involved in the audit of cash‚ including cutoff bank statements‚ reconciliations‚ and the standard bank confirmation form. To help students understand the importance of exercising professional skepticism in evaluating audit evidence. [4] To illustrate a costly error made by auditors in the Parmalat SpC situation‚ in which the auditors accepted a forged bank confirmation that was allegedly faxed to the auditors by Parmalat client personnel (a copy of the actual forged Parmalat fax is included
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KISHORE BIYANI - Chairman‚ Future Media Kishore Biyani is the Group CEO of Future Group and the Managing Director of the group’s flagship company‚ Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited. He has led Pantaloon Retail’s emergence as the India’s leading retailer operating multiple retail formats that now caters to almost the entire consumption basket of a large section of Indian consumers. Kishore Biyani led the company’s foray into organized retail with the opening up of the Pantaloons family store
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Motte and Bailey castles started appearing in England after 1066 when the Normans attacked England. They became very common by 1087. Building the castles became a huge project in England and Wales. When William the Conqueror went to Pevensey‚ he started to build a castle to protect himself and his men. He was a skilled and fearsome soldier who learned his military skills from Northern France. He learned his castle building skills from the french kings‚ who built castles to protect themselves
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Culture illustrates the accepted norms and values and traditional behaviour of a group. One definition of culture by Deal and Kennedy is “the way we do things around here”. However‚ culture also evolves over time. The culture of each country has its own beliefs‚ values and activities. In other words culture can be defined as an evolving set of collective beliefs‚ values and attitudes. Culture is a key component in business and has an impact on the strategic direction of business. Culture influences
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Motivation theories are psychological reasons why people do what they do. They can explain most of human behavior. There are at least three motivation theories to explain why I am currently attending Anoka Ramsey Community College. The first theory is Autonomy. Autonomy is independence or freedom to make one’s own choice. If I graduate from Anoka Ramsey Community College and I do well at it‚ I will be able to move out of my parents’ house and begin a career as a teacher. I will also be able to quit
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The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework & Survey∗ Ren´e B. Adams‚† Benjamin E. Hermalin‚‡ and Michael S. Weisbach§ e April ‚ Abstract This paper is a survey of the literature on boards of directors‚ with an emphasis on research done subsequent to the Hermalin and Weisbach (2003) survey. The two questions most asked about boards are what determines their makeup and what determines their actions? These questions are fundamentally intertwined‚ which
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Question: Explain the merits of the path-goal model of motivation by contrasting it with other theories of motivation. The path-goal model of motivation refers to the works of Robert J House in 1971 and later revised in 1996. House theorized that leaders are directly responsible for motivating their subordinates‚ and ideally could motivate them towards achieving personal goals and ultimately the goals of the organisation. Motivation refers to the “cognitive decision-making process through which
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present in nineteenth century France and Spain. It introduces readers to numerous aspects of life including treatment of women‚ prejudices towards individuals and groups‚ social structures‚ and accepted social behavior. Carmen‚ as both a novel and opera‚ is a literary work that was written not only to entertain but also to reflect nineteenth century society. Carmen‚ as a literary work‚ has experienced many changes throughout its existence. The French author Prosper Merimme originally wrote Carmen
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Bill Gates HISTORY William Henry "Bill" Gates III was born in 1955 in Seattle. He grew up in an upper middle-class family with two sisters: Kristianne‚ who is older‚ and Libby‚ who is younger. His father was a prominent lawyer and mother served on the board of directors of national bank. He was excellent in all subjects at school. At Lakeside School which he attended‚ a Seattle computer company offered to provide computer time for the students. That ’s where his interest in computers
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Bill gates was born in Seattle washington. He was son of a lawyer. While growing up Bill had been told he would become a Lawyer like his dad but he didn’t know exactly what he wanted to do in life. At the age of 13 He enrolled into a prep school and began to get a stronger education. During this time there was a small increase in technology not so much computers but other innovations that were coming out to help small businesses and companies. Some of the board members had bought the very first Teleprinter
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