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Financial statements have remained fairly stable in their appearance and content, however, wit increasing uses of technology the preparation and monitoring or measurement of the accuracy of these accounts is becoming more complex. In the US in 2002 more than $600 billion was though to be lost as a result of fraud, and in Europe it appears to be present in as many as 50% of major company failures. The use of data mining may be a way of increasing the potential to detect fraud in financial statements by trawling through the data that make up the accounts testing it. There are already tools used by auditors to test systems and data mining is a potential tool. This 17 paper presents a literature review and methodology that considers how the use of data mining may be tested to see if it is able to detect errors and the way it may be perceived by the accounting and auditing professions. The paper also includes a timetable for the study. The bibliography cites 16 sources.

This 30 page paper is an in-depth examination of FedEx and its financial performance. The paper begins with an overview of the history of the company, its key resources and the way accounting takes place. The second part of the paper looks at the financial accounting and performs an in-depth financial analysis looking at the performance of FedEx between the years 2003 and 2007. The third part of the paper examines Management accounting processes that take place in the company. The last part of the paper gives an overview of the operations and draws together the conclusions from the previous sections of the paper. The bibliography cites 20 sources.

A 3 page book review on George Packer’s text Assassin’s Gate. George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, describes himself as a “liberal hawk,” who initially supported the current invasion of Iraq. His take on the war, as voiced in his book Assassin’s Gate, offers his reader a biographical look at the war that focuses on Packer’s eyewitness account as a war correspondent, as the “bulk” of Packer’s text consists of his account of “what he saw in Iraq between July 2003 and January 2005.” As this suggests, because Packer is good journalist, this fact alone makes his account of the US war with Iraq significant. Packer uses his considerable journalistic skills to give his reader a sense of what the war looks like from an Iraqi perceptive. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 4 page research paper/essay that analyzes Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ” has an air of authenticity that is designed to enhance the illusion that the audience is watching a highly accurate dramatization of biblical accounts of Christ’s Passion. The writer argues that a close examination of the film reveals that there are numerous deviations from the gospel accounts. These deviations, while still in keeping, overall, with the biblical text, tend to promote a theological perspective on the Bible that is in keeping with traditional Catholicism. Collectively speaking, the differences between gospel accounts and Gibson’s film offer an interpretation to the Passion of Christ that is substantially altered, which means that film’s air of authenticity is inaccurate. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This is a 4 page paper discussing language and style used in passages from Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days” (1873) and Paul Theroux’s “The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia” (1977). A comparison of travel logs while in the city of Bombay as described in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days” (1873) and Paul Theroux’s “The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia” (1977) shows two different accounts in language, style and impressions. Verne’s central character Phileas Fogg is a formal 19th century English gentleman and his account reflects this. The language of the passage and the style show the rigidity of Fogg’s character through the use of effective similes and the fact that he passed through Bombay with indifference. Theroux’s account is vastly different in that he presents a somewhat more informal language and style in first person narrative and at times addresses the reader directly. However, his account of Bombay is so filled with emotions, impressions and comparisons that the reader is also left without an adequate travel description of the city. Each account is enjoyable for readers despite the vast difference in language and style and readers also learn a great deal about the writer’s intention and background. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

(5 pp). During the last presidential election, you could almost think that the internet 'e' in email stood for election. However that is only the surface of the picture, this discussion will look at the myriad of ways that the internet has effected politics in the United States, particularly in the last presidential election. Bibliography lists 8 sources

A 23 page overview of the practicality of introducing Japanese fashions into the Western market. A review of basic marketing premises is provided along with a short history of the evolution of Japanese clothing design. The author of this paper emphasizes that in order for such a venture to be successful a number of factors must be carefully assessed. These include the clothing preferences of both the very rich and influential and such components of the buying public as college students. A proposal is introduced for assessing these preferences using interviews and an e-mail based survey. Bibliography lists 16 sources.

This 20 page paper is covering the insurgence of computers in the workplace and the development of high technology monitoring devices and surveillance systems have changed the work environment in corporate America. In attempts to evaluate worker performance, reduce loss due to employee theft and the transfer of confidential or important company information and determine how corporate information systems equipment is being utilized, companies have begun to implement complex surveillance systems and pursued access to information stored on computer systems and information sent via e-mail. This 20 page paper considers the legal ramifications of these modifications, which often determine breeches in employee rights to privacy and also evaluates possible protocols for allowing for access to important information without violating employee rights. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 15 page research paper in which the writer discusses today's popular mass media (television, radio, & print) and assesses reasons why people tend to use each of them more than others. In doing so, this report inherently focuses its background attention upon the uses and gratifications approach -- offering proof that the theory is a valid one. Demographic data concerning media audiences is analyzed and the results of a small-scale survey conducted by the writer are discussed (copy of the survey questionnaire is provided). Several illustrative charts and graphs are included (if receiving by e-mail, you MUST be able to download file attachments in order to view these !) Bibliography lists 12 sources.

