You are required to prepare an investigative report on a recent corporate scandal that involved improper accounting practices or any form of financial scandal. Your report must include the following: an overview of the corporation a description of the scandal methodology - explaining the specific accounting impropriety that the company used. an explanation of how the firm managed to hide their accounting improprieties a discussion of who the scandal effected - both inside‚ and outside
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Reaction Essay: The Corporation The documentary The Corporation‚ directed by Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar and produced in 2004‚ although bias‚ opens many doors for discussion in regard to capitalism and the role of corporations in our lives. I found the documentary to be presented professionally‚ and filled with legitimate facts more so than extreme opinion. The documentary truly outlines the "all-pervasive" role the corporation has taken as the "world’s dominant institution". The film opens
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In the essay "Rewriting American History‚" Frances Fitzgerald makes the statement‚ "each generation of children reads only one generation of schoolbooks. The transient history is those children’s history forever--their particular version of America." I agree with this statement. Based on my personal experience with history textbooks‚ I agree with the fact they only teach "generations" a certain part of history. If we keep teaching by generations we might lose our history. The stories that I’ve been
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Supply chain management in Toyota Motor Corporation Supply-chain management at Toyota is an element of company’s operations strategy which is thoroughly based on the Toyota Production System (TPS). It was developed in the 1940’s by Shigeo Shingo and Taiichi Ohno. As Toyota’s success gained world-wide coverage‚ at was followed by interest by other companies in TPS‚ the principles of which is expressed by the term of “lean manufacturing” Liker (2005‚ p.16) lists following components of Toyota Supplier
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Business Ethics The Corporation ‘The Corporation’ had a specific aim to portray the problems of not just one corporation‚ but corporations as a whole‚ as is evident from the beginning of the film as a multitude of big business logos flashed across the screen. The film proceeded to highlight the issues surrounding: globalization and consumerism‚ environmental pollution and disregard for the planet‚ unethical marketing‚ and dishonest media. Personally‚ I feel that I’m quite open-minded when it comes
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* We should follow the rules so that we can maintain peace and organization within our society‚ economy‚ and even our country. Without rules no one would be able to work together. * Two different kinds of people can be heard to utter that question‚ "Why have rules?" One of them does not believe in rules; the other believes in rules and adds a few more words to the question‚ "Why have rules‚ if you are not going to enforce them?" I would like to examine both sides of this argument. Many people
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IBO 1007 Introduction to Management Assignment - 3 Issues relating to the Management of Multi-National Corporations There has been a significant evolution in the importance and operation of multi-national corporations globally in the past century. Multi-national corporations are companies or enterprises that manage production or deliver services in more than one country. A multi-national corporation has its management headquarters in one country‚ known as the home country‚ and operates
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WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AT FOOD CORPORATION OF INDIA REPORT MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Submitted By DIMPLE MEERA THOMAS Under the guidance of Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Kaushik DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES MAR ATHANASIOS COLLEGE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES TIRUVALLA 2012 CERTIFICATE FROM THE ORGANISATION DECLARATION I hereby declare that this report titled “Working Capital Management” at Food Corporation
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GLOBALIZING THE COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL BUDGETING AT AES 1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? 2. If you implemented the methodology suggested by Venerus‚ what would be the range of discount rates one would use around the world? 3. Does this make sense as a way to do capital budgeting? 4. How big a value difference does this new approach make to the Pakistan project? 5. How do these cost of capital modifications translate into changed probabilities
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of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES (Case Analysis) AES Corporation AES was founded by Roger Stan and Dennis Bakke in 1981 after the Public Utility Regulation Policy Act (PURPA)‚ which created a market for independent power producer. In 1980s‚ the company experienced rapid growth in United States and went into public in 1991. From early 1990s‚ AES began to explore offshore markets and made remarkable success. In the 12 years since it went public‚ AES has hold more than $33 billion assets
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