...Current Topic Presentation: The current topic presentation is modeled after a standard Continuing Professional Education session but is limited to approximately 10 minutes per presenter. Each scholar is required to prepare appropriate slides and/or handout materials to accompany his or her presentation. If you print handouts of slides, you may print 6 slides per page in pure black and white to save toner and paper. Collectively, the presentations are a “Tax Update”. Each year, professional accounting associations offer tax updates for their members. The update is usually prepared and presented by a fellow member of the association. When the year being summarized contains major tax legislation, the annual tax update is primarily a review of the new law. When a year passes without major legislation, tax updates draw material from other tax news (i.e. new regulations, rulings and/or cases). We will model our update after the second style; that is, no student will be asked to prepare an update of the tax legislation that just passed. Each student will be assigned a period of time to cover in the update. Each student’s task is to review tax news for that period of time and prepare a10 minute presentation on a topic or topics that the student found interesting in the tax news. We will split the tax news into periods of time by using Federal Taxes Weekly Alert Newsletters (available in RIA Checkpoint) as the basis for selecting topics. For example: Ganon may be assigned to base her...
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...(Festinger, Riecken and Schachter 1956). When two simultaneously held cognitions are inconsistent, this will produce a state of cognitive dissonance. Because the experience of dissonance is unpleasant, the person will strive to reduce it by changing their beliefs. Pratt (1964) considers utility functions, risk aversion and also risks considered as a proportion of total assets. Tversky and Kahneman (1973) introduced the availability heuristic: ‘a judgmental heuristic in which a person evaluates the frequency of classes or the probability of events by availability, i.e. by the ease with which relevant instances come to mind.’ The reliance on the availability heuristic leads to systematic biases. 1 In 1974, two brilliant psychologists, Amos Tversky and Daniel...
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...dissonance (Festinger, Riecken and Schachter 1956). When two simultaneously held cognitions are inconsistent, this will produce a state of cognitive dissonance. Because the experience of dissonance is unpleasant, the person will strive to reduce it by changing their beliefs. Pratt (1964) considers utility functions, risk aversion and also risks considered as a proportion of total assets. Tversky and Kahneman (1973) introduced the availability heuristic: ‘a judgmental heuristic in which a person evaluates the frequency of classes or the probability of events by availability, i.e. by the ease with which relevant instances come to mind.’ The reliance on the availability heuristic leads to systematic biases. 1 In 1974, two brilliant psychologists, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, described...
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...References: Agarwal .2001. “Stock Market Growth and Economic Growth: Preliminary Evidence from African Countries.” Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (JSDA).www.jsd-africa.com Agarwal, R.N . 2000. “Financial integration and stock markets in developing countries: A study of growth, volatility and efficiency in the Indian stock market” Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India in its series Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi Discussion Papers with number 21. Bundoo, S. K. 1999. “The Mauritius Stock Exchange: An Assessment,” Social Sciences & Humanities and Law & Management Research Journal. University of Mauritius, Mauritius. Demirguc-Kunt, Asli and Ross. Levine. 1996. “Stock Market Growthand Financial Intermediaries: Stylized Facts,” The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 10 (2), pp.291- 232. Khan, Harun-or-Rashid.1992. “The Performance of Stock Markets in Bangladesh:An Appraisal”. Finance and Banking. The Journal of the Department of Finance and Banking, University of Dhaka. Volume 2, Number 1 La Porter, R. Lopez-de-Silanes.,F, Shlieifer A. and Vishny R.W. 1997."Legal Determinants of External Finance ", Journal of Finance, 54 p. 471 – 517. Levine R. and Zervos S. 1998.“Stock markets, bank, and economic growth”, American Economic Review, June pp.537-558. Maunder, P., Myers, D., Wall, N. & Miller, R. 1991. “ Economics Explained.” 2nd ed. London, HarperCollins Naceur, Samy Ben, Samir Ghazouani and Mohamed Omran. 2007. “The...
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...choosing to hire nurses with a bachelor degree or higher education (“The Future of the Associate Degree in Nursing Program,” n.d.). However, it remains to be seen if an emphasis on higher education will significantly benefit the healthcare system. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the differences in competencies between an associate degree nursing program and a bachelor degree nursing program, then determine which is the preferable degree to require throughout the healthcare systems. Associate versus Bachelor Degree in Nursing: Difference in Competencies Associate degree nursing programs require considerably less knowledge based learning, and includes more clinically structured education. Associate degree nursing programs last approximately two years and consist of half general education courses, as well as half nursing based courses that focus mainly on patient centered care. Commonly, associate degree nursing programs cover basic nursing including adult, maternal, and pediatric care with minimal instruction on administration and specialty areas. The primary distinction between the two degrees is that the associate’s degree emphasizes clinical experience, while the bachelor’s degree relies more on research. Bachelor’s nursing programs are much more progressive and cutting-edge than their associate’s degree...
