SHANGRI-LA You are partner in charge of the audit of Shangri‑La‚ Inc. The company is a real estate developer‚ specializing in luxury vacation areas. The company’s operations have been profitable‚ although not spectacular. Most of the development property is pledged as collateral for bank loans; there is a reasonable stockholders’ equity of about $10‚000‚000. Shangri‑La has a substantial
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Great by Choice Jim Collins Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty‚ even chaos‚ and others do not? Based on nine years of research‚ buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories‚ Collins and his colleague‚ Morten Hansen‚ enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable‚ tumultuous‚ and fast-moving times. Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by its focus not just on performance‚ but also on the type of unstable
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Making Choices Guide Part II Long Term Care planning is a topic everyone will eventually face‚ have to discuss and make choices about in their life. Whether it is for you or a family member‚ someone will have to consider what lifestyle changes they will face and sometimes have to change in order to meet individual care needs and safety concerns in order to retain a safe and healthy lifestyle. “Ethical issues are central to any discussion or reflection on aging and health care” (Ludwick
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Life Choices As a child‚ many of the choices in our lives are made by our parents. We are told when to eat‚ when to sleep‚ what to wear‚ and what to do. When I was put into Girl Scouts at the age of five‚ I didn’t think I would be making a thirteen year commitment. Girl Scouting has never been my all-time favorite activity‚ at certain points I almost despised it because of the connotations it brought. It’s cute when you’re a little brownie all dressed up in your uniform selling cookies‚ but once
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professional conduct is clear that an accountant should follow all the six principles so that a healthy work environment could be created in the interest of the company‚ society and nation. The second discussion is focused on evaluation of ethicality of accounting activities. Manipulating the financial statements for personal interest or for loyalty towards company or its executives is unethical and the person responsible for such act will be punishable. Misstatement of financial statements is ethically wrong
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Expository Writing The Complexity of Choice In modern society‚ everyone must go on a quest to find and develop the type of person they hope to be. We attempt to achieve the “self” envisioned for ourselves. Unfortunately‚ most people give up and are never able to achieve the “self”.There are many ways to describe the self. The self can be interchangeably used to describe the soul. The soul is our inner being and is with us‚ even after death. Some believe that we develop our sense of self over time
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Implementing Strategic Choice BA570 November 4‚ 2013 1. What advice would you give to management concerning the best way to implement strategic choices in an organization? There are four types of tactics that management can use to implement strategic plans in an organization: intervention‚ persuasion‚ participation‚ and edict. Intervention tactics begins when a manager decides to make strategic changes. The manager creates the need for change in minds of the group (leaders
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Clas 121 Day 2 In a context relevant to you‚ would you make the choice Achilles made? Achilles had a difficult choice that he had to make when faced with living a long but simple life or a short but glorified one. I would not make the same choice that Achilles made of returning home and living a long‚ but ordinary life‚ instead of a short‚ but a celebrated one if he had stayed and fought. The reason for this is because I’d rather have my life mean something than being unimportant. One hasn’t lived
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Project: Multiple Regression Model Introduction Today’s stock market offers as many opportunities for investors to raise money as jeopardies to lose it because market depends on different factors‚ such as overall observed country’s performance‚ foreign countries’ performance‚ and unexpected events. One of the most important stock market indexes is Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) as it comprises the 500 largest American companies across various industries and sectors. Many people put
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