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  2. Statement on Auditing Standards No. 99: Consideration of Fraud

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    SAS 99 defines fraud as an intentional act that results in a material misstatement in financial statements. There are two types of fraud considered: misstatements arising from fraudulent financial reporting (e.g. falsification of accounting records) and misstatements arising from misappropriation of assets (e.g. theft of assets or fraudulent expenditures).

  3. Title 15 of the United States Code - Wikipedia

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    15 U.S.C. ch. 95—Microenterprise Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Program; 15 U.S.C. ch. 96—Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce; 15 U.S.C. ch. 97—Women's Business Enterprise Development; 15 U.S.C. ch. 98—Public Company Accounting Reform and Corporate Responsibility, also known as the "Sarbanes–Oxley Act"

  4. Joint-stock company - Wikipedia

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    One of the oldest known stock certificates, issued by the VOC chamber of Enkhuizen, dated 9 Sep 1606 [6] Finding the earliest joint-stock company is a matter of definition. An early form of joint-stock company was the medieval commenda , although it was usually employed for a single commercial expedition.

  5. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    The model was built on understanding the relationship between personality and academic behaviour. [9] It was defined by several independent sets of researchers who analysed words describing people's behaviour. [8] These researchers first studied relationships between many words related to personality traits.

  6. Red-figure pottery - Wikipedia

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    Procession of men, kylix by the Triptolemos Painter, circa 480 BC. Paris: Louvre The wedding of Thetis, pyxis by the Wedding Painter, circa 470/460 BC. Paris: Louvre. Red-figure pottery (Ancient Greek: ἐρυθρόμορφα, romanized: erythrómorpha) is a style of ancient Greek pottery in which the background of the pottery is painted black while the figures and details are left in the ...

  7. Emergent virus - Wikipedia

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    Different bat species. While bats are essential members of many ecosystems, [24] they are also frequently implicated as frequent sources of emerging virus infections. [25] Their immune systems have evolved in such a way as to suppress any inflammatory response to viral infections, thereby allowing them to become tolerant hosts for evolving viruses, and consequently provide major reservoirs of ...

  8. John B. Watson - Wikipedia

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    John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. [2] Watson advanced this change in the psychological discipline through his 1913 address at Columbia University , titled Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It ...

  9. Frederick Soddy - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Soddy FRS [1] (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions.