...2 of Business Culture and Strategy. It is based on the case study of Alphabet Games. Each of the following questions must be correctly answered. In some cases it is possible, to make use of diagrams or tables in your answer. You do not need to do this if you do not feel it is required. However, a diagram or table on its own is not likely to be enough to provide a full answer. If you do use a diagram or table, you will probably need to provide some accompanying explanation or discussion. a Explain the importance of organisational culture to Alphabet Games and suggest an example of where both shared values and taken for granted assumptions contribute to the continued success of Alphabet Games. Using a recognised theoretical model, identify and justify the organisational culture of Alphabet games and assess how this shapes current management approaches. To reflect the changing environments within which Alphabet games operates, suggest a possible alternative organisational culture for the company Games and assess the impact this change in culture would have upon managerial approaches. Using a recognised framework, assess the importance of the relationship of the relationship between organisational culture and organisational behaviour. b c d Scottish Qualifications Authority HN Assessment Exemplar/F7J7 35/AEX001 V1.0 Business Culture and Strategy 11 May 2011 Assessment task 3 Outcomes covered 3, 4 Assessment task instructions This assessment covers Outcomes...
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...column headings. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: AC 469 8. The contents of the Report Footer section print once at the bottom of each page and often contain a date and a page number. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: AC 469 9. The process of converting an unbound control to a calculated control is called binding. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: AC 471 10. The subreport appears as a separate report in the Navigation Pane. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: AC 484 11. A main report can have only one subreport. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: AC 486 12. If the Can Shrink property is set to No, Access will remove blank lines that occur when the field is empty. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: AC 487 13. To cause the contents of the group header section to appear at the top of each page, change the Repeat Section property to Yes. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: AC 489 14. To add a page number to a report, use the Report Footer button. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: AC 490 15. When you use the Title button to add a title to a report, the title is the...
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...Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review Volume 39 | Issue 2 Article 7 6-1-2012 Accounting for Emissions Trading: How Allowances Appear on Financial Statements Could Influence the Effectiveness of Programs to Curb Pollution Laura E. Souchik Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/ealr Part of the Environmental Law Commons Recommended Citation Laura E. Souchik, Accounting for Emissions Trading: How Allowances Appear on Financial Statements Could Influence the Effectiveness of Programs to Curb Pollution, 39 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 475 (2012), http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/ealr/vol39/iss2/7 This Notes is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact nick.szydlowski@bc.edu. ACCOUNTING FOR EMISSIONS TRADING: HOW ALLOWANCES APPEAR ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS COULD INFLUENCE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMS TO CURB POLLUTION Laura E. Souchik* Abstract: Cap-and-trade programs to curb carbon emissions frequently rely on the use of tradable emissions credits known as “allowances.” To date, companies' presentations of their usage of these allowances on their financial statements has not been uniform. Cap-and-trade programs will be most effective when presentation of allowances on...
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...by taking a system approach. That is, it interprets people-organization relationships in terms of the whole person, whole group, whole organization, and whole social system. Its purpose is to build better relationships by achieving human objectives, organizational objectives, and social objectives. As you can see from the definition above, organizational behavior encompasses a wide range of topics, such as human behavior, change, leadership, teams, etc. Success isn’t a destination it’s a process. And the margin between successes is often small. Ob is all about studying the principles of defining nd achieving success in your organization and life. Impact of ob Organizational behavior is an aspect of doing business within large companies that many executives have overlooked. This organizational behavior impacts every nook and cranny of a company. Thinking about the organizational behavior and how people act within a company can foster new ways of managing people that can have longer-term impacts on profitability. For example, unionized work forces may have a more negative environment then non-union work environments due to the natural adversarial relationships between company management and union officials. In unionized environments many employees may feel as though their supervisor is abusing them and therefore they regulate their contact with that supervisor (Tepper, Moss, Lockhart & Carr, 2007). This regulation of contact can affect how efficient the organization...
