Inside Job: Exposing Unethical Practices on Wall Street The documentary Inside Job‚ directed by Charles Ferguson‚ explains the financial crisis of the late 2000s that culminated with the Wall Street collapse in 2008. Beginning with a background of the American financial industry‚ the film tells the story of how banking practices caused the eventual global recession. Up until the 1980’s‚ the US financial system was highly regulated‚ at which point began a long period of “deregulation”. One of the
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Batch Production Batch Production is a way of creating items in bulk. In batch production‚ general-purpose equipment and methods are commonly used to produce small quantities of items that will be made and sold for a limited time only. Usually a similar design and process will be used to make a new product‚ cars are a good example of this. Often after car has been made another version will be created that has got new features. In batch production specialized tools or items for construction purposes
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Instructions for Efficient-Frontier Construction a. Estimation The goal is to obtain the raw ingredients – expected returns‚ standard deviations and correlations. Historical data are used for this purpose. As a rule of thumb‚ five years of daily data are probably right (one year should be the absolute minimum). Keep in mind the following: 1) make sure to use the adjusted close prices to calculate returns (so that you won’t have large‚ spurious negative returns due to dividend payments or splits)
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Andrew Johnson Professor Sander Accounting 497 18 February 2015 Northern Frontier Parks‚ Inc. 1. After reading the case‚ I would say that the engagement risk the auditors are facing is fairly high. Up until 1999‚ George Newton‚ the current CEO/CFO of Northern Frontier Parks‚ Inc.‚ was responsible for creating the financial statements‚ which were not being audited or reviewed by anybody. This is an issue because without an audit‚ there is no way to ensure the company’s financials are being correctly
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vulnerability of its network. 2. Which application is used for Step 2 in the hacking process to perform a vulnerability assessment scan? Nessus. 3. What must you obtain before you begin the ethical hacking process or penetration test on a live production network‚ even before performing the reconnaissance step? One must obtain a signed authorization form showing exactly what kind of test you are authorized to perform. 4. What is a CVE listing? Who hosts and who sponsors the CVE database listing
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1. Carrying costs include the following items‚ except: a. labor b. record keeping c. rent *d. all the above 2. Which of the following is not a cost associated with carrying inventory? *a. price discounts b. carrying costs c. ordering costs d. shortage costs 3. The level of inventory at which a new order should be placed is known as the a. lead time b. replenishment quantity *c. reorder point d. service level 4. A restaurant currently uses 62‚500 boxes of napkins
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throughout its lifetime. Operating system takes care of selecting the processes from these queues in some fashion. Selecting process is done by the the appropriate scheduler. Types of scheduling: Short - term (or) CPU Scheduler Medium – term Long – term (or) Job Scheduler Short – Term Scheduler: Short term scheduler selects the processes that are ready to execute and allocates CPU to one of them. Medium – Term Scheduler: Medium term scheduler is introduced by some operating systems such as time
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Operating Systems Task 1 An operating system (OS) is a part of software which manages the operation of a computer. It controls the hardware and software of a computer‚ without it a computer would be useless. DOS Disk operating system (DOS) was released in 1981. It will load from a floppy disk each time a computer starts. DOS uses a command line interface. Command line interface can be difficult to use if you aren’t trained or experienced in using it. DOS is the predecessor to windows. DOS is
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Operating System An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. It is a program designed to run other programs on a computer. The operating system is an essential component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs usually require an operating system to function. Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software
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Technology II-C Passed to: Mrs. Maryjes Calades Operating system examples As computers have progressed and developed so have the operating systems. Below is a basic list of the different operating systems and a few examples of operating systems that fall into each of the categories. Many computer operating systems will fall into more than one of the below categories. GUI - Short for Graphical User Interface‚ a GUI Operating System contains graphics and icons and is commonly navigated
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