Essays on Disclosure

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Research Question Has the introduction in Australia of a continuous statutory-backed disclosure policy and subsequent amendments led to an increase in reporting of economic events experienced by firms? This is to verify that the legislation has relevance for firms.

Relationship of Proposed Study to Prior Research

The implementation of Australia's statutory-backed continuous disclosure policy is meant to make corporate behavior more transparent to stockholders. Under the disclosure regime, an Australian Stock Exchange-listed issuer is required to release material information about the company as soon as it becomes aware of it. The Australian Stock Exchange takes firsthand responsibility for regulating and monitoring itself. Statutory sanctions provide a regime ...

Abstract

Psychology is one of the most interesting fields in the world. Most of the issues discussed in the field of psychology involve the activities of mind and this includes the power of reasoning and being rational. Psychology tends to explain human behavior and the reason why different people will behave differently even in similar situations. The aspect of self disclosure is one that has been explained through the definition and elaboration of different schools of thought in psychology. Personality is another important aspect highlighted in the field of psychology as it plays an important role as well in determining ...

Abstract

This paper seeks to explore the relationship between the cost of capital and voluntary disclosures. The paper outlines the benefits of voluntary disclosure to firms, investors and the general economy and how these benefits are weighed. It describes the categories of voluntary disclosures and the factors considered in disclosure decisions. The paper will explain the term disclosure friction and there after show how this factor affects cost of capital. It also investigates the association between the risk related discount and the voluntary disclosure. The two equilibriums i.e. overinvestment equilibrium and the underinvestment equilibrium and how they are brought about ...

Abstract

This paper seeks to explore the relationship between the cost of capital and voluntary disclosures. The paper outlines the benefits of voluntary disclosure to firms, investors and the general economy and how these benefits are weighed. It describes the categories of voluntary disclosures and the factors considered in disclosure decisions. The paper will explain the term disclosure friction and there after show how this factor affects cost of capital. It also investigates the association between the risk related discount and the voluntary disclosure. The two equilibriums i.e. overinvestment equilibrium and the underinvestment equilibrium and how they are brought about ...

Introduction

Agenix Limited is a biopharmaceutical company based in Melbourne, Australia. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Agen Biomedical and Agenix Biopharmaceutical (Shanghai), the Company has a strategic goal of building and developing a line of therapeutic and imaging products, and this is evidenced by the company’s heavy investment in research and development as it seeks to develop new biopharmaceutical products appropriate for its market1. The company is listed in the Australian stock Exchange (ASX), having been listed in 1987. The company’s shares are also available the NASDAG.

Disclosure Index for Agenix Limited

Financial disclosure is the deliberate release of numerical or qualitative financial and non financial ...

Executive Summary

This dissertation deals with the disclosure obligations of the Charities in the UK in regards to the executive remuneration to the public and stakeholders. One of the means of disclosure is the annual report of the Charities also known as the Trustees’ Annual Report to be submitted to the Charities Commission which is the authority charged with the oversight of the charities in regard to their compliance with what is known as SORP. There were criticisms in the media about the excessive remuneration being paid to the CEOs of the leading charities in the UK. Therefore, this study gains ...

Abstract

This report includes the example of Deutsche bank in which the bank is accused of publishing a poor audit report with false figures and inadequate material to made analysis. The paper talks about the importance of the Risk, risk management, disclosure of the risk and the ways to disclose the corporate risk to decreases the impact of it.teh report includes the way through which the display of the information in the report affects the performance of the company. There are many ways through which good reporting can be achieved with even poor digits. The importance of the discloser in the ...

Intercultural Friendship

Introduction Scholars and academicians have paid little interest to intercultural friendships in spite of their obvious magnitude and regularity in the continuously expanding multicultural world. Intercultural friendships symbolize a close linkage between interpersonal and cultural dimensions of communication systems. The hardships involved in sorting them out might be one explanation why they attract so little interest from researchers. In recent times, it has become generally acknowledged that cultural diversity in the backgrounds of communicators contributes to differences in the patterns of communication behavior. This has made several researchers studying intercultural communication to make the assumption that it is a distinctive ...

