Internal Control Analysis

Publicly owned and operated businesses have always been flashed an evil eye of suspicion by many corners of society but the depth and breadth of the scrutiny now bestowed is not a higher pitch than ever, and for two major reasons. The first reason is that the blogosphere, social media and the Internet and general has made it much easier to share and disseminate salacious information as well as engage in legal malfeasance. The other reason is that there was a wave of scandals or other major situations in the last decade or so that rocked the corporate world to its core at the time, those being the tech bubble, the wave of corporate scandals that included Enron, Tyco and MCI WorldCom and then there was the aftermath of the global recession vis-a-vis the housing market and other businesses that either had to be bailed out (e.g....
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