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Electronic Commerce and the Crash of the Dot.coms

the nation in thrall during the mid- to-late 1990s. But instead of looking back on the crash with regret, may experts today believ...

Issues and Future of the World Trade Organization

himself in 1999 at the WTO talks in Seattle, when he was quoted as saying that high labor standards should be mandatory for trade-...

Nietzsche's The Collapse of Western Metaphysics in the Areas of Reason, Morality, and Religion and Underground Man of Fyodor Dostoevsky

understandable given the conditions of the time. He opposed the rigid moral constraints of the time inflicted by the ruling bourg...

1919 to 1942's New World Order's Rise and Fall

powerhouses - Great Britain, France, and now the United States. Through the plan, the U.S. and Europe would dominate the global e...

Not by Bread Alone by Melissa Caldwell

the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...

The Bankruptcy of Enron and Auditing

between Enrons accounting statements and the fiscal reality of the institutions assets and obligations. One might view the major f...

WorldCom and Rising Auditing Standards

stock prices and other similar situations. When it is determined that an investigation should delve further into the busine...

MACULAN GROUP: CASE ANALYSIS

company tripled its number of employees and quadrupled its gross revenue. It increased these things through vertical integration -...

The Failure of Communism

been a great deal of speculation about communism and why it had failed. Russia is perhaps the most relevant example in this contex...

James Churchward and the Lost Continent of Mu

intellectual timidity or even of complicity in some elite plot against regular folks" (Rotella, 2007, p. 11). Pulp history retains...

Nationalizing Banks; The Fall out of the Credit Crunch

the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes" (Caprio, 2004). This is a view that appears...

Sociology, Psychology, and Foreign Policy

In five pages whether or not foreign policy is rooted in psychology and sociology is considered in terms of Bill Clinton's Bosnian...

DETERMINING ETHICS IN BUSINESS AND BANKING

of the Currency (OCC) had strict limits on how much credit could be issued to any particular customers, this wasnt a problem for P...

Currency Crises of Brazil and Argentina

than is available is not sustainable at the household level, neither is it sustainable at the macroeconomic level. Many of these ...

HIH FAILURE, THE ASX AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Talks about the role of corporate governance and the Australian Stock Exchange in HIH's failure and collapse. There are 12 sources...

Enron, the Contribution of Masculine Culture to its Downfall

the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...

The Virgin Islands - Trouble in Paradise

world, is suffering an economic downturn. This paper explores some of the issues facing the islanders. Discussion Part of the pro...

Analysis of Enron

days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...

Collapse of HIH Insurance Ltd. and the Effects on Small Businesses in Australia

only a week before it was completed. Chief executive Ray Williams raised the issue with board members over dinner, telling the gr...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

The Balkans

that have been conducive to even more terrorist activity. The twentieth century both began and ended with bloodshed in the ...

2 Trade Textbooks on Investment and Mathematics Reviewed

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

Soviet Union's Downfall and Reports by American Intelligence

drop in performance indicators, might strengthen conservative opposition. Such trends, coupled with the continuing nationality tu...

Accounting and Corporate Effects of Business Failures

in accountants and the way accounts were prepared was being shaken. The entire financial basis of the stock markets requires tha...

Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

The Purpose and Reason for the End of Communism

years. Why? "In 1961 the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, made a speech predicting...

Industrial Psychology; Explaining Enron

with several different players each able to avoid feeling personally responsible there was a lack of a real moral compass. ...

Is the Criticism Against Auditors Justified in the Light of Business Collapses such as Enron?

an explanation or the auditors may, in extreme cases, may not feel able to certify that accounts as true and accurate. The...

The Polish Free Elections and the Breakup of the USSR

control over the military.1 Thus, the nation faced dual rule, and was (and remains) in transition. This is relevant to our questio...

Post Apartheid South African Managerial Practices

In ten pages this research paper examines how South Africa's management practices after the apartheid collapse have changed. Nine...