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...Motivation: It has been said that the management task is akin to the process of ‘releasing the energy of the atom for constructive human ends’… Critically discuss this statement with reference to relevant theory and research. 1. Introduction Motivation in administration portrays routes in which administrators advance benefit in their representatives. Regularly, individuals confound the thought of "upbeat" representatives with "roused" workers. These may be connected, yet inspiration really portrays the level of longing workers feel to perform, paying little mind to the level of bliss. Representatives who are satisfactorily persuaded to perform will be more gainful, more connected with and feel more put resources into their work. At the point when representatives feel these things, it helps them, and consequently their chiefs, be more fruitful. The definition for the statement ‘releasing the energy of the atom for constructive human ends’ means motivation is viewed as the most imperative and the most troublesome capacity in the administration process. No other administration capacity including arranging, choice making, authoritative conduct or controlling pulled in that much attention It is a head's business to goad specialists to complete their occupations well. So how do executives do this? The answer is inspiration in organization, the technique through which administrators urge delegates to be beneficial and convincing. Motivation is a complex sensation. A few...
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...I do not expect India of my dreams to develop one religion, i.e., to be wholly Hindu or wholly Christian or wholly Mussalman, but I want it to be wholly tolerant, with its religions working side by side with one another.'' So said Mahatma Gandhi. India has been declared a secular state by its written constitution and it is every Indians duty to stand by and believe in this declaration. And yet recent political and social events have questioned this declaration. Is India a secular country only on paper or does secularism actually exist in India; or is in the form of pseudo- secularism, a term the BJP and its allies seem to repeatedly harp on. During the freedom struggle, secularism was emerging as the most dominant principle. The leaders of the Indian National Congress; Gandhi, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Nehru and others were deeply committed to the ideal of secularism, though each expressed it in very different manners. Secularism became the mantra of the Indian nation, a nation exhausted by partition and sectarian riots and above all the assassination of Gandhiji, did not want any more divisive talk. The founding fathers represented the aspirations of the different sections of society and it is due to the struggles of these different people that secular principles got enshrined into the Indian constitution. Under Jawaharlal Nehru and later under his successors in the Congress Party, the concept of a secular nation-state was officially adopted as India's path to political...
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... Database Schema Design Star Schema (With Attributes) Example Designs A useful way to learn about data warehouse design principles is by using examples – reuse. Kimball – Data warehouse lifecycle toolkit Adamson & Venerable – Data warehouse design solutions Let’s take a look at inventory, shipments, and financial services. Inventory An inventory system serves as a “middleman” between the manufacturer and the retailer – value adding process. There are threee types of inventory model Inventory snapshot Delivery status Transaction Inventory Snapshot Model For specific time periods, inventory levels are measured and recorded. Delivery Status Model Create one record for each complete shipment of a product to a warehouse. Transaction Model Record every transaction that affects the inventory. Shipments The shipments process is where the product leaves a company and is delivered to a customer. Typically, accompanying each shipment is a shipment invoice. Each line item on the shipment invoice corresponds to an SKU. Shipments Shipments Shipments Financial Services Typically a large bank. Services include Cheque accounts, saving accounts, mortgage loans, investment loans, personal loans, credit cards, etc. Goal – to market more effectively to households. Build a household data warehouse to track accounts, account holders, and their household ...
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...countries has been at the center of the debate in international finance for a long time. The steady increase in magnitude and variability of international capital flows has intensified the debate in the past few years as each of the major currency crises in the 1990s has in some way involved a fixed exchange rate and sudden reversal of capital inflows. While the debate continues, there are areas where some consensus is emerging, and there are valuable lessons from earlier experience for developing countries. Selection of an exchange rate regime that is most likely to suit a country’s economic interest would depend on a variety of factors as discussed bellow (Yagci, 2001). Definition of Key terms Exchange Rate. Exchange rate refers to the value of one...
