Accounting Fraud at WorldCom Vanessa Gail Woods Strayer University Connor-Green/ACC 576 March 21‚ 2010 Accounting Fraud at WorldCom The break up of AT&T opened the long distance service market to small companies during the mid- to late-1980s and 1990s. Long Distance Discount Service (LDDS) opened in 1983 with moderate growth until its stock went public in 1989. CEO Bernie Ebbers decided to grow the organization through acquisitions (70 companies over the course of its lifetime)
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Business Fraud and Preventative Measures “There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy‚ hypocrisy‚ fraud‚ and tyranny - Frederick William Robertson.” Business fraud can be commonly defined in terms of the use of a person’s occupation for personal gain or enrichment through the misuse of employing organization’s resources or assets. Currently‚ fraud is a pervasive problem throughout small and large companies. Failure to put in place fraud preventative procedures
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1. INTRODUCTION: Pattern recognition has become a very interesting topic for researchers during last few decades. Handwriting recognition is very challenging area of pattern recognition with various practical applications. There are many applications of this form of recognition. Like postal code verification‚ vehicle number plate recognition‚ bank cheque processing‚ Assigning ZIP Codes to letter mail‚ automatic reading of area code and address from the letter‚ various data form processing etc. MEETEILON
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Employee Recognition Programs THE SECRET TO A MOTIVATED WORK FORCE Rewards and Recognition Programs‚ The Secret to Maintaining High Morale and a Motivated Work Force By John Jurgle Pompano Beach Fire Department Pompano Beach‚ Florida 1 Employee Recognition Programs CERTIFICATION STATEMENT I hereby certify that this paper constitutes my own product‚ that where the language of others is set forth‚ quotation marks so indicate‚ and that appropriate credit is given where I have
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Occupational Fraud and Abuse Maia Cunningham-Fortson Concordia University Abstract What is abusive conduct? How does abusive conduct apply to occupational fraud and abuse? What if anything can be done to eradicate the behavior? Are there any methods that can be put in place to deter or prevent this conduct? What is meant by fraud deterrence being a “modification of behavior through the perception of negative consequences?” Do internal controls have an impact on deterring or modifying
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AI in optical character recognition Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. There are different fields under optical character recognition. Intelligent character recognition Handwriting recognition Automatic number plate recognition In computer science‚ intelligent
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recognize them? Critically discuss with reference to theoretical models of recognition? Recognition is a process which involves us using basic sensory descriptions of an object and turning it into a 3D description‚ this description must then match stored representations of what we have seen before‚ irrespective of the angle its seen from. The process has 3 stages‚ Converting‚ Comparing and Identifying. An object model of recognition we will look at is Marr and Nisihara’s special process used to generate
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Strategic Plan 2013-18. Osterwalder‚ A.‚ Pigneur‚ Y. and Clark‚ T. (2010) Business model generation: a handbook for visionaries‚ game changers‚ and challengers. Smith‚ I. (2003) Meeting customer needs. The Accounting Standards Board (2001) Revenue Recognition: Discussion Paper. Tilman‚ P. (2010) ‘Working with universities’ in The Innovation handbook: How to profit from your ideas and market knowledge. Intellectual Propert Office‚ 85-89.
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face recognition is as old as computer vision and both because of the practical importance of the topic and theoretical interest from cognitive science. Face recognition is not the only method of recognising other people. Even humans between each other use senses in order to recognise others. Machines have a wider range for recognition purposes‚ which use thinks such as fingerprints‚ or iris scans. Despite the fact that these methods of identification can be more accurate‚ face recognition has always
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Table of Contents IRC 11(a) - Tax imposed 2 IRC 7701(a)(3) - Definitions 2 IRC 7701(a)(4) 2 IRC 7701(a)(5) 2 Reg 301-7701-3(a); 301-7701-3(b)(1); 301-7701-3(c) 2 Section 301.7701-3(a) 2 Section 301.7701-3(c) 3 IRC 243 - Dividends received by corporations 3 (a) General rule 3 (b) Qualifying dividends 3 (C) Election 5 (d) Special rules for certain distributions 5 (e) Certain dividends from foreign corporations 6 IRC 246(b)‚ 246(c) - Rules applying to deductions for dividends
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