An accounting information system (AIS) is a structure that a business uses to collect‚ store‚ manage‚ process‚ retrieve and report its financial data so that it can be used by accountants‚ consultants‚ business analysts‚ managers‚ chief financial officers (CFOs)‚ auditors and regulatory and tax agencies. In particular‚ specially trained accountants work with AIS to ensure the highest level of accuracy in a company’s financial transactions and recordkeeping and to make financial data easily available
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What is Corporate Governance? Corporate Governance is a generic concept‚ and in most cases it is defined by its objectives. Corporate Governance can be defined and analyzed by two terms. The first was introduced by the Organization of economic Corporation and Development (OECD 1999). OECD defined “Corporate Governance as a system in which business corporations are directed and controlled. The Corporate Governance structure specifies the distribution of rights and responsibilities among the
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necessary? The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted on July 2012 under the administration of President George W. Bush. The passage of this law was a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals that included Enron‚ Tyco International‚ WorldCom and Adelphia. What the myriads of corporate scandals have in common was skewed and questionable reporting of financial transactions that cost investors billions of dollars. Stock prices of these companies collapsed and questioned the confidence
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Are We Guilty of Making Ourselves Ill? I want to make an article I have many points but can someone help me in framing it and cutting out the unnecessary stuff. I also wanted to mention both pros and cons in my article. Here are the points: 1. Yes: Over-eating‚ eating only junk food‚ smoking‚ drug use/abuse‚ taking medicines wrongly. No: Can catch diseases‚ can inherit some diseases from a parent‚ may not be able to afford good food‚ may not understand what makes us ill‚ mental health problems
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The Bell‚ California corruption trial pertains to a group of city officials who misappropriated more than five million dollars of public funds (CNN Wire Staff‚ 2010). These officials were receiving compensation for conducting phantom meeting‚ wrote their own employment contracts without the approval of the City Counsel‚ and authorized approximately two million dollars in loans to their selves (CNN Wire Staff‚ 2010). To grasp the corruption of the city officials we need analyze the median annual
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have been told to us when we were younger. Today’s predators‚ can be compared to pedophile in that they groom their victims (i.e. new prisoners) in a series of predictable stages to get what they want or desire. For some new inmates‚ this can go undetected for quite some time which can be a reason why many inmates continue to have reservations about reporting any acts of sexual violence to correctional staff. Other reasons include inmates doubting that the prison staff will not take such reports of
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fit for its intended purpose. WHY IS VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION NECESSARY? Verification and Validation is necessary because the designers and implementers of computer-based systems are human; they will make errors. These errors will result in undetected faults in delivered systems. Faults can result in dangerous failures causing loss of life‚ financial loss or property damage. The mission of verification and validation is therefore to find and correct errors as early as possible in the development
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Poster Abstract Postnatal depression PND in women after childbirth has been a major health issue for some time‚ this illness will affect at least one in seven women after giving birth. It is often undetected by the health care professionals and also been misunderstood out in the community. Sometimes PND can be misdiagnosed as baby blues. As for baby blues is when mothers are feeling miserable‚ weepy‚ tired and tense these types of feelings may occur during the first few days after a woman has
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Dec 3 Exam 3 Sample Questions Possible Exam 3 Questions True or false: 1. Due to insurance arrangements and the securitization of mortgage investments‚ many U.S. bankers did not adequately gauge the risks of subprime loans. TRUE 2. A commonly accepted theory is that the Subprime lending crisis was due the Government placing more restrictions and regulations on the investment banking industry starting in 1999. FALSE 3. For the most part‚ the credit ratings granted
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unprecedented business scandals throughout the past decade‚ strict adherence to the principles of business ethics has become more prominent and expansive than ever before. In light of scandalous and unethical business practices‚ as exuded by Enron and WorldCom for example‚ business leaders and governing agencies realize the importance of ethical behavior. Although there is not a clear cut or standard set of attributes that constitute an effective and ethical leader‚ there are several common aspects that
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