Complete the Module 6 Discussion Forum

In November 24, 2014, Netflix filed a lawsuit against its former vice president of IT operations, Mike Kail, alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, and other charges. Here is an excerpt from the lawsuit filing in Superior Court of the State of California, Santa Clara County:.

“…During his tenure at Netflix, including as Netflix’s Vice President of Information Technology Operations, Kail was a trusted senior-level Netflix employee.  Kail’s job responsibilities at Netflix included negotiating and executing contracts on behalf of Netflix to acquire IT-related products and services…approving invoices for payments that third parties would request related to IT products and services purchased by Netflix….after Kail approved such invoices, Netflix would pay the third parties for these approved invoices. Kail was a trusted, senior-level Netflix employee, with authority to enter into appropriate contracts and approve appropriate invoices.” (See entire legal document at http://www.scribd.com/doc/248259590/Netflix-v-Kail.)

Netflix is suing Mr. Kail for fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, and other actions. Mr. Kail was in charge of entering into and authorizing contracts for Netflix’s tech vendors, which included two companies, Vistara IT and Netenrich (both founded/owned by Mr. Raju Chekuri.) At the same time, Mr. Kail had his own company on the side called Unix Mercenary, which he did not disclose to Netflix.

Mr. Kail’s company Unix Mercenary received 12 – 15% commissions on all contract invoices paid by Netflix to Vistara IT and Netenrich. Part of the evidence that Netflix outlines in its lawsuit are emails between Mr. Kail and employees of Netenrich which refer to “referral fees” from Netenrich to Unix. Here is an excerpt from an email from Netenrich to Kail (from the above-mentioned lawsuit filing):

…”[We] discussed getting you paid and I just need to ensure the payments from Netflix are in Netenrich’s bank account…I suggest we employ the following process to ensure you receive your referral fees on a timely basis…”

Over a three year period, Netflix paid approximately $3.7 million to Vistara IT and Netenrich, which would translate into commission payments of between $440,000 - $550,000 to Unix Mercenary. The lawsuit only mentions specific payments of $76,000 to Unix Mercenary.

Incidentally, Mike Kail left Netflix in August 2014 to become Yahoo’s Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Respond to the following questions in the MODULE 6 Discussion Forum

What internal control principle(s) does it appear was (were) violated at Netflix?

How might Netflix have designed its internal processes differently to avoid the situation that arose with Mr. Kail?

Should Mr. Kail be held totally liable for this situation? Does Netflix have any degree of responsibility in this situation?

Please write (typed) 2-3 paragraphs about teamwork in my organization (Finance department). like how was the teamwork at my organization and how successfull we were in it. Don't name any specifc organizaton name. It should refer to my organization.

1. Describe the different molecular interactions that a water molecule can have inside a plant body. What is it attracted to? When is it in a liquid phase? When is it in a gas phase?

2. Name some molecules/conditions that trigger stomata to open. Name some that trigger stomata to close.

1) What is the pigment that is present in Eurkaryotes GENUINELY (without plastid endosymbiosis, and even in animals like us), which was used for photosynthesis in some relatives of Eukaryotes?
2) What is the name for those PHOTOYNTHETIC relatives of Eukaryotes? Genus or informal name that is specific enough.

Write a bash shell script that takes exactly one argument, a file name. If the number of arguments is more or less than one, print a usage message. If the argument is not a file name, print another message. For the given file, print on the screen its content.

Code in python:

1. Write a class that implements a struct. In your struct store Student information such as name, netid, and gpa. Write a function that can access a student in a list of 5 structs by netid and print their name and gpa. Show that your function works by calling it.

3. Data from the Rand Health Insurance Experiment indicated that:

1. price has no impact on the utilization of health care.
2. increased price is related to increased use of health care.
3. increased price is related to decreased use of health care.
4. increased price first increases, then decreases use of health care.
5. None of the above.

In an experiment, where we need to isolate lipids from horse red blood cells, one of the steps is too "Add 100µL of choloform;methanol (9:1) and mix vigorously to dissolve the membrane lipids. "

What happens in this step, what would happen if you added water instead of chloroform/methanol?