LIMITATIONS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION The contact groups of decision-makers have widely different information needs about an enterprise. It must be stressed that accounting is only one of a number of sources on information available to decision-makers though they are sometimes tempted to place more faith in accounting than excepted. Other sources are just as important if not more important than the information provided by the financial statements. It is therefore essential to highlight the limitations
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stunned financial markets on Dec. 19 when it said a document showing 3.95 billion euros ($5.07 billion) held by a Cayman Islands subsidiary was declared false by Bank of America. Company founder Calisto Tanzi subsequently said when questioned that the accounting hole was about 8 billion euros. He is among nine arrested so far in what U.S. regulators have called one of the world’s biggest corporate fraud scandals.” Allegations: Company’s total debt was more than doubled on the balance sheet. Forgery and
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Write a 250-word response to each of the following questions: What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media? How might knowing these advantages and disadvantages alter how a person might use social media? One advantage of social media is the ability to stay connected to friends and family‚ especially those you may not see often. You can share photos and even host events which you can invite your friends to. Social media is also a good way to meet new friends and share interests with
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Discussion Questions 1. Discuss some of the challenges facing business today. Does information technology play a role in these challenges? Explain. The business world and society in general are undergoing phenomenal and sometimes turbulent change. The “new economy” driven by the Internet has seen the rise of entirely new businesses like Amazon.com‚ Yahoo‚ eBay‚ and of course Google. While the “dot com bust” of 2000 saw the demise of thousands of Internet-oriented businesses‚ the fact remains that
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Amazon: From Book Seller to Service Provider 1. Amazon’s strategy is to maintain its role as an online retailer while diversifying its product and service line.[1] While many people still see Amazon only as an online book retailer‚ this is no longer true. Amazon is now best described as a technology retailer. Capitalizing on its large and reliable Internet infrastructure‚ Amazon Web Services now include the following: Simple Storage Service (S3)‚ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)‚ SimpleDB‚ CloudFront
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Executive Summary Many organisations worldwide are looking at improving their performance. Using self assessment models available‚ organisations should carefully choose an approach that will yield the most attractive return on investments. In this report the author will look at how Total Quality Management (TQM) is used to achieve Organizational Excellence through Self-Assessment. The aim is to analyze and compare the international models such as Deming Prize‚ the MBNQA‚ the EFQM as well as the
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Mobile Phone Effect As time passes by technology is growing faster and move faster. The most important and common part of technology in our life is mobile phone technology. We bring mobile phone with us in everywhere that we go and use it on a daily basis. It is being the part and parcel of our daily life. Mobil phone have been around for quite sometime‚ but as time goes on‚ mobile phones continuous to gain many features. A mobile phone started out as simple device
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a written or printed form used in gathering information on some subject or subjects‚ consisting of a set of questions to be submitted to one or more persons All lecturers come in contact with questionnaires whether it is the standard end of year course questionnaire or one that is used in research. These questionnaires come in many different forms from: factual to opinion based‚ from tick boxes to free text responses. Whatever their form‚ questionnaires are often viewed as quick and easy to
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of multitouch interfaces? How useful are they? Explain. Extremely good for object manipulations - Touch‚ drag‚ “pinch” to zoom in and out‚ slide finger up and down or sideways as if they were physical objects without moving a mouse‚ pressing buttons or striking keys. For example‚ Perceptive Pixel offers pressure-sensitive multi-touch displays that can sense an unlimited number of simultaneous touches with accuracy and precision. Their displays come bundled
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There are several advantages of television like we all know that we can have a clear idea that what is happening in the world‚ we can have live information about the several events like sports and any other good or bad events happening on the globe. One can have a weather forecast and accordingly plan several things before time. It is also a good source of entertainment which is very cheap and within the access of every one. Television has shrunk the distance of the world you can watch what is happening
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