Underground Economy in the European Union: Moonlighting
Essay - 24 pages - Economy general
The black market, also known as the underground economy, has a substantial arsenal of words to describe it: black economy, illegal economy, unreported, unrecorded, ghost, invisible economy etc. Undeclared work also falls into the category of underground economy. This consists of different...
Free speech in the USA
Financial analysis - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the United States is a signatory, both establish the right of people to freedom of expression. This right includes the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information...
Case of Vasiliy Gorshkov and Alexey Ivanov
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
There have been reports of computer crimes of late in the news and the surprising realization is that children are becoming criminal masterminds online. There are readily available hacker tools that can be used by unskilled people to wreak havoc for financial gain or just for fun. The disturbing...
A critique of the connection between gender and crime
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Official statistics show that overall males commit or, are charged with, more crimes than females (Scottish Prison Service, 2002). However it has also been shown, that in certain areas of criminality such as theft and fraud, female offence rates seem to be rising faster than males....
Advantages (benefits) and disadvantages (risks and demerits) of online shopping
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
Internet has become a part of our everyday life over the last decade. It has opened new horizons for the companies and the people as online shopping and auctions are experiencing a remarkable success. According to Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine (2000) the total turnover of online sales in...
Fiduciary duty and tracing law
Case study - 5 pages - International law
Yardley was employed as wages and personnel manager for BALIOL between 1994 and 2007. One of his jobs each month was to prepare for payday when the staff was paid in cash on the last day of the month. He would cash the check at the LBSC and sort the cash into brown envelopes for each of the...
Corporate Compliance Plan
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Business ethics and social responsibility affects customers, businesses, shareholders, and the reputation of the organization. A business that is dishonest can cause harm or even send an individual to jail. Several forms of doing business are through sole proprietorship, partnership, and...
Money laundering
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), money laundering annually represents more than 600 billion dollars worldwide. Criminal activities like drug trafficking, arms smuggling or prostitution rings also generate very high profits. However, the money earned illegally is of little use...
Capital markets and systems
Essay - 14 pages - International economy
Capital markets and systems: The capital market is the market for securities where companies and the government can raise long-term funds. The capital market includes the stock market and the bond market. Financial regulators, such as the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission, and Financial...
The Threat of Identity Theft in Direct Marketing - publié le 31/05/2010
Essay - 4 pages - Clients and users behaviour
Identity theft is rampant, especially now that the present technology is capable of producing us the ways by which we could infringe upon the privacy of another. The victims of identity theft are the customers whose personal information is obtained. The Direct Marketing community is also in the...
Human cloud systems
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The United Kingdom government has brought in a new system that was labelled ‘The Universal Credit project'. This is a welfare project that that has been introduced in 2013 aimed to target the individuals who are looking for work and those under jobs that have low income. The universal credit...
The threat of identity theft in direct marketing
Essay - 4 pages - Services marketing
Identity theft is rampant, especially now that the present technology is capable of producing us the ways by which we could infringe upon the privacy of another. The victims of identity theft are the customers whose personal information is obtained. The Direct Marketing community is also in the...
Roadblocks, Forces and Reform in Egyptian Politics
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
The 2005 elections deemed to be promising for Egypt. Hosni Mubarak had himself claimed to come “out of my full conviction of the need to consolidate efforts for more freedom and democracy.” The “reform” agenda had been initiated by the President himself, beginning with his...
What role does civil society play in democratization?
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
With the progressive end of the Cold War in the 1980's and the fall of the Eastern Block coincided the multiplication of the number of countries adopting a democratic form of government, an event described as the “third wave” of democratization by Samuel Huntington in his eponymous 1991...
Criminal justice trends evaluation
Case study - 4 pages - Administrative law
E-scams, child pornography, identity theft, cyber stalking and bullying, spamming, Malware, fraud, and computer hacking are types of internet crimes. These crimes are certainly on the rise. The general public relies heavily on technology, resorting to pen and paper is just so primitive;...
