Muldoon (2001) notes that business writing is not always done as well as it should be. She argues that good business writing should be "brief, organized, accurate and conclusive." However, others in the field see the problem of what business writing should be as more complex. Davies and Birbill (2000) note that we may be wrong to assume that people can learn all they need to know about business writing

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Business Law When most people think of securities fraud and corporate misconduct, they will often associate Enron to these ideas. This is because it went from being the tenth largest company in America to one the biggest bankruptcies in U.S. history. On surface, everything appeared to be fine. Until it was disclosed, that the firm was running out of cash and the executive officers were unloading their stock. (Eichenwald, 2005) This raised

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