The variables

Stress can occur to any human being. Stress is a normal psychological and physical reaction to the demands of life particularly to traumatic incidences. The process of induced abortion or natural is a stressful time for many women (Adler, N. E., David, H. P., Major, B. N., Roth, S. H., Russo, N. F., & Wyatt, G. E. 1990, p. 41). The stress can occur before and after abortion. In this study we are focusing only on post abortion stress. Women who undergo abortion natural or induced are likely to experience acute stress i.e. Acute stress originates from the demands and pressures of ...

Methods used to exempt classified, terrorism-related information from disclosure In Criminal prosecutions

Owing to the sensitive nature of terror related information the disclosure thereof is highly restricted. In determining which information to disclose or the extent of such disclosure, a balance is struck between the constitutional right to access to information and the need to restrict the access to information that may compromise national security. This is especially so with terror related information the disclosure of which might have far reaching consequences to the state. The government thus relies on several mechanisms to avoid disclosing such information.

One approach has been the trial of terror suspects through a specialized system. This system comprises ...

ABSTRACT

This study explores on the effects of the subprime financial crisis (SFC) on the United States (US) that lasted between 2007 and 2011. Key to understanding the foregoing requires further exploration of the history of subprime lending in the US and its implications to the SFC. A qualitative review of studies under the provided brief literature review provides the methodology for the accomplishment of this study. Findings show that apart from worldwide economic effects, the US greatly suffered from the collapse of its subprime lending market, the decline of financial institutions due to providing too much allowance to granting ...

Introduction

Medication errors are likely to exist until clinicians and nurses remain humans. The question is what medical staff and nurses should do in case medication error occurs. In this regard ethical and legal implications of disclosure and non-disclosure of the information concerning medication error are most often being discussed. Although vast majority of medical specialists consider it necessary to disclose medication errors to patients, in reality many doctors and nurses may prefer not to disclose this information, thus placing their own interests over the ones of the patient (Mazor, Reed, Yood, Fischer, Baril and Gurwitz, 2006, p.74). For the ...

How HIPAA Violation Affects the Medical Billing Process

HIPAA is a privacy policy that prevents patient’s health details while making sure that they are held confidential especially those of HIV/AIDS patients. HIPAA affects the billing process by keeping patients demographics updated and private. The medical billing process involves a follow up on insurance firms on patients who have insurance cover so as the medical cover can be paid. This process involves the hospital, the insurance, and a chain of process is undertaken. HIPAA sets a limit to the amount of information revealed to patient’s relatives while regulating individuals who can access patient’s sensitive medical details. A letter should ...

Even though the patient may not know an error was made during a prescription, it is not possible to predict the consequences of wrong treatments, so the error should be disclosed and the correct treatment needs to be implemented. Proper disclosure of medication errors to patients is always an ethical option, especially if the error is discovered early. That approach promotes patient safety, one of the key moral standards healthcare providers should follow. Furthermore, a study by Rathert and Phillips (2010) showed that full disclosure policies promote value-based ethics and create an ethical environment in which the staff demonstrates more commitment ...

Abstract

The use of affective technologies has been seen to be the solution to the development of intimate relationships between connected individuals in social networks. This will increase the way people interconnect. This development will give a way in which humans will eliminate loneliness and enhance the devices that can be used for connectedness. With this development, there will be optimized health and well-being of people because they are now able to communicate with one another. This proposal will focus on how automatic communications quantity communications have on perceived intimacy in environments which have been mediated. The research will take a quantitative ...

Business Security Posture

Business Security Posture

Communication and Question for the Security manager

In the last two decades, information and communication technology has been greatly used in most businesses, organizations, and institutions for different purposes. Daily activities and business operations are implemented using information communication technology. For this reason, security management has become one of the priorities in businesses. Security managers are tasked with the role of ensuring security of data, information, and other organizational resources (Fox, Henning, Farrell & Miller, 2006). The business security posture is the overall security plan, and the approach that the business takes to ensure security of data and information in the organization. It ...

Health research methods and ethics

Introduction Question A Chin and Lee (2008) explains that the ethical principle of respect for human participants in research studies involving human beings as the study subjects requires that the research participants be informed about the results of the study upon completion of the research. By doing so, the human subjects would feel respected and valued and not merely used or abused for the sake of achieving a particular medical objective. In application of the principle of respect, the ability of the individual to make own choices and decisions should be considered as Gallin and Ognibene (2012) corroborates. ...

