Deloitte

Companies have been running their businesses by using assets, which ever assets are appropriate to generate some form of revenue. This revenue will in turn be used to pay for expenses may incur relating these assets and later used to purchase more assets therefore repeating the process. This cycle has been evident from the dawn on time and as time itself grew older assets would continue to evolve and change in characteristics. Assets can take in many different forms and shapes, which can be…

After years of steering clear of sexually explicit material in favor of the frisky but softer content favored by Hugh Hefner, Playboy has embraced hardcore pay-per-view programming and has launched the hard porn channels, Spice and Vivid. In the beginning the shift proved beneficial to Playboy as in 2001 the TV production had higher margins (26%) than the magazine ones (2%) and the television business made up 45% of the revenues (Business Week, 2002). Thus, Playboy decided to expand even further…

These agencies and their “varying rules and standards led to certain entities not being regulated at all, with others subject to less oversight than their peer financial firms organized under different charters” (Morrison & Foerster, 2010, p. 6). After the financial crisis, analysts pointed to the “many regulatory failures” and gaps in oversight as the reason unethical and illegal practices were overlooked or ignored (Madrick, 2010, para. 3). As a result, the provisions set out by…