Essays on Barnier

Introduction

Dittner & Rule (2011) describe virtualization as a methodology or framework of dividing the computer hardware’s resources into several execution environments, by utilizing the concepts or technologies, for example, complete or partial machine simulation, software and hardware partitioning, and time-sharing, among others. Virtualization is, thus, an abstraction of the resources of a computer hardware. As a software technology, virtualization facilitates the running of several operating systems on the similar server simultaneously (Cartwright, Mills, Langone, & Leibovici, 2014). In the contemporary information technology, there exist different forms of virtualization. The present paper delves into two of these forms, namely, server virtualization ...

EU audit reform (December 2013)

Introduction The European Union’s (EU) internal markets commissioner, Michel Barnier, signed the December 2013 EU audit reform into law. On December 17, 2013, EU member states and the European parliament came into a preliminary agreement about the new regulation on audit. The compromised texts were endorsed by COREPER in December 18, 2013. On that same date, commissioner Barnier welcomed the agreement reached between the two bodies on the reform of the audit sector. He claimed that the agreement formed the first step towards increasing audit quality and attracting more investors, which was an essential ingredient for economic growth ...

Louis Vuitton is a French company that operates in the fashion industry. The company has over the years been referred to as LV in shorter form and was founded in the year 1854 (De Barnier & Valette, 2013). It is commonly known for a variety of products that includes jewelry, truck, shoes, books, sunglasses, accessories and leather products. It is considered among the leading world leading fashion house that sells its products through various stand alone boutiques or even lease departments through am electronic commerce platform. For the last six years, the company has been named by various agencies as the most ...