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Corporate Finance and the Financial Environment In a beauty contest for companies, the winner is . . . General Electric. 11 Or at least General Electric is the most admired company in America, according to Fortune magazine’s annual survey. The other top ten finalists are Cisco Systems, WalMart Stores, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, Home Depot, Berkshire Hathaway, Charles Schwab, Intel, and Dell Computer. What do these companies have that separates them from the rest of the pack?…

architecture: an approach to Risk Management in IT projects Abstract l In order to handle the growing complexities of software systems and increase the maturity of the development process through the minimization of risks and uncertainties, the Risk Management has been presented as an important subject in the software and TI Management industry and academy. An adequate risk management can result in product quality improvement as well as increase the productivity of the software…

Law and Peace: Contracts and the Success of the Danish Dairy Cooperatives Ingrid Henriksen, Morten Hviid, and Paul Sharp Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 26, DK-1353 Copenhagen K., Denmark Tel.: +45 35 32 30 01 – Fax: +45 35 32 30 00 http://www.econ.ku.dk ISSN: 1601-2461 (E) Law and peace: Contracts and the success of the Danish dairy cooperatives1 Ingrid Henriksen

a wonderful job at supplying the underlying motives and theory as well as the critical ‘in practice’ elements that many books lack. It spans all types of M&A and restructuring transactions and covers all the relevant knowledge from the academic research to the practical legal, accounting, and regulatory details. The book is up-to-date and teaches the state of the art techniques used today. The book contains numerous cases and spreadsheet support that enable the reader to put into…

governança corporativa. É patrocinada por cindo das principais associações de classe de profissionais ligados á área financeira nos Estados Unidos, a saber: AIPA4 , AAA5, FEI6, IAA7, IMA8”. “Em julho de 1992, o COSO publicou o relatório Integrated Framework, ou COSO I, atualizado em julho de 1994, o qual apresenta uma serie de ferramentas que permitem avaliar o sistema de controles internos de uma entidade”. (CARMONA; PEREIRA; SANTOS, 2010 p. 65). A figura abaixo mostra o modelo COSO I:…

difficult to prove the terms of a verbal contract, in case of a violation, this kind of contract is juridically valid. A famous example of violation of a verbal contract occurred in the decade of 1990, when the actress Kim Basinger refused to honour her promise to be in the movie of Jennifer Lynch “Boxing Helena”. At the court it was attributed to the productors $8 million of damage, that Kim Basinger had to pay; the actress appealed about the decision and later on, the case was solved…

This article is based on a chapter from the book "Becoming Agile", www.manning.com/smith, to be published February 2009. It is being reproduced here by permission from Manning Publications. Manning early access books and ebooks are sold exclusively through Manning. Visit the book's page for more information. A few months ago I was contacted by a friend with a problem. The year was coming to an end and he had let a compliance project slip through the cracks. The compliance deadline was…

reservas de capital e a outros itens. Palavras-chave: Risco operacional. Gestão do risco operacional. Basileia II. The analysis of the managing process of operational risks in a financial institution Abstract All companies, including financial institutions, are subject to many types of risks, including operational risk. This happens when there are losses deriving from failures in the systems, 1 2 3 Mestre em Administração (Gestão Empresarial) Centro Universitário Euro-Americano,…

ICoFCS 2012 PROCEEDING OF THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORENSIC COMPUTER SCIENCE Print ISBN 978-85-65069-08-3 ICoFCS 2012 PROCEEDING OF THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON By ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE ESPECIALISTAS EM ALTA TECNOLOGIA - ABEAT FORENSIC COMPUTER SCIENCE 1st Edition Brasília, DF Abeat 2012 Proceeding of the Seventh International Conference on Forensic Computer Science – ICoFCS 2012 ABEAT (ed.) – Brasília, Brazil, 2012, 82 pp. –…

Transdisciplinary Science of Prevention Anthony Biglan1 The principle of selection by consequences is critical to the analysis of a broad range of phenomena in the biological and behavioral sciences from the evolution of species to the selection of cultural practices. This paper reviews the role of that principle in diverse areas of the biobehavioral sciences and discusses how it can provide one dimension along which the diverse disciplines relevant to the prevention of problems…