Introduction

Entities of health care recognize revenue for which a little portion of the total amount is billable or billed or the final collection is not assured reasonably at the time the services are rendered. There have been concerns raised by the constituents that these kind of accounting practices lead to gross-up revenue for unexpected amounts to be collected in the end. To add to it, due to the fact that entities of health care make their own decisions as far as bad debts and adjustment to revenues is concerned, the decisions are different from one another and it is not ...

Health information refers to any personally identifiable information about a person’s health, medical records, and history of illness, treatments and examinations. A person’s health information is some of the most private information a person “owns.” Health information is unlike other personal information such as your credit card PIN. Health information is much more intimate and provides a comprehensive picture about an individual other than just the products they bought online. Unwanted disclosure of a person’s health information can lead to embarrassment, shame and ridicule. Public knowledge of your health information can also have an important impact on how people view ...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact on quality of the financial reporting before and after the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). ‘The purpose of financial statements is to deliver information about the financial situation, functioning and financial flexibility of a business that is valuable to an extensive variety of stakeholders in taking important financial decisions‘(Kwame and Manesh). In order for the investors to make vital invest decisions regarding the future of their business, immense importance is placed on the standard and quality of information available to them in the accounting genre. This is ...

IASB Discussion Paper for A New Conceptual Framework (July, 2013): A Review

Introduction In July, 2013, International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) released a discussion paper “A Review of the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting.” In 2011, IASB published an agenda discussion, and it received many feedbacks on the Conceptual Framework project (IFRS 2013). Based on the constituent feedback, IASB reinstated the project. The idea behind the Discussion Paper is to take views and comments into consideration while preparing the future exposure draft and doing the revision of the Conceptual Framework. The primary focus for IASB is to get a review on the areas that are known to have created application issues. Furthermore, ...

Question one. Were HIPAA regulations violated in each case

A) No. HIPAA regulations not violated. HIPAA allow disclosure of information to health practitioners for diagnosis and treatment purposes treatment purposes. B) No. HIPAA regulations not violated. HIPAA allow disclosure of information to health practitioners for diagnosis and treatment purposes treatment purposes. C) NO. HIPAA regulations not violated. HIPAA allow disclosure of information to health practitioners for diagnosis and treatment purposes treatment purposes. D No. HIPAA regulations not violated. HIPAA allow disclosure of information to health practitioners for diagnosis and treatment purposes treatment purposes. E) No. HIPAA regulations not violated. HIPAA allow disclosure of information ...

1. Describe what is being studied

The study is about the accuracy of social reporting by firms in the United States with a focus on the environmental performance reported in those social reports issued by firms with their annual reports. Specifically, the study seeks to evaluate the adequacy of environmental disclosures in social reports issued by corporate bodies in their annual reports for subjects with different backgrounds to form homogeneous perceptions of a firm’s environmental performance. The study also further seeks to examine the adequacy of environmental disclosures in annual reports of corporate bodies to objectively evaluate relative environmental performance among firms in the same ...

The article Fun with Numbers: Disclosing Risk to Individual Investors by Cristian Weller discusses the topic of investors’ awareness of the risks associated with various investment opportunities and the challenges related to quantifying those risks. The author claims that information is key to making better investment decisions that is why it is important for the governments and financial institutions to provide more relevant, accessible and concise information. Unfortunately, in the majority of cases it is impossible to achieve all the three characteristics of information quality, therefore the decisions made based on imprecise information can be inferior to those made ...

Chapter 7 – Listening (19 questions)

1. Percentage that listeners remember after hearing a message Right after hearing a message only about 50% of people remember the message. Within 8 hours the 50% drops to 35%, after 2 months only 25% remember the original message. (Page 241) 2. Listen more than any other type of communication 3. Questioning and paraphrasing These are two techniques that show a speaker the listener is attentive. They also help the listener make sure he/she understands what the speaker is trying to say. They need to be learned and practiced to do well.

