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ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING EDUCATION Vol. 18, No. 2 May 2003 pp. 137ñ173 The Tallahassee BeanCounters: A Problem-Based Learning Case in Forensic Auditing Cindy Durtschi ABSTRACT: You are auditing the books of the Tallahassee BeanCounters (TBC), a minor league baseball team in Tallahassee, Florida. During your audit the teamís owner, Franklin Kennedy, approaches you and offers an additional fee if you will quietly investigate the possibility of fraud within the firm. Mr. Kennedy reports that he received

“The greater a firm‟s ownership extends over successive stages of the value chain for its product, the greater the degree of vertical integration” (Grant, 2010, pp354). The consumer electronics industry value chain is depicted below: Thus a firm can be said to be vertically integrated if it owns and operates each of these stages of the value chain. The consumer electronics industry has many players who produce goods for purposes such as entertainment, communication and work. There are many determinants

Warren Buffett: Investment Genius or Statistical Anomaly? John Price1 School of Mathematics University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia and Edward Kelly School of Business Studies University of Dublin, Trinity College Ireland Keynote paper presented to the First International Workshop on Intelligent Finance: A Convergence of Mathematical Finance with Technical and Fundamental Analysis (December 13-14, 2004, Melbourne, Australia). Abstract Warren Buffett has been Chairman and CEO of

nike – Management Report B00222492 Degree Programme 2011 Module School of Engineering and Science University of the West of Scotland December 2011 Contents Page Page 1 Front cover Page 2 Contents page Page 4 1.0 Introduction Page 5 2.0 Organisation Structure 2.1 Brief History 2.2 Sources of revenue streams 2.3 Recent Developments 2.4 Presents Standing Page 8 3.0 SWOT Analysis 3.1 Strengths 3.2 Weakness 3.3 Opportunities

Nike CSR Corporate social responsibility can be defined as the "economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary expectations that society has of organisations at a given point in time" (Carroll and Buchholtz 2003, p. 36). The concept of corporate social responsibility means that organizations have moral, ethical, and philanthropic responsibilities in addition to their responsibilities to earn a fair return for investors and comply with the law. A traditional view of the corporation suggests that its

Chapter I The Problem and Its Background A.Background of the Study Child labour is a worldwide problem regardless of the economic status of a country. This social phenomenon continues to exist both in developed and developing countries. The Philippines as one of Newly Industrializing Countries, also encounters the same (C. Diaz, personal communication, December 7, 2009). Child labour is rampant in this country due to poverty. It deprives basic right to education and health (Philippine Star

Company Description Stryker is a global medical device manufacturing company. The Instruments Division is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was founded by Dr. Homer Stryker, an orthopedic surgeon. Dr. Stryker discovered that certain medical devices were not meeting his patient’s needs. Because of this, Dr. Stryker decided to invent new ones. The devices he invented were successful, and the interest in Dr. Stryker’s products began to grow. As a result, in 1941 he decided to start a company to produce

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 2.0 Role of internal control 2 2.1 Management: 2 2.2 Board of Directors: 3 2.3 Auditors: 3 2.4 Staff and junior managers 4 3.0 NEW RULES OF INTERNAL CONTROL 4 4.0 THE GOOD AND THE BAD 10 5.0 RECOMMENDATIONS 12 6.0 REFERENCES 14 1.0 INTRODUCTION Internal control is defined as a process affected by an organization 's structure, work and authority flows, people and management information systems, designed to help the organization