"Freakonomics" of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (2OO5)
Thesis - 13 pages - Economy general
Unlike the corporation that attempts to describe the living world as we would prefer, the economy seeks to describe the actual working based on incentive mechanisms. This field of study is not limited to businesses, unemployment and growth: it can provide an analytical model for virtually all...
The importance of operational risk in banking and how it is allowed for the Basel capital accords
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
Risks in banking sector are related to a number of unpredictable events that one cannot forecast which could cause huge consequences on the activity of a bank. Hence, its ability and its expertise in managing those risks is a major challenge for the sector and its sustainability. Here are the...
Importance or otherwise for multinational enterprises of developing codes of ethics - published: 16/01/2009
Essay - 10 pages - Business strategy
According to Milton Friedman, there is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. He advanced this view in 1962. With the...
Importance or otherwise for multinational enterprises of developing codes of ethics
Essay - 8 pages - Business strategy
According to Milton Friedman, there is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. He advanced this view in 1962. With the...
Health insurance and how it works
Thesis - 21 pages - Finance
Insurance is vital to a free enterprise economy. It protects society from the consequences of financial loss from death, accidents, sicknesses, damage to property, and injury caused to others. The person seeking to transfer risk, the insured ( policyholder ), pays a relatively small amount, the...
The Halal Market
Case study - 9 pages - Distribution marketing
In Islam there are precepts that certain foods are permitted (Halal), others forbidden (Haram). Pork and alcohol are Haram, because they are regarded as unclean. From these precepts is born a consumer described as "Halal". For Muslim consumers, beef must be certified Halal, it means that the...
Cyber crime
Presentation - 20 pages - Other law subjects
Cyber crime refers to anything done in the cyber space with a criminal intent. These could be either the criminal activities in the conventional sense or could be activities, newly evolved with the growth of the new medium. Cyber crime includes acts such as hacking, uploading obscene content on...
Financial Analysis of Vivint Smart Home
Financial analysis - 1 pages - Finance
Vivint Smart Home is a company that operates in the United States and specializes in smart home and security systems. There are several indicators to assess the audit risk related to the likelihood of misrepresentation, possibly due to fraud or earnings management.
A vision of great teaching and learning in the communal studies
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The learners should be given guidelines of how and what they should do during the assessment. They should be aware in the event that there are any penalties given in case of fraud work done. These guidelines should make them know what is expected of them during the assessment process as...
Brain finger-printing
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, Inc. has developed and patented EEG/P300 based testing systems that determines, with extremely high accuracy, whether or not specific information is stored in a person's memory. The test measures individual brain-wave responses to relevant words, pictures or...
Article analysis
Case study - 2 pages - Administrative law
A cybercrime is “the unauthorized use of computer technology to manipulate critical user data” (Oak, n.d., para 1). Cybercrimes are not victimless offenses and are similar to crimes that take place in the physical world. Cybercrimes include spamming, hacking, credit fraud,...
Best Buy: Management at its best
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
Best Buy is a Minnesota based company that started as the Sound of Music with gross sales of $173,000 in 1967 and grew to about $40-billion in under 40 years. With over 660 stores spanning Canada and the United States and 128,000 employees company wide, Best Buy (trading name: BBY) was named the...
Legalization of Marijuana
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Public policy includes the decisions and actions that governments take in order to address certain public issues and problems. These policies are made in accordance within the set legal government guidelines, regulations, procedures using public resources. One of the issues and problems that...
Global Partners LP's financial statements
Financial analysis - 1 pages - Finance
This task evaluate Global Partners LP's financial statements to determine the likelihood of misrepresentation, which could be in the form of fraud or earnings management. Global Partners LP is an energy supply company established in 1933 and known for its operations focused on...
UN Peacekeeping in East Timor: Achieving Stability through Collective Security (1997-2006)
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Modern history
Discover how the United Nations successfully maintained peace in East Timor under Kofi Annan's leadership from 1997 to 2006. Through a multi-faceted approach, the UN ensured stability, democracy, and justice by supporting local administrative structures, establishing a national police force,...