Questioning on pages 249 and 250

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Introduction

Recently, the problem of corporate crime and ethical misconduct had seriously aggravated. More often ethical misconduct and non-compliance occurs in the field of environmental regulation, health care, securities law, and safety regulations. Nowadays whistleblowing is recognized as a tool of detection and prevention of malpractice and corruption. The motivations of whistleblowers are different including protection of human rights, fairly paly, disclosure of malpractices, human safety, and adherence to laws. Thank to whistleblowers, corruption practices are revealed. Meanwhile, whistleblowers often suffer from the disclosures they initiated because disclosure meets with resistance from the side of corrupted structures. Therefore, whistleblowers ...

Question 1

Are there possible criminal aspects of HIV/AIDS? Consider the case law presented in your textbook and elsewhere, and explain. Please provide specific examples.

The intentional spread of HIV is considered a criminal act. Pozgar (2012, p. 362) describes the case of an inmate who knew that he was infected with both HIV and the hepatitis virus. He was also informed of the ways that he can transmit the infection to others. He bit two correctional officers knowing that he can possibly infect them in this way. He was consequently charged with assault and battery. In State of Louisiana v. Schmidt, ...

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Jurisdiction: Public disclosure of private facts under the state of Michigan I. Alex Como has a legal basis for filing a case against Sarah Falinsky for invasion of privacy by Public Disclosure of Private Facts. Como has a legal basis for filing a case against Falinksy for invasion of privacy by public disclosure of private facts according to the privacy tort of public disclosure of private facts. This memo will now discuss whether Como’s claim is strong enough to charge Falinsky for invasion of privacy given the provisions stated under the elements of private facts. ...

How Has the Prevalence of Cell Phones Impacted Privacy of Adolescents in the U.S.

Abstract Smartphones evolved significantly over the past decades, turning from a simple communication device into complex interactive mechanisms, which enables socializing through the internet, use of education and information services, cameras, voice recording and other tools, which previously were available only on separate devices. One of the major concerns with regards to the smartphone usage among adolescents, today, is a question on privacy and many people are concerned that the smartphones place teenagers in danger due to excessive exposure of their private life. The reality shows, ...

Medical ethics refers to moral principles usually applied in the medical practice to ensure that professional, ethical, and religious concepts are utilized effectively among health care practitioners. Health care practitioners should use medical ethics during the analysis of medical cases. This is to make sure that physician’s or nurses’ professionalism is promoted while protecting the well being of the patients. The practice of medical ethics in the health care setting can be traced from the time of Hippocratic Oath and the first code of medical ethics in the 5th century. Over the years, physicians, lawyers, theorists and doctors ...

Self disclosure is a vital approach for remaining in touch with others. Through sharing information the intimacy in a relationship becomes more intense. The interpersonal relationship with my partner is also enhanced. I can certainly relate to the fact that quality communication is illustrated differently in different contexts. Form experience, I believe that most people misunderstand the sense of disclosure to mean presenting information to another. This perception is far from the meaning of the word especially in a relationship context. Self disclosure is in relationships must however be reciprocated. This is the only way that partners can learn how the ...

Introduction

The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) creates standards regarding Accounting in Australia. These include Interpretations that are applied by entities that prepare financial statements mandated by Corporations Act 2001; by the governments when planning financial statements; as well as entities within private or public sectors either for-profit or not-for-profit ventures that are involved as reporting entities or that prepare all-purpose financial statements. AASB integrate IFRSs1, as well as Interpretations, generated by the IASB2, with paragraph additions on the applicability of every Standard within the Australian setting, when appropriate. These Standards as well comprise obligations that are explicit to ...

Abstract

Several accounting principle have been put in place to ensure that the financial statement presented to users are free and fair. The principle of consistency ensures financial statements are prepared using the same principle year after year. Materiality concept ensures that only valuable information is included in financial statement. Principle of disclosure ensures that all valuable information is included in preparation of financial statement. Then the principle of conservatism makes sure that losses are recorded when foreseen while profits must be earned before recording. The fixed asset register keeps eye on all fixed assets of a firm. The assets ...

The importance of accounting analysis was emphasized in the Chapter 3. The authors stated that disclosures of the financial statements are made on the basement of accounting analysis. Also, they noted that understanding of accounting information collected helps use the financial information more effectively.

Chapter 3 of the book highlights three important concepts namely: factors influencing the quality of financial reports based on accounting analysis, the drivers of accounting choices, and incentives of the managers that should be considered when making the financial reports. According to Sarbanes-Oxley Act, CEO, CFO, Board of Directors ...

