The need for professional skepticism in auditing is increasingly in vogue, including the use of forensic audit procedures. What is sometimes less touted is the need for professional skepticism by auditors and preparers in reviewing and responding to The need for professional skepticism in auditing...
Enron Creditors Express Skepticism About Proposed Sale of Trading Arm to UBS Enron Creditors Express Skepticism About Proposed Sale of Trading Arm to UBS
From the beginning, skepticism abounded in the petroleum industry when Priceline.com announced that its licensee, Priceline WebHouse Club, would offer name-your-own-price gasoline and groceries over the Internet. On Oct. 5, that skepticism became rea From the beginning, skepticism abounded in the petroleum industry when Priceline.com...
DETROIT--Apr. 14--Chrysler Corp. stock drifted lower Thursday amid a big drop in first-quarter earnings and growing skepticism of Las Vegas casino mogul Kirk Kerkorian's proposed takeover of the automaker. DETROIT--Apr. 14--Chrysler Corp. stock drifted lower Thursday amid a big drop in first-quarter earnings and growing skepticism...
FCC Chairman Reed Hundt last week greeted the NAB children's TV study with skepticism. The survey of broadcasters found that the industry airs more than four weekly hours of education children's television fare, a jump of more than 100% over 1990 fig FCC Chairman Reed Hundt...
The headlines are all about "the deal.'' Developer Larry Silverstein and architect-visionary Daniel Libeskind have agreed on a plan on how to design the first and most important office building for the World Trade Center site. Mr. Silverstein wi The headlines are all about "the deal.''...
TheInfoPro TIP, an independentresearch network and leading supplier of market intelligence for theInformation Technology IT industry, today announced that by 2010,providers of blade servers will see a huge turnaround in a market that'scurrently stagnant and that has witnessed a steady softening in demand overthe past year. According to...
Food-distribution company J&D Refrigerated Services this week moved into 23,000 square feet of refrigerated dry storage space in the Heleco Distribution Center in the Sellwood area, representing the latest lease for a building once considered a tough sell. The company's lease will keep it in the building...
When introducing new software onto theircorporate servers and workstations, it's only natural for IT professionalsand system administrators to be skeptical... and rightfully so. For manyof them, keeping the network up and running smoothly with minimal problemsis their number one concern. To buy into the hype of a software company'smarketing...
In its AIDS Vaccine Blueprint 2008, IAVI proposes a series of interim milestones to help overcome the biggest challenges facing the AIDS vaccine field today MEXICO CITY -- With the release of its AIDS Vaccine Blueprint 2008 at the International AIDS Conference today in Mexico City, the International...
Report: Hundreds of Studies Show that Programs to Curb Unsafe Sex and Drug Use are Highly Effective, but Often Overlooked in Global AIDS Response MEXICO CITY, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- In a new report released today, an international panel of AIDS experts calls on global leaders to...
Leroy Richmond survived the anthrax attacks of 2001. Richmond, 64, worked in the Washington, D.C., postal facility that processed mail for Congress, including an anthrax-tainted letter mailed to Tom Daschle, D-S.D., then the Senate's majority leader. Almost seven years later, Richmond reacted cautiously Sunday to the...
Elder Dallin H. Oaks of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Quorum of the Twelve Friday instructed members to be skeptical when reading media stories about church history. Elder Oaks, who spoke at the Amasa Mason Lyman exposition in Salt Lake City's Grant Stake Center,...
MEXICO CITY --This weekend, thousands of Mexicans will line up at theaters to see The Knight of the Night, Super Agent 86 and The End of Time. Never heard of them? Those are the literal translations of the Spanish titles given to The Dark Knight, Get...
By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL MANHATTAN -- Dozens of business, government and academic leaders converged Thursday to tamp down criticism from a handful of people questioning proposed construction of a federal lab at Kansas State University to study the planet's most infectious animal viruses....
By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL MANHATTAN -- Dozens of business, government and academic leaders converged Thursday to tamp down criticism from a handful of people questioning proposed construction of a federal lab at Kansas State University to study the planet's most infectious animal viruses....
When Sony introduced the PlayStation 3 back in November 2006 (yes, it has been that long already) many, including myself, were skeptical of the Japanese electronic giant's business decision. The highest price ($599) for any console since the early '90s Neo Geo, an underwhelming list of initial games, and...
While the artificial turf industry trumpeted a Consumer Product Safety Commission report Wednesday that children are "not at risk" from lead in its products, a U.S. congresswoman expressed skepticism about the report and said she intends to continue reviewing the CPSC's examination. AstroTurf's marketers said they were "pleasantly...
LONDON -- Although mobile operators are increasingly optimistic about femtocells, there are many doubts circulating around this new technology as it struggles to resolve key challenges such as functionality and cost. These low-power radio systems, known as femtocells, plug into a residential broadband connection and enable mobile subscribers to use...
ALL OF THE grandiose plans developers have proposed for Philadelphia must be viewed with a great deal of skepticism. For years, we read and read about the development of Penn's Landing, and it never came to pass. Why? The funding wasn't there. Those who provide the capital know the...
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