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  2. Accounts payable - Wikipedia

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    A variety of checks against abuse are usually present to prevent embezzlement by accounts payable personnel. Separation of duties is a common control. In countries where cheques payment are common nearly all companies have a junior employee process and print a cheque and a senior employee review and sign the cheque.

  3. CDK Global - Wikipedia

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    The company has its origins as the Dealer Services division of Automatic Data Processing (), which was formed in 1973 after ADP acquired National Inventory Control System, Portland OR (NICS) and Computer System Inc., Cincinnati, OH (CSI) providing computerized Accounting, Financial Reporting, Sales Analysis, Lease Accounting, Parts Inventory Control, Customer Relations, Management Systems for ...

  4. Public Access Scheme - Wikipedia

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    However, since the expense of using a solicitor can potentially defeat the 'cost-saving' purpose of the Public Access Scheme, consumers have the option of using a provider of Public Access Legal Support service (PALS), which is a specialised paralegal resource catering to barristers and clients who work together within the framework of the ...

  5. Block grant - Wikipedia

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    A block grant in the United States is a grant-in-aid of a specified amount from the federal government of the United States to individual states and local governments to help support various broad purpose programs, such as law enforcement, social services, public health, and community development.

  6. Random-access machine - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, random-access machine (RAM or RA-machine) is a model of computation that describes an abstract machine in the general class of register machines.The RA-machine is very similar to the counter machine but with the added capability of 'indirect addressing' of its registers.

  7. Instructions per second - Wikipedia

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    Gibson divided computer instructions into 12 classes, based on the IBM 704 architecture, adding a 13th class to account for indexing time. Weights were primarily based on analysis of seven scientific programs run on the 704, with a small contribution from some IBM 650 programs.

  8. Solera Holdings - Wikipedia

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    In April 2006, Solera and private equity firm GTCR announced the completion of their acquisition of the Claims Services Group of Automatic Data Processing (NYSE: ADP) for $975 million in cash. Solera acquired operating companies that employ over 2,000 associates in 31 countries in the deal and generated over $410 million in annual revenue from ...

  9. Ross Perot - Wikipedia

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    Ross Perot was born in Texarkana, Texas in 1930, the son of Lula May (née Ray) and Gabriel Ross Perot, [3] a commodity broker specializing in cotton contracts. [4] [5] He had an older brother, Gabriel Perot Jr., who died as a toddler. [6]