The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to grow rapidly from day to day in every part of the world and it is uncertain when this pandemic will decline. The world economy is experiencing a hard blow from COVID-19 both directly and indirectly, which is reflected in the many industrial sectors of many countries that have struggled to recover. This paper tries to map the economic impacts that are generally experienced by countries in the world affected by the pandemic, then formulates some recommendations related to the government's response in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic as an option in effort to minimize wider economic impacts. This paper can contribute to policymakers in every government in the world and provide action options in dealing with the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Human resource is the most precious resource for every business in comparison to other resources like money, material, and technology as it cannot be replicated. Human capital is the only asset involved in all the operations of the enterprise right from the manufacture of goods to delivery to the consumer. Enterprises have realized the significance of this resource and have started investing huge amounts of their budget to develop this resource. These investments will be rewarding only if the human resources are properly managed and effectively utilized. This paper is an attempt to further such investigations. In this paper the researcher intends to investigate the HRM practices in the following three areas: 1. Change Management developing an adaptable workforce, 2. Innovation and Learning, and 3. Global Integration, in select Indian and foreign companies and whether the nature of firm ownership has an influence on the HRM practice. This paper is aimed at a comparative study of the HR practices in foreign owned and domestic companies in India that address the HR preparedness of these companies in facing the challenges listed above. The outcome of the study would help the organizations to learn from each others strengths and weaknesses and develop on them.

This study examines government regulations related to public audit services performed by the accounting firm and public accountant as regulated in Government Regulation (PP) No. 20 of 2015, which in this case, eliminates limits for accounting firm (AF) tenure and extends public accountant (PA) tenure from three years into five years. This research also analyzed the previous regulations of the Minister of Finance Decree No. 359/KMK.06/2003, Minister of Finance Regulation No. 17/PMK.01/2008, which are related to the existence of real and pseudo-rotation of AF. This research used 195 non-financial industry companies listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange with pre-regulation research period is the year 2008-2014 and postregulation is the year 2015-2016. The results show that AF tenure has no quadratic effect on audit quality, while tenure of PA has a concave quadratic effect on audit quality in the post-regulation period. This study also found that the pseudo-rotation of AF had a positive effect on audit quality in the pre-regulation period and did not affect the post-regulation period, while it was not found that the real AF rotation had an effect on audit quality.