A 14 page paper discussing organizational communication. The problems of business communications today are the same as those in the past, the difference is there are now other 'disconnects' that can occur that were not even possible only a few years ago. While it has always been possible to miscommunicate thoughts and intent in a business letter, today we can do the same through email, and the same holds true for voice mail. Though there ostensibly are more opportunities to communicate well and effectively than at any other time, it appears that we are not rising to the occasion. The paper discusses conflict management and concludes that we also need regular interpersonal interaction so that we can communicate well through less personal means. Bibliography lists 12 sources.

3 pages in length. Communicating across town or across the globe has become as instantaneous as a few quick strokes of the keyboard. Even email has taken a second seat behind such instant messaging programs as ICQ - an acronym for "I seek you" - that provide on the spot transmission of text and photos in addition to chatting, playing games with others and actually seeing with whom one is doing all this by virtue of a video phone call. Made by Mirabilis, ICQ is furthering the ongoing pursuit of human and computer interconnection with free software that is both simple in format and extensive in options. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

4 pages in length. Technology is taking over the task of being human. With the sweeping array of technological advancements over the recent past, people have become conveniently left out of their own lives. Turkle's article in Forbes entitled "Can You Hear Me Now" is a study in the disappearing act of human nature: The more technology removes the need for person-to-person interaction, the more people are becoming less and less capable of interacting with each other or themselves. Indeed, today's myriad modes of communication - e-mail, cell phones, texting - are considered a vast improvement in the way people exchange ideas and transmit information, however, Turkle points out how these transmissions are accomplished in a sort of automated fashion without any emotionally tangible connection to the recipient - or themselves. As man works feverishly to isolate humanity from itself in the name of progress, he moves equally as fast in the direction that will replace this fleeting interaction with a falsified intimacy tailored toward the robotic machines that only once existed in science fiction stories. No bibliography.

3 pages in length. In light of the fact that technology has made at least some impact upon virtually every aspect of society, it is rather challenging to find a single entity that has remained untouched by what many consider to be its invasive presence. From computers to phones and medical procedures to appliances, there are truly few areas where technological advancement has left intact. One might even argue that electronic mail has changed the way in which people communicate in the twenty-first century, however, there is still a large contingent of people who believe email is a most impersonal and ill-conceived method for expressing oneself and therefore choose to remain loyal to the conventional use of pen, paper and the postal system. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page research paper/essay that addresses product placement in films or sitcoms. Companies spend millions of their advertising dollars in order for their products to be seen in films and television shows. AOL, for example, reportedly spent between $3 and $6 million to be featured as the online email provider in You’ve Got Mail (Giovani, 1999). This huge sum and the practice of product placement in general bring up several questions, such as whether or not this is an effective way for businesses to spend their advertising dollars. Additionally, there is also the question as to how product placement should be viewed from an artistic standpoint. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

8 pages in length. As the first of billions of emails flew through cyberspace nearly thirty years ago, the idea of computer security was not at the forefront of users' minds. In fact, the very notion of any threat inherent to the World Wide Web was so unheard of that even those who stood a great deal to lose from unauthorized entry were basically oblivious to the looming danger that would appear only years later. Today, computer security is the number one priority for anyone who uses the Internet, a reality born of unforeseen infiltration by those who seek to do great harm to the recipient of such an attack. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

4 pages in length. The tremendous impact computers have had upon today's global community represents the staggering progress contemporary society is experiencing. That business is conducted from opposite ends of the planet, people forge lifelong relationships without ever having met and employees work from the comfort and convenience of home via telecommuting speaks to the reality of what was once only far off aspirations. Indeed, the benefit of computers far outweighs the inherent drawbacks, however, those negative aspects are not so insignificant that they can be ignored; rather, the extent to which such concerns as email laws are necessary to address issues pertaining to personal privacy, unsolicited correspondence/advertisements and hacking. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

Brown v. Board of Education passed into law in 1954, Miranda v. Arizona in 1966, and the Warren court has been out of existence for decades. New laws passed in the U.S. include all kinds of dictatorial aspects including the issue of Homeland Security where the Privacy Act has usurped all rights to an individual’s privacy. This is similar to reasoning behind the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires public corporations to keep an electronic copy of every type of correspondence ever passing in or out of a company (including email and post it notes) so that a companies records are complete in case the company investigated by the Federal government. As this shows, statutory controls have gotten out of hand, not the least of which includes an ancient criminal justice system. 4 works cited. jvStatut.rtf

This is a 3 page paper which briefly discussed the selection of the proper e-mail application, computer system and phone system for the formation of an efficient Management Information System. The bibliography has 4 sources.