With the increased consumer awareness, organizational success is now more dependent on their actual and/or perceived commitment to socio-economic, environmental, and other aspects of sustainability. It is no longer acceptable as proper for organizations to thrive in isolation from the communities that are affected by such a firm’s actions. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an important way for firms to strike a balance between economic, environmental and social responsibilities in operations, which in turn ensures that they cater for the interests of all their stakeholder’s interests and expectations. CSR has different meanings and has varying definitions depending on every ...

Initial post: People, Planet and Profit Insight- discussion board initial post to questions

Introduction Sustainability report accounts for the non-financial information concerning a company and its operations. Sustainability reporting is a way that companies can disclose their sustainability initiatives to investors, the public, workers and all other stakeholders. The reports also help the company assess their operation impact on government, the environment and the community in general.

An informed investor is a good investor. Investors are becoming more aware of the need to seek as much extra information on a company as possible before investing in it. Sustainability information is becoming more relevant to stock prices. A company that runs environmentally and socially aware operations ...

The Home Depot is a business entity that takes part in the improvement of homes and retailing of construction products. The company also offers other construction services such as consultancy and delivery. The company has many stores in the United States of America. The stores exist in all the states of the country. In addition, the company runs stores in the provinces of Canada, and Mexico. The company’s headquarters are in Atlanta, where there is Support Center for all the company’s stores. The Home Depot has a good financial record. According to the commission of the United States ...

Response Letter # 2

Communication is an integral part of human interactions. For any healthy human to human relationship there exists reasonably good communication coupled with the appropriate interpersonal skills. The members must be able to exhibit a high level of communication and ability to socialize. It is possible that some people are naturally introverts and find it irritating when in situations where they cannot help interacting with other people. However, others fail to understand that they are introvert and think that they dislike them or have developed a negative attitude towards them. Some people are too introverted such that they find themselves saying ...

(Define the 4th, 5th, 6th ans 14th amendment of the united states constitution and cite at least one case as it relates to interview and interrogation. when you cite any case you need to give the details of the case or as much information that you feel is necessary for one to understand what occurred)

Introduction

In Tarasoff v. The Regents of the University of California [S.F. No. 23042, Supreme Court of California, July 1, 1976], a ‘wrongful death’ action was filed against the Regents of the University of California hospital psychotherapists and campus policemen. The victim’s parents testified that ...

Introduction

Having the knowledge and capability of introducing a newly engaged couple to the entire framework of interpersonal communication and providing them with the details so that they can maintain a healthy relationship is the core purpose of my letter. Interpersonal communication refers to the use of conversational skills from one person to another. The feedback and reaction to the message of the sender is necessary to ensure that successful interpersonal communication has taken place. In addition to this, it is highly significant to understand the ways through which effective communication takes place and to avert any kind of conflicts. In order ...

Michael Foucault was born in 1926 and died in 1984 victim of AIDs. Foucault was a philosopher and a historian of great repute. He was French and had been associated with structuralist and post-structuralist movements. Philosophy is not only the discipline, in which he prospered in; some of his discussions bordered on medical and social analysis. Philosophy has always been the questioning of the exiting knowledge. However, Foucault was part of the new philosophers whose criticism revolved around knowledge. Thus, Foucault preferred to critic in such a way that the knowing powers were challenged and it was necessary to acquire the necessary ...

Can we Talk? is an interesting article, mainly focussing on the importance of self-disclosure in personal relationships. It makes for interesting reading but while I agree on some of its points, I feel they are over-stated. I can certainly relate to the subject of self-disclosure in relationships. I have had relationships where the other person almost never spoke about themselves, and this always led to problems. The main difficulty was that without a growing knowledge of the other person, the relationship has little hope of ever developing into something meaningful and lasting.

I agree that self-disclosure is directly related ...

1.0 Domestic violence, PTSD and women

Research has proven that battering and violence in the families are major causes of post-traumatic stress disorders among the victims (PTSD). The problem of intimate patner violence has become a very widespread calamity in the world today. It involves physical or bodily assaults, emotional distress, and traumatizing responses by one patner to another.Women in particular, form the larger population of people experiencing domestic violence. This makes them to be most vulnerable to mental disorders that result from experiencing violence, and in particular PTSD. According to a study by Loring Jones, Margaret Ughes and Ulrike Unterstaller, battered women are great victims of ...

