Archive for March 18th, 2010
By Michelle Murdoch (European Representative)
Reading about the incidents of Toyota and how it has failed to maintain controls on the one reason why people buy the car - reliability, brings into a possible scenario worthy of the ACCA P1 paper.
RTTNews) - Akio Toyoda, the president of Toyota Motor Corp. (TM: News ), told a House panel Wednesday that the company's recent rapid expansion was partly at fault for quality failures that have led to the recall of millions of vehicles.
Toyoda,
March 18, 2010
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The role of audit must be re-examined by the accountancy profession, according to a leading industry voice.
Brendan Murtagh, president of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), said the full benefits of the audit - to businesses, the economy and society as a whole ? are often not being realised.
He said that while audit has "a key role to play" as a source of public confidence in financial reporting, it can also play a valuable role in establishing and maintaining busin
March 18, 2010
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Rozee.pk, Pakistan's biggest job portal so far is under malware attack. If you visit the website you will get this view.
Now why should the ACCA students be concerned. I think you should be as they are the official partner of ACCA for job portal. So far there is no update from the company about the problem. But the point of concern is the data that they held of ACCA students.
We will be waiting for comments from ACCA office and from Rozee.pk about this issue. Till then cross your fin
March 18, 2010
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via CNN When radio was invented in the late nineteenth century by the likes of Marconi, Edison, and Tesla, government and industry faced a conundrum. Who would own the limited band of electromagnetic frequencies that made this new invention possible? By the 1920s the decision was made that the public would own the airwaves, with the government leasing frequencies to companies that were required to follow certain rules. A century later this system isn't perfect, but it does bring us every day ev
March 18, 2010
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