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International Accounting Convergence; IFRS and US GAAP

rely on information flow and also trust. Annual accounts are a major tool used by potential investors to assess an investment. Alt...

MIS at Merck

is that of product information. This process may lead to increased value in the company. The idea is that the ability to...

Plea Bargaining

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Using PrOACT

moving onto the objectives, looking at the alternatives and considering the consequences and the trade offs. In this paper we will...

An Argument for a National Identification Card

what those horrors represented. This complacency is perhaps one of our greatest weaknesses. We must remind ourselves and those t...

The Spanish University System

of liberalising in the nineteenth century (Vizcarro and Y?niz, 2004). The liberalisation led to the system, of public university s...

Nursing Economics/ Fiscal Realities

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

Push 1 For English - The Automated Telephone Response

a representative, push [another number that is not always 0]" What happens when you get to a real live person? You have to tell th...

Mergers; Electrolux with Lehel and the Creation of BAE Systems

are as good could be imported into the rest of Europe. The immediate issue in the late 1980s early 1990s was not an immediate dang...

Future Trends in Employee Motivation and Compensation within the Military

in the areas of experiences (inputs), activities (processes) and rewards (outputs) in a global context" (p. 613), but their primar...

Canadian Healthcare System

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

Health Care - United States vs Canada

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Creating a Fitness Center Information System

communicates bilaterally with the parent organizations financial, quality, human resources and other common area departments. Its...

Technology at Shell

look at the role of technology here before looking at some more practical application of technology in the company. In th...

Expense Payment System

additional checks create a system where systematic fraud is more difficult. This gives the company a good level of control over th...

Creating the Fitness Center Information System

state-of-the-art treatment in various areas of health care, its information system for its fitness center is woefully lacking from...

Cost Accounting System for an Online Business

online business unit. Management Information and Control Systems The broad framework of MIC systems includes a variety of s...

The Potential of a New Information System; GIS Case Study

whose job it is to prepare the quotations based ion the paperwork that the advisers send them. If we look at the information syste...

Prospective Payment Systems

(Moore, 2006, p. 10). The result is that this practice is losing so much money on Medicaid patients that they are beginning to res...

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

are required under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and the Pollution Prevention Act to report annually to E...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Information Management at Amazon.com

In 1995, it was a given that anyone purchasing goods from an online retailer would need to supply a credit card in order to comple...

Creating Value with ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

companies have a greater level of control, and as such we can start to see why there is the added value and knowledge is values as...

Parliament or President?

Parliamentary government evolved in Great Britain, and "is today practiced in most of Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, India, and ma...

Information Systems; A Case of Two Airlines

information that can be used to enhance the service. The airline did not tie up the incoming and outgoing passenger information an...

Australia and Medicare

the poorest communities, in terms of income level, have the lowest standard of health: a group which practises low-risk behaviours...

U.S. Healthcare System and Important Institutional or Structural Changes

of the consumer and using appropriate marketing strategies can hospital executives ensure greater customer satisfaction and repeat...

How to Use Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)

The role of soft systems modelling is to enable there to be a system that can consider the less tangible aspects of any situation ...