HIPPA and Electronic Health Information

Participants and beneficiaries in a group health plan have the rights to be protected. Health Insurance portability Act (HIPAA) ensures physicians protect the privacy and security of patient`s medical information (Jeffrey, & Geoffrey, 2008). This protection covers areas such as confidentiality of patient information, the integrity, and its availability. Healthcare organizations now practice this as a legal requirement despite just doing it as best practice for healthcare services As part of achieving HIPAA compliance, there are several processes adopted. The processes are adopted to cover the security management lifecycle and they help to identify gaps in an organization`s security ...

In their research paper, Bobkowski and Pearce analyze data to discuss how people share their religious beliefs on social networks. The data was gathered from 2007, when MySpace was still a popular social network and a lot of young adults and adolescents were a part of it, but data gathered from Facebook has the most significance because Facebook is currently the most popular social network in the world. The study also measured the quantity of self-disclosure online, and one of the hypotheses stated that people who have stronger religious beliefs and practice will engage in more religious disclosure online. Other hypotheses suggested ...

Personally, I agree with Terri Orbuch’s view on consistent quality communication in marriage. Through consistent quality communication, couples are provided a key to a good marriage. Couples should make a point to find quality time to communicate well with each other; consistent quality communication creates trust and respect. For couples, communication is sharing and thoroughly knowing each other well through the years of marriage. A quality communication is not obtained over night, instead a lifetime healthy marriage adjustments that result to harmony and understanding in a relationship. Happy marriage and self – disclosure is associated in quality communication between couples, the sharing of ...

Petronio’s Communication Privacy Management (CPM) Theory measures boundaries between disclosure and concealing of private information.

Most of the theories considered only one concrete aspect of communication while Petronio’s Theory balances the extent of disclosure and concealing. The main findings of this theory are: disclosed information may stay private if all parties agree as to the level of its confidentiality; the theory gives an explanation of how boundary rules can be established by parties involved in communication.

CPM intersects with other communication theories, such as Social Penetration Theory, Uncertainty Reduction Theory and Relational Dialectics relating different parts ...

Introduction

In the course of carrying out their duties, nurses and other medical personnel are often privy to private and confidential information about the patient. This information may be relayed to the nurse by the patient, or the nurse may accidently find out some information regarding the patient. A dilemma arises when it comes to determining which of this information can be shared with other people or even if it is ethical to share this information. These other people whom the information may be shared with include the patient’s friends, family members, public authorities like the police, fellow nurses ...

This Paper was prepared for_________ taught by___________

Introduction. Interpreting financial statements (FS) requires a thorough understanding of basic principles of accounting and reporting. This paper discusses such concepts as accounting equation and basic formats of FS, role of international financial reporting standards (IFRS), US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) and The U.S.Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC) in the reporting process. Principal financial concepts. US GAAP are a set of accounting standards used by US companies for financial reporting. They are introduced by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in compliance with SEC regulations and FASB mission of setting and improving principles of accounting and reporting which ...

Whistleblowing refers to the confidential disclosure by someone of any concern that has been encountered at the workplace. The concern normally relates to a perceived wrongdoing. Therefore, whistleblowing policy is extremely fundamental to an organization’s professional integrity. It reinforces the value that the organization places on its staff to be respected and honest members of their professions. This policy offers a method of appropriately addressing genuine concerns, which individuals within the organization might have. It also offers the whistleblower protection from harassment, disciplining proceedings or victimization. Without a doubt, whistleblowing is an imperative aspect of transparency and accountability since it enables ...

- INTRODUCTION: Kiichiro Toyoda founded Toyota Company in Japan in the year 1937. The Company is now a leader in automobile manufacturing in the industry world. It is in fact the largest manufacturer of vehicles in the world, with its operations functional in all parts of the world. The reach of Toyota products is existent in across 170 countries and is served by a dedicated global staff of over 300,000 employees worldwide. With the success of the first environment friendly vehicles like Prius and Hybrid Camry in the automobile industry, it has also established itself as a pioneer in automobile ...

