Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

Internet access availability for their students. Left uncorrected, the digital divide could lead to a society of information haves, computer literate and skilled, versus a large group of information have-nots, computer illiterate and unskilled. Public interest groups want to narrow this digital divide by making digital information services—including the Internet—available to virtually everyone, just as basic telephone service is now. H e a l t h R i s k s : R S I , C V S , a n d Te c h n…

What is Agency Theory? The agency theory is an assumption that explicates a relationship between principals and representatives or agents in the business. Agency theory is conducted to solve problems in the firm or any business activities by mutual understanding between two or more groups or parties when exists any problem from agency relationship due to unaligned goals or varies aversion levels to hazard (Jensen and Meckling, 1976) In addition, Agency theory discourses problems which rise in…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…