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...CURRICULUM FOR 10 DAYS WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY |S. No. |Day |Session |Themes to be Covered | |1. |Day - 1 |Pre-Lunch Session – I |Nature of Scientific Methods and its Application to Social | | | | |Phenomenon & Nature, Importance and Scope of Research. | |2. |Day – 1 |Pre-Lunch Session – II |Types of Research: Historical, Analytical, Interdisciplinary, | | | | |Evaluative, Participative and Action Research | |3. |Day – 1 |Post-Lunch Session – I |Steps in the Process of Research- Problem Selection, Formulation | | | | |and Planning: How to write a Proposal | |4. |Day – 1 |Post-Lunch Session – II |Types of Research Design: Exploratory, Diagnostic, Descriptive | |5. |Day - 2 |Pre-Lunch Session – I |Types of Research Design: Experimental; Control Group & | | | | |Experimental Group; Ex-Post Facto Research Design | |6. |Day – 2 ...
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...November 1998 ! NREL/TP-570-25885 Report on Biomass Drying Technology Wade A. Amos National Renewable Energy Laboratory National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Boulevard Golden, Colorado 80401-3393 A national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy Managed by Midwest Research Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC36-83CH10093 NREL/TP-570-25885 Report on Biomass Drying Technology Wade A. Amos National Renewable Energy Laboratory National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Boulevard Golden, Colorado 80401-3393 A national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy Managed by Midwest Research Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC36-83CH10093 Prepared under Task No. GT818510 November 1998 NOTICE This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government. Neither the United States government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by...
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...solbridge international school of business | The Necessities of Supermarkets | Applied Research | | | | Applied Research Project | Introduction In this contemporary life, people cannot survive without supermarket which is interrelated to the whole thing of people’s lives, such as food and clothing line. A supermarket is a outward appearance of grocery store, a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise and organized into departments. The supermarket characteristically comprises meat, fresh produce dairy, baked goods departments, along with shelf space reserved for canned and packaged goods as well as for various non-food items such as household cleaners, pharmacy products and pet supplies. Most supermarkets also sell a variety of other household products that are consumed regularly, like alcohol, medicine, clothes and some stores sell a much wider range of non-food products. A supermarket is larger in size and has a wider selection than a traditional grocery store also selling items typically found in a convenience store but is smaller and more limited in range of merchandise than a hypermarket or big-box store. In this paper we divided supermarkets of the worlds into three categories: * Convenience stores also called corner store, a small store that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, toiletries, alcoholic soft drinks and tobacco products. * Regional supermarket, a superstore which is bigger than...
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...of every 100 000 women suffer from an eating disorder, where as 0.7 per 100 000 males suffer from an eating disorder (Gucciardi et al, 2003). In addition, Statistics Canada notes that 90% or more of all cases pertaining to the diagnosis of an eating disorder are for women (Statistics Canada, n.d.). Furthermore, the Canadian Institution of Health Information states that in the year 2000 , 11.54% of women diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, and 15.36% of women diagnosed with bulimia nervosa, reported suffering from depression. Moreover, these percentages equate to more than double of the 5.7% of women from the general population who have reported suffering from depression (Gucciardi et al, 2003). This paper will explore and address eating disorders through past research papers and as well to propose a possible experiment that may be used to further uncover the underlying causes for eating disorders. In the article “Observations on Human Behaviour in Experimental Semistarvation and Rehabilitation” by Joseph C. Franklin, Burtrum C. Schiele, Josef Brozek, and Ancel Keys, explains and explores the affects of low calorie diets. Furthermore, Franklin et. al explains how soldiers were affected by starvation, throughout the World War as the experiment altered the diet of thirty-six young men. The men went from consuming 3,492 calories per day for 6 months to consuming 1,570 calories. The yielded results showed the effects of consuming a low calorie diet,...
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...The debate that has been occurring for years is whether or not special needs students should either be included or excluded from exiting assessment testing for graduation. There are facts that show that these students should be exempt because the tests that are being used to not test the students true knowledge. The standardized tests are based on normal student knowledge on what was being taught and that their comprehension skills are normal. Special needs student should not be exempt from testing to graduate as this will give the student a higher level of self esteem. The bureaucrats and politicians are directing on what students have to due to pass to each grade or to graduate. They are not taking into consideration the special needs student like student that have English as a second language. Bureaucrats and politicians have placed on school some unreasonable requirement that no child be left behind but they do not given the school districts the freedom to achieve this. Schools have to show improvements in such a short time frame that it places undue stress on the principles, teacher and students. All special needs student need to be included in testing for advancement and graduation to make these students able to obtain jobs in the future. According to Hurren, B. L., Rutledge, M., & Garvin, A. B. (Feb 2006) the way to help these student the skills is assess the student during the year and determine what needs to be changed in the classroom. In this study a teacher...