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...MARKETING PLAN ASSIGNMENT MM522Marketing Management This marketing plan assignment gives you the opportunity to practice developing an integrated business and marketing strategy for a product or service of your choice. It also helps you to develop a strong business-oriented written proposal and communications expertise. As the course progresses, you will be developing each of the elements of this marketing plan. Good marketing plans come in many different formats. We have chosen this format to follow our course of study. An important element of this plan is practicing the use of applied business research tools to gather information about your proposed product or service, its industry, competitors and possible markets. At least part of your research should be conducted on-line for this project (e.g. Keller’s “Virtual Library”, the Internet at large, other proprietary on-line databases). You also have many other sources of potential information: • Internal, non-proprietary company information • Consider calling competitors for product and company information • Conduct telephone interviews of potential customers • Use empirical observation of prospective customers • Conduct customer surveys • Conduct a literature search at the library • Review periodicals for articles and advertisements The development of this Plan is an on-going and integral part of this course. At your option, you may submit one double-spaced section...
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...Implementing Policies The armed forces allows its service members to drink alcohol on the conditional basis that they manage themselves and conform to local and state laws. The armed forces however have implemented certain policies called General Orders, which apply to all military service members deployed to South East Asia. This order is in support of local cultural beliefs and also the health and welfare of soldiers due to the operational tempo of being in a combat zone. General Order One, as it pertains to alcohol reads as such: Introduction, purchase, possession, sale, transfer, manufacture, or consumption of any alcoholic beverage within the South East Asia areas of operation is prohibited. This prohibition also includes the introduction, possession, sale, transfer, manufacture, or consumption of any alcoholic beverages by military personnel or civilians serving with; employed by, or accompanying the Armed Forces of the United States, while assigned to or under the operational control of the Commander, MNC-I and present for duty in Kuwait, Iraq, or Afghanistan. This prohibition does not apply to the intended use of personal hygiene items (e.g., mouthwash)...
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...success in the changing global environment. Harley-Davidson has a solid foundation and the potential for continued success and industry leading performance, however, times are changing and Harley must adapt. II. S.W.O.T. ANALYSIS Strengths Harley-Davidson is a strong company with several core strengths. First, Harley has unprecedented brand recognition and customer loyalty. For example, in 2004 42% of new Harley-Davidson purchasers owned a Harley previously. Richard Teerlink, retired Harley CEO stated, “There are very few products that are so exciting that people are willing to tattoo your logo on their body.”[1] Moreover, Harley-Davidson’s guiding concept is that its brand is more than a brand; it is an iconic image with an accompanying lifestyle and culture. Second, Harley differentiates itself from the Japanese by offering support to various enthusiasts and social groups. For example, the Harley-Davidson Owners Group (HOG), which has worldwide membership in excess of 900,000, helps cultivate a hard-core loyal customer base. Essentially, by owning a Harley you become a member of a special community of people who all share an interest in one product. Third, Harley derives strength from its strong market position, in 2004, Harley controlled 48.9% of the U.S. and Canada market. Further, Harley has produced 37% average annual gains since its 1989 IPO. Fourth, Harley has demonstrated a consistent skill to innovate, allowing the company to be in business for over one...
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...S169-S182_Krug2e_Macro_PS_Ch13.qxp 2/25/09 8:02 PM Page S-169 Fiscal Policy 1. The accompanying diagram shows the current macroeconomic situation for the economy of Albernia. You have been hired as an economic consultant to help the economy move to potential output, YP. Aggregate price level LRAS SRAS P1 E1 AD1 Y1 YP Potential output Real GDP a. Is Albernia facing a recessionary or inflationary gap? b. Which type of fiscal policy—expansionary or contractionary—would move the economy of Albernia to potential output, YP ? What are some examples of such policies? c. Illustrate the macroeconomic situation in Albernia with a diagram after the successful fiscal policy has been implemented. 1. Solution a. Albernia is facing a recessionary gap; Y1 is less than YP. b. Albernia could use expansionary fiscal policies to move the economy to potential output. Such policies include increasing government purchases of goods and services, increasing government transfers, and reducing taxes. c. Aggregate price level LRAS SRAS P2 P1 E2 E1 AD2 AD1 Y1 YP Real GDP Potential output Recessionary gap S-169 MACROECONOMICS 29 13 ECONOMICS chapter: S169-S182_Krug2e_Macro_PS_Ch13.qxp 2/25/09 8:02 PM Page S-170 S-170 MACROECONOMICS, CHAPTER 13 ECONOMICS, CHAPTER 29 2. The accompanying diagram shows the current macroeconomic situation for the economy of Brittania; real GDP is Y1, and the aggregate price...
