing

when it comes to the corporate world. Not to follow this path would reap severe consequences upon the business that ignored the i...

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...

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...

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...

Corporate America and Manipulation of Revenue

evident that much fraud can be discovered before it is too late. While this was not true in the case of Enron, the evidence has s...

Detecting Fraud and an Internal Auditor's Role

business takes great pains to hire reliable individuals in important financial roles, what can be done to make sure that fraud doe...

Mobile Phone Technologies and UMTS and GSM Comparison

places where such accessibility is not available. The separation between GMS technology and past applications is its distinctive ...

Business Practices and the Effects of Technological Changes

getting smaller, the culture had not yet moved to one that is essentially online, and technology was no where near where it is tod...

4 Areas of Operations Management

without excessive costs involved. Therefore, the first issue may be raw materials, but this will depend on the business and the ea...

Position of Lucent Technologies

This has resulted in a negative return on assets figure of -42.09%. This is an anomalous year as the figures for 2000 were more fa...

Uses of Technology in the Classroom

in order for the children of today to be "effective leaders and productive citizens" of tomorrow, they will require confidence in...

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...

Low Income Schools and Technological Restraints

most aspects of our lives technology has made its way into the very fabric of the way we teach our children. The majority of clas...

Human Resource Case Study on Micronics Technology

dependent upon Carol having dinner with Buddy, the supervisor. It is also a hostile environment case because Buddy touches her, re...

The Technological Evolution of Computers

term was used broadly to reference any machine which handled data (even manual calculators and the like) (New York Public Library,...

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...

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....