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A Fuller Picture of Special Services: A Critique of the Big Four

Tom Spencer

The recognition is definitely not baseless. A more significant underlying issue, which we learned about the hard way during the 2008 Great Recession with regards to credit rating agencies, is that we cannot reasonably expect auditors to disclose truly problematic discrepancies in bookkeeping against their own paying clientele.

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The Importance of Perspective

CaseInterview.com

It’s an insight that I shared with a few thousand CEOs during the 2008 to 2009 Great Recession. Here’s what I said: The problem is your definitional concept of the word “competitor.” This is why interviewers value “insights” in the case interview. Insights are simply bite-size chunks of perspective. What do we do? doing nothing).”.

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Successful Project Delivery in Aerospace and Defense: Success Criteria

Epicflow

Project Success Criteria: Definition and Importance. First off, let’s clear up the definition of project success criteria: they are “the standards by which the project will be judged at the end to decide whether or not it has been successful in the eyes of the stakeholders” [1]. The Definitive Guide to Project Success Criteria. .

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Business Book Review: Start-Up Nation

Management Consulted

In fact, in 2007-2008, Israel received the highest amount of venture funding per capita, which is more than any other nation in the world. In 2008, per capita venture capital investments in Israel were 2.5 eBay bought the company for $169M in January of 2008. QUICK REVIEW. or most other places in the world.

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Creating a Risk Register: All You Need to Know

Epicflow

Risk Register: Definition and Purpose . Similarly to work breakdown structure, it’s a hierarchical representation of risk sources, where each descending level provides an increasingly detailed definition of project risk sources. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2008—Asia Pacific, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Consultant Ninja: When "hedging" is just speculation (part 2.

Consultant Ninja

2) United appears to have done minimal hedging through 2006 & 2007, only launching on a massive hedging action in 2008. Perhaps Im garbling the definitions of hedge & speculate, but I can state on more firm ground that UAL launching a fuel hedging program in 2008 was pretty stupid. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 1:52 PM.

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The Importance of Perspective

CaseInterview.com

It’s an insight that I shared with a few thousand CEOs during the 2008 to 2009 Great Recession. Here’s what I said: The problem is your definitional concept of the word “competitor.” This is why interviewers value “insights” in the case interview. Insights are simply bite-size chunks of perspective. What do we do? doing nothing).”.