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...Government is listed as the Office of the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States and the elected cabinet members of the Department heads of the 15 major departments of the United States. The primary powers of this branch are as follows: The president can call for a special election when a state representative vacancy presents itself. Make senate appointments in light of resignation until the next assembly. The vice president holds the office of president of the senate; but without a vote; unless there is a tie. The President has the power of approval or veto of bills presented by congress. The President is the guardian of the Constitution. The President presides as The Commander In Chief of the armed forces. He has the power to grant pardons. He has the power to make treaties if ratified by 2/3 majority of congress. He has the power to appoint ambassadors and departments of state, and to appoint Justices to the Supreme Court. The President may also convene either or both houses or adjourn them as he sees fit. 2. The Judicial Branch of Government is made up of the Supreme Court. Federal courts enjoy the sole power to interpret the law, determine the constitutionality of the law, and apply it to individual cases. It also holds total discretion over lower courts, what they interpret the lower courts must adhere to. Additionally, the chief justice presides over articles of impeachment brought against the President of the United States...
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...Claudio Rizzo 665131 Analysis of IA accompanying the Proposal for a Directive on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing 1. Introduction The aim of the proposal published in 2013 and generally known as the fourth anti-money laundering directive, is to review previous regulation, 3th AMLD (Directive 2005/60/EC). European Commission needs to update it to hinder incoming threats and keep pace with the new international standards. My interest into this topic arose from mafia stories. When I was very young and I listened to tales about heroes such as Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino, Carlo Dalla Chiesa, I realized I wanted to try fighting, even just in my small way, criminal organizations. From 70’s until the early 90’s Italy was affected by continuous acts of violence carried out by terrorists and organized crime, which contributed to spread terror and uncertainty in a context which saw our country weakened by corruption. Things change and criminals’ ways to operate do too, but there is a need that never goes out of fashion for them: the attempt to conceal or disguise the true nature, source and ownership of the proceeds which have a criminal or illicit origin and transform those into seemingly legitimate income. Consequences would be a very strong negative impact on national GDP and, therefore, undermined stability and reputation of the financial sector. That is to say criminals will always try to...
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...The Business Environment Business 100 July 23, 2012 The Business Environment A business environment is an environment in which business is conducted. It is also a working climate created by distinct forces: internal and external forces which make up an operating environment. The role of business in the economy is to act as a vehicle for economic progress. In an economy, business plays a pivotal role of acting as the main factor. Businesses include manufacturing, health care, wholesale, retail and services which help the economy to propel, survive and maintain the people that control it. This role depends upon business enterprises operating within the framework of a competitive market economy. To compare and contrast the roles of profit and non-profit organizations in the economy, one has to understand the meaning of profit. In business, profit is a word used to describe earnings. It is the difference between the revenues gained and the expenses incurred from business activities. A for profit business provides and/or exchanges goods and services for a price. A firm or company is in business to make profits or the business fails. When companies earn huge profits, it enables them to invest in research and development, company shareholders are rewarded and other firms are attracted in the industry. On the contrary, the main strength of nonprofit is its efficiency in meeting consumer demands at minimum cost. Nonprofits organizations can be profitable but are restricted...
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