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...Having grown up in the age of the internet, I have seen the news stories and videos of 9/11. It has made me wonder several questions such as “Why pick America, of all places, to attack?” or “What did we do to retaliate?” To this day we still aren’t sure of the actual reasoning behind it, but we still have theories. As for retaliation, the government sought out those who did this to our country. I first became interested in this topic this past semester for political science. In groups of two, we had to write a paper based on a topic that we could select. Before doing extensive research into the topic, more questions were forming in my mind. I wanted to know what our government did to seek out justice against those who participated in 9/11. Even though my partner and I collectively had to choose a side, I wasn’t quite sure what side I choosing. Then the research continued. I researched deeper in to the subject. With what little research I had done, I started into the paper. Enhanced interrogation techniques are what the conservatives call it. Liberals call it torture. The more important question is this: Does it work? Liberals say no, while the conservatives say yes. In the eyes of a conservative it might read something like this: We believe that enhanced interrogation techniques work and provide results faster than sting operations that could take years to complete. Enhanced interrogation techniques have been a crucial tool in the war against terror. Former chief of “clandestine”...
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...Published on Explorable.com (https://explorable.com) Writing a Bibliography For any research paper, writing a bibliography is essential, to prevent any accusations of plagiarism [1], and to give fair credit to the work of previous authors in the field. Writing a reference-list also allow the reader, or the person marking the paper, to check the original sources if they require more detail. Your bibliography, often called a citation list, always comes at the end of the paper, and it must include all of the direct sources that you referred to in the body of the paper. For the vast majority of scientific papers, APA [2] or MLA [3] style references are used, alphabetically ordered by the surname of the author. For any sources with no author, use the name of the organization or website or, if there is no other choice, use the title of the work. As with in text citations [4], it is important to stick to one style and avoid confusing the reader. All entries in the bibliography should be in alphabetical order, and they should use a hanging indent. If you use more than one source from the same author, you should order them by date and then by the first letter of the title, if the year of publication is the same. Writing a Biography - Some Examples of APA and MLA Format It is impossible to list all of the permutations for the various types of sources used here. As for APA [5] and MLA [6] citations, here's how to write a bibliography: Book With One Author APA: ...
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...single seller or firm has complete or total control with the supplies and pricing, an example for this are the public utilities like natural gas companies, 4) Monopolistic Competition, is a market situation with a significant number of sellers who offers similar but not identical products, an example of this is the fast food restaurants, where most of them offer hamburgers but with different ingredients or different ways of cooking it. 2. Explain why economic profits are zero in the long run in a monopolistically competitive market. Monopolistic competition is a structure in the market categorized by a huge amount of small businesses producing similar products but not identical products with good supply flexibility and broad knowledge (Amos, 2015). This means that each one of these businesses has some sort of control in the market and face a negatively sloped demand curve, therefore, an...
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...Macroeconomic aspects for defensive stock investing In the past decade, the stock market has had many ups and downs and private investors perceive stock investing more and more speculative and unpredictable. Part of this perception roots from the general trend towards computerized high frequency trading, which in 2010 accounted for up to 70 % of all trades made in the market. High frequency trading is done by mega computers which are programmed to take advantage of the slightest changes in the stock price by buying and selling within fractions of a second. Those programs pay no regard to the actual social and economic value of the company. Trends like that and criminal like actions by almost all major banks around the world (including inside trading, misinformation of customers, ruthless risk taking, etc. which lead to the worldwide economy crisis in 2008) leave private investors with the feeling that they get betrayed and can’t keep up with the rapid stock market. They might think that stocks are not a good investment tool for private investors anymore. However, statistics show that stocks measured over any ten-year time period for the last 75 years, have yielded a higher return than conservative investments in bonds or bank certificates of deposit (Kelly, 2007). For the mentioned and several other reasons, one still should consider using stocks as an investing tool. Consequently, if you can’t win the very short term, high frequency trading game, you might want to play a different...
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...Should Special Needs Students Be Exempt from Graduation Test Misty A. Clark AED/200 September 16, 2012 Kimberly Jackson Should Special Needs Students Be Exempt from Graduation Test The debate of should special needs students be exempt from taking Graduation tests has been going on for years. There are facts in which shows these students should be exempt from these test because these test are based on normal students’ knowledge. The standardized test is based on what normal students have learned and on their comprehension skill. Special needs students should not be exempted from taking this test to graduate because it will help with their self-esteem and also will give them a higher level of knowing what they can achieve. The Bureaucrats and Politicians who passes these education laws on which test the students has to passed to graduate or even which grade they need to be in don’t put into consideration on students with special needs or students who haves English for a second language. Bureaucrats and politicians has padded a law called “No Child Left Behind” in which is telling the schools for any reason no child should be left behind and are not giving the school districts the freedom to achieve this. This is putting a lot of stress on the principal, teachers and even the students because there are some students who work at a slower pace than others and the school system is not achieving the score they need to be achieving. Some of the school system is not...
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