invest in new product lines and marketing and promotion strategies to combat the erosion of market share by competitors. This would also reduce the company’s agency costs because of the obvious internal conflicts within the company causing two top executives to resign. With the recapitalization‚ the ownership is concentrated to better monitor the managers from not having the shareholders’ or bondholders’ best interests in mind. This strategy of recapitalization gives the company less cash to waste
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The WorldCom Accounting Scandal WorldCom was started in Mississippi as a long distance telephone service provider in 1983 (Lyke and Jickling‚ 2). Over the next decade and a half‚ the company expanded to offer a whole range of telecommunication services through a series of mergers and acquisitions (Lyke and Jickling‚ 2). At its height‚ WorldCom was the largest long distance phone company in the United States and was one of the leading companies in the telecommunication market in the world‚ providing
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Many people argue that the Watergate Scandal had an overall damaging and negative influence on American politics. They say that the scandal instilled in the citizens a feeling of distrust and doubt regarding politicians. On the other hand‚ I believe that even though the Watergate Scandal was an event of corruption in politics‚ its positive consequences outweighed the negative. The Watergate Scandal showed President Richard Nixon’s corruption in his attempt to cover up the break in of the office of
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develop explanations and choose the appropriate technologies to address that audience. Topics taught in this course are listed in its course description as including context‚ purpose‚ audience‚ style organization‚ format results‚ technologies and strategies for persuasion in typical workplace messages. The course’s main objective is to teach individuals to create documents that not only deal with business corporations at higher levels but with all workplace and professional writing situations that
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A smart card is a plastic card about the size of a credit card‚ with an embedded microchip that can be loaded with data‚ used for telephone calling‚ electronic cash payments‚ and other applications‚ and then periodically refreshed for additional use. Currently or soon‚ you may be able to use a smart card to: * Dial a connection on a mobile telephone and be charged on a per-call basis * Establish your identity when logging on to an Internet access provider or to an online bank * Pay for
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Precisely where would one be able to purchase an Oyster Card in Heathrow Airport? But before that one should know basic information about Oyster card. What is an Oyster card? An Oyster Card is made out of plastic and resembles a blue Mastercard. It comes in two diverse sorts: a compensation as-you-go form‚ where you stack it up with cash before you travel‚ and the right toll will be deducted each time you touch it on a peruser‚ and a travelcard rendition‚ which stays legitimate for a set period:
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Data Collection Methods III Questionnaires A questionnaire is a preformatted written set of questions to which respondents record their answers usually within rather closely defined alternatives. Questionnaires are an efficient data collection mechanism when the researcher knows exactly what is required and how to measure the variables of interest. Questionnaires can be administered personally‚ mailed to the respondents‚ or electronically distributed. Guidelines for Questionnaire Design
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Java Card Security: How Smart Cards and Java Mix Section 1 -- Java Security Goes Both Ways | | There are a large and growing number of Java systems running the gamut from Java gizmos such as Java rings‚ through smart cards with built-in Java interpreters (the subject of this chapter)‚ to complete Java Development Kits and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Java is simultaneously making in-roads on many fronts. In distributed systems‚ Java-based servers and servlets are becoming as
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Yuri A. Batten Module 2 Case 2: HP Pretexting Scandal ETH501 TUI University Dr. Bonnie Adams Who is ever responsible for the wrong-doings of a corporation? Is it the person who actually commits the crime or the company that hired the person who committed the crime? In today’s world of finger pointing and blame shifting‚ anyone’s guess is as good as mine. Should Patricia Dunn‚ former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard (HP)‚ have been forced to resign? In my mind the answer is yes‚ without
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the Enron stock price‚ one of the consistent themes of the film is the scandals and the lies behind the company’s success. The film separates each scandal and builds off that scandal to show how Enron was able to manipulate the public into believing its greatness. The name Enron is now synonymous with fraud; the reality is that greedy smart people created the tragedy. The film examines the fraud starting with the Enron Oil trading scandal‚ the tenure of CEO Jeff Skilling‚ the mystery of Enron executive
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