TARIJOBROOKS@EMAIL.MSN.COM The Small Pox Epidemic of 1721: Human Reactions and the Introduction of A 5 page account of the horrors of the small pox epidemic of the eighteenth century. Recounts the efforts of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston to inoculate Boston citizens using an innovative new technique. Contrasts his reactions to the epidemic with those of the general public who not only were terrified of the events which were unfolding but who also were suspicious of his efforts. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

5 pages in length. This exceptional research paper examines the nature and importance of a system of internal control within an organization. The detailed procedures adopted by an enterprise to control its operations are collectively termed its system of internal control. As a firm grows, management finds it necessary to delegate authority as well as to place more reliance on the accounting system in controlling operations. Activities such as motion and time study, quality control and statistical analysis are in a broad sense elements of internal control. The term internal check is used to refer to the portion of internal control related to the accounting system. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 10 page paper discussing the advantages and disadvantages of ACH, and comparing it to credit cards as a payment method. The last link in the value chain, and the one that continues to drive the process of buying and selling, is that of payment. All other aspects of buying and selling have easily adapted to electronic means, but that of payment has been the most difficult to convert to an electronic basis. ACH was originated in the 1970s primarily for insurance companies to be able to automatically deduct premium payments from insureds’ checking accounts, and has grown from that beginning to include automatic payment of utility bills and mortgages. Later, the ability to also automatically deposit funds into bank accounts also was developed. Financial institutions are investigating possible methods for making it more useful in Internet-based transactions. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

5 pages in length. Maryse Conde's "Land of Many Colors" and part II of "The Harp and the Shadow," by Alejo Carpentier, ponder the impossibility of telling everything when narrating the story of a person's life. When comparing why the story of these people must be told in each case, it is important to realize that not each and every individual detail is pertinent when telling one's life tale. Indeed, imagination and facts prove to influence the doctor's account of Berthe's and Antoine's lives, while Columbus' account of his own life also comes across just as peppered with a mixture of illusory and truth as he prepares to confess his sins. Inasmuch as these elements exist within the boundaries of both tales, the limitations that exist to influence the way each story is told are somehow both apparent and obscure at the same time. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

6 pages in length. There exist myriad influences that can prompt a person into sidestepping what is considered to be normal behavior. Susanna Kaysen's "Girl, Interrupted" strives to answer the long-standing and elusive question: What is normal? When Kaysen was eighteen years old, even then at such a young age she realized that she did not respond to conventional social cues as set down by societal dictates. Her literary account relives her eighteen months worth of sometimes harrowing and other times enlightening experiences, all put forth for the sole purpose of opening eyes and minds to the reality of mental illness. The writer discusses Kaysen's account, as well as draws parallels with Tamara L. Roleff's "Mental Illness (Opposing Viewpoints)" and Gerald Grob's "The Mad Among Us : A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill." Bibliography lists 8 sources.

Nursing, as a necessity, must address both patient and the health care system. Methodologies must also take into account other factors such as culture, ethnicity, race, socioeconomic background and educational attainment. Theories have evolved over the years to much more precisely take into account these considerations. Two such theories are proposed by D. Orem and Hildgard Peplau. While the specifics of these two theories differ on surface appearance, they are quite similar in their consideration of patient welfare as it relates to need and the ability of a nursing system to address that need. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 5 page review of the ethnographic account of fieldwork in medical anthropology. Working among malnourished children in West Africa Dettwyler experienced both professional and personal insight. Although sometimes criticized for her subjective approach to her subject, in reality Dettwyler provides both a a touching human account and a valuable ethnography. Her approach to death as "the ultimate illness", however, is one which is unfortunate. This paper points out that death is in fact a natural component of life. To view death as an ultimate illness is to regard death, a phase which we must all pass through, as a personal and medical failure. No additional sources are listed.