Virgin Media provides services of digital cable, internet, telephone and mobile to residents in the United Kingdom. The statistics show that Virgin Media is the largest service provider in the UK. Studying the financial statements of the company, it has been noticed that the company owns property and equipment, goodwill and intangible assets which are subject to amortization. These are the most important fixed assets owned by the company. Other than these, the company holds current assets which include cash and cash equivalent, trade receivables, prepaid expenses and derivative instruments. The total assets show an increase in 2013 as ...

Campaign finance is used about the funds that are raised during campaigns to promote the activities of political parties, candidates or to support policies during referendums, elections or initiatives. Political campaigns involve very much expenditure that include the cost of traveling for staff and candidates, consulting, direct costs of communicating with the voters, campaign logistics, publicity and production of campaign materials. Campaign financing is different depending on the country. In the Great Britain, for example, television advertising is sponsored freely for all parties campaigning and can only be limited by law, whereas, in the United States of America, television ...

Security and exchange commission refer to a government commission that was created by the congress, in order to protect investors, and regulate the markets securities. Additionally, the security and exchange commission has a duty to monitor the corporate takeovers in the United States. The commission is made up of five commissioners that are appointed by the president of the United States. The senate of the United States approves the five commissioners. The positions of the commissioners expire each year. Among the commissioners, three should be from different political parties. The agency has six districts, and five regional offices in the United ...

AMR Corporation

- AMR Corporation is a conglomerate airline company incorporated in Delaware, October 1982. AMR’s principal subsidiary is American Airlines, founded in 1934. - The name of AMR’s external auditing firm was Ernst & Young LLP, Dallas Texas office. - The main reason for the bankruptcy filing was to restructure the debt and costs that had become a competitive disadvantage to AMR. Labor costs, volatile fuel prices, and economic uncertainty were the main drivers in this cost disadvantage. Furthermore, AMR’s competitors had previously filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to accomplish the same goals through restructuring. ...

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1. Agenda setting can be a top-down or bottom-up process. What direction do you believe is generally favored in the policymaking process? In the policymaking process, agenda setting could proceed in two directions – top-down and bottom-up. Before one could decide on the most favorable direction for agenda setting, it is noteworthy to lay out the differences between the two possible choices. Ultimately, policymakers would choose an agenda setting direction based on their policy preferences and management styles (Dye 32-44). The top-down approach to agenda setting involves the elite being the ...

In the case of Bart, he has the right to file claims against his employer Bill, Barney and Ruby for damages. In the case of Bill, he is liable under the doctrine of promissory estoppel known as “detrimental reliance” where an individual who has reasonably and substantially relied on the promise of another can acquire some measure of recovery (Miller, 2013, p. 173). The doctrine of promissory estoppel permits a party to recover a promise even if the same was made without any consideration in order to promote the interest of equity and justice by enforcing the contractual obligations. The purpose ...

Introduction

Internet or Web Security is a branch of Computer Networks Security concerned with the procedures and regulations taken to guard against internet intrusions and attacks. The web provides a channel of communication and exchanging of crucial information. Currently, the internet is the leading channel for doing business. However, it is also the most insecure channel for communicating such crucial information. ‘Companies and Internet Services Providers (ISP) have developed several schemes such as encryption to protecting internet users’ . Hackers have since been able to bypass these measures and continue to attack internet users.

Privacy issues are becoming a primary concern for internet users, ...

Nara Schoenberg’s (2011) article, Researcher Talks About the Role of Communication in Marriages, discusses the theory that couples are more likely to have a lasting and satisfying relationship if they have ten minutes of ‘self-disclosure’ on a daily basis. This entails the two people having quality conversation involving asking, and then answering, one question each. The questions should be of an open nature. As the article says: “You might ask your partner about his or her favorite book, best friend or dream vacation. Why doesn't he get along with his brother?” (Schoenberg, 2011). While it is likely that couples who ...

Introduction

Efficient manipulation of information is the key concept towards ensuring effectiveness in the organization operations and facilitating the organization to match up the present competitive nature of both local and global market. This therefore implies that the paradigm of strategic planning needs to change frequently in order support the new and emerging technologies in information technology and information systems. Strategic Information System planning (SISP) is always directed towards assisting the business enterprise or organization in the realization of its business goals and objectives through the identification of necessary portfolio and implementation of computer based application that will aid the ...