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Insurance plays a key role in the financial industry, and it is also of great importance for people's socio-economic life. Therefore, in this paper, we demonstrate on the problem of analyzing the operating performance of insurance companies, and it is crucial for modern financial industry development. Firstly, we design an index system for evaluating operating performance of insurance companies, which...
The author focuses on the issue of IT security for micro enterprises, specifically enterprises carrying out manual work considering German law and industrial requirements, with the aim of developing a self-implemented IT security assessment designed to identify threats and aid in increasing their security level. This is necessary because micro-enterprises contributing to the national economy have...
The authors of the article analyze the current situation in Russia in the area of foreign direct investment encouragement and capabilities of private consulting firms to facilitate encouragement of FDI, acting as an intermediary between investors and companies that require project financing.
In this practical experience report we discuss a court case in which one of the authors was expert witness. This UK civil case considered possible fraud in an online product promotion competition, with participants being denied prizes because they were considered to have cheated. The discussion in this paper aims to provide a practice-led perspective on the link between technology and legal issues...
The EU's GDPR is expected to come into force on May 25, 2018. By this regulation, it will be possible to enforce even stronger legislation than the existing Directive. In particular, GDPR is expected to have a major impact on IoT industry, which uses diverse and vast amounts of personal information. This paper first examines why the IoT industry is affected by GDPR. Then, the paper describes how the...
Over the past years, we have been studying the topic of automated metadata extraction from legal texts. While our research has been motivated primarily by RE problems, we have observed that the interdisciplinarity of the research on legal metadata, and indeed on several other topics considered by the RELAW community, has the potential to trigger innovation beyond the traditional RE. In particular,...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become an indispensable part for people in their daily lives. Accessing to the Internet through computers, mobile phones, and tablets has becoming easier each passing day. Developments in Information Technologies (IT) provide easiness of cost, speed, sustainability and time to continue their existence in the sector and provide their services for...
The article explains the relationship and interdependence of advanced marketing and a systematic approach in the development of public-private partnerships. Approaches to the formulation and solution of problems based on public-private partnerships. The main directions of improvement and the basic characteristics of public-private partnerships from the standpoint of advanced marketing. The necessity...
China Petroleum enterprise overseas merger and acquisition is an important means to achieve overseas market expansion. Overseas mergers and acquisitions have great potential, but there are also unpredictable risks. Successful overseas merger and acquisition depends on how to identify, evaluate and control all kinds of risk that exist in the process of M& A. From the cultural perspective, China...
This paper is bringing some questions and several possible paths for future fiber optic networks development in Romania, in a country with a lot of fiber optic cables and experts on fiber optics but on contrary with less new types of solutions for fiber optic networks or next generation networks.
All along, the Big Four accounting firms are considered to provide a uniform and high standard of audit services, but whether it is as it claims to offer a unified and a high standard audit service, few scholars study this regard. China's capital market is the existence of a dual policy environment, which would provide a special policy context for our research. Based on this, we use the year of 2000–2012...
This paper investigates the influence of internal control on executive pay-performance sensitivity in public welfare SOE and commercial SOE in China by empirical study. Finally, we find that the implementation of internal control can not improve executive pay-performance sensitivity in all kinds of SOE, which means the reform of state-owned enterprises in China can not be the same mode. We need to...
At the 6th RAST conference in 2013 I have examined the legal regulations concerning the space mining. Two years later; on 25th of November 2015 the U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act; which gives the U.S. companies and citizens the right to own and sell natural resources that they mine from space. Following that Government of Luxembourg...
This study relate the audit firms characteristics and the audit quality. Using data from the Portuguese listed companies from the period 2010 to 2014 and using as a proxy of audit quality the type of audit report, the conclusion is that the dimension of the audit firm and the audit fees on the total audit firm's fee influences the audit quality. This study contributes to the literature by studying...
The main objective of this quantitative — relational work is to analyze the variation of the profitability according to the sources of financing of the Medium — sized Enterprises of Ecuador (MESE). In order to carry out this study, financial information of 168 companies of the province of Loja, obtained from the database of the Superintendence of Companies of Ecuador, is taken into account. As a period...
Network Neutrality is essential for ensuring a level playing field for the development of new applications and services on the Internet. Laws and rules alone might not be enough to protect innovation, fair competition and consumer's freedom of choice online. The research community has the responsibility to propose solutions that reveal discriminatory traffic management mechanisms on the Internet....
Several areas associated with intellectual asset management (IAM) that should to be considered prior to the launch of a product are described in detail. Specific emphasis is given to integrating an intellectual property strategy with product development and quality processes; developing competitive intelligence in order to determine freedom to operate; controlling external disclosures to maintain...
Nowadays, with deployment of Cloud Computing and its facilities, many users are absorbed in it. People are not satisfied with Cloud's Security and they are afraid to migrate to Cloud environment. We propose a new protocol that allows users to share their data securely on an insecure cloud servers. Our new protocol assures users that their data and information will stay secure. We focused on sharing...
Financial fraud and money laundering represent an important concern both nationally and worldwide due to the huge amounts of monetary losses they imply. Besides human inspection, Data Science (DS) has proved so far to be a useful tool in order to fight these activities by automatic means. Nevertheless, this approach to the problem is still in early stages, thus yielding plenty of field to be explored...
Increasing regulatory requirements in the personal data protection arena creates new challenges for global companies generating value for businesses and their customers when designing and deploying responsive data privacy and compliance programs, achieving comprehensive compliance with the laws, and maintaining principles in corporate governance regarding conducting business ethically, sustainably,...
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