Group auditing: Tiger pride enterprises
Case study - 9 pages - Accounting
Conventionally, in auditing, a component is a business activity for which the group or component management provides financial information to be included in the financial statements of the group. Group financial statements refer to the combined aggregated financial statements of the components...
Vinten's summation : Ethics and Corporate governance issues
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
The aim of this paper is to provide a critical discussion of Vinten's summation of the whistle-blowing that “For one thing the whistle-blowing path is not easy, and the bee-sting phenomenon may often apply. One has only one sting to use, and by using it, may well kill off one's...
Trust online and the opinion of former consumers
Dissertation - 72 pages - Economy general
This study examines the issue of trust and the influence of the opinion of former users in electronic commerce. The lack of trust is the main reason why people are still reluctant to purchase online. Lack of trust is due to many reasons in online business, no physical contact, risk of theft of...
E-banking and Canara Bank
Case study - 56 pages - Finance
The banking sector is the lifeline of any modern economy. It is one of the important financial pillars of the financial system, which plays a vital role in the success/failure of an economy. Banks are one of the oldest financial intermediaries in the financial system. They play an important role...
The secret behind the success of Michelin Tyres
Case study - 13 pages - Business strategy
Michelin has been the market leader for tyres. Michelin equips vehicles like cars, motorcycles, aircrafts, etc. with tyres. Michelin also brings solutions for each different usage of tyres, which allows the vehicle to give optimum performance. The company constantly innovates in order to...
What are the reasons for the Meetic's success?
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
We cannot deny that Meetic has been a great success; it is the most popular European online dating service with a turnover of 115 millions euros in 2007. The most used dating website in Europe has as its main competitor is the internationally reputed company, Match.com. The launch of this type of...
Competition between European football clubs
Dissertation - 37 pages - Management
In Europe, the economic competition is as fierce as the sporting competitions that engage among the professional football clubs, and this fight is somewhat uneven between very large European professional clubs and other smaller clubs. How can we explain the differences in competitiveness between...
The Ethical Issues Surrounding the Compensation of Architects
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Architecture
Over the course of the last decade, organizations in the United States have been faced with balancing financial needs and ethical considerations. In many cases, organizations must consider what practices can be utilized to help maintain a healthy ethical climate in the organization while still...
Data Mining and Warehousing and its Impact on Banking Organizations
Essay - 5 pages - Computer science
Over the course of the last several years, the development and proliferation of information technology has impacted most industries. As the result of new technology, organizations are now able to collect and analyze data for the development and implementation of new products and services. Nowhere...
Electoral emendation: Changing the college that chooses our commander-in-chief
Essay - 11 pages - Political science
Stewart is an elector representing the state of Vermont in the Electoral College for the election of the president. The popular vote has been tallied and it is time to finally elect the president. The results for Vermont's popular vote tells Stew that he is supposed to vote for Blaine Darvy,...
Medicare Prescription Drug act of 2003: Its implications to the US Health Care Systems
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The Medicare Prescription Drug Act of 2003 introduces one of the most innovative additions to the present Medicare Law. It has been hailed as one of the truly heartfelt laws to come along. It now attempts to cover outpatient prescription drugs. The present law covers drugs received by inpatients...
Salvadoran political history from 1932 until 1979
Essay - 19 pages - Modern history
The outbreak of the Salvadoran civil war at the end of the 1970's and its continuation throughout the following decade, had an immensely detrimental impact on the society as a whole. While the crimes perpetrated by all relevant actors have been well documented in the annals of history, it is...
Tajikistan: Battling corruption
Thesis - 12 pages - Political science
Tajikistan is a landlocked country in Southwest Asia surrounded by Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and China. The country is a republic headed by President Emomali Rakhmonov and Prime Minister Oquil Oqilov. There are currently NATO forces operating out of Tajikistan in support of the war in...
Feminism and criminology
Thesis - 10 pages - Psychology
The application of feminism to the field of criminology can be quite uncommon; indeed, in criminology it is men who supply the essential “standard case”. Until recently, criminology has been primarily focused on men and crime with little reference to women. Feminist criminology...
Internet banking
Thesis - 24 pages - Finance
This project deals with the origin of Internet and the World Wide Web. It also emphasizes on the development of e-commerce and with it the development of Internet banking. We have seen how traditional banking was done and how the Internet has revolutionized banking. We have also dealt with the...
