Public finance

Subject: Explanation to stakeholders on how the company can effectively handle the issues created by negative news reports regarding the handling of fundraising dollars. The report I have prepared will explain how the Canadian Cancer Society came under fire regarding their 2011 budget and the allocation of funds totaling more than a million dollars. The Canadian Cancer Society had to do damage control by giving an in depth financial report showing where donated funds were being allocated. I…

WRITTEN QUESTIONS 1. IDENTIFY THE CURRENT STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS FOR TAX COMPLIANCE AND LIST AND CALCULATE THE TAX LIABILITIES FOR HOUZIT PTY LTD UNDER TAXATION LEGISLATION. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS a. Business Registration. Registering the business organisation will enable the company to register itself to the following in order to comply with the legal requirements set by the government to regulate business entities. • Tax File Number (TFN) • Australian Business Number (ABN) • Goods and…

Banks are an extremely important in today's society, they allow individuals to take out loans to pursue their dreams, safely store their money, and provide financial advisement to their customers. Contrary to the belief that “bigger is better,” community banks are able to provide additional worthwhile aspects that are not possible for larger bank corporations. Small locally owned banks such as Community State Bank know and care about their customers, provide loans that help the community…

FRA Co-Founder Gordon T. Long interviews Leland miller, the president of the china beige book international and discusses financial repression in the context of the Chinese economy. He describes himself as a Lifelong china watcher who decided to do something about the complete lack of data in china. “One of the things that the china beige book plans to do is to give people a real picture of not just the growth dynamics but also the labor market, the credit dynamics, the macro implications of…

change with the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, which was passed in the aftermath of a couple of high profile accounting scandals with executives from Enron and WorldCom swindling their investors out of millions of dollars. Sarbanes Oxley was sold to the public as a measure that would truly hold corrupt executives accountable, however that message hasn’t made its way to their ivory towers. Let’s put it this way, two years after Sarbanes Oxley went into effect, CFO Magazine conducted a survey of 179…

In the above extract, the vice president contemplates whether to use Alpha or Zeta as the construction company for a new building project. Information from the past suggests that using Alpha would result in lower construction costs and using Zeta would result in lower maintenance and energy costs in the long run. The conclusion is therefore drawn that Zeta would be the better option based on the current evidence, however further evidence would need to be furnished, in order to determine how apt…

Pamela Meyer is an American entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Calibrate and Simpatico Networks. Calibrate is a deception detection training company, while Simpatico Networks is a social networking company. She is also a certified fraud examiner meaning she is a professional in figuring out if someone is lying or not lying. More importantly, she is author of the book, “Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception.” Meyer also has a MBA from Harvard. The reason why Meyer wrote this…

QUESTIONS 1. Put yourself in Sue McCaskey's position and prepare a detailed report to Dan Block and Ed Spriggs on managing the inventory of the EG151 exhaust gasket and the DB032 drive belt. Be sure to present a proper inventors system and recognize all relevant costs. 2. By how much do your recommendations for these two items reduce annual cycle inventory, stock out, and ordering costs? Summary This case portrays the issues confronting Sue McCaskey, the new materials administrator of a…

Summary #2: “Baby Boomers: Every Silver Lining Has a Touch of Grey” In Paul Hyman’s essay, “Baby Boomers: Every Silver Lining Has a Touch of Grey,” the author analyzes the ways of managing money, monetary concerns and retirement contemplations of the children of postwar America in the U.S. As per a report by CNNMoney.com, a quarter of working class Americans is extremely negative about their investment funds and plan to defer their retirement until eighty years of age. Likewise examined is the…

to the customer for a product or service not yet ready for purchase. It may be years away from being ready for purchase. This is an investment by the customer for potential future gains by obtaining a technology that can add value to the customer. Along with the investment on future value of the technology that is not yet ready for purchase is the risk associated with the technology not meeting expectations. These risk are beyond the cost risk associated with commercialization. Cost risk being…