Protection of Third Parties in Change of Marital Regime
Essay - 6 pages - Family law
The regulation of change in marital regime ensures protection of third parties through legal measures and recourse against modification.
"Understanding the Legal Conditions and Nullities of Marriage Under French Civil Law"
Course material - 9 pages - Civil law
Unlock the Essentials of Marriage Law: Understand Your Rights and Obligations. Discover the intricacies of civil and religious marriages, the importance of consent, and the conditions that govern a valid union. Learn about the role of the civil officer, the requirements for birth certificates,...
Distinguishing Swindling and Breach of Trust
Essay - 4 pages - Criminal law
This document clarifies the differences between swindling and breach of trust, two crimes against property that are often confused due to their similarities.
Geopolitics media entry - Panama Papers
Case study - 2 pages - Medias
Through the two articles retrieved from Le Monde and The Huffington Post, we can analyse the recent scandal of the Panama Papers seen in two different ways issued from an anonymous leak. The two articles took very different points of view on the Panama Papers Leak which occurred at the beginning...
Bank Liability for Forged Checks
Law case - 6 pages - Bank law
The Court of Cassation rules on a bank's liability for paying forged checks, examining whether a client's negligence can exonerate the bank from liability.
Tax Agent Responsibilities
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Government finance
A tax agent's role involves managing income tax declarations, handling tax disputes, and recovering unpaid taxes, ensuring compliance with tax regulations.
The growing impact of operational risks and its application to banks
Course material - 70 pages - Finance
Since their implementation in the banks in January 2007, operational risks are considered a main point of the strategy of banks. Operational risks are defined as “the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external events1.” The...
SWOT Analysis - PayPal
Case study - 5 pages - Digital & e-marketing
Online payment services have expanded considerably in recent years. Indeed, with the rise of electronic commerce, consumers and businesses alike are constantly looking for secure means to carry out their transactions, especially in a world where competition is very high and where fraud on...
From Ponzi to Madoff : same causes, same effects ?
Essay - 11 pages - Finance
Ponzi mechanism is a very simple pyramidal model that ensures unrealistically high and constant returns to its customers. How come? Early customers are paid off with the cash from new customers, attracted by the satisfaction of the old customers, and so forth until the chain collapses. Ponzi...
The growing impact of operational risks and its application to banks - published: 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 70 pages - Finance
Since their implementation in the banks in January 2007, operational risks are considered a main point of the strategy of banks. Operational risks are defined as “the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external events1.” The...
Critically analyse the decision in the House of Lords' decision in the American Accord
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
The globalisation of trade brings with it greater risks than internal trade, with the differences in business practices, application of local law, combined with external political factors . The four main risks applicable when dealing with global trade are foreign law and the ambiguity of what...
Data mining in financial crime detection
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
In this paper, we have discussed different financial crimes that are seen today i.e credit card fraud, card not present fraud, Loan default, Bank Fraud, Money Laundering, Insurance crime etc. Then we have discussed how data mining becomes helpful for detection of these types...
Corporate compliance report: Sarbanes-Oxley and the COSO initiative
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
With recent incidents of fraud and inside trading, the business world has gained renewed interest and emphasis on corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Organizations have taken more serious measures to establish enterprise risk management plans to avert, identify, and manage...
Auditing a bank
Case study - 37 pages - Finance
Various people such as owners, shareholders, investors, creditors, lenders, government etc. uses the final account of a business concern for different purposes. All these users need to be sure that the final accounts prepared by the management are reliable. An auditor is an independent expert who...
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act - publié le 12/04/2008
Essay - 3 pages - Management
On July 30, 2002, President Bush signed into law a revolutionary Act: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act. In the wake of many financial scandals, this law establishes new accounting and control requirements on U.S. publicly owned...
Enron: the story of a symbolic financial scandal - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
The death of Kenneth Lay last spring and the recent 24-year sentence of Jeffrey Skilling have put an end to the darkest story of modern finance: the Enron case. Actually, this firm turned from a success model into a paradigm of all the problems of finance capitalism. With the giving up of the...
Computer Forensics Laboratory and Computer Investigations Training
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
Computer forensics refers to the use of a computer expert program to collect, interpret, preserve, analyze and produce data from either volatile or non-volatile media storage devices. It is a branch of digital forensic science that is related to examining digital media in a forensic manner with...
Enron: the story of a symbolic financial scandal
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
The death of Kenneth Lay last spring and the recent 24-year sentence of Jeffrey Skilling have put an end to the darkest story of modern finance: the Enron case. Actually, this firm turned from a success model into a paradigm of all the problems of finance capitalism. With the giving up of the...
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act - published: 16/01/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
On July 30, 2002, President Bush signed into law a revolutionary Act: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act. In the wake of many financial scandals, this law establishes new accounting and control requirements on U.S. publicly owned...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 - 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...
