Essays on Davies

Information technology has a very big impact on the development and location of industries all over the world. The new innovations in the Information field like the advent of internet have taken the whole process of industrialisation to a new level. It was thought that with the introduction of internet, geographical location of industries was going to be affected. (Brickley, 2004) This has had a small effect but not so great as it was initially thought since there are so many factors that are considered when selecting the location of a particular kind of business. The factors which affect the geographical location of ...

Human service provision is concept which refers to the provision of services that are useful in offering solutions to challenges facing humanity. Such challenges include water supply shortage, information services, banking, counseling, health care services, the list is endless. I have for the last fifteen years worked as a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a Community Based Organization (CBO) which deals with substance abuse and mental problems. In this paper, I will give advice to professionals who are beginners in human service provision. I will give guidelines on issues of human service such as confidentiality, barrier identification, making and ...

Abstract Internal controls form an important part of the process of protecting an organization’s resources. They directly affect the allocation and use of an organization’s resources and therefore ultimately impact on the overall performance of an organization. One of the resources useful in an organization is information, and this paper seeks to explain the relationship that exists between the process of information system development and the internal control function of an organization.

The relationship between internal control and the systems development process

Internal control forms an essential part of accounting. It is one of the benchmark processes upon which the success of the accounting function and ...

When we talk about domestic/family violence, we only concentrate on the men, who in most cases are the assailants, and the women who are the victims. In most cases we neglect the children who are also part of these families and their lives are affected too.

Findings from several studies reveal that in 85- 90% of the time violence occurs in a domestic set up, children are always present. In 50% of such cases, children are directly involved and are abused in the course of the incident. These were the findings of Queensland Domestic Task Force in1998, by Cleaver et ...