Foreign direct investment: India
Thesis - 29 pages - Economy general
Developing countries, emerging economies and countries in transition increasingly see foreign direct investment (FDI) as a source of economic development, modernization and employment generation, and have liberalized their FDI regimes to attract investment. The overall benefits of FDI for...
Systems audit: Bombay Stock Exchange
Case study - 36 pages - Finance
Indian capital markets have witnessed radical transformation during the short period of a decade. There is hardly any country in the world which has witnessed such massive changes in its capital market during such a short period. During the early part of the 1990s, ranking of the Indian capital...
Marine insurance
Dissertation - 33 pages - Finance
The beginning of the insurance business is traced to the city of London. It started with the marine business. Marine traders, who used to gather at Lloyd's coffee house in London, agreed to share losses to goods during transportation by ship. The first insurance policy was issued in England in...
Cash management services
Thesis - 19 pages - Finance
With the growing pressure on interest spread, banks are focusing their attention on the 'fee based' Services. The exponential growth in IT and Communications has helped banks in developing and delivering customer friendly products in the areas of Collections and Payments. As we are all...
The Enron Affair
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
In just 15 years, Enron grew to become the 7th largest US Company, employing 21,000 people in more than 40 countries across the US, UK, Asia. Enron had transformed itself from a local natural gas company into a swashbuckling energy trader. Enron established new methods of trading in energy, using...
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Essay - 2 pages - Finance
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is one of the most important pieces of legislation affecting corporate governance and the practice of public accounting since the US securities laws of the early 1930s. The Act is relatively recent in the history of American accountancy. It was signed into law on 30 July...
Strategic analysis of "Yahoo!"
Case study - 20 pages - Management
There are more Yahoo! Mail users around the world than two times the population of Mexico” (Yahoo! Website, 2008). One cannot deny the success of Yahoo! over the last decade. However, the reason why Yahoo! is catching a lot of media attention today does not lie in its success but more on...
The banking risk management
Dissertation - 36 pages - Finance
The risk of diversification is a basic precept of the banking activity. A big part of the large banking failures was due, in a way or another, to a concentration of the credit risk. The banking controlling authorities have, at all times, strongly encouraged the banks placed under their...
International Accounting and Finance
Essay - 6 pages - Accounting
Since 2005, companies listed in the European stock exchange have to present their financial statements in accordance with the International Accounting Standards (IAS), rather than comply with their national reporting standards. According to the European Parliament, the creation of such standards...
Electronic Commerce and the Purchase Behavior of a French Consumer
Dissertation - 99 pages - Economy general
The purchase behavior of an individual can be broken down into several stages, which are determined by the purchasing individual, the product and the purchase situation. When the consumption pattern is weak, the perceived risk will be high. e-commerce also falls under the same framework. The...
Governance and management of income: an empirical study in the Tunisian context
Dissertation - 49 pages - Accounting
Through this research, one can define the concepts and theories of management results in the first chapter. In the second chapter, it will address the impact of governance mechanisms on the management statement. Finally, it will address this problem through an empirical study in the Tunisian...
Fintech: Between Synergy and Power Struggle in the Banking and Financial Sector
Dissertation - 38 pages - Business strategy
This thesis examines the future of fintech integration within a complex financial ecosystem. It explores the impact that these have and will have in the future on the market. Through a literature review divided into three research questions combined with a qualitative approach, we will try to...
SWOT Analysis - eBay
Case study - 5 pages - E-commerce
Electronic commerce has not only taken a considerable place in the lives of consumers but also in those of businesses. In fact, in order to gain the loyalty of a clientele that is increasingly free to choose and, therefore, demanding, the latter have been forced to adapt and also to offer online...
Improving the Tunisian financial market by adopting the international reference frame in terms of reporting with the aid of IAS/IFRS
Dissertation - 45 pages - Finance
The deterioration of the reputation of major players in financial markets (banking, insurance, financial institutions) has created a crisis of confidence without precedent with lasting consequences for all economic actors today and they are difficult to measure. In this context of high...
Human augmentation and its impacts on society
Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies
Within this paper, the implications or reasons for supporting human augmentation are discussed. Facts are presented about our current technology that allow for human augmentation, as well as hypothetical reasons why people are for or against future technologies that can make human augmentation...
