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Accounting at Enron

aside through Enron stocks. The question here is, could an Enron have been avoided? What would a financial consultant (one...

Enron's Accounting Practices Assessed

made available to all of the outside world including Wall Street analysts. The news of its financial problems came as a surprise ...

College Education Financing

offered similar courses of study. Though the financial aid packages offered by these schools were less in overall funding, the en...

What Can be Done About UK Money Laundering

have been written about money laundering, the problems with it and how to prevent it from happening. Yet it still continues on to ...

Concepts of Financial Planning

cycles of financial planning and the traditional cycle (2002). Here, one goes through life accumulating debt or saving enough mone...

Limited Brands and Gap, Inc. Financial Analyses

the company now has 4,100 spread across six countries; The United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan emp...

Company Overview of Merrill Lynch

to incorporate in 1959 and to go public in 1971 (Powers, 2003). During the 1960s, the company diversified into government securiti...

Financial Managers and Accountants' Roles

the accountant fits into the plan. Position Duties Chief Financial Officer Financial policy Corporate planning Treasurer Cash mana...

Management and Financial Accounting Differences

such can understand that the figures are all historical, and may be out of date by the time they are read. When looking...

The Capital Structure of Borders Group

by several means, the simplest of which is "simply its market capitalization; that is, the market price per share multiplied by th...

Outline for Proposals for 10 Dissertations

easy to obtain. However, with organisations such as the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance in London there is a good sourc...

Examination of DCDW Corp.

buying direct from the manufacturers. The company operates with two main sectors, the corporate sectors, any consumer sales will b...

History and Financial Performance of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.

2004). Operations also take place with the core brand name of A & P, in Canada operations take place under the name Dominion In Mi...

Positive Accounting Theory and Environmental Accounting

to supply a monitoring device to reduce the information between the principals (i.e. the investors) and the agents (i.e. the manag...

3 British Retailers' Financial Comparison

Table 1 lists several ratios useful for comparing the three companies. Table 1. Selected Financial Ratios for Each Retailer Item...

Student Case Study on Financial Decisions

less risky option may be to take the Japanese offer. If a different scenario is considered, and for an additional 20,000 that wi...

Financial Performance of Delta Airlines from 1998 through 2002

percentage. This is the level of revenue that remains when all of the direct costs for producing the goods or services are deducte...

Home Health Service Provider Business Plan

or may not have a market, home health care is a service that always has a market of some size. The business is a proven one, one ...

Financial Services Industry, Significant Developments and Trends

a thing of the past, only to find that even those who conduct most of their banking online still want to be able to visit a branch...

Utilizing AI in Financial Markets That Are Chaotic

from a range of sources, and can then be utilized for business decision-making purposes (DSS, 2003). For example, DSS systems hav...

Deceptive Reporting and Methodologies for Financial Accounting

is precisely what Enron did (Thomas, 2002). Because of this, Enron, before everything collapsed, boosted valuation estimates, with...

American and United Kingdom Banking and Financial Services Structures

individual or an organisation. Banks and building societies may act a intermediaries as may different types of Insurance brokers (...

Company Report on Formosa Plastics Group

industry. With this information any reader should then be able to assess the compnay for their own purposes with a good understand...

Inflation and the Late Twentieth Century Economy of Israel

Triple-digit inflation and the fact that currency as a means of payment was stuffed in mattresses (instead of invested in financia...

Investing in Microsoft

creating software for the format, this is one innovation that was only introduced recently, and is likely to grow in popularity (M...

Growth and the Effects of the Financial Crisis in Asia

of 1997 was all the more surprising, especially given the fact that it impacted a group of countries that had, until that time, be...

HP Investment

Meanwhile printing and Imaging remains HPs most profitable unit, representing about 35 percent of sales (Lower, 2003). Yet Dell is...

Ratio Analysis on the Financial Health of Rainbow Paint Company

danger zone. The debt-to-equity ratio is also decreasing nicely, meaning Sherwin-Williams is still in a good position to pay off d...

Economic Growth, Empowerment and Views of Both Black and White Cultures

past summer, the publication Black Enterprise (05-03) announced its 31st annual report listing the "top" African American enterpri...

McDonalds and 2001 and 2002 Financial Performance

gaining a great advantage from their direct costs, but are then losing it with their other related costs, such as overheads. This ...