Mar 03
Pleading ignorance, shifting blame and moral justification, among the six rationalizations identified by new Queen’s School of Business research
KINGSTON, ON, March 1, 2011 – Although most people would consider themselves ethical, it turns out that we are all very capable of committing fraud according to new research from Queen’s School of Business. The three factors that must first be in place are opportunity, motivation and the ability to rationalize our actions.
“Not all fraudsters are bad people, but it’s a slippery slope when any of the elements of the ‘fraud triangle’ are in place that may push them to do something they otherwise would not have,” says Pamela Murphy, Professor of Accounting at Queen’s School of Business. “Rationalization
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Mar 03
6 days from today I’ll be launching the biggest product I’ve put together in the past two years and I absolutely can’t wait.
The Create A Profitable Online Store program is a complete step by step course on how to build a thriving eCommerce business. The course will teach you in excruciating detail
- How to pick a profitable niche to pursue
- How to source your products
- How to set up your store in the cheapest and easiest way possible
- How to attract a large mass of targeted customers who will purchase your products
The course is chock-full of resources to help you build a profitable online business including comprehensive course materials, worksheets, checklists, questionnaires and more. In ad
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Mar 02
As small business owners and solo-technology is wonderful tool for us to run our business with little effort (of the house if you want) to automate many tedious tasks and allows to reach thousands of people in our market. However, I often see people slow down because of the technology:
• Fear of technology and learning skills they need
• fear of starting something out there on the Internet, unless they are convinced that it is perfect.
• the inability to safety in the event of major technical problem is to create,
If you click on every email you send your list, each Web page that you have set up dying, every tweet or social media message that you send to try if it is perfect? Or av
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Feb 25
LITTLE COMPTON – In an effort to sell the 35-year-old Sakonnet Vineyards, its owners have reduced its price to $8.9 million and launched a national marketing campaign.
Vineyard owner Earl Samson told Providence Business News he and his wife, Susan, have decided it is time to retire after 23 years of running the business they purchased in 1987.
The couple, in their 70s, initially listed the business, vineyard and adjoining coastal land in May 2010 for $10.5 million, hoping to sell the 170-acre property quietly.
But Samson said no buyer emerged and the owners decided to reduce the price and step up advertising. O
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Feb 24
The UK division of IT services supplier Logica saw revenue fall by 5% to £709 million in 2010, thanks in part to the government’s IT spending.
The company’s UK CEO Craig Boundy insists, however, that 2011 has got off to a “great start”, pointing to the £157 million deal with the Serious Organised Crime Agency, on which Logica is the lead contractor.
Overall, Logica nudged revenues up by 1% year-on-year to £3.7 billion for the financial year on a pro forma basis (i.e. applying 2010′s exchange rates to 2009′s revenue). Profit before tax rose by 150% from £40 million to £193 million.
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